My wife just got me a Palm

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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My wife katrina bought me a Palm for my birthday.

Oh wait, let me amend that: my wonderful, darling, sweetness-and-light snootchie bootches wife. Yeah, that’s better.

Anyway, I love the thing. I don’t know how I got along without it. She’s watched me put all my important stuff into it, and of course she had to get one for herself.

So, to fellow Palm users: What are your fave apps you’ve stuck into your handheld? I’ve talked to one guy who mentioned the “universal remote” one, where apparently you can replace all the remote controls for your stereo, TV, etc. with a single Palm interface. Sounds pretty cool.

Any others?

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Just one step closer to being assimilated into the Palm collective… soon humans will be unable to function without a full time computer interface…

But they are just so damn cool!

Resistance does seem to be futile doesn’t it?

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hehe, your wife gave you the palm. hehe

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I got QMate, a shareware quicken companion for Palm. You put transactions into it and then you can sync to Quicken.

There’s some good stuff for (airplane) pilots or any other type of specific activity involving math - just cruise around http://www.palmgear.com and you’ll find some cool stuff.

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I use my Palm III daily and have yet to fill it up. The apps I can’t live without are:

Hackmaster - For running system hacks that enhance the Palm’s performance.

Switchhack - Allows you to switch between programs effortlessly and see a list of the last 10 programs you ran.

CSpotRun - A Doc reader that is free and pretty powerful.

Handwrite - A simple drawing program I use for quickly writing out directions… again FREE.

BigClock - An Clock /Alarm program that I use as my actual alarm clock to get me up in the morning. Shows various countdowns, 4 customizable alarms, stopwatch, etc.

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I’ve got 40-something games on mine. But then, I’m a college student. The coolest one is the Palm port of Zork and other old Infocom games. The program that runs it is called Frotz. Woo-hoo!

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If you download porn to your Palm, does it get hairy?

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missing the point everyone!

Where do you find wives like that ?

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The Palm is catching up to the stethoscope as the most indispenisble tool in the medical student’s arsenal. I figure next year’s M3’s will probably be required to buy one.

I’ve got some birthday cash coming, and I’ll probably put it toward one. I like the Handspring, personally.

Dr. J

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All right, Cervaise! Congrats on that great acquisition! (the wife, not the Palm, I mean! :wink: )

I’ve had my Handspring Visor Deluxe since last December, and here’s the stuff I’ve downloaded AND paid for (which means I use it a LOT and think it’s a great product):

AvantGo: Update “Web pages” from various sites every time you perform a HotSync.

BugMe: Reminder software – very easy to use

DateBk4: You thought the datebook you got on your Palm was handy? The steroid version is even better. WAY better.

Happy Days: A very simple, free and convenient app that lists all the birthdays of your friends and family. Just create a field called “Birthday” in your addybook, and Happy Days looks it up. It arranges the order so the person with the birthday coming up soonest is listed first, and so on.

iSilo: html/doc reader

MobileDB: Very simple database program. There are others that are better (such as JFile), but I use MobileDB because the company makes a totally free view-only version. Why is that important? Earlier this year I made MobileDB databases of every single frickin’ Major League Baseball team schedule for this season, and posted it up at PalmGear and other sites for free download. I wanted to make sure all the people who downloaded the schedules could see them, without being FORCED to buy a database program.

Peanut Reader: Peanut Press makes eBooks for download onto your Palm. Peanut Reader is its proprietary (and FREE) doc reader. Lots of nice extra features like bookmarking. Peanut Press also has a ton of free stories to download (as does Memoware).

ScorePAD/RosterPAD: Expensive as sh!t software (I think it was $80) to keep baseball scores in your Palm. Better than lugging a big score pad to the games, or so I figured. Nice PC software too that you can upload into, for your records.

ShopList: Totally free! shareware so you can keep tabs on your groceries. How many of what you need, and which stores have them. Very convenient, gets the info you need, without being too complicated.

Strip: The only 128-bit encryption password-security application. Best of all, it’s totally free. All the other “let’s secure our password and account info here” software are not 128-bit.

TrvTracker: Keeps track of all my travels. Dates, hotels, confirmation numbers, etc. Also, go ahead and include your hotel in your address book. it’ll interface and look it up for you, filling in all the extra fields like phone number.

Within the next few months I should have an actual Web site up with this kind of info (specifically for travelers). I’ll stick it in my .sig when it’s online.

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Theres a great free program called “Album-2-Go” that sizes and converts your Jpeg’s into greyscale and hotsynch’s them to a album in your Palm. It also features a nifty slide show complete with effects (one picture dissolving/ morphing/ blurring into the next) for whenever you want to see a picture of your sweetie or show sombody a photo of your dog.

Its available on ZDNet dwnloads.

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I’ve only had my Palm a few weeks. For me so far the big ones are AvantGo and ThinAirMail. And a good assortment of games, but again, that’s the “I’m a college student and I need some way to entertain myself in huge boring lecture classes” theory of software downloading. Thank god for wireless PDAs…