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Solar Powered Portable Media Player

There is a new solar powered MediaStreet's 1GB eMotion solar-powered portable media player. According to rumors, it can power "most portable devices such as mobile phones, MP3/MP4 players, laptops, digital cameras" and charge itself. Furthermore, you can play nintendo and gameboy games with a SD card, which means you can both play music and play video games on this device. Furthermore, the device is eco-friendly and saves you money on buying batteries to power your device, all you would need is some sun to power your device and as a bonus, you can use the charger on other items. Additionally, the solar powered device comes with some bonuses, which include downloading free digital photos and art images with a specific site. The features of this solar powered portable media player are the following: • Transfer music, photos, videos, games on and off player • 5.5" x 3" x 1" • SD card slot expansion (2GB SD card maximum capacity) • Included charger powers most portable devices such as mobile phones, MP3/MP4 players, laptops, digital cameras and other portable Lithium battery devices • Supports music formats: MP1, MP2, MP3, WMA, WAV, ADPCM, AMR • Play video: support AVI format film play achieves QVGA@25f/s fluent MPEG4 video (320 x 240) and provides video bookmark function • View photos: JPEG, BMP, GIF • Game simulator: supports FC/GB/GBC/MD 8/16 bit simulator expansion developed by third parties; compatible with NES/GB/GBC/SEGA game ROM • Read books: supports TXT format • User-friendly menu with relevant animated instructions • USB 2.0 port • OS: Windows 98/98SE/ME/2000/XP/Linux 2.4+/Mac OS 9+

FileFind 3.0 for Palm OS released

[From Tam Hanna] FileFind 3.0 for Palm OS has been released. "FileFind 3.0 can search files on storage cards/internal file stores using their creation, modification and/or last access dates. Find the article you wrote on April’s fools. Find the video showing you unpacking your new Treo. Find the photo of your kid’s first day at school. You pick the date – and FileFind does the work. Of course, the plethora of features found in the last version has not been lost in the transition. FileFind can still look for files of a specific type or for files bearing a specific name. Want to find all useless Thumbs.db-files your Windows XP laptop created on your poor Palm’s memory card? Let FileFind do the job for you! Finally, FileFind can also look for files via attributes. Find and bust big and useless files quickly – the painstaking process of cleaning up a memory card becomes swift and easy for FileFind owners!" More details.

I enjoyed reading this editorial over at The Gear Diary entitled Road Warrior’s Dilemma

I enjoyed reading this editorial over at The Gear Diary entitled Road Warrior’s Dilemma and believe me I know exactly how Kerry feels. "Whenever I travel, I struggle with carrying far too many clothes. I have yet to crack the code for carry on luggage. I remember on one trip my roommate packed one jacket, a pair of pants and two shirts to last five days. There’s no way I could go for that – I need to have a change of outfits at a 1.5 ratio per day" Read in full, interesting editorial I enjoyed reading this.

EA Mobile Confirms Commitment To Smartphones

[From Eric Mann] The Games Deck reports "EA Mobile has confirmed its commitment to smartphone platforms, including BlackBerry, Symbian and Windows Mobile phones, announcing that they are to continue to distribute a growing slate of smartphone games, including titles such as Tetris and Bejeweled. "

Insurance Update

I thought I should update everyone on my insurance experience with my xv6700.  I received a replacement xv6700, which looked brand new and pristine, but when I went to slide open the phone I heard a loud crunching sound.  Not good.  I then looked at the phone and the top half of the screen was not connected to the keyboard screws which allow it to open smoothly.  Right away I called Asurion and spoke with two helpful techs who both apologized for the inconvenience.  I was then told that they had no more xv6700's available, so they were going to offer me an xv6800 for no charge and a car charger for the inconvenience caused.  I said, uh, OK! 
The new phone arrived yesterday, and now I'm playing with Windows Mobile 6, and a device that is much thinner, lighter, and has a bigger battery.
So I say again... Get Insurance!
God bless

Flytunes Now Offers Over 160 Channels of Music and Talk

[From Kim Hermanson ] Lancaster, PA – March 28, 2008 – FlyTunes Inc. today announced that since its launch in January, it has tripled its channel offerings from 50 to over 160 channels that cover all genres of music, as well as talk, sports and local weather.

The new music channels on FlyTunes include top rated Radio Paradise, SmoothJazz.com, RauteMusik.fm, and 53 music channels from 181.fm. In the talk category, FlyTunes has added NPR, TheScore.com, and local weather in the top 15 U.S. markets.

Over the last eight weeks, FlyTunes has signed up hundreds of thousands of iPhone and iPod Touch owners for its free satellite radio-like listening experience. The average FlyTunes iPhone user listens eight hours per month – according to Comscore, that’s over four times the amount the average YouTube user streams per month.

“We’re quite proud that FlyTunes has been so well accepted by iPhone users,” said Sam Abadir, FlyTunes CEO. “In the near future, we’re going to continue to sweeten the experience by adding more great content, new features like time shifting and station personalization, and support for other internet-enabled mobile devices.”

FlyTunes works with iPhones and iPod Touch players and is compatible with Macintosh or PC computers. The service is available for free at http://www.flytunes.fm

Braille mobile phone

Not many people out there that would think about those who’re having physical disadvantage, and sometimes these unlucky people have to do things on their own to make everything work out for them. And this is what Sadao Hasegawa, a blind 73 year old Japanese of former teacher from the school for the blind, has working lately. With help from Nobuyuki Sasaki, a professor at Tsukuba University of Technology in Japan, (and help from other developers too) they’ve been making the first mobile phone for blind people. The whole idea is quite simple, as reported by Mainichi Daily News here: “When a caller pushes numbers on the keypad corresponding to Braille symbols, two terminals attached to the receiver's phone vibrate at a specific rate to create a message.”

There’s this funny soothing feeling crawled up and filled me up when I read the news, maybe it’s because there are some people even though there only small portions of them; who thought of bringing modern technologies for unfortunate people. I really hope they’ll make this Braille enabled mobile phone to be produced, and of course not in too much hefty price, for blind mobile users out there. Go Mr. Hasegawa & Sasaki, and God speed to you both! Sources are from Mainichi Daily News via Engadget Mobile here.

[blogged with my Treo 750v]

Treo Still my Choice for MP3 Player

So now that I have an iPhone and a Treo 700p, which one would you suppose I use as my full time MP3 player?  Not the one you would guess!  It is the Treo, and there are two major reasons why: Softick Audio Gateway and Kinoma Player.  SAG allows me to use Bluetooth stereo headphones.  No wires = much happiness.  When exercising, the single greatest annoyance with any portable audio player that I have used is the headphones falling out of my ears due to the cord swinging around.  It makes the earbud style headphones basically unusable for me.  Ever since I purchased SAG a couple of years ago, this problem has disappeared.  Until there is an A2DP solution for the iPhone, it simply won't be my PMP of choice.

The second piece is the Kinoma Player.  Kinoma 4 EX allows me to never worry about space on my SD card because I can stream all of my content instead of storing it locally.  This is especially great for podcasts.  I simply load up an opml file onto my Treo, and there are all of my podcast feeds with all of the episodes available.  In addition, Kinoma is smart enough to remember where you left off in any podcast.  For my personal audio and video content, I can couple Kinoma with the excellent and free Orb service, and thus all of my content is available right on my Treo. 

The PalmOS applications may not be as slick and beautiful as the iPhone's iPod application, but it sure performs where it really counts.

THROWAWAY - The first person to email me how they use their mobile device can take a iPod 8GB Nano off my hands

OK, so fancy a quick Tuesday afternoon throwaway? OK, you got it, I have a 8GB Blue iPod Nano, a new one too that we received from a client that we don't need so if you want then it's pretty easy. The first person to email me, giving me a couple of lines on how they use their mobile devices can take the iPod Nano off my hands. Remember no self software or website promotions, and do not send anything you have sent in before. Please email me your thought to - sammymcloughlin@gmail.com

myTreo podcast

I missed myTreo's excellent podcasts and their podcast from last week seems to be a good one and asks, is Palm's upcoming Sprint GPS & WiFi Treo 800w a winner? "According to the a number of community sites, a road show slide indicating Sprint will release a GPS & WiFi enabled Palm Treo 800w in July with a front facing qwerty keyboard was leaked. So we called Palm Friday. They would neither confirm nor deny the rumor. But we left the call with the distinct impression the company is returning to a more normal high end release schedule shortly. We believe the rumored Treo 800w for Sprint may be an important product for Palm at a time the company's revenues have been declining. Palm's core customer base, well over a million "early adopters," have been pining for an upgrade, especially as competing manufacturers have advanced their product lines." Listen and read the deets over at MyTreo.

My Centro helps me choose my new tattoo

Today, an unusual way that I have used my Palm device, the Centro actually was for a tattoo. I got a new tattoo and I had the image of the tattoo design that I wanted on my Centro and kept it on the phone for a couple of days so that I could refer to it so that I knew I would like it. I kept the design / picture on the Centro so I could refer to it. Today I went to see the guy who does my tattoo's who also does David Beckham's tattoo's, showed him the design on my Centro, he increased the size of the image and drew the template and then drew and coloured my tattoo in. In all it took no more than an hour and I played a couple of games of TextTwist which is one of my favourite games from the lovely people at Astraware. So there you go, just one way that my Centro has been useful.

Beta of TealDocTM for PalmOS available for you to download

[From Eric Mann] There is a beta of TealDocTM for PalmOS with an added workaround for bug in TX to renable full screen mode icon in landscape mode after system mistakenly disables it. "Read, edit, and browse documents, Doc files, eBooks and text files with TealDoc, the enhanced doc reader. With extensive display and customization options, TealDoc is unmatched in features and usability. Standard features include editing, search and replace, screen rotation, anti-aliased text, high resolution FontBucket fonts, smooth scrolling, full screen mode, beaming, and direct full support for docs and plain text files stored on external VFS-compatible media cards such as SD/MMC, compact flash, and Memory Stick. Only TealDoc offers all this and supports enhanced documents with HTML-like tags for inserting TealPaint pictures, oversized scrolling bitmaps, hyperlinks, hidden bookmarks, and stylized headers. TealDoc even offers full support for the high resolution displays and full screen modes of devices from Palm, Sony, HandEra, Samsung, and Alphasmart. TealDoc is PalmOS 5 compatible." Make the jump to download and as ever remember that it is a beta.

TealDesktopTM for PalmOS Beta

[From Eric Mann] There is also a beta of TealDesktopTM for PalmOS available for you to take advantage of which has added the following, added new improved UI with shaded buttons and optional thin fonts. Added 'System fancy fonts' option in preferences to turn on/off thin fonts. Added workaround for bug in TX to renable full screen mode icon in landscape mode after system mistakenly disables it.

Launch applications with TealDesktop, the themed replacement for the standard system launcher screen. With features to satisfy every power user, TealDesktop supports category tabs, multiple card folders, document launching, drag and drop, tap-and-hold menus, background images, fill patterns, and much more. The addition of Themes, however, really lets TealDesktop shine. Other launchers limit you to a few visual 'skins', while TealDesktop themes can change functionality too. Want your launcher screen to look and work like a classic Macintosh? Windows? A tricorder? TealDesktop can do it. Not satisfied with presets? TealDesktop lets you customize fonts, colors, patterns, and backgrounds. An integrated Theme Editor is even included so you can modify or make your own creations from scratch.

Phoinix a gameboy emulator for Palm OS

[From Eric Mann] Now if your looking for a gameboy emulator for your Palm device then take a look at Phoinix which is free. Thanks Eric for the heads up.

There is a new beta of TealBackupTM for PalmOS for you to download

[From Eric Mann] There is a new beta of TealBackupTM for PalmOS for you to download. which adds the following, improved backup code to poke PalmOS to keep device from sleeping after copying very large file and improved backup to automatically strip problematical zero size records from PIM databases.

"Backup your valuable data with TealBackup, the complete back up, copy, and restore system. With exclusive support for both external card and HotSync backups, you have full control over where and how files are saved. Plus, the combo of manual and automated card backups helps keep your critical files safe, even if you're miles away from a computer. Features include backups to SD/MMC/CF cards and Memory Stick, backups though HotSync, manual backups, incremental backups, dual-timer automatic backups, optional encryption, optional compression, multiple backup folders, exclusion lists, inclusion lists, backup logs, and application-locking for NVFS stability. TealBackUp is PalmOS 5 compatible and works with all popular devices including Treo, Tungsten, Zire, Sony, and Kyocera handhelds."
TealPoint after the jump.

Bike or Die

If you have not tried Bike or Die then you really should it's a fun game, I have played it on a number of occasions and it's pretty cool. "...is the only Trial Bike racing game for the PalmOS platform.

Features:
physics-based bike simulation
25 built-in levels (different environments: hills, rocks, snow, caves, etc)
Over 1000 third party levels available for download
smooth and fast animation
record and replay your best games
on-line Hall of Fame with Time Trial and Freestyle Competitions
compatible with most palm devices" Get the trial from the Bike or Die website.

Samsung's first HSUPA phone: SCH-M470

It's still rare even now, to see an actual HSUPA mobile phone in any consumers' hands. Heck, why would you buy a HSUPA mobile phone if none of the mobile wireless carriers can support the HSUPA network? But nevertheless, Samsung has joined in the HSUPA scarce market by releasing SCH-M470; which is currently for Korean only. It's offered by SK Telecom and priced around US$600 a piece, here's the specs quick rundown:

• a whooping 2 Mbps upload speed
• 2M-pixels camera
• WiFi
• Bluetooth 2.0
• push email
• Google search

Is it a beast or a beauty for you? Well, for me; I just can't take off my eyes from those pretty Korean female models... Source from Gadgetell here.

[blogged with my Treo 750v]

Palm Centro Stylus 3-Pack

Palm Centro Stylus 3-Pack on offer $6.69 Retail Price: $7.99 . "Be prepared with extra replacement styli. Keep a couple of replacement Centro styli on hand so you're always ready to tap the touchscreen."

Edition 56 of The Smartphone Show is now available for your viewing pleasure

[From Hans] If your not aware edition 56 of The Smartphone Show is now available for your viewing pleasure. "News of Windows Mobile 6.1 and other top stories, the Smartphones Show FAQ, a guest spot, explaining Tilt Shift treatment of smartphone photos, plus a hands-on mini-review of the Nokia N81 8GB" Make the jump.

SansaLinux

Another good news for Linux and/or open source advocates. According to the website here, Podzilla, a open source graphical user interface originally developed by iPod Linux project, is now available on SanDisk Sansa e200 MP3 player, dubbed as SansaLinux. Installation seems simple enough, and you can install it from Linux, Windows, or Mac PC host. Just go over the website, download the version for your operating system (like for example, it is sansalinux-complete-0.1-linux.tar.gz for Linux), extract the files, copy them into the root of Sansa device, and run "sansapatcher" utility. It is that simple. Slowly but surely we see more and more embedded Linux on mobile devices, and that, my friends, are a good news indeed.

Do you hate screen smudges?

Julie posted a nice bit of information over at The Gadgeteer a couple of days ago, especially useful for those of you who hate screen smudges and class me in that category. Javoedge apparently do a great little product which look neat that clear your screen of smudges. The Gadgeteer has all the deets on this one.

Plucker Productivity!

The Palm Treo is an extremely useful tool because of the veritable mountain of software available to run on it. That software, combined with large-capacity storage devices such as the 4 GB miniSD that I have plugged into my Treo 755P, make it the perfect mobile device for the many tasks that us so-called "Information Workers" need to do. As a computer programmer, my career is a never-ending sequence of technological studies, and therefore I am reading technical documentation all the time.

It should come as no surprise therefore that one of my very favorite Palm programs is "Plucker", an eBook reader with one significant difference from most other programs of this genre - it has a PC component that can download reams of technical documents and comfortably format them for later reading on the Treo.

Suppose, for example, that you are a Linux SysAdmin and need to configure a Beowolf cluster. On your Windows machine, fire up your favorite browser (mine is Firefox), and go to the site known as "The Linux Documentation Project". There is a page there called the "Single List of HOWTOs". Page down a bit to the "Beowulf HOWTO" and click the link there.

Now, having done that, minimize your browser and run the "Plucker Desktop" program. Do "File / Add a new channel using wizard" and enter "Beowulf HOWTO" as the new channel's name. After you click the "Next>" button, bring back your browser window and copy the address line into Plucker Desktop's "Start on a website URL" form input. Click "Next>" again twice and either choose to save the Plucker in a directory or to set up the Hotsync of the plucker file automatically. I just save it to a directory of my Plucker documents and sync them myself later. Click "Next>" again, and then click "Finish".

Your channel is now set and you're ready to create the document! All you need do now is click on the "Beowulf HOWTO" channel to "select it", then click "Update / Update Selected Channels". After the Plucker Desktop has done the job and you've sync'ed the file to your Palm, you can go out and make lunch a productive one while you study the document on the Treo. Nothings beats mobile technology like this!

These documents take up so little space on the machine that you can easily put the entire library of Linux HOWTOs on it with plenty of room to spare.

Centro colours

[From Hans] Andrew at Treonauts comes in with an interesting editorial about Palm Centro colours making interesting reading, I also like the custom made casing which Andrew points out and I have illustrated to the left. "At the time, we thought that the Blue Centro might be indicative of a forthcoming Verizon Wireless release but now we’ve actually discovered that the first country in the world to have the benefit of selling it is Mexico where it will also be released in Red (images below) by the local Telcel and Movistar carriers…" Read in full.

Exploring the Fragmentation of Mobile Software Platforms - Mobile Evolution Blog

Exploring the Fragmentation of Mobile Software Platforms is a interesting new post over at the Mobile Evolution Blog this morning. "The mobile software space is getting rather crowded. In the not-so-distant past, a mobile developer's choice was limited to two or three popular native operating systems: Palm OS, Windows Mobile (two flavors), or Symbian. Other platforms were less known or were perceived to not provide for much profit. For a microISV, either the barriers to entry (such as steep signing fees) were too great, or the platform was not popular enough to generate adequate third-party software sales. Now the choices for native apps have multiplied: Palm OS, Windows Mobile (three flavors), Symbian, iPhone, Android, Access Linux Platform (ALP), Blackberry, upcoming Palm Linux, and several other mobile Linux platforms. Developers can also program via the browser—the elusive “mobile web app.”" Read in full.

Looking forward to the next iPhone

[From Andrew Davis, Port St Lucie FL, USA] The rumor mills are once again churning with speculation of a new iPhone. We already saw the bump to 16Gb. Now we're hearing of multiple Apple stores being out of stock of the iPhone. My own store in West Palm Beach, FL is also out of stock and when I asked how long I would have to wait, they suggested I buy it from AT&T Wireless saying "they still have some stock". We all know we're going to see the official 2.0 software release at WWDC in June and we have a taste of the things to come (IMAP idle support, Exchange Active Sync support, games, Cisco VPN support, etc). But here's a list of the things I'm most looking forward to as more and more people get the SDK and make apps available:

1) BT keyboard support - as it stands now, the iPhone can only use the BT functionality for headsets. I'm really hoping the SDK opens up options for BT. I can definitely see times where I would use a BT keyboard such as I used to do with my Treo. Being able to use the BT to connect to a GPS device would be nice too... which brings me to the next item...

2) I would really like to see a nice GPS software available (preferably something that is installed locally) and the availability to use external BT GPS adaptors. Google Maps is nice, but adding GPS support would be really ideal.

3) 3G support - most of the rumors about iPhone shortages are pointing to a 3G version coming. I would love to see this. I use WiFi at home and a few other places, but EDGE everywhere else. The iPhone has an awesome web browser, but EDGE is its greatest weakness, especially when loading image-laden sites (which most blogs are these days). A 3G iPhone would make the browsing experience that much better.

4) BT or USB Tethering - I'm not sure we'll ever see this functionality, but it sure would be nice, especially if we get a 3G iPhone in June. I presently use a Sierra Wireless 3G USB adaptor for those times when broadband isn't around. It would be so much easier to use my iPhone for this purpose. I believe that using the dock is restricted from the SDK, but it would certainly be a nice feature.

5) Camera updates - the built-in camera takes surprisingly good pictures (especially when compared to my old Treo's). However, it would be nice to see video recording and zoom functionality.

6) Multi-platform apps available on the iPhone - for the many years I used a Treo, I also used SplashID. When I moved from Windows to Mac, SplashID was there for me on the Mac. However, when I moved from the Treo the iPhone I lost SplashID except on my Mac. I'm seriously hoping that with the SDK out that companies like SplashData will create "device versions" of their apps for the iPhone.

7) Notes synchronization - there are 3rd party ways of doing this, but they typically require a jail-broken iPhone. I'm hoping someone will use the SDK to create a way to synchronize Notes. Specifically, I have a slew of Notes from Outlook that made it over to Entourage when I switched to Mac. Gettting these on the iPhone has been problematic. I look forward to an app that resolves this issue.

While the above is my personal wishlist, I am very excited about the things we know we're going to see. I'm definitely looking forward to Exchange Active Sync support, IMAP IDLE, games, etc. These things will take what's already a good device and make it a great device. 3G and the possibly rumored OLED would just make it that much nicer.

Instant Information

[From Mike Ussery] I received my first computer in 1986. It was a Tandy HC something desktop. I was hooked. Keeping up with my sales invoices on a simple data base I could answer my boss with exact answers. No more my sales are up alot... it was my sales are exactly this and 22% over last year this time. He was impressed so I received a dual floppy laptop later that year and the next year a laptop with a whopping 20 meg hard drive. How would I ever use all that space???? Anyway, as drives space increased and processors got faster and laptops became notebooks, I went mobile. Instant information is the only way to go. I am operations manager for a trucking firm and knowing where everthing is,what's on it, when it will get there and how much it costs at the touch of a button no matter where I am is not a luxury any longer but as necessary as my Treo 700p. Yes, I am impatient. But in today's world of business knowledge may be power but instant knowledge is pure pleasure.

Treo USB

Whit my Treo 650 I can use some programs that aloud me to use it like a USB memory. So when I need I file don't have to sync for 3 or 4 minutes my Treo. Now whit my Treo 755p I need to find some program specially for use the Treo like an USB memory... I need to seek I think I will find it. Technology goes up so fast.

Treo 755p to the Rescue!

[From Dale Crawford Little Elm, Texas, USA] Like anyone living in the Dallas area, I've become accustomed to the fact that being in "Tornado Alley" is just part of daily life. Tornados don't come as often as most people imagine that they do, but when they come, you have to know the drill and be prepared to act. In the middle of a heavy thunderstorm last week the sirens started wailing just after hail started falling (large hail often comes right before a tornado). My wife, kids, and I all headed to the "safe spot" in the center of our home (houses in Texas do not have basements). That small space, unfortunately, has no internet access and no television or radio. So I took out my Treo 755p and got online to check the local weather radar. We watched the radar as the thunderstorm and tornado moved through the area. Our neighborhood was spared—this time the area was blessed with only strong wind and hail damage. But thanks to my Treo 755p, my family and I were able to stay informed while remaining in safety, even when the power went out.

RANDOM THROWAWAY - OQO model e2. Contest ends next Wednesday

Lindsey will choose a winner to our last throwaway on Wednesday in the meantime, I have just uploaded details on our new throwaway which to be fair the guidelines are pretty much the same as they always are. Just a reminder I am going to only keep this one open for a week and I'll close the throwaway next Wednesday, the 16th of April so if you wish to be entered then you don't have long to enter.

As always the guidelines are in this post

xMONEY looks quite useful

xMONEY looks quite useful, and is a simple program which offer you to trace your money transaction. Every transaction has his own date, type, type of payment, amount and note. Amount could be enter with different type of currency and xMONEY calculate in your current home currency.
Features
Multi currency support.
Multi Account.
Display transactions Chronological, by Month, by Quarter of by Year.
Custom filter type on transaction type, payment type, currency and date period
Unlimited number of transaction type.
Unlimited number of Payment type.
Ten currency with user editable course which automatic recalculate balance.

1 Button Launcher

1 Button Launcher could prove useful for some of you I am sure and retails for $5. The best method to launch your favorite applications >> the existing Palm buttons.

No longer are you restricted to the 4 applications mapped to the 4 hardware buttons.
Now have up to 9 of your favorite most used applications all accessed from the button of your choice.
Press the designated 'LAUNCH BUTTON' once and up to 9 of your favorite applications are displayed, in most recently used order. Continue pressing the 'LAUNCH BUTTON' until you have the desired application icon highlighted. A short timeout will launch into the application.
1 Button Launcher allows the user to activate a 2nd hardware 'APPLICATION BUTTON'. Once 1 BUTTON LAUNCHER has activated the desired application, this 'APPLICATION BUTTON' can be used for the advanced features of this designated application.
1 Button Launcher is not a Hack. It is an application that helps any user to quickly get access to their desired application without searching and using their stylus. 1 Button uniquely maintains your favorite applications features that use a hardware button.

My mobile device teaches me new things

[From Philip (Ontario, Canada)] I currently use my mobile device as a learning tool to help others. As you probably already know, Flash Lite (sorry, had to put this one - or else it would've made no sense) is one of big areas of application development for mobile phones, and the pace at which this is occurring is phenomenal. Because of its ability to make things very interactive and aesthetically pleasing, it motivates many people (including myself) to figure out the inner workings and reproduce items. Using my mobile phone, I upload self-created applications (menus, wallpapers, etc) to my phone - and after the project is completed, I post up tutorials on the internet that show users to create a certain effect, use a function or perform a certain task. It's a great feeling to be able to help so many people out there - and at the same time enrich my own knowledge!

Mobility On The Go And A Benefit

[From Paul Hurlbut] For myself, having a mobile device comes in tremendously for one very good reason in my life: my Wife is deaf although I'm not. It's an interesting clash of my ability to hear while she can't, and plays itself out in many ways. But the most beneficial over the years we've been together has been the fact that today's modern mobile-warriors are armed with a veritable cornucopia of hardware that gives them access whenever and wherever they require.

For a long time, she preferred the use of her Sidekick 2, but as that grew older, and more advanced devices became available, she longed for (even now) a more capable and more useful piece of hardware to help her keep in touch with me when we're apart. While there are quite a few decent mobile devices out there today that can handle her needs and provide more than adequate uses, she finally settled on a Palm Treo 700p we recently acquired from someone at a rather deep discount on Craig's List. Just needed to get her a new power charger/sync cable and she was good to go.

Since we live in Las Vegas, we know that Sprint blankets this entire area from mountain to mountain with EVDO service which is precisely what we signed up for. She really doesn't have a need for the phone capabilities, so we just have the basic EVDO service for wireless capability. While I do have reservations at times because of my Wife's inability to hear, I do realize that she has to have a life apart from me even in spite of her condition. She loves reading eBooks, and chatting with friends on several networks, and the software we've located for the PalmOS works just fine in those respects - and allows us that constant one-to-one communication as well.

Official PalmAddict Podcast - PA109

[From Tyler Faux] PalmAddict Podcast 109 (7 April 2008) Show Notes:
-PalmAddict Reader Awards 2008
-Linux is the right choice for Palm by Andy JS
-New iPhone Coming Soon
-iTunes Now Top Music Retailer

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Keeping in touch with family...with instant messenger

[From Aroldo Trejo Location: Union City, CA] Hey Sammy, hope you're having a good day. Being a business man myself, I am forced to travel and leave my family quite a lot. One way I use to keep in touch with them is though instant messaging. All I do is use Safari to go onto an IM'ing server and sign into my AIM. It's really easy to stay in touch with my wife and my daughter, who are addicted to instant messaging. Just another way my trusty iPhone makes staying in touch easier. Have a great day Sam!

Embracing Technology

[From Andrew Davis, Port St Lucie FL, USA] Having switched from Windows to the Mac recently, I find myself embracing newer technologies more and more frequently. An example of this is Apple's Bootcamp and VMWare Fusion. With Bootcamp, I have my Mac partitioned to allow both Leopard and XP. I haven't booted into the XP volume natively since I set it up, but should I find myself needing a Windows environment, at least I have it available. What I have done as well, though, is to install VMWare Fusion. Fusion picked up my BootCamp Windows volume and let's me mount it virtually within Leopard whenever its needed. I also have virtual installations of Solaris 10, CentOS, and Ubuntu installed and accessible to me for testing. One thing I've found with Mac softwares is that even the freeware ones seem to be pretty resilient. For example, using a combination of a program called Proximity and some AppleScript, I can use the BT radio in my iPhone to lock or unlock my workstation, taking care of the "oops, I forgot to lock my workstation" issues. Other applications like iAlertU work equally well as a theft deterrent for my Mac if I'm sitting at Starbucks and need to get a refill, but don't want to take my Mac with me. Another excellent tool is DSW (Do Something When). I have two different Time Machine disks... one at home, one at work (called Time Machine Home and Time Machine Work, respectively). DSW does just what its name says... it does something when. In my case, when the Time Machine work drive is mounted, DSW kicks off an AppleScript that mounts my network home dir. When the Time Machine home drive is mounted, it mounts my Airport disk shares at home and starts up EyeTV for me. All of these are tasks that I used to do manually, each day. Now, they're done for me automatically, working to make me more productive. Ten years ago, no one would've thought that virtualization would be mainstream and available on your laptop. Five years ago one wouldn't have thought to use your cellphone to lock your workstation when you walk away. Embracing technology makes sense at times...

My TX Helps Me Connected Around The Globe

[From Mon Calibuso Laoag City Philippines] Hi Sammy, You're doing a great job keeping the site full of excitement and surprises. I'm always learning new things from the different people with their experiences with their gadgets. To thank you, I would like to share some of mine too. I found another useful feature of my TX: I'm from the Philippines and from time to time I call my mom who is in San Jose, California through my IM's PC to phone feature. I love chatting with my cousin who is in L.A. and a niece who is in Canada at the same time. At times I would catch a friend online, who is also living in Canada and loves to stay in invisible mode. To be able to keep in touch with people living in places with different time zones (and different biological clocks) could be challenging and confusing sometimes. This is where my TX comes in with its World Clock application. I dont have to do "time-math" everytime, calculating their current time so I know when give them a ring or to catch them online. MunduIM comes in handy during those times that I'm out of my house and want's to catch my friends online. I hope they can come up with Skype with voice for Palm soon, this would be fun. It's great to be connected to your friends and love ones away from home, and I'm glad my TX can make this easier and even more fun for me.

Mobile GTD

[From palmgirl Austin, TX] Hi Sammy! This week I ran across a free web site that might be of use to other GTD enthusiasts and road warriors in the crowd. (No, I am not affiliated with the site,I just found it really useful.) The site is Ta-da list (www.tadalist.com) and is a free net-based list program that can be accessed on standard web browsers on a computer or smart phone. The site does not specifically promote itself as a GTD tool, but it is a natural fit for that purpose and it is really convenient to have access to GTD lists from any computer. Also, the site allows sharing lists with others. You add the email of the person/people you want to have access to a particular list and then specify if they should be able to edit or only read the list. This feature is useful for people collaborating on a project or even the family grocery list. And it saves trees:) Thanks for your work on the site, Sammy! That was how I got hooked on GTD.

Kye for Palm OS v1.05

Kye for Palm OS v1.05This seems a great skill ful maze game you have to avoid objects etc give it a try".Strategic maze game. You must navigate levels avoiding objects that kill or trap your Kye while capturing all of the diamonds. Features: - 15 levels with a conversion utility to import more. - User definable hardware buttons for movement and game options. - Support for external keyboards. - Game speed control. - Level preview. - Both color and monochrome versions included."

Being Bullied - LearningToGo Video for Palm

Being Bullied - LearningToGo Video for PalmThis seems a great program for learning new skills. "Being Bullied Bullying has become a rapidly increasing problem in schools all over the country in the last 10 years. Children need to feel support and encouragement so they will know that it''s okay to speak up and tell parents and teachers that they''re being bullied."

SwapDrive for Palm

SwapDrive for Palm This seems a great program if your on the move you can send files from your palm to your laptop handy or what?".SWAPDRIVE FOR PALM- Send files on your Internet-enabled Palm. SwapDrive's Palm application gives you a 'remote control' into a mirror of your laptop or desktop. With SwapDrive's Palm application you can gain access to files that have been previously backed up to SwapDrive from your desktop or laptop, utilizing your Internet-enabled Palm. Call 202-393-9900 or email palm@swapdrive.com for a trial account."