Here’s our newest MobileHeist special! This time around, our partner, ShSh Software, has agreed to offer a huge discount on their award-winning TAKEphONE for Palm OS. TAKEphONE v7.55 is a utility that greatly enhances the capabilities of Treo and Centro address books. TAKEphONE has been extensively reviewed and consistently receives accolades for improving search, dialing, [...]
Astraware Platypus Released, and Doug’s Squished It!
Astraware has just released their latest game, Platypus, which is based on the cult classic for PC and Mac. According to Astraware, “Platypus is a fast, frantic and fun side-scrolling arcade shooter with a difference – the entire game is made from clay!” What’s the back-story? Astraware’s site says that the “vast continent-spanning city of [...]
Astraware Bejeweled 2 is a Gem
I like handheld games. I spend a good bit of time playing games on my Windows Mobile handheld and on my Nintendo DS. There have never been, for me, enough good games written for the Windows mobile platform. For all the potential there, the selections have too frequently been knockoffs of each other. A while [...]
Bejeweled Gets Bedazzled
The lovely (and always ready to interrupt work with fun new games) Alison from Astraware has just sent notice that the dangerously addictive Bejeweled 2 has been updated to include 240 x 240 and 320 x 320 support for WM Professional (touchscreen) devices, and also…drum roll please…support for WM Standard (non-touchscreen) devices. There are some [...]
Astraware Casino – Now with Texas Hold ‘Em No Limit Poker!
Try your luck with 11 of the best known casino games in one pack! Blackjack, Texas Hold ‘Em No Limit Poker, Video Poker, Video Derby, 3 Card Poker, Roulette, Craps, Baccarat, Slots, Video Keno and Texas Hold ‘Em Limit Poker in one easy-to-use pack Instructions on how to play each game Low stakes games to [...]
Earth Day Game Give Away
eSoft Interactive�has offered Gear Diary two copies of their new game Earth Day to use in a give away. This game will work on Palm OS, Windows Mobile Professional (Pocket PC), and Windows Mobile Standard (Smartphone) devices. In order to be considered, you just need to reply to this question in the comments section following this [...]
Astraware Solitaire Is Aces!
I’ve been playing this game for about a week, and Clinton and I plan plan to do a dually on it, but in the meantime you just have to check out Doug Goldring’s review of Astraware‘s Solitaire on JAMM. Yeah, we’ve all been burned by lame Solitaire games in the past, but this isn’t one [...]
eSoft Interactive’s Earth Day
Erick from eSoft Interactive, makers of past favorites Spot and Traffic Jam, have released Earthday, a “take on your regular shoot-em’up game genre. Earth Day is an action-packed arcade game that pits the player in an engaging experience of defending our mother Earth from fleets of alien spaceships attempting to invade our planet.” Earth Day [...]
Exclusive Club Astraware Member-only Offers for June 2007
Alison from Astraware has just passed on this month’s Club Astraware discounts; read on for more information!
Ilium Software Turns 10!
Ilium Software, makers of eWallet, ListPro and other way cool apps is celebrating a major milestone. Tomorrow, Saturday 02-Jun-07, the company officially turns 10. 10! Sheesh! has it really been that long?? Anyway, they’ve got something really awesome planned, BUT I can’t exactly say what yet. Suffice it to say, that its going to be [...]
Astraware Honored
Alison from Astraware just sent me the news that they have been awarded “Passport Exporter of the Year for West Midlands”, from UK Trade & Investment. I really like what David Oakley wrote in the company blog, “Because we sell our wares on the internet we rarely think of ourselves as exporters (I call it [...]
Packs of Fun – Save Bagfuls On Selected Value Game Packs!
Alison has just sent this sale announcement, and it looks like there are significant savings to be had at Astraware, or “bagfuls” as they put it… Read on for the full release…
Palm Desktop for Windows Vista
I use Outlook 2007 and have RSS feeds come right into the built in reader in Outlook 2007. One of my good friends, Chris Leckness of Mobility Site turned me on to this via his RSS feed. Palm is working on a Vista compatible version of the Palm Desktop and their HotSync application: David Slone, [...]
Club Astraware offers for May 2007
I didn’t plan on having two Astraware-related blurbs so close together, but sometimes that’s how things work out. Alison has just sent the latest Club Astraware press release with May’s specials; take a look…
Clinton Experiences Alchemy
Clinton Fitch, Gear Diary team member and owner of the eponymous Clinton Fitch (Dot) Com! has just written a comprehensive review on the Astraware game Alchemy. For those of you that are unfamiliar with alchemy the science – or Alchemy the game, Clinton leads in with this: “While Astraware is making no claims to have discovered [...]



