Sun January 02 2005
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10:18 AM by Laurens in Archive | Sunrise
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09:31 AM by emale07 in Miscellaneous | Lounge
[Alex: emale, thank you for the invite offer! In case you are running out of invites here, make sure to also visit our other thread where Gmail accounts are still up for grabs!] |
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Sat January 01 2005
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05:42 AM by Alexander Turcic in E-Book General | News
The article mentions two dedicated e-book readers: Sony's Librie and Matsushita's latest version of the Sigma Book, both of which require energy only when a book page is being turned (the Librie uses E-Ink technology, the Sigma Book uses Kent' Cholesteric technology). |
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Fri December 31 2004
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11:31 PM by Bob Russell in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones
Data Conversion You really have two options for the basic PIM data... I chose #2 for the basic PIM data in the 4 basic Palm PIM apps. My free solution was Stratabase Resync. It worked okay, but didn't give me that warm satisfied feeling like everything worked well. You may want to do a printout of your Palm address list as a minimum to check and see if everything went according to plan. In my case, I printed to a .pdf file, which seemed like a convenient way to go. If you have a way to sync directly to Outlook (which is the required desktop PIM app for Pocket PC to sync to), you are all set. Just sync your data to Outlook and then set up your PPC. The data will be there. Note, however, that due to a restriction in Activesync, all the memo notes will be synched to the MyDocuments folder on your PPC, with no folders for categories, or even a subfolder to hold all the notes. They're just thrown in along with everything else. I didn't like this, so I found an alternative, Tombo, which I think is much better anyway. More later, when I list the apps I'm using and how they compare to my old Palm apps. Other Sources Of Info On The Web Okay, so suppose you've survived the core conversion and you have your PPC set up and you have all your basic PIM data over there. Now what? In my case, it was a very manual process of trial and error to get the right programs to hold my data effectively, and then to cut and paste everything over into the new format and organization. After many false starts I think I've come up with a plan that works well. For me it does, anyway! Software Replacements on PPC * DateBk5 -> Pocket Informant (PI) * Graffiti -> Fitaly * SecureIt (password vault) -> eWallet * Handy Shopper -> Handy Shopper! * MyBible -> PocketBible (also from Laridian, and has NIV) * Sony Backup Software -> Sprite Professional * MemoPad & ShadowPlan -> Tombo * Patience (Solitaire) -> ?? * iSilo -> iSilo! Yippee! That's a big deal to me and I'm glad the PPC version is almost as good as the Palm version. * eReader -> eReader! Another big deal for me that things are interchangable. See my tip for how to use bold fonts for reading.. https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...2928#post12928 * Adobe Acrobat Reader -> Adobe Acrobat Reader! * Noah Free Dictionary -> Pocket Dict * DocsToGo -> MS Pocket Excel and Word * FileZ -> Resco Explorer * Launcher -> Multiple options, but you will want a task manager. Lots of other stuff is available, of course. Multimedia players, Karaoke, Pocket Streets is nice, Vade Mecum and Sunrise are a nice combo, email, voice recorder, journaling, photo albums, time accounting, skype VOIP, etc etc The list goes on and on! For the freeware, be sure to check at... Well, that's it for now. Hope that is helpful info for someone moving from Palm to PocketPC! |
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08:39 PM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Announcements I did some tweaks to our RSS feeds to reduce the server strain. If you experience any weird changes or bugs, please be so kind and inform us! And, of course, a Happy New Year to everyone! Alex |
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12:04 PM by Alexander Turcic in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones
To just who is the Axim X50v aimed at? Well, just about everyone - consumers and businesspeople alike - who want to buy a fully loaded, relatively reasonably priced PDA with VGA display right now. Die-hards like that won't be deterred by the fact that the device's dedicated graphics accelerator is useless at present, except for the occasional gaming title. To everyone else, such as folks who only recently bought a fast and well-equipped PDA like the X30i, our advice is: sit tight and wait for the price reductions that are sure to come. |
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10:11 AM by Alexander Turcic in Archive | Sunrise
The enhanced conduit will follow in the next prerelease. You can click here to download Sunrise 0.40 pre3. |
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