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Starting Your Day Right

Most Christians agree that when believers start the day off by seeking God, it gives them a positive outlook and a sense of peace that leads to a better day—and ultimately a better life. Now, Joyce Meyer provides readers with a day-by-day guide for getting closer to God every morning of the year.

Topics in this 365-day devotional include the keys to enjoying ever single day, balancing out extremes, acting with discipline and self-control, being happy, living without fear, and much more. Readers will be propelled each morning with a resurgence of hope and resilience for life through these brief and inspirational thoughts, and will never again want to leave home without first seeking the Lord.

“Beginning with the entries about the importance of forming ‘Godly habits,’ Meyer’s book covers a variety of uplifting subjects, such as divine love and grace. The book also includes practical and encouraging suggestions such as ‘Don’t Procrastinate,’ ‘Set Priorities,’ ‘Love Someone Today’ and ‘Appreciate Correction,’ all of which she backs up with quotations from scripture.”
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Talking to Heaven

James Van Praagh is a spiritual medium—someone who is able to bridge the physical and spiritual worlds. Unaware of his spiritual gifts until he was in his twenties, he slowly came to terms with his unique abilities. In addition, many of his sessions with grieving people who came to him looking to contact the spirits of deceased loved ones are explored.

From a devastated mother receiving a message of hope from her deceased little girl to communicating with a young man, killed in Vietnam, who doesn't realize he's dead, the theme of hope and peace in the afterlife is affirmed. Van Praagh also helps the reader recognize and positively deal with the pain of grief in a healthy, honest manner.

Part spiritual memoir, part case study, part instrumental guide, Talking to Heaven will change the way you perceive death... and life.

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The Minotaur

As soon as Kerstin Kvist arrives at remote, ivy–covered Lydstep Old Hall in Essex, she feels like a character in a gothic novel. A young nurse fresh out of school, Kerstin has been hired for a position with the Cosway family, residents of the Hall for generations. She is soon introduced to her “charge,” John Cosway, a thirty–nine–year–old man whose strange behavior is vaguely explained by his mother and sisters as part of the madness that runs in the family.

Weeks go by at Lydstep with little to mark the passage of time beyond John’s daily walks and the amusingly provincial happenings that engross the Cosway women, and Kerstin occupies her many free hours at the Hall reading or making entries into her diary. Meanwhile, bitter wrangling among Julia Cosway and her four grown daughters becomes increasingly evident. But this is just the most obvious of the tensions that charge the old remote estate, with its sealed rooms full of mystery. Soon Kerstin will find herself in possession of knowledge she will wish she’d never attained, secrets that will propel the occupants of Lydstep Old Hall headlong into sexual obsession, betrayal, and, finally, murder.

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Review of Astraware's Cake Mania

I've been playing Astraware's Cake Mania and as with all the Astraware games I've played, this one is lots of fun! The word "Mania" in the title sure fits the description because you have to be on your toes in this game to stay on top of the cake baking and decorating mania going on in order to satisfy your customers.

Cake Mania, like Super Slyder and Tradewinds, is based on the best-selling PC game by Sandlot Games. According to Alison Barclay of Astraware, this is the first time the game has been available with a touch screen interface which suits the game perfectly. Astraware did a wonderful job bringing this game to the Palm OS. The graphics are beautiful and the game is so much fun!

As the other reviewers have mentioned, Cake Mania centers around a young girl named Jill who is trying to win back her grandparents' bakery. The game starts out in comic book fashion which I thought was very cute since I used to love to read comic books all the time when I was growing up. Heck, I still buy an occasional Archie Digest and read it but don't tell anyone!

The comic strip pics guide you through the game and tell you the story and what you will need to do in order to help Jill succeed with the bakery. You'll encounter a colorful cast of characters who come in the bakery to buy Jill's cakes. You're given a specific amount of money with which to buy kitchen equipment and you have to decide which equipment would be the most profitable for the bakery. You can buy extra ovens, cupcake ovens, frosting machines, etc.

The faster you serve the customers, the happier they are and you'll make more money and get more points. You don't want to keep the customers waiting. You can see their impatience by the number of hearts next to them. You want to keep more hearts there. You can help to keep them happily waiting by buying a tv for them to watch or by baking them a cupcake. If you use your money wisely, you'll keep your customers happy and will do very well.

Of course the game does get harder the further along you go; as the months go by. If the game stayed easy, there wouldn't a challenge and it become boring. Don't worry, you won't get bored. You're going to have to keep your wits about you so you can multitask and keep the cakes coming out fast! I'm the nervous type who gets nervous for the cashier in the grocery store if there are more than 3 people in line, so I wasn't the best player in this game as I got flustered as more and more customers came in and were wanting their cakes.

Cake Mania is really fun and you'll be happy when you can help Jill do well and make lots of money. I don't think I helped the poor girl out but I'm sure that many of you Palm Addicts will do much better!

Cake Mania comes out tomorrow so be sure to head over to Astraware and get your copy and win back that bakery for Jill and her grandparents!

50% Off PalmEarth 2.0 at PalmGear

Hurry! PalmGear is offering PalmEarth 2.0 for only $9.95, which is normally $19.95, until October 17, 2006.

PalmEarth is a powerful PalmOS application that displays an interactive 3D Earth in your palm. With 36,000 cities database you can find any large city in the World, measure distance between them, know local time, sunrise and sunset time. User-defined colorfull maps will generate photo-like image of the Earth on your Palm!

Key Features:

Display city time and date
Display Sunrise/Sunset times for any city
Display city's next DST transition
Distinct twilight modes: civil, nautical and astronomical
Locate any city by name
Animated rotation to located city
Automatic update of Earth's shadow
Automatic pseudo rotation of Earth
Interactive 3D Earth rotation
Colorful Physical, Political and other maps
Dual mapping channels with several overlay modes
Dynamic multi-point visual distance measurement tool
Distances in kilometers, miles and nautical miles
Coarse and fine zoom controls
Zoom to selection
10, 15 or 30 degree lat/lon grid lines
Spherical and planar views
Sun spot and Earth shadow in real time
Special Day/Night overlay mode
Sun's azimuth and elevation at any point on earth in -real time
Snap any point on earth to nearest known city
User defined snap radius
Lat/lon and antipode information at any point on earth
Tropical and Polar circles
Texture brightness control
Texture smoothing
User defined Route files (for ex. Historical Routes etc.)

Who needs an iPod?

[From James Moat] I really enjoy using my Treo 650 as a music player. I use Pocket Tunes Deluxe and have loaded my SD card with a fair collection of tunes. Pocket Tunes Deluxe allows easy synchronization of music and podcasts with Windows Media Player 10. The 5 way navigator allows for easy control of volume and track. Sure, I could sink $300 into an iPod (and yes, I like my daughter’s), but for my casual music listening, and the fact that I always have my phone with me, the Treo is perfect.

Please respond to our thread, Why choose Apple ipods when you can have a Palm? In this thread oin the forum, it's an interesting discussion

DISCOVERING NEW AND EXCITING PALM SOFTWARE

[From Joe Baughman] The best thing about PA, to me, is that I find new software to try out. Sometimes it is directly mentioned and other times it starts out when I see mention of an entirely different product. A few of my most recent additions to my Palm TX:

SMBMate - Really seems to work well, allowing file transfers with Windows systems. I use it to copy test files directly to Printer Shares.
Jim DuBois Games - Adventure Solitare is definately unique and a great time waster. Angelus is fun but frustratingly hard!
MyRoots - An easy way for me to dabble in geneology.
myKbd - A good replacement for the built-in keyboard.
2PlayMe - Excellent scheduling app! I schedule reset/poweroffs every night, then wake up with a MIDI tune in the morning.
DragonEdit - I edit and post my web pages right from my Palm.

I use my old Palm every day at work

[From Craig Clewell] I use my old Palm every day at work. There are lots of applications that I use on a daily basis, and others I would like to load, but I don't have the room. The Lifedrive would be a god send. I have a clock that I display throughout the day, and I also keep my check register on my palm. Besides the games I play at lunch I also use my palm as my remote control for the TV & Stereo. I have PockeTunes loaded so I can listen to some tunes while I'm surfing the web with my WiFi card, and I also have an application that I use to keep track of all the work I have to do (Bonsai Outliner). Documents 2 Go is also a great application I use for work.

Palm is a way of life

[From Erik Nell, The Netherlands] I have been using palms for a couple of years now. I started with a T3, then a LifeDrive (which unfortunately broke right after the warranty ran out) and I am now the happy owner of a TX. The TX is my portable memory. I store everything in it. I use Agendus for my agenda and contacts and Life Balance for my tasks. I have dozens of e-books on my SD-card, play games on it (Chainz is my favorite at the moment) and play my favorite music.

My collegues at work (which is a Microsoft-only business) are laughing at me for using such out-dated machinery. They are trying very hard to get me on the WM train. I simply laugh back, because I know better. I had used some WM machines in the past and for me they just don't 'work'. It is all too fiddly, the thing you want is always one tap too far away. I spent most of my time configuring memory, wifi-settings, registry-settings etc.. The famous 'Zen of Palm' is what keeps me on this side of the force. And if that means that I don't get to play with the latest hardware, so be it.

Freeing Yourself of Sprint...

Are you feeling "stuck" in that two year contract you signed to get your Treo from Sprint? Maybe you want the freedom to switch to another carrier like Cingular or T-Mobile, but don't want the early termination fees? Or maybe you're in a contract with Sprint on a non-Treo and would really like to get a Treo, but don't want to pay the $500 non-contract upgrade price? Well, thanks to a change on Sprint's billing for SMS messages, now may be your chance. According to this post at EngadgetMobile, Sprint raised the price of text messages by $.15 each and according to the lawyers that constitutes a "material change" in the contract. And according to Sprint's contract wording (portion posted below), a material change on their end allows you to cancel without penalty. But best of all, this isn't a bunch of fluff. After reading the comments on the aforementioned article wherein many claimed they called and simply cancelled, I chose to do so myself (to can the contract on my "Blade"). Within less than 3 minutes, my contract was cancelled and I was told I would see my final bill within 10 days, that there are no early termination fees, and that my number was "flagged" in their system to be in good standing for number portability (meaning I can call Cingular or Verizon or whoever I choose and move my number over without issue).

A portion of the contract (emphasis mine):

"Agreement. We may change the Agreement at any time with notice. Any changes to the Agreement are effective when we publish them. If you use our Services or make any payment to us on or after the effective date of the changes, you accept the changes. If we change a material term of the Agreement and that change has a material adverse effect on you, you may terminate the Agreement without an Early Termination Fee by calling 1-888-567-5528 within 30 days after the changes go into effect. You understand and agree that taxes, Universal Service fees and other charges imposed by the government or based on government calculations may increase or decrease on a monthly basis, and that this paragraph does not apply to any increases in such taxes, Universal Service fees or other charges."

Act fast, though, the changes were made last week and you have to cancel within 30 days of a "material change".