Inspired somewhat by this thread, I’m curious as to what PDA-wielding Dopers consider to be their favorite/essential/coolest software for their PDAs, either PalmOS or WindowsCE.
My list of shout-outs, all for PalmOS:
Agendus. An all-purpose business organizer, this puts together To-Dos, contacts, calendars, and schedules under one umbrella. It’s completely compatable with the existing Palm databases, so syncing and backups are a snap, but the power and flexibility it gives you over the default Palm tools is indispensible.
Shadow Plan. It’s a steroid-powered To-Do/checklist, but I find it most useful for large projects. You can build a hierarchical list of milestones and tasks, activate associated To-Do entries with one touch, and check the progress all in one glance.
SplashWallet. One of the first Palm programs recommended to me, and I have to agree it’s (mostly) worth the hype. It’s a suite of four programs, but I mostly just use two – SplashID (a password/account/personal info database) and SplashPhoto (an image viewer). Even so, these two programs are sufficiently polished and useful to warrant the price for me.
If you have a Treo 600 or a Zire 72 - i.e. a Palm PDA with an integrated camera, there’s a nifty bit of freeware called TeksPhotos, which takes time-lapse sequences.
FileZ is an essential file manager utility for PalmOS.
MovieRec and SoundRec are a couple of interesting and useful programs - a bit ‘beta’, but they work.
PalmVNC and Win-Hand Anywhere are a both utilities that allow you to access a remote desktop from your Palm - I haven’t yet got around to testing these properly though.
Grafitti Anywhere was particularly useful to me, as the Treo 600 (having a mini-qwerty) doesn’t support grafitti natively - I’ve also installed the ‘older’ version of Graffiti - the one that makes sense and has hardly any two-stroke letters.
Also (of rather esoteric interest, admittedly) - PalmBiblePlus - a freeware Bible application for PalmOS with a number of translations and commentaries available - the interface is very well done.
BigClock - a nice all-in one alarm clock/stopwatch etc.
Video Poker Teacher. It’s fun, and you learn good strategy. And it works: I was in Vegas about a month ago, and I won about $200 playing video poker using their method (wish I could have played longer, that reflects only about an hour of play).
I love my treo, but I sure miss the power of a PocketPC. alot. Ah well, someday there’ll be a pocketpc with a phone of a reasonable size. I don’t remember all the PocketPC apps I loved, but one comes immediately to mind:
Griff (www.planetgriff.com). An incredibly full-featured sequencer/sampler/music making machine. Easily the most amazing app I’ve ever seen on a PDA, but really only of interest to musicians.
Oh, back in 96, there was no way to develop Apps for the Palm as Palm didn’t release any sort of SDK at all. A bunch of us across the Internet put together a bunch of tools to develop Palm software, and were superheros for a little while! As part of that, I put together pildis, the Pilot Disassembler (http://www.massena.com/darrin/pilot/asdk/asdknews.htm). That’s waaay old news now though.
HandyShopper– For PalmOS, this is a free, very cool shopping list/database. Setup is a little time-intensive, but the effort is well worth it! Now, every time I go to the grocery store I have my PDA with me…yeah, I look like a big geek tapping on the screen as I go through the aisles, but I wouldn’t have it any other way!
In a related vein, is it just me, or is the latest version of Documents 2 Go a dog-slow app? I got version 5 with my Tungsten, and was offered a chance to upgrade to version 7 for $30, but it was so slow and unusable that I passed on the offer. Anyone else feel the same way?
I have to second BigClock. It’s indispensible for me. It’s my alarm clock that wakes me in the AM. I also second DateBk5, a must have for anyone that uses their datebook app a lot.
I also love: TealScript - On my Tungsten T3 this is what I use to use the Graffiti 1 input system. That way I don’t screw up the system files.
