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Great Zaurus Apps Review
Tong writes "PDA Buyer's Guide published a round up review that lists some eseential Zaurus applications. This review will help new users who just bought a Zaurus PDA to get started and find the apps that make it fun to use their Zaurii. Here is the link to the review."
I have always looked for a WebDAV client for PDAs. Never found any. With such a wide ranges of PDAs and applications for them, one would think atleast one PDA would support WebDAV.
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Why was this modded down? While I'm fine with a typo here and there, "Zaurii"? Please. First of all, this ought to be "Zauri" if we're going to pretend that Latin style plurals are actually appropriate usage in an Anglo-Saxon language. Of course, it doesn't make a difference. If you even have one of these things it's obviously because you're too geeky for your own good and whatever you call it really won't matter, because the only peole who will know what you're talking about in the first place are other geeks.
Which reminds me. I need to get my Zaurus listed on eBay. These things would be a lot more useful if they could wake from sleep a little faster, like the Palm/Visor type systems do. Plus, the battery life is ridiculous.
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What's the start-up time (from sleep) like on the Clie? Does it work with the standard sync tools in Linux? I've got an SL-5500 I don't use anymore that I would gladly trade. But comparing the specs on these things, I'd think you were getting shorted.
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Good to know ... and well, as a developer, I'm not so worried about having the latest and greatest, just a platform that will serve as a good test-bed for my apps.
... rumour has it that Sony is ditching PalmOS for its Clie's and moving to a custom Linux distro, anyway ...
You think the SL-5500 is good enough for that? Frankly, I think Linux on PDA's is the wave of the future
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In some ways, this is an honest question. Aside from saying "we use X plugin from RSA" or "the university of wisconsin has verified us," how can one person ensure the security of what they work with?
This same question applies to other parts of our everyday life. For example, who can really verify books of state owned company, or the real flow of money in publicly paid projects?
The only answer we've found so far is transparency. It's true, that not everyone can check it by himself, but on the other hand, when there's no transparency (in public finances or software programs) no one can check it.
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SafeDee is neat, but I copied the functionality and appearance of SafeDee closely in about five minutes with Portabase . They're so close that I wonder if SafeDee isn't actually made from PortaBase, which includes Blowfish encryption, and even has the desktop ports that the reviewer wanted.
My favorite add-on app for a PDA is a quick and dirty database. Having data at my fingertips all the time makes a PDA a work tool for me. If I need an inventory database, reference chart or somesuch, I've got it in a few minutes.
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I haven't used the 5500, but it seems that many of the 3rd party Zaurus apps will run on the 5500. Thus, an educated guess is that the 5500 will suit your needs. However many zaurus reviewers have noted that the 5600 fixes a lot of the issues they had with the 5500.
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I think SafeDee was actually released a little before PortaBase, and several months before encryption support was added to PortaBase. Blowfish is a fairly common and simple algorithm, I doubt if there's any code in common between the apps in that respect (PortaBase uses an LGPL library called BeeCrypt in its encryption implementation, SafeDee probably uses a self-written implementation).
PortaBase does have a lot of extra features, but I can imagine that if you just want a password manager, something simpler may be desired. On the other hand, being able to encrypt a custom data table containing a variety of data types and then sort and filter the results can be pretty useful too (which is why I implemented file encryption in PortaBase instead of just using a separate password management program).
I have noticed a tendency to exclude PortaBase in reviews of Zaurus encryption software, I wonder if they just haven't noticed that it supports that...?