Mobile Learning Tools (PDAs, iPods and Mobile Phones)
This page provides links to tools for PDAs (i.e. Pocket PCs and Palms), iPods and mobile phones for use in creating or reading mobile learning solutions.
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Acrobat Reader for Palm OS and Pocket PCs
Lets you view Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files on handheld devices running Palm OS and Pocket PCs.
Updated: 18 November t 2001
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"This new addition to the Acrobat family enables you to read Adobe PDF files downloaded from a desktop computer, freeing you to access them anywhere."
"Anapod Explorer is the most advanced Windows iPod software available, offering full iPod management through full Windows Explorer integration under My Computer, easy drag and drop iPod transfer and iPod backup, PDA function support, web page interface access to your iPod through a built-in web server, powerful search and reporting capabilities using a built-in SQL database, and much more, all in one compact package." From Red Chair Software
Added: 21 May 2005
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Anapod Explorer is available in a full-featured edition and a free Trial Edition for evaluation.
"Colligo's Personal Edition is targeted at individuals who need to share information with associates in a simple and efficient manner, over wireless connections between devices or over the corporate LAN. No training is required to install or take advantage of Colligo's software. Best of all, the same tool can be used whether you are in the office working at your desk or out of the office at a client site. Messaging, chat, conferencing and file transfer are all at your disposal, with instant connectivity and automatic discovery of team members."
Added: 2 March 2002
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Also Personal Edition for Palm OS
"CSpotRun is a free reader for documents in the popular Pilot DOC format. There are a couple of nice commercial readers on the market. CSpotRun is targeted at those of us who do not use a reader enough to justify spending the money on one. It was designed to be smaller and simpler than the commercial readers. At least that was the idea. It's grown a bit."
Added: 19 August 2001
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ZDNet Editor's Pick
"Use Word, Excel and PowerPoint files on any Palm, Visor or Clie handheld with Documents To Go®. Quickly view and edit your sales forecast, contracts and even open and review your PowerPoint presentations. Documents To Go creates a powerful office solution for any mobile professional." From DataViz.
Added: 1 September 2001
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This software is now being shipped with the latest Palm models.
"eReader is the most popular, and easiest to use, free software that allows you to read eBooks on your handheld, laptop, desktop computer, and Symbian Smartphones"
Updated: 25 January 2005
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eReader User's Guide available
"Download the developer release of Macromedia Flash Player for your Pocket PC device. This release of Macromedia Flash Player for Pocket PC is intended for developers who want to begin creating Macromedia Flash content for Pocket PC."
Added: 23 December 2001
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The developer release is available for the following hardware platforms: Casio Cassiopeia E-125; Compaq iPaq 3650, iPAQ 3630 and Hewlett Packard Jornada 548
"The first presentation CF card which can be played back 30 frames per second (30 fps) video / movie!! the difference in presentation quality from Pocket PC with FlyPresenter-CF and laptops is hardly noticeable. Plus, any inclusion of animation with sounds can always act as the "secret weapon" and liven up the otherwise boring and long presentations. If outstanding presentation is what you are after, FlyPresenter-CF is your best choice!"
Added: 9 March 2003
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"Handango offers you selection of more than 75,000 downloads for all types of smartphones and handhelds. From business and personal productivity software to travel apps and games, we have the best mobile downloads to fit every interest."
Updated: 25 January 2005
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Shop for Palm OS, Pocket PC, Windows Mobile Smartphone, Symbian, BlackBerry and Java software
"Hot Lava Software, Inc. is the leading provider of mobile authoring, publishing, delivery and tracking solutions. Using Hot Lava Software's proven mobile content development and publishing system integrated with the Hot Lava mobile delivery and tracking system your organization will have the tools and knowledge needed to launch and track mobile initiatives faster and more cost effectively than you would have ever imagined."
Date: 18 June 2006
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Hot Lava Software anticipated the need for portable mobile content in the form of learning, reference, testing and job aides to support a growing remote and field workforce
Added: 21 May 2005
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Tools include iStory Creator, iPod Agent, Pod Player, MarkAble, MarksMan
"iTunes U* is a free, hosted service for colleges and universities that provides easy access to your educational content, including lectures and interviews 24 hours a day, 7 days a week."
Added: 25 January 2006
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"It's the most powerful way to manage a broad range of audio or video content and make it available quickly and easily to students, faculty, and staff. And it is the only application that supports the overwhelmingly popular iPod."
"Kallisto Composer is an authoring tool for composing interactive, animated content for Java-enabled mobile phones. Kallisto Presenter is the companion media player that displays the content on the phone. An artist can assemble graphics, text and audio to make an animated, interactive presentation-- no programming necessary."
Added: 4 December 2005
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"Making extensive use of the Swing interface and Java 2D library, Composer is programmed in 100% Java."
Lectora Publisher for Palms and Pocket PCs
"is an innovative new authoring tool from Trivantis that instantly brings interactive development from your desktop computer to Pocket PCs. An icon driven interface combined with drag-and- drop sensibility makes it quick and easy to create custom media-rich content through integrated text, digital photographs, audio clips, and animations into one small package. Once your content is organized in Lectora on your desktop and single-click publishing sends it to Palm OS® enabled devices or Pocket PCs everywhere!"
Update: 23 January 2002
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Trial versions available for download
"mabber makes Instant Messaging even more simple and more useful. mabber integrates ICQ, MSN, AIM, Yahoo and Jabber in one web browser-based instant messenger"
Added: 24 February 2006
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Register and pick a username. Play with mabber in your web browser.
Microsoft Reader for Pocket PCs
"Hundreds of publishers have already created thousands of eBooks for Microsoft® Reader, the first electronic reading software with ClearType display technology. And thousands of additional eBooks are coming! Whatever you love to read -- whether it's classics or Westerns, Americana or world affairs -- there's a Microsoft Reader eBook just waiting to carry you away."
Updated: 12 October 2001
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Reader v2 now available - for Windows PCs, laptops and Pocket PC 2002
"Whether you need to create personal content to take along with you, distribute or sell ebooks to others, or design more advanced content and applications, the Mobipocket Creator family of products enables to easily create ebooks from a variety of sources to be viewed on all the PDA and smartphone platforms where Mobipocket Reader is supported."
Updated: 25 January 2005
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MobiPocket Home and Standard versions available
"From eBooks and eNews to reference material and desktop documents, Mobipocket Reader gives you access to thousands of titles including current bestsellers, world renowned dictionaries, as well as major enews websites, RSS feeds and weblogs. Start reading on your PDA or smartphone today!"
Updated: 25 January 2005
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MobiPocket Standard and MobiPocket Pro versions available
"Surf the entire Internet with Opera Mini - the new and revolutionary browser for nearly any mobile phone."
Added: 26 January 2006
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Use the download wizard to get the free browser for your phone
"from eLearning Dynamics is a teaching and assessment tool to improve student performance. Using handhelds for students, this wireless network creates dynamic interaction, conducts assessments and manages the classroom from the instructor's desktop computer.
Updated: 25 January 2005
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For the Pocket PC
"PocketExam is the standard quiz taking software for Pocket PC. Authors can develop one quiz that runs on handheld platform ... Pocket Exam Builder "is a program that runs on a Windows PC and provides a nice user interface for creating quizzes. You can easily create PocketExam quizzes without learning the underlying file format."
Added: 29 January 2004
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Download a demo version
"Welcome to pocketpcsoft a Pocket PC Software list with occasional news. This site has free pocket pc software to download, including medical, bible, games, freeware, and pocket pc 2002 software downloads."
Added: 29 June 2002
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A wide range of software to download for the Pocket PC and all FREE
"PocketRSS is a Today Screen plugin and stand-alone application which allows a quick and easy method of displaying various types of RSS/OPML compliant data on your Today Screen. It does require a connection to the Internet from the PocketPC, but is designed to still function while offline."
Added: 9 April 2004
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An RSS reader for Pocket PC.
"Pocket Slides allows creation, editing, and playback of presentations on your Pocket PC."
Added: 23 December 2001
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Pocket Slides received Best of Comdex 2001 You can download a 3-day evaluation copy
"Thanks to Pocket SlideShow, you can now bring your favorite Microsoft PowerPoint presentations right in your pocket, and enjoy full-screen slide shows, with optimized display and animations."
Updated: 25 June 2005
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Download a free evaluation copy
"Quickoffice places your Excel and Word files right where you need them -- in your hand! With Quickoffice you can view, create, edit, sync and print your office documents on your handheld and synchronize your work later when you're back at the office." Cutting Edge Software
Added: 4 December 2001
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Quicksheet, Quickword and Quickchart
"We offer many free and commercial products for education, learning, assessment, and just plain fun (for the trivia buffs). If you don't have the free Quizzler on your handheld or desktop now, you're missing out!
Updated: 24 September 2005
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Be sure to check out the extensive FREE quiz library, too
"Books, manuals, manuscripts - from classical literature, to technical handbooks, to the latest draft of your business plan - imagine all these moving seamlessly from your desktop to the palm of your hand. Now it's easy."
Added: 29 July 2001
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You can also visit ex Libris - gateway to free e-books (http://www.qvadis.com/exlibris/library.html)
RealOne Player for mobile devices
"The mobile version of the RealOne Player is now available for the Nokia 9200 series Communicators and PocketPC devices. Download and play video clips, stream audio through a wireless connection, or drag-and-drop your music from your PC to your mobile device."
Added: 26 March 2002
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The Real Player for mobile devices - both for (selected) Pocket PCs and Nokia Communicators.
RSS Orbit - a feed reader for mobiles
"Want to read your favorite blogs or news feeds on your mobile? Then RSS Orbit is what you need. As an ideal companion to BlogPlanet it loads RSS/RDF and Atom feeds from the net and saves them so they can be viewed repeatedly, minimizing transfer costs."
Added: 20 May 2004
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Download a trial version
optimizes Web pages, searches, and e-mail for use on PDAs and cell phones
Added: 25 June 2005
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Free
"Enable teachers to share the mLearning vision... use SYMEX mobileTeacher and start your mLearning experience now, at school, at home, in the park, with additional benefits, of a PDA phone! Using any PDA phone with Microsoft® Windows® Mobile, you can enter and access student performance information on the move."
Added: 29 May 2006
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28 day trial period
"A document reader that's nice... without the price! TealDoc is a full-featured reader for standard PalmPilot documents with all quality, intuitive interface, and affordability you've come to expect from TealPoint Software."
Added: 29 July 2001
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TealPoint software offers a variety of other software tools for mobile devices
"TeamFile is a convenient checklist organizer for groups of people. If you manage a sports team, club, classroom, workgroup, or any other organization, you may have found yourself making checklists for various reasons." A Palm application to download.
Added: March 2001
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"Zirada.com is a free service that lets you create and publish mobile content that works with most color screen cell phones. You can get started by creating a zirada.com account and downloading Zirada Publisher - the application that lets you create mobile content from your desktop."
Added: 7 June 2006
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Zirada lets you create photo galleries, blogs, sound clips and more that you can send to most mobile phones
