Tim Trimble

Member since: Dec 8th, 2005

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How I learned to stop worrying and love Palm again (Download Squad)

Aug 30th 2007 12:12PM I've been living with Palm devices since 1997. In fact I've done significant development for the Palm OS platform. My current device is the Palm Treo 650. I can't live without Agendus Pro for all my contacts and appointments. Splash ID keeps all my web site logins. I use WordSmith for my MS Word documents along with a foldup IR Keyboard for coffeeshop writing. But I still keep going back to Space Trader, Chess Genius, and Bejeweled for gaming.
With the demise of AppForge, I now use NSBasic for my Palm development efforts. Now if I could just get FileMaker to interface with my custom apps.

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Windows Live Local launches: 45-degree view not especially useful (Download Squad)

Dec 8th 2005 8:53PM My apologies. I came back to see if it posted and didn't see it, but I saw this new one on basically the same topic. I assumed the worse. Sorry. Tim

Windows Live Local launches: 45-degree view not especially useful (Download Squad)

Dec 8th 2005 7:27PM I posted the following comment earlier today. But, for some reason the original article was changed and my comment disappeared. Is this site afraid of MS critical commentary? Humm. Here's the original comment: It seems like too little, too late! Google Earth provides all the mentioned functionality and more. Plus, it's been around long enough to be a mature product - rather than one that MS pushes to the public for beta testing. Though Google always flags their releases as beta. I checked out MS Live and I was very disappointed in what was being offered. If MS really wants to make an impact and be competitive in this area of the internet then they need to provide a fully functional tool instead of offering a couple little pieces for the purpose of announcing that they have a new service. It's the same old marketing ploy - release a service/product with the intent of scaring the competition away. But the service/product is usually substandard to what is already out there. I think they're finding that this ploy no longer works the way it used to. The one exception that I've seen to this is MS's release of the Visual Studio Express (Very Impressive!). Maybe the Live group needs to communicate with the VS group and get some ideas on how it should be done, eh? Timothy Trimble The ART of Software Development

Windows Live Local to offer 45-degree bird's-eye landscapes (Download Squad)

Dec 8th 2005 2:59PM It seems like too little, too late! Google Earth provides all the mentioned functionality and more. Plus, it's been around long enough to be a mature product - rather than one that MS pushes to the public for beta testing. Though Google always flags their releases as beta. I checked out MS Live and I was very disappointed in what was being offered. If MS really wants to make an impact and be competitive in this area of the internet then they need to provide a fully functional tool instead of offering a couple little pieces for the purpose of announcing that they have a new service. It's the same old marketing ploy - release a service/product with the intent of scaring the competition away. But the service/product is usually substandard to what is already out there. I think they're finding that this ploy no longer works the way it used to. The one exception that I've seen to this is MS's release of the Visual Studio Express (Very Impressive!). Maybe the Live group needs to communicate with the VS group and get some ideas on how it should be done, eh? Timothy Trimble The ART of Software Development