Remember Palm? In the 1990s they created an industry and ate Apple's lunch when their smaller, nimbler
Palm Pilot 1000 did the PDA right and blew the MessagePad away. Today they unveiled the
Pre, a phone running their new
"WebOS" and aimed straight at the iPhone's weaknesses. With one of the guys behind the iMac and iPod
running the show, can they pull it off again?
posted by bonaldi
on Jan 8, 2009 -
108 comments
A new usage for Palm OS PDAs. Cant dish out for a matrix orbital LCD display? You can still have the awesomeness of a small display telling you vital cpu load, ram usage and winamp info via a palm pilot. Emulates a matrix orbital screen and can work with palms thru serial, USB, even bluetooth! (Project no longer maintained, maybe one of ya's can take it over and fix it so it works for my cheap zire!)
posted by EvilKenji
on Mar 5, 2005 -
6 comments
Dasher is a new way to input text on a Pilot or any computer without a keyboard. There's a version available for
download to try out on your desktop, using your mouse. It really is quite freaky to use. The amazing thing is, it actually appears to work. After a couple of minutes experimenting, it's almost as fast as typing for a slow typist like myself.
posted by salmacis
on Jun 26, 2002 -
21 comments
At
Virus Books(mostly German, but it doesn't matter), you can download short visual summaries of books for your PalmOS portable. Even if you don't have a handheld, there are images of the results, so you can have a look, anyway.
posted by Su
on Jun 23, 2002 -
2 comments
When a Palm Pilot is mixed with an oven pilot light, you know it's going to be an awful mess. But if the Pizza was good, it was all worth it.
posted by h0ney
on Feb 11, 2002 -
6 comments
I used to have a 1.2Mbps DSL link when I lived in Atlanta. Now I am back home in Europe and I log on to the Net on a thin old 33kbps dialup. But old habits die hard. I want my web man, I
need it. So, I did some thinking, went on Google and found
this. And now my question is: how many people out there would like to get thinner, faster versions of their favorite sites? Is there an index of such versions? And if not, how many of you would like to see one? I got some interesting Python spiders lying around...
posted by costas
on Apr 14, 2001 -
16 comments
Palm Vx & cell phone combo has swept the streets of New York ... the Verizon stores sell out of them within hours of each shipment's arrival. I was one of the first, and I am, by and large, extremely satisfied ... more within.
posted by MattD
on Apr 10, 2001 -
22 comments
Geeks (like me), welcome the new
Palm m505 -- all the style of the V series, with an improved color lcd screen and an expansion slot! Yum.
posted by lia
on Mar 19, 2001 -
47 comments
I was doing some research for a (since abandoned) project, and came across a
freeware version of
logo for windows. After a little more digging I came up with a
palm version.
So, how many of you hip web kids started out with the tiny triangular turtle?
posted by alan
on Dec 10, 2000 -
22 comments
Smart Dog BackTalk lets me exchange vCards and Memo Pad data between my Newton MessagePad 2100 and all of the Palm PDAs scattered about my office. As a lonely Newton user in a world plugged full of Palms, these guys rock! Not bad for a dead platform, eh? Now watch me fire up
my web server.
posted by grant
on Feb 1, 2000 -
0 comments
Palm Buddy lets you view and install files on your Palm using a slick Finder-like window. It also does file conversion, but doesn't sync. Nice. Here's
a screen shot.
posted by grant
on Nov 22, 1999 -
1 comment
Dumb name, clever site. Yodlee wants to provide an online service that consolidates all of the email, ecommerce, banking, and travel accounts that you probably have scattered across a half-dozen, disparate sites and then link them right into your Palm. And they support
sites out the wazoo already. Now you have only one login and password to forget.
posted by grant
on Nov 15, 1999 -
1 comment
Today is Friday, the day I get paid, which also happens to be impulse buying day! A few minutes ago, I bought a couple cool things for my palm pilot. Concept Kitchen has a
rubber bumper-type case for the palm, which should be arriving next week. The other impulse buy was
SimCity for the Palm. Thanks to Atelier's cool downloadable distribution, I'm playing SimCity right now.
posted by mathowie
on Oct 29, 1999 -
0 comments
It looks like maybe this eBooks thing is going to be for real. Microsoft is jumping on the bandwagon for eBooks including the release of a reader that utilizes the ClearType technology. Personally, I've converted a few novels from the Gutenburg project over to the Palm format and read them on my pilot. It's ok, but gets tiresome after a while (only 4 or 5 words fit in a single line of the palm text readers)
posted by mathowie
on Oct 14, 1999 -
0 comments
