Pokin' to the oldies: why Palm OS 5 still rocks
While you're busy flicking and pinching and shaking your iPhone, watching apps crash and getting a white screen of death, I've been busy editing Office docs and playing Insaniquarium. What, you can't do that on your precious touch-screen of joy? Pity. And yes, Palm OS 5.whatever, aka "Garnet" is pretty old. So what? Let's change the name to "Helen Mirren." See? Infinitely sexier. I wrote about my ...
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The point of this post is to provide a handy list of software for Palm OS devices because many free apps are now hard-to-find. Commercial apps aren't, but I'm a cheap, cheap man. Follow along as I save you a bundle on hardware and software that'll put a powerful gadget in your pocket. I wound up with a Palm T|X from my little brother who bought himself an iPhone (and the subsequent snobbery that ...
Palm was once king of the mobile landscape. The Palm Pilot made reality what a decade of electronic organizers and ill-fated Apple Newtons never could; A practical handheld computer to store the junk from your head. Once Palm established the market Microsoft stepped in with Windows CE, early versions of which were laughable in comparison to the Palm. Three name changes, infinite version numbers ...
Despite ads floating around inviting shoppers to the url, www.ontreo.com--Palm's site for the new Treo 680 released last week--had remained dormant until today. And it probably should have stayed that way. Engadget says the phone itself has a "whiff of 2004" about it, and that goes triple for the obnoxious flash-based bit of yesteryear that Palm has whipped up to support the phone. Aside from ...
The newest version of the Leonard Maltin Movie Guide has been released by LandWare. If you are ever in the video store and want some guidance to pick out something good you can use this guide. This new version has the complete listings of both of the 2007 Movie Guide and the Classic Movie Guide by Leonard Maltin.
LandWare makes this product not just for the Smartphone platform, but also the ...
Sometimes the simplest
applications make us smile. Around here, we're generally not too fond of funky interfaces or whiz-bang graphics
on every piece of software. That is especially the case for PDA applications. Take, for example, this
wonderfully made donationware application called Flight Status.
Developed by some high school kid (Andrew), Flight Status fills a great gap ...
Notice how we don't talk
much about Palm apps around here? I used to be the biggest Palm fan out there. That was before the dark days of lousy
hardware, bloated OS updates, and bugs from here to the 10th planet. Riddle me how Sony was able to get Flash on their
PalmOS devices years ago, but Palm's own still don't have it? Explain why the OS has to be stuck at 5.x.x.x.x ad
infinitum? Oh well, they ...
The best thing about converved devices like the Treo 650 is the availability of lots of your personal information in one, small device. This blessing can also be a curse, if your data gets in the wrong hands. Even worse, all those famous people that you know would have their phone numbers exposed to the world...and you know what kind of mess that can get you into.Well, your Treo 650 ...
The base Palm interface has essentially remained unchanged since the Original PalmPilot. While the interface's simplicity allows for broad adoption of Palm devices, I'm like many Palm users out there that need a little bit more than just the basic stuff. My interface of choice for years has been ZLauncher, primarily because it allows me to install and run programs from my Treo's SD ...
Marc Orchant over at The Office Weblog notes that Chapura's KeySuite has recently been updated with several minor enhancements.Updates include:International, 24-hour time picker with an option for setting time in 1-minute or 5-minute increments.
Year view in KeyDates (for hi-res handhelds only).
You can set Week Start in KeyDates to any day of the week. All views now reflect this Week Start ...
How does a Palm work on the wrist? I spent nearly two months wearing an Abacus (a Fossil sub-brand) WristPDA to see how useful all those Palm apps could function strapped to my arm all day. Here I'll give you a list of the software I used, and some tips on getting the most out of such a device. I picked up my WristPDA online for under $70 after reading MAKE's write up on the subject. The OS is ...
PalmSource has partnered with MontaVista Software to develop Linux-based smartphone software. The deal probably doesn't do a whole lot for PalmSource, other than give it a little more cred with the Linux smartphone developer community. It may, however, help third-party developers, as they transition their PalmOS apps to Linux. And, of course, that'll help MontaVista, which competes directly with ...
