I’ve been using an old Palm OS program called Timesheet for keeping track of billable hours now that I’ve become a high-priced consultant. It’s an old program; the most recent version (1.5.3) was last updated by the author (Stuart Nicholson) back in November of 1999. However, it’s got a better interface than all the commercial [...]
Being the resident Palm OS freak in my circle of friends, I’ve been getting a lot of questions about what’s going to happen to PDAs in light of Sony’s announcement that it won’t be producing any new CLIÉ models in the United States this year. Here’s a question I received from a friend via email:
Does [...]
My latest experiment in terror: attempting to blog from my Tapwave Zodiac via a Bluetooth connection to my desktop PC. Okay, it’s not exactly a practical thing to do, given that my PC has a perfectly good copy of Mozilla Firefox installed and the computer’s keyboard is mere inches from the Palm Wireless Keyboard upon [...]
I’ve just picked up a Bluetooth adapter for my PC so I’ve got at least one device to which I can connect my Tapwave Zodiac. HotSync via Bluetooth works brilliantly, but trying to share out my PC’s net connection has been anything but simple.
I still haven’t quite got it working, but this Palm Bluetooth Guide [...]
The Amida Simputer is a brand new handheld computer from India. It runs on a Linux and X Windows base, with a 206MHz processor, 64MB of RAM, 32MB of “permanent storage” (flash memory, I’d assume), and a pair of USB ports.
Among the more innovative features is a built-in accelerometer, which allows the user to control [...]
Jeff Kirvin has a great article up titled Ford vs Chevy, which is an excellent layman’s explanation of the differences between Windows Mobile and Palm OS multitasking. In short, they’re different, but roughly equivalent in end-user experience.
I’ve recently become completely infatuated with Kim Possible, a quirky and hip cartoon about an overachieving high school girl who is “cheerleader by day, crime stopper by night”. With her friends Ron Stoppable (always accompanied by his naked mole rat, Rufus) and Wade (who never appears in person, only on Ms. Possible’s “Kimmunicator”), she keeps [...]
My copy of K&R is buried in a box somewhere, so I had to go hunting for a basic C language reference. The first thing that popped up on a Google search for “c language reference” was The C Library Reference Guide.
I may just leave K&R buried in that box. This is an excellent reference, [...]
One of the PalmSource engineers (Kenneth, if I remember correctly) cruises the PalmSource Developer Conference every year it’s held, snapping photos of developers in compromising situations so he can blackmail them later. Or maybe he’s just archiving the conference for posterity and fun. I can never keep those straight.
At any rate, he got a shot [...]
My latest toy, which I purchased at the PalmSource Developer Conference 2004, is a Tapwave Zodiac 2. It’s a handheld optimized for gaming, which means fast video and great audio. And, incidentally, movies.
The Zodiac comes with a stripped-down copy of Kinoma Player, with Kinoma Producer on the desktop for converting files. Kinoma Player isn’t bad [...]
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