08:39 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

Sammy from PalmAddict discovered in an ABC News scoop that Skype will introduce a Palm client next month.

05:32 AM by Alexander Turcic in Archive | Mobile Sites

I needed mobile access to OED for a project I am currently working on.

You can query the Oxford English Dictionary with your PDA from the following link:

Mobileread OED Lookup

In case you didn't know: The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.

04:20 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

The Register is reporting that OQO's Model 01 Windows XP palmtop, which will run a full version of Windows XP, will be officialy launched on October 14 in San Francisco. It will have a 1GHz Transmeta processor, Bluetooth+WiFi, 256MB of RAM and a 20gb hard drive.

No price is mentioned, but from what I remember, the OQO won't come cheap

08:23 PM by cbarnett in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

Trisystech (developer of Aeon of Discovery) is giving away 9 copies of their new PPC game Giza.

To have a chance to win a copy, you must register on their forums before September 30th, and post your device and referrer in the giveaway thread

Craig.

08:14 PM by cbarnett in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

SPB Software House is currently running a survey to determine the wants and needs of PPC users. As an incentive to participate, all those responding to the survey woll be placed in the draw to win an iPaq hx4700, or three $100 certificates from PocketGear.

The survey and offer is open to international participants, and closes September 17th.

One thing - in the small print, they promise delivery of the 4700 within one month of the devices release. It hasn't been released to the general public yet, but by all accounts is a very nice pda.

Craig.

07:51 PM by cbarnett in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

iPaqHQ have posted a review of the newest iPaq from HP to be release, the h6315.

It's an interesting device and diverges from past offerings from HP, as it's a smartphone running Windows Mobile 2003 Phone Edition. It also has bluetooth, wifi and a built-in camera. Whether HP can successfully break into the coverged device market remains to be seen, but they certainly seem to be making the effort.

Craig.

03:34 PM by Colin Dunstan in Miscellaneous | Lounge

Alex, you thought you could disappear without a word?

02:57 PM by hacker in E-Book General | Deals and Resources (No...

Greetings.

Today is the 3rd anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York. It is a time of mourning, and of retrospection. I'd like to give something back, to help educate those who may not know the details surrounding the events of 9/11.

As many of you may already know, I have taken the 567-page 9/11 Commission Report (in PDF format), and converted it BY HAND to validated XHTML. In the process I corrected several thousand punctuation mistakes, mis-hyphenated words, and the flow of the document in general. The content itself was not changed, just the way it was presented. The goal was to make the document readable on handheld devices.

I also added a linked TOC, mini-TOC for each chapter, and cross-linked every annotation and footnote in the original document. I also reformatted the output itself, to better display on mobile devices, such as PalmOS handhelds. There are a lot of other changes here that make the document much more readible on handheld devices. The information contained within, is far too important to disregard or be lost in a huge PDF on a .gov website.

From this base, I converted it to Plucker format, and then again to iSilo format. You can see all three versions here:

Both of the mobile versions are available on MemoWare and Palmgear as well (these links go right to the reports themselves on these sites).

Please feel free to download, redistribute, share, and link to this version as much as you'd like (of course, if you do, please make sure to give me credit, where credit is due). If I've missed any relevant newsgroups, forums, blogs, or websites please repost/forward there.

It is the only version of this document indexable by search engines and the like. It is also much more useful than the original, being heavily cross-linked within itself. I put a LOT of work into this to make it a professional work. Please respect the amout of time I've spent on it, by not hijacking it without crediting me.

Thanks everyone. I hope you enjoy the work. Please let me know if you'd like any additions, features, or other versions converted for other platforms.