Tue September 14 2004
OQO Model 01 handheld due October 14th |
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 |
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Mon September 13 2004
Trisystech's September Giza giveaway |
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. |
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Win an ipaq by taking a survey |
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. |
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Review of the new Ipaq h6315 |
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. |
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Sun September 12 2004
Happy Birthday! |
03:34 PM by Colin Dunstan in Miscellaneous | Lounge Alex, you thought you could disappear without a word?
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Sat September 11 2004
9/11 Commission Report in Plucker, iSilo and HTML format |
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: Plucker format: Both of the mobile versions are available on MemoWare and Palmgear as well (these links go right to the reports themselves on these sites).
http://downloads.plkr.org/911_Report.html iSilo mobile format: Converted XHTML: 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. |
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Fri September 10 2004
Do you use Pocket PC, Palm, both, or neither? |
12:00 PM by ignatz in Miscellaneous | Lounge I'm in the process of converting from Palm to Pocket PC, and it got me wondering what the spread is here. It's plain that the majority here are Palm users, but it seems that that may be changing. So let us know: what do you use? |
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Free Net phone Skype for PocketPC |
11:43 AM by Alexander Turcic in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones Skype has just released Skype for PocketPC v1.0, a free software to let PocketPC users make free unlimited Skype calls over any Wi-Fi network. Minimum requirements arePocketPC 2003 OS, obviously WiFi, and a 400 MHz processor. Skype for PocketPC and regular Skype accounts are linked, so you can be logged on both devices at the same time and receive on both a ring if someone calls you. As for the headset, Skype recommends Plantronics headsets for optimal quality. |
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