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When you've got marketplaces that offer buyers the choice of buying in the marketplace or directly from the vendor themselves, which is what our marketplace was, there isn't a real efficient marketplace.

It depends on the product, I guess. Palmgear seems to be staying in business even though there's always been the option of going direct to the vendor. When I've bought handheld software I've sometimes bought it from an "app store" like Palmgear, and sometimes from the vendor. Once or twice I've even found it through Palmgear and then bypassed them because I needed to research the product more.

It's not just that Palmgear sells software suited for casual impulse buys (though of course you're more likely to just "click buy" for Bejeweled than for several hundred dollars worth of database engine) because when I've bought software for the company I'm as likely to go through "the usual reseller" as go direct to Microsoft or Symantec, because that's what the purchasing department is set up for.

But those are still pretty much standalone products. You don't need to have a relationship with Symantec to roll out another 50 copies of antivirus. Are there really any products like that for Linux?

I'm not a mega-geek, but I do use an old Palm m500 with OmniRemote and Tv Uni-remote to turn off random TVs around me for fun or just to get some peace.

I'm not a mega-geek, but I do use an old Palm m500 with OmniRemote and Tv Uni-remote to turn off random TVs around me for fun or just to get some peace.

>The inability to make a backup of the PP directly into its SD card

It can if you cough up $10. Such is the nature of the Palm OS universe. Spport from Palm isn't so hot, but the open (and, well, elderly) nature of the platform permits wide-ranging aftermarket.

And as long as we are comparing to iPhone, it doesn't even have an SD slot.

And here I thought they just uploaded their apps to PalmGear. I guess I must be missing something...

played with an iphone on Wednesday. There are some issues that would make it a show stopper for me.

-Keyboard stinks. Best way I could get anything typed accurately was hold it in one hand and point with the other.
-No correction in web URLs and email addresses, so you have to be perfect.
-No period in the keyboard (period, /, and .com buttons in web browser kbd)
-Touch buttons too small. Although my Treo 650 screen buttons are often too small, but I rarely use them)
-No removable media (Why switch to mini SD Palm? idiots)
-No video recording
-No editing MS word documents
-No EVDO (Edge was slow when it worked, 755p may have EVDORevA at 600kbs)
-No stereo bluetooth (http://www.softick.com/bluetooth-audio/)
-No third party applications (Chess, new browser, core media player, etc)
-No laptop networking using phone (http://www.junefabrics.com/palmnet/)
-No removable battery (Like 2x capacity third party)
                http://shop.treonauts.com/content/accessories/---2 512.htm [treonauts.com]
-No way to quickly dial contacts
-No way to navigate single handed (five way rocker rocks)
-No tactile feedback (I like a click when I hang up the phone)
-No GPS addons like
            http://hardware.smartphonetools.treobits.com/conte nt/accessories/10-95--2230.htm [treobits.com]
                    with free software links to free google maps
            http://www.palmgear.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=softw are.showsoftware&PartnerREF=&siteid=1&prodID=13173 5 [palmgear.com]

More iPhone limitations from
            http://palmaddict.typepad.com/palmaddicts/2007/06/ why-the-iphone-.html [typepad.com]
-No exchange integration for online calendering
-No hacks for "push" email
-No voice call recording
-No voice dial
-No cut and paste!
-No task list!
-No global find!
-No file encryption
-No podcast download over the air

iPhone does have:
-Slick gui (that gets in the way, browsing on safari was stinky. Zoom and scroll, zoom and scroll, not too impressed. Sideways was nice)
-Wifi built-in
-Widescreen
-More MP in camera (2.0 vs 1.2 in treo 755, both suck)
-Thin form factor
-Glass screen (more fragile than treo?)
-Did I say sexy GUI?

Neither have-
-Built in GPS
-Flash in browser
-Wireless networking for letting laptops online easily

So the Treo pros outweigh the cons. I am sticking with a new 755p as soon as I can get it, which looks like September.

Even though the treo is dated, it works well in so many ways.

I played with an iphone on Wednesday. There are some issues that would make it a show stopper for me.

-Keyboard stinks. Best way I could get anything typed accurately was hold it in one hand and point with the other.
-No correction in web URLs and email addresses, so you have to be perfect.
-No period in the keyboard (period, /, and .com buttons in web browser kbd)
-Touch buttons too small. Although my Treo 650 screen buttons are often too small, but I rarely use them)
-No removable media (Why switch to mini SD Palm? idiots)
-No video recording
-No editing MS word documents
-No EVDO (Edge was slow when it worked, 755p may have EVDORevA at 600kbs)
-No stereo bluetooth (http://www.softick.com/bluetooth-audio/)
-No third party applications (Chess, new browser, core media player, etc)
-No laptop networking using phone (http://www.junefabrics.com/palmnet/)
-No removable battery (Like 2x capacity third party)
                http://shop.treonauts.com/content/accessories/---2 512.htm [treonauts.com]
-No way to quickly dial contacts
-No way to navigate single handed (five way rocker rocks)
-No tactile feedback (I like a click when I hang up the phone)
-No GPS addons like
            http://hardware.smartphonetools.treobits.com/conte nt/accessories/10-95--2230.htm [treobits.com]
                    with free software links to free google maps
            http://www.palmgear.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=softw are.showsoftware&PartnerREF=&siteid=1&prodID=13173 5 [palmgear.com]

More iPhone limitations from
            http://palmaddict.typepad.com/palmaddicts/2007/06/ why-the-iphone-.html [typepad.com]
-No exchange integration for online calendering
-No hacks for "push" email
-No voice call recording
-No voice dial
-No cut and paste!
-No task list!
-No global find!
-No file encryption
-No podcast download over the air

iPhone does have:
-Slick gui (that gets in the way, browsing on safari was stinky. Zoom and scroll, zoom and scroll, not too impressed. Sideways was nice)
-Wifi built-in
-Widescreen
-More MP in camera (2.0 vs 1.2 in treo 755, both suck)
-Thin form factor
-Glass screen (more fragile than treo?)
-Did I say sexy GUI?

Neither have-
-Built in GPS
-Flash in browser
-Wireless networking for letting laptops online easily

So the Treo pros outweigh the cons. I am sticking with a new 755p as soon as I can get it, which looks like September.

Crossposted from my comment on another board:
http://www.palminfocenter.com/news/8918/verizon-tr eo-755p-in-september/ [palminfocenter.com]

Even though the treo is dated, it works well in so many ways.

I played with an iphone on Wednesday. There are some issues that would make it a show stopper for me.

-Keyboard stinks. Best way I could get anything typed accurately was hold it in one hand and point with the other.
-No correction in web URLs and email addresses, so you have to be perfect.
-No period in the keyboard (period, /, and .com buttons in web browser kbd)
-Touch buttons too small. Although my Treo 650 screen buttons are often too small, but I rarely use them)
-No removable media (Why switch to mini SD Palm? idiots)
-No video recording
-No editing MS word documents
-No EVDO (Edge was slow when it worked, 755p may have EVDORevA at 600kbs)
-No stereo bluetooth (http://www.softick.com/bluetooth-audio/)
-No third party applications (Chess, new browser, core media player, etc)
-No laptop networking using phone (http://www.junefabrics.com/palmnet/)
-No removable battery (Like 2x capacity third party)
        http://shop.treonauts.com/content/accessories/---2 512.htm
-No way to quickly dial contacts
-No way to navigate single handed (five way rocker rocks)
-No tactile feedback (I like a click when I hang up the phone)
-No GPS addons like
      http://hardware.smartphonetools.treobits.com/conte nt/accessories/10-95--2230.htm
          with free software links to free google maps
      http://www.palmgear.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=softw are.showsoftware&PartnerREF=&siteid=1&prodID=13173 5

More iPhone limitations from
      http://palmaddict.typepad.com/palmaddicts/2007/06/ why-the-iphone-.html
-No exchange integration for online calendering
-No hacks for "push" email
-No voice call recording
-No voice dial
-No cut and paste!
-No task list!
-No global find!
-No file encryption
-No podcast download over the air

iPhone does have:
-Slick gui (that gets in the way, browsing on safari was stinky. Zoom and scroll, zoom and scroll, not too impressed. Sideways was nice)
-Wifi built-in
-Widescreen
-More MP in camera (2.0 vs 1.2 in treo 755, both suck)
-Thin form factor
-Glass screen (more fragile than treo?)
-Did I say sexy GUI?

Neither have-
-Built in GPS
-Flash in browser
-Wireless networking for letting laptops online easily

So the Treo pros outweigh the cons. I am sticking with a new 755p as soon as I can get it, which looks like September.

Crossposted from my comment on another board:
http://www.palminfocenter.com/news/8918/verizon-tr eo-755p-in-september/

There is a little freeware program called "LEDOff" that addresses this specific issue. It's made just for the Treo 6xx Palm-based phones.

http://www.palmgear.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=softw are.showsoftware&prodID=67607

Elite. Ahh, now there's an amazing blast from the past!

My first exposure to Elite was on an Apple ][ and then on a C-64, and I simply couldn't get enough.

Later, when I got hooked on PalmOS devices, there came an excellent knockoff called Void which, though not perfect and sometimes hard to navigate on a Palm, provided hours of Elite-like fun. It also appears that Elite was actually written for the Palm by a third-party developer, but disagreements about distribution by the original Elite developers caused the project to be canceled.

Just get a Palm..

Then its pretty useful for the things that might occupy the most of your time.

It's also *much* more fun to program when you need to do it yourself. It's also easier to get it to talk to other devices.

And get other options.

Just get a Palm..

Then its pretty useful for the things that might occupy the most of your time.

It's also *much* more fun to program when you need to do it yourself. It's also easier to get it to talk to other devices.

And get other options.

Just get a Palm..

Then its pretty useful for the things that might occupy the most of your time.

It's also *much* more fun to program when you need to do it yourself. It's also easier to get it to talk to other devices.

And get other options.

Just get a Palm..

Then its pretty useful for the things that might occupy the most of your time.

It's also *much* more fun to program when you need to do it yourself. It's also easier to get it to talk to other devices.

And get other options.

Have you tried using Resco Locker to secure SilkScreen? Otherwise, check out Grafiti Anywhere for that feature. I've never had a crash with it. ShortCut5 adds a prefs panel that will let you add or modify shortcuts, and trigger them with a period instead of the original odd character.

I doubt this would be practical: it is inconvenient to hold the phone in the air, and having the camera constantly turned on would quickly drain the batteries. I think phone manufacturers should simply include a real mouse LED/sensor combo on their geek phones.

On the other hand, if the phone has a touchscreen, then it is possible to use it as a touchpad. Things like BlueRemote for Palm OS already do this. Of course, having another touchpad for your laptop is kinda pointless.

I'm actually fairly surprised the slashdot editors don't have a treo and follow palmgear or other palm development sites. There already is a bar code scanner you can get for free for your treo:

BarCode

Of course, quality isn't perfect but it does work. Mostly. Reads the barcode and copies the number stream results to your clipboard.

* Great media player capabilities: Though it won't play DRMed content, it plays standard Divx and MP3s with free software from the Web. (The video player software that came with it was some annoying proprietary thing. The MP3 player was fine, but the free media player I got plays OGGs too.) Battery life can be a problem with long movies, but not for episodes of The Venture Brothers, well if only there were some way to get episodes of that show in DiVX format, I mean. (Oh, The Simpsons, The Tick, GitS: SAC , Paranoia Agent Futurama whatever turns you on... live action TV too, an hour is no problem.)

* Great gaming capabilities: I mean it has a touch screen and an analogue stick... but unfortunately not so much commercial software. Stuntcar Extreme which came with it, is great for showing off it's 3D graphics, rumble feature, and smooth controls using the analogue stick and buttons. For a game that uses the touch screen, the Warfare Inc. demo is kind of fun, and it comes with a version of Solitaire. Homebrew has been sort of hit or miss for me. I like Beats of Rage, but most of the other stuff I tried to install required a memory wipe.

* All the note taking, life organizing, alarm clock type features you would want. Oh, and I downloaded a Tone Dialer for it that works but you have to get the speaker of the Zodiac really close to the reciever.

Annoyingly, the Tapwave Zodiac failed marketwise, I'm not sure why. I'm guessing they had too much debt and needed to hit it big right away. Or perhaps it was simply to beautiful for this world.

Anyway, buy a Tapwave Zodiac! It will make your life better! Chicks dig them... well, ok not all... maybe not even most, but I'm sure some do. Besides it's cheaper than a porsche!

I'm in about my 3rd month of doing exactly what it sounds like you want to do -- teaching myself Japanese. On the whole, I don't think it's as hard as people make it out to be. The key thing is, do you enjoy learning? If so, then it should be worthwhile to try.

There are a couple of resources I am using to learn:

Japanese in Mangaland - a fantastic book that is organized into simple lessons of grammar, culture, and vocabulary. Each lesson includes examples of actual Manga to apply what you have learned. (There are two more books in the series once you get past the first one.)

If you read that book and decide you want to learn more, then it's time to start learning Kanji (you should already have learned the two phonetic scripts -- Hiragana and Katakana by then). For Kanji, I have been very pleased with:

Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters by Henshall.

This book may or may not work for you depending on your learning style, but it's been fantastic for me (I'm up to 400 Kanji in 3 months). It basically lays out the history of each Kanji and explains why it came to have it's current meaning. It shows you how to break the characters down into their component parts (called radicals) and what the meaning of those parts is. Since radicals can be shared by many kanji, this gives you extra insight into what a Kanji is likely to mean, even if you don't know it to begin with. This is a great memory aid, since it means you're not just memorizing random symbols but actually learning a system of symbols with meaning and context.

The other tool I used to learn Kanji is King Kanji. This is a Palm program that has tons of different writing lessons. It does handwriting recognition and tells you when you are writing the characters incorrectly. You can use it to quiz either the kanji, katakana, hiragana, or the meanings or pronunciation of the Kanji. I basically do this whenever I have some down time (bathroom, bus, etc.) and that is what has allowed me to progress as far as I have on my own with learning the Japanese writing.

Finally, a couple of websites that I have found helpful:

Teach yourself Japanese has a great detailed explanation of Japanese grammar.
Japanese Online has fantastic language lessons.

There are a ton of other sites out there as well. Just spend some time with Google and I'm sure you'll find the ones that work for you.

Good luck! Learning Japanese has been a lot of fun for me, and isn't nearly as hard as people make it out to be.

Want the ringer to change based on the time of day? Callfilter.

Change the brightness of the screen depending on the surrounding light? BrightCam.

Not to mention the nice hardware switch right at the top that lets you choose between silent and ringer modes.

You can do a lot more with a Treo than your standard phone, but it is nice to see manufacturers building these features right into off-the-shelf products.

The MetrO application (which is free-as-in-beer) will do this for hundreds of cities around the world.

I see we are on the same page.

There is a Palm app called Wank Words Bingo that can be used in corporate meetings. Here's a web based one you can print out or something.

YAPS does indeed sync to the PC, and it does it the right way. The database is (of course) kept in an encrypted form on the Palm Pilot and is transmitted the same way to the PC during sync. No clear-text transmission, and no clear-text backup. When your Palm Pilot eventually dies or is lost, you just re-sync and you've got your passwords back. YAPS is free (as in beer), and MSB Engineering (the YAPS creators) has produced a cheap (US$9.99) shareware program to read the encrypted backups on your PC.

You can see my work so far at the following links:

Wikipedia in Plucker format
Wikiquote in Plucker format
Wikitionary in Plucker format

..and of course, my beautiful anti-alias fonts for Plucker, made with PalmFontConv by Alexander Pruss.

I've also converted the Creating XPCOM Components book by Doug Turner and Ian Oeschger to Plucker format as well as the FreeBSD Handbook.

I have literally hundreds of similar-quality works I'll be releasing over the next few months to the community on an ongoing basis.

If there's something you'd like to see, just let me know

According to this documentation, the Personal Data Interchange (PDI) part of the SDK supports iCalendar. The description of Palm's Versamail says it can open iCalendar attachements. Once they're opened in Palm OS and added to the calendar, they'd sync to Palm Desktop like anything else. Like you, I would rather be able to open them on the desktop machine, in Palm Desktop, as you can do with vCalendar files now. I wish all Palm users would start bombarding them with e-mails about this.. iCalendar came out in 1998, surely they could have added support by now!

Rusty, Tip for the PDA checkbook prog if you have a PalmOS PDA: My Checkbook

I really like it, and should really be using it on a regular basis. Oh, and it's free :)

Already posted this one above, but here it is again. You need Newpen fixes that problem for the Treo, and is pretty darned handy on other palm devices too (write big and fast on the full screen area).

I've also found usability of the Treo keyboard to be an issue, but I've found that Newpen gives me graffiti on screen to jot quick notes and such. Excellent bonus to have physical kb PLUS handwriting recognition on same device.

Check out my journal for more good stuff, and please feel free to leave comments suggesting other goodies I need to add to my list.

A laptop is not a PDA. I take my PDA everywhere and reference it many times per day. In fact I rarely leave home without it, since I always end up regretting it when I do. I'm not taking a laptop to the hardware store just in case I have to jot something down.

As to your second point, I have to agree that the WiFi, camera, sound recorder, and mp3 playback are only of secondary interest compared to the to-do list, calendaring, and memo apps.

That said, half-VGA (320x480) is somewhat usable for web browsing. In fact when I browse slashdot on it, I don't use the special palm-formatted version because it's too sparse. This may be the ultimate toilet-entertainment device, not that I would ever do such a thing.

But besides that, WiFi is good for quickly, wirelessly transferring documents and software to the Palm, and the battery-life hit is surprisingly not that bad. I can open palmgear download a zip file, and install apps without using a PC at all. Bluetooth is comparable, except it doesn't work from anywhere in my home.

I'm torn on having WiFi in the SD slot rather than built-in, as it is on the Sony. On the one hand, I only use the WiFi now and then, so why carry it all the time? On the other hand, it doesn't seem to add much bulk, and I'm already using the SD slot for memory expansion, so having to take that out would render the Palm only partually functional.

I have even transcoded entire DVDs down to ~400 MB using dvd::rip, put them on my 512 MB SD card and have watched the entire movie on my PDA in Landscape widescreen. The resolution is excellent for a PDA and the 400 MHz X-Scale CPU is very quick. Battery life is OK, but with the BoxWave miniSync (w/Car and Wall adapters) I never worry about it.

The best part is the price of my setup:
$300 PDA
$80 Ericsson T68m BlueTooth Phone
$99 512 MB SD Card
$40 BoxWave miniSync + Accessories
$40 Iambic Agendus Pro
$40 SnapperFish SnapperMail Standard
$50 SplashData SplashWallet
$35 Mapopolis 1-year North America w/o GPS Support
$30 BlueNomad WordSmith
$15 MMPlayer
$12 ZLauncher
$10 PDAMill Solitaire
$0 OliveTree BibleReader+
$0 BigClock
$0 MyCheckbook
$0 HandyShopper
$0 HandZipperLite
$0 IconMgr
$0 SeaTraffic
$0 TuSSH
$0 upIRC (limited shareware)
$0 Warfare, Inc. (shareware demo)
====
$751

I actually paid $611 total for all the above because I purchased many of the software items listed above long ago for my previous PDAs, but the above is what someone would pay to buy it now.

I have even transcoded entire DVDs down to ~400 MB using dvd::rip, put them on my 512 MB SD card and have watched the entire movie on my PDA in Landscape widescreen. The resolution is excellent for a PDA and the 400 MHz X-Scale CPU is very quick. Battery life is OK, but with the BoxWave miniSync (w/Car and Wall adapters) I never worry about it.

The best part is the price of my setup:
$300 PDA
$80 Ericsson T68m BlueTooth Phone
$99 512 MB SD Card
$40 BoxWave miniSync + Accessories
$40 Iambic Agendus Pro
$40 SnapperFish SnapperMail Standard
$50 SplashData SplashWallet
$35 Mapopolis 1-year North America w/o GPS Support
$30 BlueNomad WordSmith
$15 MMPlayer
$12 ZLauncher
$10 PDAMill Solitaire
$0 OliveTree BibleReader+
$0 BigClock
$0 MyCheckbook
$0 HandyShopper
$0 HandZipperLite
$0 IconMgr
$0 SeaTraffic
$0 TuSSH
$0 upIRC (limited shareware)
$0 Warfare, Inc. (shareware demo)
====
$751

I actually paid $611 total for all the above because I purchased many of the software items listed above long ago for my previous PDAs, but the above is what someone would pay to buy it now.

I have even transcoded entire DVDs down to ~400 MB using dvd::rip, put them on my 512 MB SD card and have watched the entire movie on my PDA in Landscape widescreen. The resolution is excellent for a PDA and the 400 MHz X-Scale CPU is very quick. Battery life is OK, but with the BoxWave miniSync (w/Car and Wall adapters) I never worry about it.

The best part is the price of my setup:
$300 PDA
$80 Ericsson T68m BlueTooth Phone
$99 512 MB SD Card
$40 BoxWave miniSync + Accessories
$40 Iambic Agendus Pro
$40 SnapperFish SnapperMail Standard
$50 SplashData SplashWallet
$35 Mapopolis 1-year North America w/o GPS Support
$30 BlueNomad WordSmith
$15 MMPlayer
$12 ZLauncher
$10 PDAMill Solitaire
$0 OliveTree BibleReader+
$0 BigClock
$0 MyCheckbook
$0 HandyShopper
$0 HandZipperLite
$0 IconMgr
$0 SeaTraffic
$0 TuSSH
$0 upIRC (limited shareware)
$0 Warfare, Inc. (shareware demo)
====
$751

I actually paid $611 total for all the above because I purchased many of the software items listed above long ago for my previous PDAs, but the above is what someone would pay to buy it now.

Single Button Launcher

and this: Teal Launch

and this: QuickSwitch

And many more similar Palm apps, which I used before (some of them are even free).

So, what is exactly new on this, that it warrants a patent ?

Single Button Launcher

and this: Teal Launch

and this: QuickSwitch

And many more similar Palm apps, which I used before (some of them are even free).

So, what is exactly new on this, that it warrants a patent ?

Single Button Launcher

and this: Teal Launch

and this: QuickSwitch

And many more similar Palm apps, which I used before (some of them are even free).

So, what is exactly new on this, that it warrants a patent ?

Now what I REALLY want to see, is a filtering system for telephone calls. For example, I want to have the ability to be able to block ALL calls using a white/blacklist, or perhaps automatically reject all calls from a certain area / country. I also want to be able to filter SMS text messages.

Of course, just switching to a cell phone instead of a landline pretty much solves the telemarketing call problem -- in the US it is a violation of federal law to make an unsolicited sales call to a mobile phone or any other recipient-pays telephone (ship to shore, etc).

For all you Tetris-et-al addicts, try out bejeweled! You won't be dissapointed!

It is available for the PalmOS platform as shareware:

Palmgear Link

Sorry to reply to my own post and so quickly, but I just found 2 apps that are from well before 2002 and have the same functionality as QLaunch.

AardQuick Button Launcher(August 20, 2001)
Button Launch 1.8(October 16, 2000)

Those are just what showed up after about 5 mins of looking, I'd bet that there are quite a few more.

Sorry to reply to my own post and so quickly, but I just found 2 apps that are from well before 2002 and have the same functionality as QLaunch.

AardQuick Button Launcher(August 20, 2001)
Button Launch 1.8(October 16, 2000)

Those are just what showed up after about 5 mins of looking, I'd bet that there are quite a few more.

Take a look here.

I admit that I haven't RTFA, but that sure looks like what you say they've patented. That's not the only example either, it's just what showed up in a quick search.

i'm happy with my Sony Clie PEG-T665. it's not a universal Remote but rather a PDA that comes with a pretty good set of Universal Remote codes for the included ClieRemote program (creative name i know) driven a really awesome IR port. (for a PDA)

sadly i'm starting to find some newer devices that it doesn't work with - notably all-in-one DVD/Radio/Speaker systems.

there are some good 3rd party Remote programs that work with the Clie (and other Palm OS PDA's but the IR Port on most PDAs suck for long range remote functions) such as OmniRemote (a good program, but you have to teach it everything - it comes with no codes!) or NoviiRemote (a good looking program that i have not used yet - i'm happy with the Clie software)

i'm happy with my Sony Clie PEG-T665. it's not a universal Remote but rather a PDA that comes with a pretty good set of Universal Remote codes for the included ClieRemote program (creative name i know) driven a really awesome IR port. (for a PDA)

sadly i'm starting to find some newer devices that it doesn't work with - notably all-in-one DVD/Radio/Speaker systems.

there are some good 3rd party Remote programs that work with the Clie (and other Palm OS PDA's but the IR Port on most PDAs suck for long range remote functions) such as OmniRemote (a good program, but you have to teach it everything - it comes with no codes!) or NoviiRemote (a good looking program that i have not used yet - i'm happy with the Clie software)

Also, AportisDOC is not open, documented, or freely usable, without substantial commercial licensing.

Please drop the false accusations.

Additionally, you can see that LinuxDOC uses Plucker format. Oddly, I don't see their HOWTO docs in AportisDOC format. Project Gutenberg is considering the move to Plucker as well, last I heard.

How about checking out the thousands of Plucker ebooks out there, before spinning your tripe.

i went looking around on PalmGear and eventually found copies of Hanabi (a great non-free flash-card kanji/kana learning system for Palms) and Dokusha (a quite comprehensive free(?) dictionary and word processor also for Palms) that turned out to be exactly what i personally needed. only problem with Dokusha is that it takes up over 6MB for the main dictionary and Kanji dictionaries, and IIRC, occupies about 12MB when you include the name dictionaries.

It isn't exactly what you are looking for but you might find this interesting. Ectaco have lots of useful traslation programs. Hope that helps.

Both of these are card games which are sort of like Uno, but more complex and interesting. I've played Fluxx much more, so these comments relate to that. Fluxx is a great game because if you are familar with it and good at it, you can plan some good strategies, however, if you're a novice, there it is still possible to win. So, both skill and chance come into play. Games can range from one minute to over thirty, and it's good to play from two players to four or five.

There's even a Palm version, called MicroFluxx. It seems like the developers created and were distributing it without the knowledge or consent of Looney Labs, but the matter has since been settled.

Enjoy!

Todd

I also use Kuuaki which is a program for the Tungsten W that lets you monitor your servers CPU, processes (web cgi dns etc) get a short TOP display, etc.

Works quite well as a solution and the PALM also lets me telnet in. The keyboard is useable and the W is very durable and web browsing works pretty well.

ah, but you can install liberty or Phoenix on it and play a good chunk of the GBA game library :)

and and i would that 200 MHz CPU would capable of pulling off a GBA emulator, or at least a GBC (but i don't know for sure)

People who pick 5BX might find this of use: I wrote a palm app to help keep track of all the 5BX level information so you don't have to keep big, complicated paper charts around. You can find the program at PalmGear. It's still under development, so please send feedback if you find any bugs or have feature requests.

-Glen Raphael
raphael@pobox.com

Consider using a small (paper) calendar to keep yourself organized. If you do choose to go with a PDA, check out Due Yesterday from Nosleep Software (great homework organizer).

As for class notes, I use a 5-subject college-ruled notebook to keep all my notes in one place.

YMMV but this works for me.