Do you like to learn new things? Do you dream of travelling all over the world and visiting the most interesting and beautiful places on our planet? Maybe you are just interested in geography? Or you think that know everything and can’t be surprised?! Travel Genius fits the entire globe in your hand and tells you what you don’t know about the world we inhabit.

This original quiz is entirely devoted to geography and all that it involves. There are hundreds and hundreds of questions relating to continents and oceans, countries and peoples, famous personalities and the most significant inventions. They will be a hard nut to crack for even the brains of the most erudite people. Whatever question the topic is about – the answer will always be a place on the map. You can have fun and very usefully spend some time traveling together with the Travel Genius round the Earth’s continents. Perhaps this is the game that will suggest you a travel route for your next vacation! In addition, this quiz is the most exciting way to determine your geographic IQ! You will not only learn your level of knowledge, but also be able to compare results with average gamers and skillful travellers. The most important achievements can be shown in the world records table.

Game Features:

- Two difficulty levels
- Hardcore and traditional game modes
- Stylus control support
- Territorial and thematic filters of tasks
- 8 topics
- Detailed statistics and world record table
- More than seven hundred questions
- Geographical IQ determiner

The detailed information about the game, including screenshots, trailers and links for demo version are available on the HeroCraft PDA site – http://smart.herocraft.com/travel-genius.

Following a release for Palm OS(R) and Windows Mobile(R) devices earlier this year, Astraware(R) and Idigicon are excited to announce the release of Platypus for 3 more smartphone platforms. The squishiest shoot-em-up ever is now available for S60(R), UIQ(R) and BlackBerry(R) smartphones worldwide, including the new BlackBerry Bold!

Based on the cult classic for PC and Mac, Platypus is a fast, frantic and fun side-scrolling arcade shooter with a difference – the entire game is made from clay!

The vast continent-spanning city of Collosatropolis has finally reached the limits of its expansion, and tall buildings cover every available space. The Collosotropolan leaders decide to invade the neighbouring country of Mungola. They don’t anticipate much of a struggle as Mungola’s entire defence force consists of a single squadron of fighter planes – the venerable F-27 ‘Platypus’.

Your mission is to pilot your trusty Platypus and save peaceful Mungola! Fly across the squashy fields and trees, avoid the snowy mountains and protect your planet. Shoot down the enemy ships and marvel as they disappear in a splat! Collect fruit bonuses and a range of power-ups to aid you in your quest!

Platypus is a fantastic, fun arcade game featuring 4 massive worlds each with several challenging levels. It’s the perfect casual game for arcade gamers and the perfect arcade game for casual gamers!

Platypus is optimised to use d-pad controls on S60 phones, d-pad or touchscreen on UIQ phones, and the trackball on BlackBerry smartphones. For more information, visit http://www.astraware.com/platypus. Club Astraware members can get a substantial discount off all versions of Platypus for a limited time. Simply login here: http://www.astraware.com/club to check out the special price!

Resco, one of the leading companies in software development of applications for mobile devices, announced today the availability of a brand new version of its award winning Resco Pocket Radio application for the Pocket PC platform. Version 1.90 now fully supports Bluetooth stereo head-sets and thus allows users to listen and tune into thousands of internet radio stations cable free.

Moreover, with the new version it is possible to install a touch-optimized player to the Today Plugin and operate the radio directly from there. Easy radio importing, scheduled recording and a very friendly user interface are some of the many other features that made Resco Pocket Radio a sought-after application.

Features in Resco Pocket Radio v1.90

* Support of Bluetooth stereo head-sets (A2DP, AVRCP)
* Today Plugin player
* List of thousands internet radios
* Easy radio import
* Scheduled recording
* Support of MP3 and Ogg Vorbis formats

There’s nothing better than running Windows on a Mac. If your Windows flavored Virtual Machine (VM) gets bitten by a nasty Windows malware peace, dust it and restart with a backed up VM copy in minutes. Since many application types can be found on the Mac easily today, there is less and less reason to run Windows. However, with industry specific applications and a few better-on-Windows programs, such as QuickBooks, a VM is still needed from time to time. Many Mac users have gone with Parallels Desktop and VMWare’s Fusion. With a price tag nearing $100, only the serious user will opt to purchase either fine VM product. Watch out, though, because now the company that was a large part of creating the World Wide Web with millions of web servers running on its hardware, Sun Microsystems has unveiled VirtualBox. The open source VM project Sun hopes will drive many to use its new product could just be the next must have VM for Mac users.

VirtualBox runs many x86 operating systems (guest OS) on x86 computers (host OS). Guest operating systems VirtualBox can run include, but not limited to, Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista), DOS, Windows 3.x (on top of DOS), Linux (2.4 and 2.6), as well as OpenBSD.

Still under development, VirtualBox sits at version 1.6.2 and is actively updated. Sun has asked both developers and users to download its product and give it a try as well for developers to help out with coding. More coders means more features and hopefully more stability. More users will help in these two areas as well since feedback is always a much needed input for developers.

VirtualBox shares many of the same features as VMWare and Parallel’s offerings such as folder sharing, USB device use, and easy guest OS install from an ISO image.

Any Intel or AMD processor will run VirtualBox according to Sun. Most guest OS’s will need at least 512 MB of RAM with 30 MB of hard drive space need for VirtualBox itself. If you’re willing and daring (and just plain cheap), download VirtualBox today.

You know, everyone has an opinion about Microsoft and it’s operating system, Windows. Be it Experience (the official name of XP) or Vista (the unofficial name: this millenniums Millennium Edition), you’re sure to find someone that will be more than willing to pick up a gallon of gas and pour it all over their monitor and strike a match to it. But I know, at nearly $5 a gallon, what a waste. No worries, mate, you can just install NAPALM and light your desktop on fire. For free.

“FireStarter” created NAPALM in response to the Linux desktop burner, Compiz Fire (YouTube link). FireStarter states that they will continue to develop the fun desktop burner if “interest is manifested” as according to the download page. There’s a community page and all to start that manifest under.

Sorry all you DOS-based Windows users with 9′s in the name (or a proper noun), but you’re out cold as this only runs on true 32-bit OSs by Redmond. You, unfortunately, will have to waste $5.