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Yap Yamb (Net+) offers a fun and familiar dice game for your Windows computer. This program's simple setup and fun gameplay resemble the game Yahtzee.

The program's interface isn't anything revolutionary, though its primitive graphics fit the simplicity of the game. While its layout was acceptable, we were disappointed that we needed to consult the brief tutorial in the Help file to learn what combination of keys and mouse clicks were needed to play. We picked it up quickly, though, and within minutes we were virtually shaking our dice and attempting to put together pairs, straights, full … Read more

Voice services are the next generation of technology evolving from person-to-person phone calls. Voice services can solve some of the big problems like having to press buttons or pay attention to what you're doing. That's good for people with vision problems and for road warriors. In the past, people associated automated voice services with the fictional computer of the Starship Enterprise, but these days we're able to use it for mobile Web services like GOOG-411 and 1-800-DIRECTIONS, which showed off their stuff in the last session.

First up was Lypp, which offers a mobile conference-calling platform. Lypp … Read more

Here's a useful concept: say you're really sick of dealing with your phone's tiny keypad to type in text messages. What if you could simply say what you wanted to write down, and have the tool fill it in for you? Yap is a new service that's trying to fill that need with their new mobile phone client. It's aimed at teens, who the company claims 66% of text while driving. Yap will read off your friend's responses, meaning you don't have to pay attention to what they're writing. The service works … Read more