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Updated TMP for Palm
Lil Red Spider- Time Message Pad (TMP)— A New version of TMP with lots of new enhancments is out, some are Treo650 specific…
BlackBerry Connect live in Barcelona
Treonauts has some in-the-hand experience with the Black Berry Connect for Palm. I was very excited about this a year ago when it was announced, as I had just switched from a Blackberry Nextel phone to my new Sprint Treo650. While ChatterMail has been very good to me, I would still run Connect if it…
Linux on the Treo 650
Thanks to the work of Matthew Mastracci, this amazing news is all over the net, but I want to mention it here. Matthew Mastracci has booted a Linux kernel on his Treo. His site has the current status, and he has setup a Treo650 page on the Handhelds.org Wiki site. My Treo 650 (from Sprint)…
GPS: TomTom 5 on the Treo 650
This great review of the new TomTom 5 for the Treo 650 at EverythingTreo reminded me how nice version 5 is. Despite the fact that I can’t load any voices on the Treo (support from the Belgians is not so hot), the interface in 5 is mostly the same as 4, is a bit cleaned…
Time Manager Pad for Palm
I’m always on the lookout for the best viewer application to see my appointments and tasks. For a long time I was happy with Agendus, but since was casing way too many problems on the Treo with chattermail, I’ve done away with it. I came across the best looking app I’ve seen for the Palm-…
ChatterEmail Update
Marc at ChatterEmail has posted 1.0.7rc1 which fixes an issue with ChatterEmail and the new firmware update from PalmOne for Sprint phones. This version will be released soon as 1.0.7 stable. I’ve installed it and not had any problems so far. Marc also seems to have an OTA updater!: http://update.chatteremail.com…
Treo Super Secret Hard Reset
I had problems with the Treo650 rebooting all the time- and it’s not a secret why it was doing it. There were two issues. First, accessing the data connection when the phone has low signal strength just reboots it. There doesn’t seem to be anything to do for this, short of some firmware from Palm…
Official Treo / Sprint BT DUN is here
Finally they made good on their promise. Palm One has the Treo 650 Updater 1.12 for sprint, which will enable Bluetooth DUN. As well as get rid of the annoying delay in dialing the phone. I’m about to take the plunge. Back in January I tried the hack for this, and it totally messed up…
Treo 650 as GPS
My Seido G2100S finally arrived this week. The G2100 is like the G2500 in that it has a GPS serial input, but it has no speaker phone for the Treo. It charges the phone and the GPS receiver. The latest update from TomTom fixes the T650, and the serial TomTom GPS receiver works fine with…
Essential Software Updates
Agendus 9.03 ChatterEmail 1.0.3.1 TomTom 2004 [Support for T650] Hand/RSS is now QuickNews…
Treo 650: My Buttons Broke
So Sprint has a big problem with replacement phones… namely, their replacement service sucks. You can spend $450 on a brand new Treo 650 and if it breaks the next day, you get a replacement Refurbed phone… not a new one. Not to mention that you wait about 2 days (unless you are willing to…
Apple, please buy Tivo
I hope this turns out to be true. I’m sick of reading about the Tivo Deathwatch… I love my Tivo and I’m not ready to invest the time and energy in Myth TV. Apple will do it right, and they should be flush with cash by now, after making their 40% on all the ipod…
Chatter Email is 1.0
This is a little stale, but Chatter Email is now 1.0 and already surging ahead to 1.1. Not only is it all fancy with hirez icons, it’s now rock solid and the absolute #2 app on my Treo 650. The number one app of course is the phone…. There is a whole new website, www.chatteremail.com…
Blackberry Connect for Palm Update
If you were wondering (like me) if this is ever going to pan out, I got a new hit today on google regarding this. This was introduced back in May of 2004. PalmSource Mail for BlackBerry Connect Overview PalmSource Mail for BlackBerry Connect is the standard email client for Palm OS Garnet to connect to…
Treo650 BT DUN and the Mac
The authoritative how-to is at Trevor Harmon’s site. Thanks Trevor. Update on Feb 23 ’05 – I only ever used this once. It wacked the hell outta the T650. Nothing permanent, just massive reboots and it never worked. I’ll wait for PalmOne/Sprint to do the right thing……
Seidio Car Mount for Treo650
I really enjoyed my T|C while I had it. The most useful application I had was certainly TomTom Navigator 2004, which I used all the time in my car. I had been debating on getting a GPS device, but the options are so limited on them, and the ram is always an issue. It made…
Charging the Treo 650
For Christmas I got the cool Boxwave DirectSync Bundle for the T650. You get a sync/charge cable, a car adapter, a mains adapter and a battery (4 AA) charging module. This is some cool kit as the cable provides syncing and charging off your USB port. I don’t understand why PalmOne (or Sprint) can’t include…
Treo 650 Email – Chatter
The one thing the Treo 650 has to do is email. It’s replacing my BlackBerry 7XXX, so it got to do email– very well. The three main functions for a smartphone are: email, phone and schedule (synced with my Mac). The last thing was impossible with the BB. The BB did email very well, it…
I did it again: Hello Sprint
After leaving Sprint earlier this year for a BlackBerry Nextel, I had to give up the hate and go back. You see, I just couldn’t resist the new Treo 650. I’ve had it now for a few days and I love it. It does many things much better than the BB, but some it could…
PDA Cases
I wanted a hard case for my T|C. The form-fitted Aluminum cases were nice I thought, but a bit pricey at 30-40 bucks. So I ordered a case from Bagasta on ebay for $15. It came quickly, it was new, and it’s great so far. It seems silly to pay those inflated prices for something…
BlackBerry Connect & Cobalt
So there was some noise the other day about PalmSource, RIM and the new BlackBerry Connect. Numerous sites all talked about the announcement… no one had much to add to it. It looks like we are even closer to having this available. And it looks like it will be released as packages for older Palms…
In the Hopper
I’ve got some showdowns of Palm Software brewing…. First is blogging with the Palm: mo:blog vs vagablog vs Azure. Then secure IMAP with the Palm: SnapperMail vs VersaMail vs Agendus Mail These will be here soon…
I Did It Again
After selling my Clie UX50 and being Palm-less for about a month, I was getting frustrated. PocketPC just can’t do what I need, given my increased usage of my Macintosh (My G5 is now my primary workstation). After not having my SplashID synced properly again with my Mac (I have SID for both Mac and…
X11 on the Zaurus
So Kathrin, RC2 of the 1.1 pdaXrom was released today over at pdaXrom.org of course.. That means that if you have one of those Sharp Zaurus that run Linux, you can get rid of the Qtopia stuff and go to real X11 based linux. Real as in Firefox. Which it runs pretty snappy. I picked…