Palm

My current Palm setup - Palm Zire 72 RAM - 32Mb as standard + my 512MB SD in the expansion slot; OS - Palm 5.2 Screen - 320*320 hi-res colour transflective LCD Sync - mini-USB cable or Bluetooth CPU - 312 MHz Intel® PXA270 processor Current software Space Trader 1.2.2, Plucker 1.8, STRIP 1.0,Documents To Go 6, AvantGo 5.7, BackupBuddy VFS 2.15, Filez 6.8.3, Metro 5.3.8, and of course of all those great built in apps. It’s a great model, great display, good camera for pictures and movies - it’s fast too - really fast. The sync via mini-USB was much faster than before, and even the Bluetooth Sync is pretty fast. It’s truly multimedia capable too, WMV and MP3 playback, and I can add a Wi-Fi adapter too if I like. As before, I’m still running a lot of the same apps, but as it’s a much faster, hi-res device, they’re even better - AvantGo and Plucker look great - much nicer to read, and Metro is amazingly fast. ...

February 2004 I bought a couple of new pieces of software this month for my Palm, just to reinforce a couple of areas for a bit more functionality and safety. Firstly I bought a copy of BackupBuddyVFS, which as it’s name implies backs up the Palm. Where this is useful is that you can back your Palm up to the SD card, and if your Palm runs out of power, you can restore directly from there when you get it to the charger - much faster and cleaner than Palm’s backup. The other app I bought has been gathering in popularity for the last couple of years, but I think it’ll really take off now that Palm have announced that it’s effectively killing Mac support with Palm OS 6. Missing Link is a pretty cool app which enabled you to connect the Palm to the Mac; the reason I wanted it for were two fold: One I wanted to be able to mount my SD card on my desktop and move files to and from it directly, rather than the clumsy installer Palm forces you to use, and secondly, it comes with a license for SplashPhoto image viewing. ...