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  1. Re:Much too small by Cerebus · · Score: 1 · on Sony Mylo Challenges Nokia 770

    The Newton is dead.

    Newtons never die, they just get new batteries. And then they get new hardware.

  2. There's Still Active Development! by nathos · · Score: 1, Informative · on History of the Apple Newton
    There's still some cool new software & drivers being released, including: For lots of other updated Newton info, check out the Newton FAQ or WikiWikiNewt.
  3. Re:eMate 300 by DVant · · Score: 1 · on A Cheap and Portable Word Processor?

    How to get a Newton connected to a Linux machine.
    http://newtonlink.sourceforge.net/Newton_and_Linux -mini-HOWTO.html


    How to get a Newton connected to a Windows machine.
    http://www.chuma.org/newton/ncage/
    http://www.mug.jhmi.edu/mirrors/InfoAlley/0696/25/ newton.html
    http://www.panix.com/~clay/newton/query.cgi?commun ications+comm_software
    http://mirrors.unna.org/ftp.bitcon.no/pub/pdacentr al/newton/newtwindows_license.html

    Hope some of this helps.

  4. Re:Newton... by pyrrhonist · · Score: 4, Informative · on The iPod Gets WiFi, Sort Of
    Too bad the Apple Newton didn't come with WiFi... ;)

    It didn't come with it, but the good news is, you can run a Newton with WiFi!

    You can do it two ways:

    I'm currently using a Farallon PN595 hooked up to a wireless ethernet bridge, so I have access to my contacts and notes through NPDS using a web browser.
  5. Re:Apple Newton, anyone? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Best PDA To Read e-Texts On?
    You're not going to get a Newton for $100 because at this point, a good six years after they were cancelled, Newtons are still highly competitive machines with the current crop of PDAs. A Newton MessagePad 2100 has a very large 3"x4" (!) 16-gray monochrome backlit screen, a 161MHz StrongARM processor, and the best interface a PDA has ever had. A little frustrating that Moore's law just kind of stopped with post-Newton PDAs. And Newtons are well-nigh indestructable. And so Newton owners are clinging to their machines like the few and the proud, waiting for that glorious day when some company somewhere makes something worth jumping ship to.

    Newtons weren't just the first usable PDA. They were also the first usable eBook. Newtons have a built-in eBook reader with fonts and pictures and hyperlinks and highlighting and scribbling and dog-earing and the whole shebang. For people who just want the raw text, PaperBack is quite a nice book reader, and it's quite simple to convert any ASCII text to read well on it. And one web browser (Newt's Cape) on the Newton works by converting HTML into the eBook reader's format and having the reader display the results. Newtons can read your books out loud to you, and they can display text in a myriad of languages (Newtons were the first devices to adopt Unicode).

    What Newton's can't do is display PDF or current eBooks sold by various vendors under proprietary formats. So they're out of the question there. For more information about Newtons and eBooks, see the Newton FAQ.

  6. Re:Use an old Newton OS 1.x Newton PDA by RevAaron · · Score: 2, Informative · on Improving Terrible Handwriting?

    Short answer- the Newton HWR system has been ported to other systems.

    Long answer-
    On a NOS 2.x device, there are two parts to the HWR system, two seperate and different HWR softwares.

    One is by ParaGraph, and it's called CalliGrapher. When configuring your Newton, it is called the cursive recognizer. CalliGrapher exists on a few platforms- Windows CE/PocketPC (as both CalliGrapher and the MS-licensed Transcriber), desktop Windows (called PenOffice there) and on Psion EPOC32. No port for Palm OS, but we may see one finally with OS 6 finally appearing. I still use CalliGrapher on WinCE these days and like it quite a bit. It's faster on today's faster CPUs- a 400 MHz XScale PXA255 is quite a bit faster than the Newton's 162 MHz StrongARM SA-1100.

    Then there was the "printing" recognizer. This was Apple's own Rosetta. It has been ported to OS X, where it is now called InkWell. I usually used the cursive recognizer, switching to the printing recog far down the line. The printing recognizer was a wee bit faster, and allowed you to write umlauted and accented characters fine, even with an english Newton OS.

    Lots of interesting info here.

  7. Wrong date by edbarrett · · Score: 2, Funny · on Sir Isaac Newton: The world Will End In 2060

    My Newton's going to have a problem in 2010. The ReadMe says the clock stops for the last time in 2920, but I'll probably have a HUD by then.

    Damn, I feel like I've been Newton trolling all day or something.

  8. Here's some I worked on... by tsangc · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Old PowerBook + Hot Glue = Cheap Digital Picture Frame

    http://peach.mie.utoronto.ca/people/tsangc/frame10 0-index.html

    I did this with a friend using a PowerBook 100. I also have a PowerBook 520C one too...

    http://peach.mie.utoronto.ca/people/tsangc/journal -frame520running.jpg

    And here's my friend Victor's:

    http://www.chuma.org/projects/pictureframe/

    Calum

  9. Wireless handheld web server by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on 802.11b Cards for Handhelds?

    here is a page listing some newton messagepad webservers. they are running nHTTPd (a.k.a NPDS). It allows you to access your contacts/diary/notes from any browser. Some of the newtons listed are serving wirelessly through 802.11.

  10. Re:I have a newton, it won't power on. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative · on Long live The King of PDAs

    When you have problems like this, THE place to check is the Newton FAQ. They have a whole Section devoted to this problem.