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  1. Palm OS handles those, but one-at-a-time by bcombee · · Score: 5, Informative · on Complex Language Support for PDA's?

    Palm OS is officially available in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch, Portugese, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese, and there are translation modules to support Thai, Vietnamese, Korean, Hebrew, Greek, and more. Usually, a device is only set for one language at a time, but some of the overlay programs allow for an Asian language and Engligh together.

    A few choice URLs:

    http://www.penreader.com/PalmOS/PiLoc.html

    Hebrew Localization

    Chinese OS for Palm OS

  2. My Top 3 Applications by Casal · · Score: 2 · on What Are Your Ten Best Palm Apps?
    When I first got my Handspring Visor I loaded everything that seemed remotely interesting. It now makes 3 months that I have my Visor and I find that there are only 3 applications I use extensively (beyond the standard phonebook and address book):

    1 - iSilo
    This app is great at converting HTML pages to load in a nice compact format. The registered copy has hyperlink support. This will also read standard Palm document. I use this for keeping my favorite http://www.linuxdoc.org HOWTOs handy.

    2 - HandyShopper (found at PilotGear)
    This is a very well designed shopping list manager. It allows you to maintain items across several stores (e.g. soap can be bought at the grocery store and the drugstore), and it allows you to sort the list by aisle. Best of all it's Freeware.

    3 - AvantGo
    You'll always have some bathroom reading handy with this one.

  3. Re:get ready for.... by Speed+Racer · · Score: 1 · on Color Palms Announced
    Sadly enough, there already was an app called Hairy Palm. It shouldn't take too much imagination to figure out what it did.

    I couldn't find any direct links to it but there was a notice on L0pht's page. Here is a cached page from Google to prove it.

    It was somewhat of a scandal at the time because it had the nasty habit of crashing some Pilots and forcing a hard reset. People thought it was a virus of some sort. The guy at PilotGear.com threw a big fit because it happened to his Pilot. It turned out that it was a simple programming mistake made during the app's conversion to the Palm OS.