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  1. Mars needs... by linux2000 · · Score: 1 · on People on Mars in 30 Years?
    ...within 50 years, Mars will need women...

    But right now, Mars needs cows.

  2. Many puzzle piece-matching games have this problem by GlenRaphael · · Score: 1 · on Console Games And Color Blindness
    The arcade game Klax is pretty much unplayable for me, as is the Palm game Dinomite. In both cases the programmer assumed various shades of yellow and green are more distinguishable than I find them to be. (I'm red-green colorblind).

    The Palm Game Bounce Out" solved the problem by having multiple color/pattern schemes as a preference item; selecting the "sports ball" option makes every item especially unique by pattern.

  3. Many puzzle piece-matching games have this problem by GlenRaphael · · Score: 1 · on Console Games And Color Blindness
    The arcade game Klax is pretty much unplayable for me, as is the Palm game Dinomite. In both cases the programmer assumed various shades of yellow and green are more distinguishable than I find them to be. (I'm red-green colorblind).

    The Palm Game Bounce Out" solved the problem by having multiple color/pattern schemes as a preference item; selecting the "sports ball" option makes every item especially unique by pattern.

  4. Author in awe... of standard Palm feature? by RobertB-DC · · Score: 4, Informative · on Fossil/Palm PDA Watch Reviewed

    From the article:

    But the most interesting feature of the Wrist PDA has nothing to do with the Palm functionality. In watch mode, when the thing is just telling time, you can scroll through and select from a wide variety of different watch-face designs. This is the first watch I know of that lets you pick the way its face looks and change that look as often as you like.

    Well, duh! It's a Palm, so of course you can make the watch have whatever face you want!

    My Palm III (all of $11 on eBay) has multiple clock faces, too -- Analog, Big Digital Clock with world time and weekday-only alarms, another Analog version, and my favorite, the Hell Clock with built-in countdown to Halloween. "Hell Clock" is the one that I like to beam to the cell phones at the Verizon store, to give them more "visual interest".

    I'd have dozens more, but I lost interest after four. And I didn't pay one red cent for any of 'em (all were freeware at the time).

  5. Re:Cheap means cheap <-- WRONG!!! by Big_Ass_Spork · · Score: -1 · on Palm m100s - A Pattern of Defects?
    You are so far off base!! I write Palm OS apps in my off time (PC and www based apps @ work...). The possibilities are only limited by the imagination. I have a Palm m130 (OS 4.1, Color, 8MB w/ 24MB MMC card) and a Handspring Visor Deluxe (OS 3.1, 8MB w/ springboard socket, modem). I am nearly out of space on both. My favorite apps are:
    • Yanoff a GPL'd Palm OS NNTP client, I love reading my newsgroups on the go (I also read them in bed on my m130)
    • Datebk 4 an enhanced datebook app, great features!
    • OnBoard C a C compiler that creates native applications on the Palm itself! Write code in the memopad or in a Doc file (I use QED on my HS Visor and SrcEdit [find it at the prededing link] on my m130)
    • PalmReader I love to read Sci-Fi on my Palm, books are cheap too, browse the link
    • Games by Astraware I have bought a few games by Astraware, they put out great products! Favorites are Mahjong and Zap2016!.


    There are many many more but you get the idea. I have Pop3 email, Ftp, telnet, WWW browser, wordprocessing, spreadsheet, etc... loaded on my devices.


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    BAS