Grinding Out Document PDB’s with PorDiBle

In the distant past (before I traded my Windows rig in on a shiny MacBook), I had a stable of applications to move documents from my PC to my Palm T3. Now that the PC is history, and I’ve joined the Mac Revolution, I’ve found that the choices for accomplishing this task are more limited.

I do the majority of my Palm reading in either eReader or TealDoc, and neither handles native TXT files, but both handle DOC PDB’s. I Googled the problem, and discovered Loghound’s PorDiBle application.

PorDiBle’s meat grinder-attached-to-Palm icon sits in my Dock, ready at a second’s notice for TXT files to be dragged onto it for grinding, and spitting out as PDB files. From there, its a simple matter to activate MissingSync on my T3 to turn its SD card into an external storage device that I can drop the PDB files into, or drop them into either the RAM or SD installation shelves on the Mac MissingSync appliation for installation to the appropriate T3 location.

There are more sophisticated ways to move my documents from Mac to T3. But to be totally honest, I’ve grown very attached to PorDiBle’s Palm/Grinder icon, and I look forward to watching it work its magic at every use.

Now that I’ve started using RapidReader to speed read news articles, I find that when I scan something interesting on line, its a simple matter to copy and paste it into TextEdit, save it as TXT, grind it through PorDiBle, and load it into my T3 for a closer look when I have time.