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- Price: Purchase $29.99 to buy
- Operating system: Windows Mobile
- Date added: January 07, 2003
- Total Downloads: 12
- Downloads last week: 3
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- Average user rating: stars out of 70 votes
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From Omega One :Need to take an umbrella tomorrow?Feel like catching up on the latest news on the move?Ever wanted the movie times when you're out and about?Want to know if a movie is worth seeing?Need to see how your stocks are doing, no matter where you are?Journal Bar gets all this information and more and puts it right on your Pocket PC today screen! Simply install, enter your location, then let Journal Bar put the best of the web on your device:Weather -14 locations of up to 5 days forecast, current conditions for cities & satellite images. Radar images for US cities. Over 230 countries & thousands of cities - most complete coverage of any program on the Pocket PC.News - headlines & in-depth articles for 29 countries in 18 languages - over 100 news feeds.Stocks - up to 200 of your favorite stocks / mutual funds / currencies updated every 10 minutesMovie times for your local movie theatersMovie reviews of the latest releasesTV listings for the main channels this eveningSports scores for the major leaguesHoroscopes your daily personal readingWeb Favorites - take your favorite web pages with you wherever you goLocalization - Deutsch, Français, Dansk & NorwegianThe latest information is automatically updated as soon as you dock your device, so you always have the latest information wherever you go!HelpEnglish, Français, Deutsch, Nederlands, Svenska & Slovaski.How does it work?Journal Bar downloads data from the Internet when your Pocket PC is connected to your PC, and your PC is connected to the Internet. Don't worry about changing options to make this work, Journal Bar works right out of the box -- all you do is install and go! Enter your ZIP code for local weather, local news, and local movie listing information.Customize Journal Bar to remove the information you don't want to see.Auto scroll through the information so you can quickly see it from the docking cradle.Change how often the information is automatically updated.Works with Phone Edition, Bluetooth & 802.11 devices for updating on the go.New FREE update released!Shows satellite images for most weather cities.Shows local time & current conditions for each weather location on the today screen.Support for VGA Pocket PCs, and landscape orientation.Full localization into French, German & Danish. Partial Norwegian translation.The following countries now have 1 or more news sources:Africa (English)Argentina (Spanish)Australia (English)Austria (German)Belgium (Dutch)Canada (English, French)Croatia (Croatian)Czech Republic (Czech)Denmark (Danish)Finland (Finnish)France (French)Germany (German)Hungary (Hungarian)Italy (Italian)Middle East (English)Netherlands (Dutch)Norway (Norwegian)Poland (Polish)Portugal (Portuguese)Romania (Romanian)Russia (Russian)Slovenia (Slovenian)Spain (Spanish)Switzerland (French, Italian, German)Turkey (Turkish)United Kingdom (English)USA (English)Double your DataPurchase the Journal Bar Expansion Pack and get over 100 extra news sections, including over 70 US news sections.Note: most countries give excellent forecast information, but not all countries weather displays 5 days of information. Some countries are limited to reporting temperatures. If in doubt, try the demo version before you purchase.Pocket PCs with a cell connection: Journal Bar may attempt to connect and get data using your cell phone data link. Please turn this off if you do not wish this to happen (see help on how to turn this feature off).
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.5 stars out of 70 votes
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Version: Journal Bar - 14 weather locations, 200 stocks, 100 news sources & RSS!
"Journal Bar Latest Version Awesome!"
Summary: I've just updated my PocketPC to the latest version of Journal Bar. Great product. Lot faster in getting updated News, Weather. Populates data automatically based on starting city. Well done developers of Omega One. Great piece of application softwa... read more >>
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Version: Journal Bar - 14 weather locations, 200 stocks, 100 news sources & RSS!
Summary: This used to be a great program but half of the pages now result in an error or an old page. I still get the weather though. I see that there has been an update as of Oct 27, 2008 but I'm scared to be the first to see if it has fixed its problems. ... read more >>
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Version: Journal Bar - 14 weather locations, 200 stocks, 100 news sources & RSS!
"Warning! Read All Below Reviews!!!"
Summary: In four words...Used To Be GREAT. Now, it hangs and freeze my Tilt every time I scroll up or click on a link in the news feed to giving errors message that would require me to reboot my phone. Install and re install to no avail. Avoid until the publ... read more >>
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Version: Journal Bar - 14 weather locations, 200 stocks, 100 news sources & RSS!
Summary: This app used to be one of my all time favorites. With WM5 I don't get the white screen of doom, but am unable to access the detailed configuration settings. I'm on a HP6945. Used to have a HP6515 and I got the constant reboots etc. It a shame that ... read more >>
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Version: Journal Bar - 14 weather locations, 200 stocks, 100 news sources & RSS!
"Consistently requires a hard reset"
Summary: Used to be a very good program but with the newer release it leads to the white screen of doom. The only way out is a full hard reset. Problem is easily reproduced on my Dell Axim X5. They had me try several beta fixes but same problem. I'm weary... read more >>
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