Software I use

[From Rosyth ( Fife, Scotland)] Well Happy Birthday Palm Addicts . 7 years is a fantastic length to be around infact that's longer than may marrige lasted. I think it is 20 annivereries that make people think of the changes in that period of time and developments in that field. We now have handheld devices that rival home PCs from 7 years ago and the Palm os has really moved on. My own Palm expireience has moved as well but the 3 Palm os devices I have are all still in service and it is only my Psion Revo that lies uncharge in a drawer at work that doesn't see daily use. My devices are a Handspring Visor Deluxe os 3.1, a Zire 71 and a Treo 600 and yes they really do all get a daily work out Treo is a phone upgrade rather that a PDA upgrade and does all I want of it I really have no complaints about it a month after its purchase from Ebay. OK its a low res screen but my Nokia 3510i was worse so as a phone it is good.

Since its a phone it is carried everywhere and I have been selective with the software on it just picking my favourites that are on the Zire. Bejewelled, the excellent Freejongg and some card games, ereader and isilo with a couple of good books for rereading and some freeware from Mytreo.net such as movierec. I currently only have a 64 meg SD card in it so no video for TCPMP or mp3s. This will have to be rectfied as I have tried 71's 1 gig card and video and mp3s work a dream. So 71 has not been relegated due to it's superior screen but still does the job it's been doing. The main thing here is for Ebooks. Since 20 discovering ebooks I read more now than ever before in my life H G Wells read them all, Verne, Wilde as well all available through memoware for free. Ben Elton, Dan Brown, Baigent and Lee and many others. My appetite for reading is unending. But 71 is also a hobby tool with astronomy software as well with astro-metrics suite of Lunar, Jovian and Orrery and Planetarium from Andreas Hofer software.

I get The Sky at Night magazine available here in the UK and on the cover disc it has previous TV shows they a coverted through Kinoma Producer and put to SD and then watched with TCPMP. This handy app also allows listening to the David Bowie compilation I got at Christmas. This CD has never been played on a player and the only time it has been in a disc tray was to rip it to mp3 for the Palm. So this leaves Handspring, how I hear you ask could this possibly get used on a daiily basis. Its almost 5 year old, its 4 shades of grey, it has a 33 megahertz processor and only 8 meg of memory with no SD slot but still it gets use. Well omniremote makes it ideal for the bedroom telly and digibox who's remote is dead. We are fortunate enough to have a remote for the same box in another room so learn it on Handspring and its a replacement remote this being used almost nightly. My partner Debbie is cuurently hooked on TextTwist and this game doesn't need os5 or a colour screen so the Visor is again adequate for this. Her previous other game addiction is catered for by a Mahjongg game found on a site with various platforms abandonware and fits the bill and os perfectly. I did have other software on it but a mix up at a battery change cleared all as it crash a few time ane with no PC backup it was an opportunity to just have what was needed on it. So at this time when reflecting on Palm Addicts 7th birthday dig out some of those old PDAs of yesteryear and see if you can breath new life and useage into them. As all my devices are not the most up to date but all do there job. Happy Birthday and best wishes for the future