Sammy's Review of the Week 
Due to me being in Sitges I am a day late with my review of the week so without further delay my PalmAddict friends here we go.
> This week, Palm Previewed Q1 FY08 Results; Company to Begin Marketing Senior Secured Loan Facilities. "Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq:PALM) today reported preliminary financial results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2008, ended Aug. 31, 2007. Full results will be reported Oct. 1, 2007. Based on preliminary financial data, Palm expects revenue to be in the range of $359 million to $361 million for the first quarter of fiscal year 2008. Smartphone revenue is expected to be in the range of $300 million to $302 million for the quarter, and smartphone sell-through for the quarter is expected to range between 685,000 units to 690,000 units. Earnings per diluted share are expected to be $(0.01) to $0.00 on a GAAP(1) basis and $0.08 to $0.09 on a non-GAAP(2) basis. Gross margin is expected to be in the range of 36.0 percent to 36.2 percent on a GAAP basis and 36.1 percent to 36.3 percent on a non-GAAP basis. Operating expenses on a GAAP basis are expected to be in the range of $134.0 million to $135.0 million and, on a non-GAAP basis, between $121.1 million and $122.1 million." Read in full.
> Also this week, Treo™ 700w/wx Updater 1.22 for Verizon Wireless smartphones became available. ""This update includes a fix to intermittent network connectivity problems previously reported. If you downloaded and ran this update prior to Sept. 18, 2007, re-download and re-run this update to install the connectivity fix. The initial version of the Palm Treo 700w/wx Updater 1.22, posted on July 12, 2007 incorrectly set a data connectivity parameter which may have produced an error when trying to connect to network data services. These errors associated with this issue may include:
Page Cannot Be Displayed
Answering Modem is Disconnected
No Modem at Above Number
The Treo 700w/wx Updater 1.22 was modified to properly program the parameter which had been incorrectly set, and is re-posted as Verizon1.2DesktopUpdater-rev1.zip. The update process. The update process on devices which have already run the 1.22 update should only take a few minutes. If the device was successfully updated previously, the entire update will not be applied. The updater will only run as long as is necessary to update the data connectivity parameters." Palm Support site for the deets and download.
>New Version of Verizon 700p update became available this week. "This update includes a fix to intermittent network connectivity problems previously reported. If you downloaded and ran this update prior to Sept. 18, 2007, re-download and re-run this update to install the connectivity fix. The initial version of the Palm Treo 700p Updater 1.10, posted on July 12, 2007 incorrectly set a data connectivity parameter which may have produced an error when trying to connect to network data services. These errors associated with this issue may include: "Error 3000" errors when attempting to browse "PPP Link Time Out error 0x1231" when attempting to connect to data. The Treo 700p Update 1.10 was modified to properly program the parameter which had been incorrectly set, and is reposted as either the: VerizonTreo700pSDUpdate-rev1.zip. Or VerizonTreo700pDesktopUpdate-rev1.zip" Palm support has the deets.
> According to a Palm release I was just sent it seems Mr Hawkins is disposing of Palm stock if this guidance is anything to go by.
>Bob Russel at MobileRead let us know what is on his Treo, and told us his device is not just for ebooks. "Any discussion about e-book reading devices brings preconceptions about context, especially when discussing dedicated e-ink devices versus smart phones and PDAs. Everyone uses their devices differently, and therefore considers feature trade offs from a slightly unique perspective. As a result, it seems to be relevant to briefly describe how I use my Treo 700p PalmOS smart phone."
> Kalan gave our female PalmAddict readers a tip when using their Treo. "Hi Sammy keep up the great work and congrats for such a wonderful site. Here is a tip for your female readers who own a Treo. Before going out for the night use your Treo to make sure you look just right. Take a picture of yourself just before you go out this way you can make any final adjustments needed."
>MetrO also received an update this week. "Many more features to discover: Native ARM calculation engine. Operating time awareness. Interface with address book. Directions to major tourist attractions (in selected cities). Take only the cities you need on your Palm. Install the cities on an expansion card. Easy station search. Complete line & station lists: 721 stops in London, 939 in New-York, 1813 in Tokyo, 838 in Paris Database exchange through IR. Ultra fast calculations (native ARM engine). Available in 39 languages. Users of PalmOS versions not supporting accented characters (Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Russian, Greek, ...) should download the "international" version instead of the default package (go to http://nanika.net/Metro/). Thanks to Mike for giving us the heads up on this one."
>Palminfocenter has a good special offer on at the moment partnering up with GX5. "PalmInfocenter has teamed up with Gx5 software, to offer readers a fantastic deal on some of the best Palm OS software for your Treo. DialByPhoto- DialByPhoto for your Treo lets you speed dial your favorite acquaintances that you call regularly with photo icons. It also includes some nice call management features and gives your phone a whole new stylish and modern look. Read our review here, or learn more. TreoMemo - TreoMemo is a must have replacement to the standard memopad. TreoMemo is 100% compatible with your existing memos and brings a great number of improvements, including an attactive interface with free skins, improved memo search, thumbscrolling and much more. Read our review here, or learn more. TreoWeather - TreoWeather is a gorgeous weather browsing application that delivers great results. It displays current weather conditions and forecasts for multiple locations. It also features user selectable wallpaper images and custom fonts and overlays. Learn more. Use the coupon code: GX5PALMINFOCENTER during checkout. Act now, this promotion ends on Sept 21st. Click here to purchase all three, or you can buy each application individually if you prefer." Yummy more details on this here.
>Here was a good opportunity to take advantage of, Silent Hero Productions(R) is giving away several discontinued Palm(R) games for FREE! ALL games have been tested on: Tungsten|T3, Zire72, and Treo650 devices... (Newer Palm(R) devices may not be supported: Treo680/700P/755). You can the deets from the SilentHero website.
>Talal Abani plans to stick with using a Treo 650. "Whilst I think the 500v is a good move by Palm I would like to say that I am probably one of a very small number of people who prefer the antenna design of the Treo 600 and 650. I have had my Treo 650 for two years like the bulkiness, I know it's in my pocket, when I life it out to make a call it's feels substantial. I think I would lose a smaller phone or accidently drop it. My 650 may be showing its age but to me it's my favorite Treo."
>Nick continues with his Treo 750 diary. "Man let me tell you my treo saved the day. As you already probly know im here stuck at the swap meet,but its been getting better. This is because my treo lets me hook up to the internet no matter ware I am allowing me to be wireless.this allows the day to fly by much faster with music movies and internet. I really don't know how I did it before without all this. I just got some new speakers to hook up to my laptop while im out here and now im bumping them. The only thing I have to get now is an adaptor to charge my laptop from my car. So far I've used my treo 750 to check my email on my yahoo and my aol. I checked google reader to catch up on the latest news about the new 500 and any new things coming out. Checked to see how apples doing and then I set an alarm for tommorow I received message from alarm today that reminded me to grab my speakers before I left. I love alarm today because I can set my notes to pop up on my phone at a certain time with a reminder. I can even snooze it for 5 10 15 minutes. I sent a txt to my co worker to see how she was doing at the route 66 event. She sends me pictures of all the people there and also video of the events. Makes me wish I was there. So to get over the thoughts of cotton candy and great food I decide to type up this post. I just remembered that I have an appointment at 2 with a realator for a house review. Ill use my 750 to call him and add a memo to the call if he has any important info for me. "
>Our publisher Andrew Wolstenholme gavehis initial thoughts on the Treo 500v. "I was lucky enough to receive a Vodafone Treo 500v this week and wanted to add some brief thoughts on it. I like it yes, easy to fit in my hand because of it's curve shapes. I like the fact I can hold this in one hand and use my thumb to navigate around the keys and buttons. I like the widescreen its nice and bright. Feels to good to hold and much lighter than I anticipated. I'm surprised its quite a stylish design, I didn't think I'd be say this about a Palm device but I have to hand it to Palm, now I look forward to a Palm OS version."
>Walter sent in his thoughts on ebooks. "Sammy keep up the great work, you and your writers do a great job. I have been using the T|X to keep me entertained, I am disabled and therefore housebound and so depend on others and whilst I have great friends and a supportive family I take comfort in the time that I get to spend with myself and the large number of ebooks that I can download from Project Gutenberg and read. If any of your readers have never stumbled across this reference then please point it out to them, I get so many pleasurable hours from reading that it keeps me both sane and happy. Thanks Sammy for allowing me to share my story and please keep palmaddict going, you bring so much happiness and knowledge to many people including myself."
>In other news this week, Fingertip Formulary announces the immediate availability of Fingertip Formulary Mobile. " Fingertip Formulary announces the immediate availability of Fingertip Formulary Mobile, a free formulary service designed for healthcare providers. The Fingertip Formulary database covers approximately 95% of the managed care lives in the U.S. and Puerto Rico and offers healthcare professionals access to the largest and most accurate source of formulary data available. Fingertip Formulary Mobile is a simple- to-use, unique, handheld application that is available for download to Palm and Pocket PC compatible PDAs, as well as in real-time, via Internet-connected PDAs. Registered users of Fingertip Formulary (http://www.FingertipFormulary.com) may personalize the prescription formulary data that are downloaded.|
>Andrew at Treonauts wrote a good overview of the new Treo 500v. "As promised Palm has sent me a brand new Treo 500 to review and I have to admit that I have not had the opportunity to be this excited about a new Treo in quite a while – it’s a very slick, slim and light smartphone that feels absolutely great in your hands and is surprisingly simple to use for a Windows Mobile non-touchscreen device.
>Eric sent in word about MyMovo which looks interesting enough. "myMovo is an innovative new way to search, download and convert videos from the internet to your PC, portable media player (iPod, PSP, Zen, and Zune) , cell phone (Blackberry, iPhone, Nokia, Motorola and Samsung) or Pocket PC. myMovo performs a targeted search of top videos sites including YouTube, ABC, CBS, Comedy Central, CNN, Discovery, ESPN, Fox, mySpaceTV, MTV, Yahoo! and more. Features include: Stream free internet videos to your media player. Supports iPod, PSP, Zune, Zen, cell phones and mp3 players. Stream audio and video podcasts to any supported device. Transfer your DVDs and local video files onto your media player. Use your own search terms to search the web for videos. Works with iTunes, Zune software and Windows Media Player. Stream videos from multiple sources to your device automatically. Supports a wide range of free video sites - TV, news, videos, etc...""
>ITWeek posted an editorial saying that the Foleo was a distraction best forgotten. " The Foleo was a distraction best forgotten makes for an interesting read over at IT Week. "Palm’s decision to cancel its Foleo mobile companion product could be seen either as an embarrassing U-turn for the handheld pioneer, or as a sign that the company is listening to users and focusing on improving its smartphone line-up to survive in a competitive market. The Foleo, an accessory to Palm’s Treo smartphones, was unveiled in June and was due to ship this summer in the US, with availability in Europe expected by the end of the year."
>Eric de Gooijer wrote a very good editorial entitled New Treo's with dual OS! "Is it wise and possible for Palm to deliver new Treo's with a dual (Palm/WM6) OS? Can this be a mayor hit for Palm? I thought about this a couple of times. But now WM6 supports 320x320 screens, I think there is no further hardware differences which holds back this idea. Except for the hardware buttons. But this should not be a big issue. And if there are some other minor hardware differences it can be worth while to overcome this. How will a dual OS works on a Treo! - If you start the Treo for the first time you will see two big square buttons. One with the Palm logo and one with the Windows Mobile logo. When one is pushed, this OS will be used every time till a next reset. And when you switch, data like contacts, agenda etc will be converted to the other OS. This way no data has to be inserted again if you want to switch to the other OS. If it was incorporated now in the Treo's, as a PalmOS user you could now use wi-fi by switching temporary to WM6. When finished working with wi-fi, you switch back to the PalmOS. Why should Palm choose for a dual OS Treo? If you want to sell something, first you have to make people curious. In a lot of European countries PalmOS is not well known. And if there is a store who shows one PalmOS smartphone and many different WM6 smartphones, people will think that PalmOS isn't good because no other brand use it. And if Palm comes with a WM6 smartphone and puts it in a store next to smartphones with build in wi-fi, 2 or more Mpx cameras, frontal camera, GPS, etc , people don't become curious of the name Treo (only if the price was very low). But Palm can make people curious by showing a dual OS Treo. Because it is unique! People wants to know what this is. So people who sees this and are not accustomed with PalmOS will definitely want to know more about PalmOS. They will probably find (on the internet) that a PalmOS Treo has many satisfied customers. So they will now make a decision on if a dual OS Treo outweighs one of an other brand with better hardware specs. At least they are not stuck with an expensive smartphone if PalmOS isn't that what they thought it to be. There will be also WM6 users who have heard about PalmOS but are afraid to buy a PalmOS smartphone if there is a change that they don't like it. With a dual OS Treo they don't have to be afraid about this. But this also means that PalmOS users now have the opportunity to try WM6. But it is better for Palm that they try WM6 on a Treo then on one of an other brand which have better hardware specs. Also people who left the PalmOS because of the lack of wi-fi can buy a dual OS Treo where they can switch to WM6 if they want to use wi-fi and switch back if they don't need to. For Palm a dual OS means that they have a unique smartphone where PalmOS users who want to switch to WM6 sticks to the Treo and WM6 users who are curious probably will buy one. And Palm have to take care of less different Treo's. Why would Microsoft choose for a dual OS Treo? - They know that there are PalmOS users who are afraid to buy a WM6 smartphone if there is a change that they don't like. Now these users can try WM6. And Microsoft also sells a lot more licenses. So I think for Palm and Microsoft a Treo with a dual OS can be a great opportunity."
>Just Another Mobile Monday reviews of the BoxWave Treo 750 Designio Hard Leather Case. "it looks pretty good quality. " As you would expect with a top of the line BoxWave case, in the box you’re going to find a small cloth like bag to protect the case during shipping (or storage should you need to store it) as well as a foam insert to help maintain the shape of the case. Along with that there is the detachable belt clip. Let’s stop there for a second - the belt clip as provided is not a permanent feature of this case. On the backside of the unit you’re going to find a slot for the metal screw to attach which can be put on or taken off at will. To me this is an important feature that a lot of case manufacturers miss. I don’t always want to have a belt clip on - many times I want to be able to put my phone into my pocket and go. The BoxWave Designio design allows for just that without having a peg sticking you in the leg."
>Earlier this week I wrote an editorial titled Moving to a Treo is one of the best decisions I have made where I discussed msome excellent Treo resources and the move from Palm PDA to a Treo was really not that bad. "Treo, Treo, Treo, I bet people who just use PDA's hate that word and yet that was me 18 or so months ago. I never thought I was going to like the experience but in the end I did. In fact now I cannot even imagine going back to using a PDA only because a Treo, and in my case the Treo 680 does what I need it to do and more. When I first got a Treo [650] I wanted to learn more, push the boundries of what it could do, make it integrate in with my life. "
>Tim Walter spotted this tutorial converting multinode movies ready for Kinoma Player. "This tutorial shows how to take an existing QuickTime VR multinode movie, split it into single nodes, and optimize it so it plays well on Kinoma Player 3 EX, the application for Palm-based PDAs which allows cubic format QuickTime VR movies to be displayed."
>Astraware this week introduced their new game which looks very good entitled Titanic. Astraware® and Big Fish GamesTM, Inc. are excited to announce the availability of the highly acclaimed Hidden Expedition: TitanicTM game for Palm OS® and Windows Mobile® smartphones and PDAs. The legendary RMS Titanic, which sank in 1912, still houses a wealth of artifacts and treasures on- board. Hidden Expedition: Titanic offers players the opportunity to explore the wreckage of this once-majestic ship and collect antique artifacts for the Titanic Museum. The partnership between Astraware and Big Fish Games will allow consumers to enjoy Hidden Expedition: Titanic straight from their mobile devices. "We're pleased to be working with Big Fish Games to bring some of their great titles to handhelds," said Astraware CEO, Howard Tomlinson. "A first in the new category of 'hidden object' games for handhelds, Hidden Expedition: Titanic is sure to be a hit with mobile device users." Players hunt for hidden objects within the wreckage during 14 diving missions, ultimately leading to the final prize: The Crown Jewels. Based on the best-selling PC game, Hidden Expedition: Titanic for handhelds features the same stunning graphics and atmosphere of the original. Players have the choice of using the intuitive five-way control scheme or the stylus to find a variety of artifacts hidden within the sunken ship.
"Astraware has proven time and again to deliver only the highest quality games," added Paul Handelman, VP of Business Development for Big Fish Games. "We're proud to lead the introduction of hidden-object games to the handheld market with them. We're confident that this is only the tip of the iceberg for us, so to speak." Hidden Expedition: Titanic is priced at $19.95 and is available for Palm OS® devices with high-resolution screens running OS5 and above, and for Windows Mobile® smartphones and PDAs running WM2003, 2003SE, 5 and 6. Download Hidden Expedition: Titanic from the Astraware Web site at: http://www.astraware.com/titanic
>Maya did a very good review of the game which you can read here. "The game, though, is not only about locating objects cleverly hidden in beautifully rendered pictures. After completing each set of rooms you are presented with yet another challenge to master before advancing to the next level. This might be a jigsaw-type "put the picture back in order" mini-game, some variation on the object location main task such as having to identify objects specified to you not by name but by their silhouette. The great gameplay is complemented by awesome graphics and atmospheric music, as well as by trivia details about the realTitanic (did you know that the Titanic consumed 825 tons of coal every day?). All in all Hidden Expedition Titanic is a terrific game, guaranteed to get you hooked for a long time, craving (as I am now) for more. Highly recommended."
> Michael Brown did a very good editorial for us this week entitled Are you still hunting for the listings for your favourite TV shows? "My set-up is a little different from most. Usually, you would install the Windows application which would sit in the System Tray and periodically fetch the listings, and then convert them to a Palm '.pdb' file, which is later HotSynced onto the handheld. In my case, I already get the XMLTV listings weekly for our Freevo Home Theatre PC, of which the server runs 24/7, anyway, so why download the same stuff twice?. I don't get to my Windows desktop nearly so often as I would like, so I installed the Pocket TV Manager application onto my Linux Server using the Wine package, which let's you run Windows applications natively on Linux. I have it configured to, weekly and automatically, use the existing Freevo listings and covert it to a PDB file, which is then placed in the Palm Desktop Install directory. I can either HotSync it when I have time, or I can access my home directory on the server and copy it onto my Treo over Bluetooth."
>PalmDiscovery this week did a very good and comprehensive review of Kinoma Player which made for a very good read. "Kinoma Player 4 EX is such an amazing media program that offers so much more than a media player program that unless you try it for yourself, you won't know how much you're missing. Unfortunately, Kinoma doesn't offer a trial download, which is the main reason why I held out from trying it until recently. It wasn't until I started reading so many great reviews and news about Kinoma that I started thinking about this program and decided to plunk down the money to try it for myself and see what all the "hoopla" is all about. Needless to say, I wasn't disappointed. In fact, I was so totally blown away by what it can do." Read the full review.
>In other news this week Alan Teh let us know that IM+3 was introduced. " Shape services has updated their Alll-in-one Messenger, IM+ to version 3.0. I was happily using version 2.9 on my Treo 680 and luckily decided to check out their website. I do wish though that Shape services would email their customers on updates! The new interface looks very nice and clean. I did have some background re-connection issues using version 2.9 on my Treo 680 so I hope to see the minor glitches fixed. All in all a great product and highly recommended."
> TreoCentral this week took a look at the TEC Shirt from SCOTTEVEST/SeV. "Well, lucky for us, a very smart guy named Scott Jordan (pictured here) came up with the perfect solution for carrying a little bit or a lot of gear. Scott Jordan was a corporate lawyer with a love for gadgets. He battled with trying to carry all his favorite gear with him, and many times would end up leaving some of his gear at home because he had no way to carry all of it. At the time, Scott's favorite gear consisted of his iPod, PocketPC/Palm Pilot, cell phone, car/remote keys, digital camera, water bottle, and a magazine. LOL, that sounds familiar! Does it to all of you other gadget freaks out there? I've carried all that stuff except for a magazine. If I want to read something, I usually read some online news on my Treo or read in an ebook."
>I enjoyed reading Alan Grassia's editorial entitled Reading Tea Leaves. "As commentators on Palm and the Palm user community do we spend too much time and energy reading too much into things posted on the web? As an enthusiast and active member of the Palm user community, I can say that I enjoy the thrill of discovery. I take pleasure in trying to puzzle out what projects Palm is working on to gain insight into where the company is headed. As part of that pursuit I, and my blogging and podcasting peers, tend to hang on every published word about Palm. When does the coverage of Palm become too much?"
> For those of you with Win Mob Treo devices, PocketBreeze 5.3.04 was released and introduced a ton of new features including "1. New "Reschedule & Reminder" dialogs - One of the main new changes you will find with this new version is the all new "Reschedule & Reminder" dialogs available through the context menus for both appointments and tasks on the different PB tabs. With the previous version, using the Reschedule option users were only capable to modify an item date, without having the ability to easily change the item's hours or any additional information. Using the new Reschedule & Reminder dialogs users can now also modify an appointment hours easily, change all-day status, modify a task completion date (for those that track completion dates of tasks) and even more!
The new dialogs were also improved in terms of one-hand navigation in mind and you will find they now also include an OK button, allowing users to close the dialog using the OK button for devices with such hardware button. The entire dialog can be navigated using the D-Pad control only and hitting the D-Pad action button on any of the date-pickers on the dialogs will now open PocketBreeze monthly calendar instead of the regular monthly calendar used by the OS
2. Important context menu improvements - With this new version you will find some great new improvements implemented with PocketBreeze context menus! These are not major changes, but the kind of changes that really helps to improve the overall user experience and navigation of the application. Among the changes that you will find: new "Edit appointment"/"Edit task" options added to open items directly in edit mode using D-Pad navigation, new menu option "Preview Note" which will open an item note preview window for items including notes and a few additional re-organizations for the context menu ordering which makes things much easier to navigate and control
3. Default PIM improvements - Users using PocketBreeze with the default PIM will now notice that newly created items (appointments, tasks and contacts) that their creation is canceled will automatically be removed from PocketBreeze, which is a real time saver! Additionally, smarter selection of the default starting hours for newly created appointments was added that will make users life also simpler when creating new items using PocketBreeze
4. Important fixes - There are several long-waited and important fixes included with this new version. Among them the bug reported with the "Sort tasks by reminder with appointments" feature was fixed with this new version. In addition, the auto-collapse feature that was causing some confusion with previous version was re-implemented with a better and simpler solution as part of this new version - now there are two simpler separate options available, the first whether to show/hide empty grouping titles on the Calendar tab; When visible, users can now configure if they wish to view the "Empty grouping titles item" - when choosing to hide it the "No available items" string won't be visible and therefore causing empty grouping titles to remain empty, which was users goal when using the previous auto-collapse grouping titles option. This way making things more user friendly and easy to use" More details from the sbsh.net website
>Read Greg M Shaw's great user thought this week entitled I LOVE MY PALM PDA (pronounced: I HATE THESE THINGS). " I finally converted to a Treo 650 (my 600 screen was starting to go out) and I use a Plantronics 665 Bluetooth device. It is not great, but it is the best I have found. I carry my TREO with me at all times (rooftops, attics, under houses) and I have more than 1250 customers, vendors and friends with all kinds of important info on most of them so a notebook has never seemed logical for me. I just recently heard about the HTC Advantage device and I was smitten. Now I see there are other similar new devices that might be what I need. My biggest concern would be durability… the treo is nearly indestructible. I sure would like to try out one of the little devices and see if it would work for me."
> Chark came up with a great Lego Treo Dock 1.0. "I've seen improvised Lego docks for iPods before, but I haven't seen a lot of people with Lego Treo docks. Most of the Lego docks I've seen have been very simple and plain, using big colorful bricks. I have no problems with folks kicking it old school with simple designs. But I wanted something with a little more ingenuity. Something reflective of the Treo's versatility and dependability. I wasn't building a chic iPod dock, this was a Palm Treo Dock. Thus, my inner geek was let loose... I decided to give it a go. This dock was made with MY Treo in mind, it had to be tough and tech. I tend to use a Seidio super slim black hard case, so it had to accommodate that, but at the same time it should hold a Naked Treo too (yes, iPods also fit perfectly). The rails that hold the rubber tank treads on the side are spring loaded and flex to fit what ever's in it's grasp. Rubber footing keeps the dock securely planted on my desk. The standard sync cable links the Treo. I can pick up the unit and set it down without any fuss while the cable stays in tact; very handy for quick data entry. I can slip an extra styli a hole in one of the Lego bricks. All the pieces are reinforced so it won't fall apart under regular use. What's cool is that the treads flex and move when sliding the Treo in from the top."
>Jakub Forejt talks about the Zen of Palm. "Hi Sammy, first of all, thanks for keeping up PalmAddicts, the most pleasant reading of my feeds. It's nice to know that there are still so many Palm 'infected' people around the world, even if the situation about our beloved OS reminds twilight rather than anything else. I'm enjoying Palm devices since m515 over the T3 to LD. During these last 5 years I was experimenting with almost every possible application which can improve the user experience. Not just those productivity and effectiveness apps but especially plenty of handling improvement tools and hacks. Yes, there were moments when me and my device coexisted in extatic symbiosis. But on the other hand there were situations when I realized that all these options, settings, launcher features (even those simple ones) and tweaks are making life a bit complicated. Approximately a year ago the WM5 HTC Wizard somehow found the way into my pocket and had offered me classical WM conveniences like multitasking, correct character coding of my native language (Czech), attractive games, surprising stability and performance and so on."
>Stephen Fry, Stephen Fry talks tech and amongst other things he talks Palm Foleo too. He also covers Windows Mobile phones amongst other things too.You can read via here.
> Resco Explorer 2007 for Windows Mobile has been updated "Besides being an easy and well arranged file manager with advanced functions, Resco Explorer 2007 offers dozens of other features, including encryption, ability to map a drive, registry editor, file compression, and many more. Features this time around include: Status bar. File decryption in memory. Quick-search bar. Advanced Network Settings. File Types Highlighting. Today Plugin with Task Manager. Folder Properties — recursive file attribute setting" Get the deets from Resco.
>Chandana did a good editorial entitled a sad realization, but my Treo too turns heads... "Impressed? I am. Not bad, hugh? To get my Treo look alike an iPhone, first I installed Zlauncher and iPhone theme pack which I found in the forum. Then I had IconsPlus to change all the other icons to iPhone look like ones. Bingo! Here it is... I got what I bargained for more less. I must admit that Apple designers have really tested it hands on that black background and equally shaped icon set do seem to give away a really rich impression than a boring weird shaped set of icons against a light colored background. What do you think? Enjoy!"
> Paul Biba gave us a good editorial looking at navigation on the iPhone. "Navizon has just announced a version of their program that is available for the iPhone. I downloaded and installed Navizon on the phone and took it for a spin. It can be installed with the AppTapp application as I described earlier. Navizon is a free service and they describe it as follows: "Navizon is a software-only wireless positioning system that triangulates signals broadcasted from Wi-Fi access points and Cellular towers to help the users find their way in most major metropolitan areas worldwide. The Navizon network is based on a collaborative database. Members with a GPS device can use Navizon to map the Wi-Fi and cellular landscape in their neighborhoods. Once they synchronize their data, it is made available to all the other users of the network. This way, users who don't have a GPS device can benefit from a positioning system. And it's free for personal use!" You can read the full editorial.
>Chark Vang wrote a follow up and came up with Lego Treo Dock 2.0. "n response to the question, "What do I do with my mobile device?"...This is what I do FOR my mobile device. Here is another version of a Lego Treo Dock that I built. It's a nice show piece for my desk. It's trimmed down quite considerably from my last dock, and has a relatively small footprint. The stand remains sturdy and performs its job of holding my "Treo-kun" quite well. The Treo is suspended on an arm, much like a an iMac. This allows me to wrap my hand around the device while it's still in the stand and thumb type. The custom stand is built to fit a Treo with a Seidio Extra Slim Hard Case, but can be easily adjusted to any size. A spring loaded arm absorbs the impact of a Treo being tossed in."
> Meanwhile, please remember to cast your vote for the best in the Palm community in the Palm Addict Reader Awards 2007 Survey which you can find at this linkThe survey is open for the remainder of the year and in December we will publish the results as we do every year.
>Brad P came up with some thoughts on the Tungsten T5. " I've used PalmPilots ever since I had to crack the case to install the memory upgrade chip myself. My most current Palm is the Palm T5, which I've had for... 3 years?... a while. I bought a 2GB SD card and it sees all kinds of uses. The most my digital buddy gets in its use is as an MP3/PodCast player. I track 74 audio RSS feeds (PodCasts) and use AeroPlayer (http://www.aeroplayer.us) to play them in my office, at home, and in my car. I even rewired my 2000 Honda Insight's stereo so that I could plug in my Palm and listen without one of the tape or radio broadcasting adapters. I also watch some MP4s and M4Vs that come down in my feeds using TCPMP. The Palm's second biggest use is as an eBook reader. I've been buying eBooks from PeanutPress/PalmReader/eReader for the last 7 years. Having an eBook that will shut off after two minutes keeps me out of trouble with my wife when I read in bed, because I don't leave my bedside light on. The Palm is also holding its own as a link to Lotus Notes for calendaring, addresses, and memos."
>OK, my friends thats the review for this week, it's a day late because I am in Sitges, Spain so remember if you have Facebook and you want to be added to my friends list then you are more than welcome. Here is my Facebook profile. Enjoy the rest of the weekend and I will be back next weekend with my review of the week. Take care everyone.
