Casio BE-300 plus PC gets internet

For me, an insoluble riddle, why would you go online with Beshka "through a desktop computer when working on this very desktop faster and more comfortable. Nevertheless, this question is one of the most frequent in conferences and in my mail. That the more questions arise - here it is, detailed instructions. To start will need Microsoft Active Sync. It can be found here. To make it allied with the BE-300 on it to install (via the usual PC Connect) little utility in the portal BE-300. Make sure that when Active Sync was not running PC Connect. Next. We need a program from AnalogX with discordant to the Russian ear the name Proxyi.exe, which will turn your computer into a proxy server (a file at the end of the paragraph). However, do not necessarily use that program. You can use any virtual proxy. So, download, install this program. Restarting the desktop PC. Run proxyi.exe - in the taskbar, right, will find a small green icon. Next connect the "Beshka and desktop PC via Active Sync (runs its own ActiveSync, turning off the pre-PC Connect, and two times press the stylus on the line in the Activesync" beshkinskom "menu): Here is the ActiveSync on your PC after connecting: Now connect the desktop to the Internet by the usual procedure - call your ISP modem to access the network, or include a connection via cable. Now configure the connection settings on the BE-300. To do this, go to the menu item Connections (using the full version of the localization RussKey BE 2.0 it will be called "Connections") and click New Setting (New). Call connection can be anything you like. Make sure there are checkmarks in menus "An Internet application" and "A Mail application" ("Application Internet", "The application Mail"). The second check will be needed if you plan to receive mail through a connection with a large PC. In connection type should be selected LAN.

Make sure the settings look exactly

The following settings, except the last, we are not interested (unless you specify the coordinates of the e-mail server). When we see the inscription "Use proxy server" (to use the proxy server), put a checkmark next. Next we introduce the IP-address of the desktop computer. The easiest way it can be found by clicking the right mouse button on the green icon Proxyi and selecting the menu item "Net Info". In the resulting window, we need the last line. Port address should be 6588. If you want to go to the ftp-server or news, read the help in the program Proxyi, to find the appropriate port addresses. Attention! If you use a regular modem connection or any other Internet connection, predpolgayuschim dynamic IP-address, IP address in the proxy settings to "Beshka" every time will have to re-enter.In addition, if you use firewall'om, make sure that open access to port 6588. You can then run the web-browser to "Beshka" and make sure of how little he knows, compared to a desktop :-) authors, translation:

UNIC - our answer to AvantGo

Latest news - one of the basic needs of the business, and not a business person. So, anyway, we believe, and journalists. Therefore, we write every day hundreds of news reports. What makes a person who wants to get news from a particular site, whom he trusts, or news on specific topics (this is only the latest in a network)? Go to the site and read the news that long, expensive and most importantly - think of how much Russia has a working internet! (Russia and Italy on this indicator the most expensive country in Europe). In such cases come to the aid program for automatic downloading and sorting of news with the most popular sites for later reading offline. The most famous and popular, no doubt, is AvantGo, a separate version that runs on PDAs. It turns out that similar programs are produced and Russian developers. The website of the Russian company SoftAura now available for free download demo version of this software called UNIC - Universal News Internet Collector ("Universal News Internet Collector). This program is interesting to us because of its description on the website states that the downloaded news can be transferred to your PDA and read it. Well, let's see how it works. Once attention is drawn to the fact that the install is not easy. She herself "weighs" just over 2 megabytes, but for the work you need MDAC (Microsoft Data Access Components - Microsoft Data Access Components manufacturing Microsoft) version 2.6 +, which occupy 5 MB, and Microsoft. Net Framework weighing over 20 MB. The latter program is downloaded as a self-extracting archive, unpack that, you must run the file dotnetfx.exe. But that's not all. Directly during the installation the installer downloads the two files totaling approximately 1.5 MB: But the sleepless hours (if you have a slow Internet connection) behind the program is established, begin to work. The program consists of two parts: one in the background downloads of news scheduled, the second - the client interface, which we are interested. By the way, the interface is loaded very slowly for such a simple-looking application. In UNIC'e two windows: one list of news in the other - the texts and photographs. Settings are not very many: you can change fonts, specify a proxy server, designate a folder to store files and news for PDA, read the "History", also known as the log of the program, set up a schedule to download news and a PDA files. The most interesting setting - the choice of news sites and news categories. In the demo version contains: cnn.com, compulenta.ru, gazeta.ru, lenta.ru, ntv.ru, top.rbc.ru. utro.ru; and of the categories: Business, Community, Recreation, Politics, Events, Sports. Separately configure filters to search for news on specific topics. And now the fun part. File for Pocket PC, "as he calls SoftAura - news, merged into a single file *. lit, which is read using Microsoft Reader. Attention! Something to read, Microsoft Reader, you must first Russify! To do this, download the file this one, razarhiviruem and rewrite the fonts in the directory \ Windows (not \ Windows \ Fonts!) On Pocket PC. The result here is a nice file with the news: Program until the really "demo."You can not keep a separate news as text or HTML, not for speed "download news without the pictures, and share the program log file generator for PDAs. However, because these issues are discussed on the website SoftAura, one can only hope that the final version of the problem will be solved. In addition, it is impossible (and probably this is not provided), add the site to the list of downloads. In AvantGo, incidentally, is also impossible. In general (judging from the demo version) software is quite comfortable and certainly useful, although, of course, that the number of sites and columns that are now clearly inadequate. It is a pity that the file to Microsoft Reader for Pocket PC to be rewritten by hand. And if the first flaw will probably be corrected in the release version, the second seems to remain unchanged. Nevertheless - UNIC indeed full domestic response AvantGo, though not very loud. The authors, translation:

Historical novel I wrote a little

I wonder what would have done it with my Palm `om? I tried to play (for my age nonsense). Tried to take (twice two is four). Tried to paint (the black board in the square in the style of Kasimir Malevich). Well, of course - read books (ran into snapper Sorokin and hardly any dislocated cerebellum). Is that writing? No, I write - this is for a man of my profession sacred. This I do not try and operate on all cylinders (laptop, Palm, and the place where decent people are the brains). Therefore suggest that someone like me, find yourself a decent text editor. But at the same time to try something that at hand - utilities that sewn into the ROM machine. In short, write, and enrich the Russian literature, its louder than words. In my opinion, very important lesson ...

What we have for nothing

For nothing in his Palm `s we have two text editor - NotePad and MemoPad. Applets are not so hot perfect, but in any accident, and then restart your computer is always on site. Editor NotePad - ordinary notebook, focused more on quick handwritten notes (no recognition as a sticky yellow pieces of paper - stickers), than to enter the system through the keyboard or Graffiti (although it is not excluded). Stuck this in real life is very comfortable. Note in NotePad, you can assign the time in which Palm would wake up prochirikaet his bravura song sparrow voice and display the desired memo. Another drawback - a small working space for writing. The screen scrolls down, increasing the "list" for the letter four times. But this space may not be enough, because on the go write carelessly sweeping. And it's not convenient to do calligraphy with a tiny pen in hand. What I personally would be perfected in NotePad? Provided him with autoscroll working screen, as it once was, computers Newton. Approach the lower edge of the virtual paper and the screen automatically inserts clean "leaf" ... However, as this mechanism works in practice - it is convenient or not - I do not know. Newton for me was and still is the old tale about the gingerbread perfect pocket computer (except that fits in your pocket old kangaroo, but still, after all) ... The second built-in editor MemoPad this is a tool for working with small volume texts it is quite enough . And as a plug-in to the Palm `at the keyboard of his lack of possibilities for the eyes. In this simple text editor to me most kindly to two things - automatically divide the text into lines (by reaching the right edge of the screen space of the next word is automatically transferred to the next line, scroll to the left does not occur). And the ability to quickly select the screen font of the three system - normal, bold and big. Actually, this opportunity is provided for any system (wired into the ROM) and a variety of downloadable programs and Palm `. So consider changing fonts prerogative MemoPad not worth ... What can MemoPad? What is and should - work with small (only about 4 kilobytes) of the text and in sync automatically transfer them to a desktop machine in the program Palm Desktop. On the "big" computer text fragments (a decent volume will have to write an article just fragments) can be translated into MS Word (in Memo section of Palm Desktop right click on the title piece and in the ensuing menu, select the bottom option to Send To, and already in it - MS Word), to merge it together, format, validate, and finalize ... Then I allow myself a little bit to think about skromnyagi MemoPad. I'll start with the title.It misleads the inexperienced user, since the "memo" (for notes on memory) is better than just using NotePad, and for working with text - MemoPad (which in my opinion should be called "notepad" NotePad, and not a book for memos) . But not in the title business, but hidden from superficial view of functionality. In fact, the ability to automatically save the text on a personal computer and its subsequent translation into a full text editor Word greatly increases the value of MemoPad. There are quite a lot of programs to handle large texts on the PDA. But none of them are not able to synchronize with the "big" computer automatically (for a reservation - without additional software on the PC). Actively using MemoPad and plug the keyboard, I'm at the end of the day are sometimes surprised to discover how many can write. And I see it is not on the small screen Palm `a, and in Palm Desktop, where my text is saved" HOT "and ready for further processing. And no confusion - MemoPad save the text under the most articulate, easily recognizable names, using as the title of the first line of text. To merge the fragments into a coherent whole remarkably comfortable - each subsequent piece continues the previous one, and that's it ... That is not very convenient ... complete lack of warning about the size limit of text in one file. When you print on a folding keyboard, often carried away by tiddly screen Palm `and simply do not look. What to watch, if did not really make out (at least I'm guessing more than I see)? And it turns out that the "spank" paragraph by paragraph in vain. Look, but the text is over a hundred letters ago. That's bad luck ... It's awkward absence of any format and at least one unit of Spelling ... However, with the spelling checker (Russian text), the editors do not do. In this respect, life is good only to foreign users ... Although I orfokorrektor on any Palm `s seem superfluous. Still have to handle the text in Word `e. Then why not check spelling and there? And this idea - of a spelling check of the text - occurs because a small handheld computer could not help doing a lot of "ochepyatok. Sometimes it is difficult to understand yourself - what exactly to say. Error on error ... In general I think that to be effective, you can do the built-in MemoPad, not fooled his head searching for better programs. Of course, if you do not have to work (reading and simultaneously edit) texts produced on a desktop machine. Then the Palm `u need more serious tools.

What we have ... also for just

The biggest sadness for private users - commercial programs. Now, if all software is distributed free of charge! (Then, perhaps, the programs would not be at all). But this does not happen ... But free text editor for the Palm `a - there are. And yet there are shareware, which may be used indefinitely, if not laziness every two to three weeks to demolish the system clean and reinstall the "shareware" programs (add - and grates use illegally appropriated software). However, I will not pretend that I'm holier than the Pope. I also use commercial software to read, try to estimate the ability to spend. But rarely at the same time buy. Disappointed. Find something more attractive. Then another and another ... In short, I have no excuses. So, one of the best free programs for word processing - is the editor QED (I use version 2.62, the latest of those that failed to find sites free programs). Particularly outstanding qualities of this small but surprisingly comfortable text editor, three. The first - the ability to work with big texts, the volume of which is limited only by memory pocket typewriter. Second - to save text in a compressed form (the "palmovskom" format doc). And the third - to automatically save text in sync a PDA with a desktop computer (a backup).

Text editor QED

Not to say that QED is unique talents. Similar set of functions provided with many text editors. But it is free and, I repeat, easy to operate. A small service bar at the bottom of the screen makes it easy to create a new, opening a document already prepared, as well as easy navigation through text.

... Five fonts by which you can customize the screen display of the document ...

The disadvantage of only one - the text must save manually ... As a counterbalance I note five fonts by which you can customize the screen display of a document (in the settings you can change the attributes of a document, assign it a different name and so on - all in a normal text editor). However, to properly display Cyrillic'll have to find a hack change the fonts and the fonts. And then in the settings of the hack (I will explain to the uninformed - hack is not a slang word, and a small resident utility, running a special shell - the manager of hacks, like a free X-Master) denote the substitution of fonts in the program QED. An example of such a hack - Font Hack 123, which is easily found on the network "failed" programs for the Palm `ah ... There, on the sites of free and shareware software, you can find a lot of other programs for word processing, for example, the editor peditPro (version I've tried in the case, 5.02). Powerful "tekstodrobilka" with a bunch of settings. But I somehow did not lay down. Maybe I was not curious.

Program of the box

Every new Palm is sold in a box. Besides the computer itself and a bunch of colorful pieces of paper to him in this beautiful piece of cardboard you can find a pair of brand-name discs and Palm Desktop software (for crack and Russian programs yet keep silent - not the topic). The second disc (which is not with Palm Desktop, but quite the contrary) is a wonderful program - Document To Go. This is not an editor. More precisely - not a full-fledged editor. This is a convenience package that allows you to view and edit on the Palm `s documents prepared in a text editor MS Word and spreadsheets MS Excel. A new document from scratch, To Go ... But do not prepare to edit your own, that "stuffed" on a laptop (or desktop machine - one that he prefers), you can easily. If you need a PDA that is and if you do not so much writing on the Palm `s how proofreads already written - this package is for you. On a pocket machine, it installs in the form of three software modules - for editing text documents, edit spreadsheets and just to show both. We must see how to look at the Palm `s documents Word. This, I tell you something ... I am working with tables, not often, but for the sake of the show tried. And got a lot of fun. Together with a text editor (even with a small and free QED) set of programs Document To Go is a very powerful tool. By the way, the transfer of documents in a pocket typewriter made ​​easily and accurately - with the help of a special program for the desktop. Be sure to try the Document To Go. Although, I've installed it three weeks after the acquisition of Palm `Yes. All scoured the web looking for software sweets, and the biggest candy at this time concealed in the packaging box of my cars ... But what real, full-featured office suite for Palm `and there? Such as those computers are equipped with Pocket PC - all of these Pocket Word, Pocket Excel and so on? There.This is a great by the standards of Palm `a very powerful software package QuickOffice 5.6.3. When installing, it copies the memory Palm `and four software modules - for creating and editing text documents in MS Word, for creating and editing spreadsheets in the format of MS Excel, module import and export documents, corporate font for displaying documents on the PDA screen. Despite the fact that the "weight" of the package is not too large (about polumegabayta), and integration with MS Office fully implemented quality, I QuickOffice seemed too large and unwieldy. It costs money, but the manufacturer allows the drive program for 15 days without pay. To me those 15 days was enough to not try to jump over your head ... Although I do not exclude the possibility that someone will attract exactly QuickOffice. Package, I repeat, very powerful. I also do not need so much. There is a simple text editor, there is a Document To Go, a table ... By the way, the tables have to talk in more detail. Very interesting applets. And, caught completely free, although with QuickOffice none of them can not be compared. Any table next to the mastodon that a pleasure boat near the "Titanic." True, "Titanic," no matter finished. Did you know? The authors, translation:

Shell SilverScreen: Silver screen is!

The idea of ​​a radical tuning the operating system Pocket PC is long overdue. Palm `dull interface and bored, I wanted something fun, unusual. For example, set a modest full-m130 "pocket" Linux, so everything opened their mouths in astonishment ... But in terms of programming I have a big failure. It is unlikely that forces me to write even the most unpretentious utility (about Linux, I was joking). And so he had to pull the plug on the unrealistic plans and install on your Palm shell - one of those that call "launcher" and even "launcher" (from the launcher), who are in that much. I feel closer to the Russian word for "shell", so leave it a name. After trying a dozen free and commercial programs, I decided not particularly wise and opted for a long time proven, popular product. Such was the shell SilverScreen, a recent version of which (the serial number 2.9) can be downloaded from the manufacturer www.pocketsensei.com. There you can find many software makeweights - "skins", through which SilverScreen can most amazing way to embellish your desktop and Palm `. Immediately noticed - the shell SilverScreen no better and no worse than the competing products of comparable level. It is not some revolutionary decisions or unusual findings. Furthermore - some shell trim Palm OS interface much more radical. But SilverScreen is convenient and works without error. Appearance of the same applets so good that I could not resist and bought it. Imagine - the first "pocket" program that for which I paid (previously used trial versions of various programs, like most of us, the owners of the CCP).

Set SilverScreen

In downloaded from PamGear.com distribution (link download SilverScreen on the company's web site is just here) I found very aaplet and a small set of "skins" for the design of the shell. If the programm is able to work on computers with different screen resolutions including 320x320 pixels, then the "skins" - change "clothes" of the shell - for each machine needs its. For computers with a resolution of Sony Hi-Resolution - one for color Palm `s - Other, for monochrome m125 (and earlier models) - the third. Installation went without a hassle. Unpack the distribution (archive format - zip), found a file with the prc, clicked on it and the mouse - done deal, programs on the list of installed Palm Desktop. Next - set up a computer in a "crib" synchronization (it's time to buy a laptop and an external infrared adapter to do without extra wires), press the button. Programm seems to be established. I opened the Unfiled category ... and find nothing. Watch and see. Probe and did not feel for. What is it? Begin to delve into other software categories, and find program from a group of Main. Fu-oo-oo ... Why SilverScreen it registers itself in the Main, and not somewhere else, I do not knows. However, this is the only surprise (not unique - there is another, but about him below). The rest - in order. After seeing the icon of the shell (film screen with stage curtains, and before him three curious onlookers), and found her original, take a hands-palmovo "feather and run the program. The first boot takes a fair time - about a minute. The shell scans the computer's memory, looking at her applets. By the way - renamed already murdered for susceptibility to errors russificator SilverScreen program led to the original, not translated names. Fearing a possible problem, I prefer to reinstall the system again. Could, perhaps, and do not reset - the shell are working properly. But you never know what ... complete the installation introduction of a registration key (its something I'm from the manufacturer and bought). After the first run the shell itself offers to register.If you refuse, please register to annoy is not (just programm will run only 21 days - what really is nonsense). Cause the registration dialog at any time from the system menu. The name of the owner PDA SilverScreen reads from the main plant machines, and the registration code you can enter in any way (I avoid "ochepyatok" and realizing the solemnity of the moment, took advantage of a folding keyboard). Now the unpleasant - some of the pesky details. Shell fairly retarding computer. But this is only noticeable when you first download SilverScreen of Palm OS. When you switch machines already loaded with a shell when you run programs and leave them I a inhibition is not felt. Because of this negative list of shortcomings discarded. But the incompatibilities with some "hakami (resident utilities that are running special programs - such as X-Master) place, unfortunately, have. Until I found one not compatible "hack", but one of the most beloved. This Category Hack - utility that allows programs to select the category stroke of a pen (writing the initial letters of the category) of Graffiti. Of frustration, I even blew SilverScreen. Then restored ... It happened even before the acquisition of applets, so in my case, these disadvantages were offset by advantages of SilverScreen. Although I do not exclude such surprises in the future. Pocket PC - the thing alive. And sometimes behaves in a completely unpredictable way - to look not too experienced user, what I am.

Appearance of haute couture

Here I am, of course, exaggerating slightly. The high style SilverScreen does not pull. But - it is beautiful. Very nice. And, last but not least, is very practical. With an installed shell SilverScreen screen Palm `as follows. The top line is highlighted by a narrow range of usefulness. On the left side of the line is a tiny icon of a menu program. It duplicates the on-screen button with the house that is located next to the area Graffiti. Then come watch. When you touch the pen clock time display is replaced by the numeric value of the current month and date. Another touch is the abbreviated weekday name.

So looks like the shell on the screen high-definition ...

The clock should be multi-indicator system resources. By default, this is a graphic representation of the batteries. The degree of shading corresponds to the level indicator battery discharge (in the m125 - replaceable elements). Touch pen display and obtain numerical values ​​of the charge - as a percentage. Another touch - shows the power supply voltage, in volts. Next - the amount of free memory, percent, then - in megabytes. The right of the display of resources is the tab for the open software category (categories correspond to the core system, but does not depend on the settings Palm OS). Touching the pen to the header tabs, we will call a list of all groups, and under it - the editor of categories. In the far right top row SilverScreen is a button to call a dozen recently run user programs. A below - check switch type of program shortcuts. They can be presented either in the form of large icons or a list (with information about the size of each executable file). Below the operating window, which displays icons shortcuts, a multi-functional instrument panel. Its kind of a touch switch to the triangle in the lower right corner of the desktop Palm `a - near the border of Graffiti, right above the screen call button system calculator.

The panels can be decorated as you wish ...

Pop-up menu bar consists of four options.First - Tools - raises four icons. Left - the icon display basic system information (the number of used memory, processor type and so on). Then - an icon call list of categories of programs (you can change the category of any program, but these changes will be valid only for SilverScreen, and not for the system as a whole). The third icon opens a dialog box to send files via IrDA PDA to another computer. Finally, the last one, right icon - a basket. In SilverScreen has a mechanism of moving objects using the stylus. That is, any icon can hang on and move to the basket. The program does not destroy, but to run will be unavailable. Later the basket can be cleaned, and the programm of the computer's memory will be erased - as in "real" Windows. Excellent tool, which in Palm `s clearly not enough ... We now return to the form of multi-function panel. Once again, tap the triangles in the lower right corner (if the contact is brief, the panel will simply disappear from the screen, freeing up space for the icons of programs). In the pop-up menu, choose the second option - Tabs. On the screen there a number of labels software categories (or, if desired, program groups). And in the corners of the panel will be visible buttons call settings menu SilverScreen (these buttons are displayed in the mode of Tools). Labels program categories are convenient for quick selection of programs and to sort programs by category. Highlighting pen icon in the right program and drag it to the tab for the selected group. A call button menu item repeat the system menu of the program. The third option is a pop-up menu, multi-function panel - Ticker - displays a ticker that displays a list of cases scheduled for today (from an application To Do) and information about the current day - the day of the week, month, day. A similar tool is implemented in the shells for the Pocket PC. Conveniently, though passive computer screens series m1xx (including color model m130) creeping line looks a little blurry. And because the scroll speed to be reduced in settings SilverScreen. Finally, the fourth option - Pix - displays a static picture on the cover (you can choose the same settings). Nothing special - the picture as a picture ... Now to change the registration of SilverScreen. The main menu of the program should find the item Silver Preferences, or call the Preferences window click on the toolbar. In the settings window has three tabs - General, Theme and Ticker. The first and second tabs do not interest us. There's simple - setting some options of the shell and the speed selection scrolling marquee ... But laying Theme - prelyubopytnaya thing.

A handle something - here they are! ..)

I have already said that with the manufacturer's website SilverScreen can download a lot of "skins". It would be truer to call them themes, as with the graphic design of the working window membrane changes and the design of the font ... I just installed the two dozen topics. Practical sense in this, but I do not mind occasionally having some fun with the settings of SilverScreen.Whether to deny yourself in such a small?

Christmas theme ...

Choosing appearance SilverScreen is very simple. In the Theme tab, we find four options. In the top row, we choose the name of the topic, and will immediately core programs (those that are sewn into the ROM computer) will be replaced. Change and the overall design of the shell. The second line can change a vertical scroll bar. In the third and fourth lines are chosen font for signatures to the program icon and shortcuts program groups (categories). Different combinations of these settings can decorate the envelope beyond recognition. But in this case neither excel, SilverScreen its main function - finding and quick launch - performs flawlessly ... Finally - a word or two about the above-mentioned at the beginning of Linux `e. One of the branded "skins", Iceberg, dedicated just to "the most multi-tasking." Icons major programs in this thread look very funny and everywhere accompanied by images of tiny penguins. Menu button settings are drawn in the form of small fish. A battery charge indicator power - in the form of ice cubes. Like it is a trifle, but nice ... Who will say that my Palm m130 is not running Linux? The authors, translation:

Program size of 160x160 for Palm

Just new handhelds from Palm - PDA industry ancestors came on the market and show in Russia. It is still unknown Will the company keep the lead - opinion on this variety - but the situation with software is apparently not change. What would be convenient and thoughtful PDA or releasing Palm, embedded software is hardly enough for normal operation. Not very clear, is it true or an error of calculation, but the result is obvious: the large number of "third party" close up the gap in the software tools for this popular platform, the benefit package for the development of software is distributed freely, we need only register on the site www.palmos.com . So even if all the new PDAs running Palm OS 5 will have a resolution of 320x320 pixels, the market just will not be able to react to this change, and for a long time not to lose the popularity of programs written in detail under 160x160 pixels. List of commercial, shareware and freeware software (for example, practically all there is to www.palmgear.com) increases every day. Appear dozens of calendars, address books, text and spreadsheet editors, financial programs, databases, games and other useful tools. Unfortunately, diversity is a downside - in all this is painfully difficult to understand. Experience shows that for all the good development sooner or later, still have to pay money - this is the principle of distribution of shareware programs. And for free you can hardly get a completely satisfying your product - at best a few nice additions to what already exists. Therefore, we decided to help in the selection. Note that

• almost all software products, which will be discussed in this article - shareware, and, as already mentioned above, they have to pay money
• the vast majority of the programs described have an English interface, but all, without exception, able to work with the Russian language
• not all of the programs tested in real work, however, failed to investigate and describe, not all programs are available for Palm OS (thousands of them).

Office Software

Perhaps, it is most painful issue for users of Palm. On the one hand, nominally Palm OS is completely deprived of office tools, on the other - is not clear whether they should do and how convenient to work with such documents on the screen with a resolution of 160x160 pixels. Set DocumentsToGo company DataViz - one of the main products in the market of office applications, if only because that is delivered on CD, along with handheld computers from Palm, and for him not have to pay extra. DocumentsToGo provides facilities for synchronization, viewing and editing office documents, among the Palm OS. After installation, you will find the manager of the documents on the desktop and five applications on the handheld: SheetToGo, WordToGo, SheetView, WordView and combining this set of Documents. SheetToGo and WordToGo for editing documents, whereas SheetView and WordView - for viewing only. In this article, it makes sense to consider two versions of the package: the third and fourth (and fifth out, but it is primarily intended for machines on the new OS, which to us have not reached yet). Until recently, computer-Palm delivered only one third that has some serious drawbacks: it can not create new documents directly on your Pocket PC offers low-level editing tools. This option should be considered only as a free solution to a pressing problem. The fourth version is attached to new models of m130 and m515. It is more perfect and includes, in addition to the five above-mentioned applications, program SlideShowToGo, support presentations, but only when viewing a Power Point. This version is already possible to create new text and spreadsheet documents, Pocket Excel enabled formulas, and he looks on screen color PDA is now nicer.

QuickSheet - «Pocket Excel», an integral part of a mobile office

The most powerful on the market products is probably the package QuickOffice company CuttingEdge Software. It allows you to create text and spreadsheet files on the computer, Palm, has extensive features for editing and viewing Office documents. In addition to special programs manager, install the package adds an additional menu to Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel, allows to easily save and open documents "pocket" format. PDA software in this package: QuickWord - text editor, QuickSheet - spreadsheet and QuickGraph - module for charting. The text editor works as your own, which provides high compression format, and with a universal text format Palm, and QuickSheet - only with their own specific document format. QuickSheet program is considered the most functional spreadsheet for the platform Palm. It allows the management of multi-sheet spreadsheet with cross-references, use more than 80 formulas for complex calculations. It remains to add that all of the programs in this package, in addition to recognizable menu, different user friendly interface and ease of management. Also note that this particular package is optimized for use with handheld computers Hand Era: for example, QuickSheet allows you to rotate the table at 90 degrees, which naturally makes it easy to view and edit. The next candidate to rule on handheld computers - the company with its product Iambic Iambic Office, including a table editor TinySheet, text - FastWrite and e-mail client Iambic Mail, which allows to receive emails with attached office documents. All these products can be purchased as a kit, or separately. Deserves special attention program TinySheet - the most beautiful table editor for Palm OS-compatible computers. On the small screen, developers were able to accommodate even a graphical menu, and the module plotting QuickChart the application is truly versatile tool for any kind of calculations.

WordSmith - a full text editor

Finally is to say a few words on the word processor WordSmith company Handmark. He fully supports interaction with external keyboard, including a pull-down menu. And with the included special converter, you can add the fonts to the Palm Desktop. In this case, WordSmith was the only program, staff works with the memory card and supports high-resolution PC Sony Clie. To view and edit office documents, the best solution, perhaps - a package of QuickOffice. But if you use a memory card or high-resolution screen, then edit the table is more appropriate QuickSheet (since he is sold separately), and texts - WordSmith.

Calendars and telephone books

An entire block on a small screen Palm

Despite the weak "home" calendar program for Palm, good alternatives to it a bit. Of noteworthy - the application ActionNames already mentioned the company Iambic. It includes a calendar, to-do list and address book, providing a flexible connection between these components.For example, make an appointment, we can immediately refer to a specific person from your address book: it is enough to write the first letter - and the program will immediately find the desired name. Interface standard, the screen is divided into two parts: the top shows the meeting of the day, and at the bottom - a list of upcoming cases. There are also several modes of viewing the timetable for a week or month or even three. Feature of this program is that each tabled an event can be assigned to small icons myself to draw them and edit them. In addition, anyone can paint a marked graphs (of course, on color devices). The only pity is that after syncing it will not appear on the desktop machine. Pleases and that developers have thought Iambic unique graphic, while the shortcut, the menu that appears when you hold the stylus on the screen.

ActionNames can assign to each event, its icon

As an alternative you can consider the program DateBook 4 firms Pilmico Software, which offers roughly the same features as Action Names. The creators even think about lefties and included in the package utility Lefty, as appropriate, adaptive interface DateBook. But the package appeared to be too overloaded with features and "transparent" menu, although the emphasis, of course, deserves. Produced by Iambic looks yet more mature - maybe this is a consequence of a large experience in development of such applications since the days of the famous Newton - the progenitor of handheld computers. From all variety of phone books, we only mention one - SuperNames firm StandAlone Software. The program has flexible settings, a large number of fields for entering additional information system shared by the color categories, and capabilities to display them on your Palm as bookmarks - very convenient! The kit includes a small utility that allows you to implement advanced search in the address book. SuperNames has a user interface, many different functions, allows the management of entire groups of subscribers, highlighting the desired check boxes, make cross-references between virtual "calling cards", and most importantly - ability to sort of Russian names. Recommend that you check in a bunch ActionNames + SuperNames. Judging by the experience shows that it is perfectly manifests itself in black and white and in color as roaming with the rest of the information from device to device for several years.

Programs Accounting Finance

This is probably the most extensive category of programs, the problem only in the fact that Russia does not fit all. In some you can not add our home currency, and other calculations are made only by credit card ... Uncomfortable made ​​and built in Palm application Expences: a category of expenditure is not possible to edit, and other functions, in addition to a simple cost-accounting, virtually none. Of special note is the package Pocket Quicken 2000 companies LandWare, working directly with the popular financial software Quicken 2000. Those who use this package to Windows, certainly appreciate the module for Palm. But here's the rub: no "desktop" part of "pocket" version is almost helpless, as all the initial data is entered by means of synchronization. In our view, this ligament is optimal for financial accounting at a serious level. If you often travel to cities and villages, perhaps, appreciate the program ExpencePlus, designed specifically for reporting on business trips. Attracts the attention of a graphic menu of the product, where the different categories of costs designated icons. For international travel will be useful feature, which tracks the movement of funds on a credit card. To account for household expenses advised to stay on the product PocketMoney company Catamount Software, it allows the full statistics of expenditure on the Pocket PC. For users who do not make high requests, it is ideal, since it has an understandable form of personal finance tracking and reporting capabilities for individual categories.

Application Manager (Launchers)

"Launchers" (from the English word launch - start) - programs that replace the standard file manager, Palm OS. With a friendly graphical interface and advanced features of applications, they are much easier life owners of handheld computers Palm. Heroes of our story will be three of them, although the market for these programs is presented much more.

MegaLauncher can dramatically reshape the desktop PDA

MegaLauncher VIP version 3.22 - a product of Russian developers of MegaSoft (funny: the name looks like a parody of the famous name of the corporation.. - Ed.). After installing MegaLauncher assumes all functions of the manager application and return to normal shell Palm OS you can only exit the program. MegaLauncher completely changes the desktop interface: on top there are three custom information window, which appears on the user's request, any information ranging from date and current time and ending with battery and memory status. Center of the screen, as before, set aside for application icons and the bottom is a panel with four graphic buttons. MegaLauncher file handling allows you to use the popular method of dragging and dropping. Now, in order to remove the program will not have to go into a special menu and look for it in the list - it is necessary to move the icon to the trash can icon, or just hold her pen and from the popup menu, choose an action. MegaLauncher supports high resolution (320x320 pixels) and a few skins. Will not paint her many opportunities, but we note that the more useful application in this review, probably not.

Silverscreen: how do you prefer to see your Palm?

The next noteworthy is the manager of the firm SilverScreen PocketSensei. This program - for fans of stylish graphical interface. Availability of special modules can easily change the look of a pocket computer and give him the look of Windows XP, Mac OS X or any of the dozens of proposed vending manufacturer. The latest version (demo is available at the site of the developer) even supports its own scroll bar and color-ins. Also, if you prefer, you can change the application icons on the other, previously taken from the site Pocket Sensei. An attractive feature of the manager, however as MegaLauncher, is the direct work with programs recorded on the card. Fans of minimalism will love Launcher III of Benc Software. With its many features, it nevertheless has a fairly simple interface. Its volume is much smaller than those mentioned above, which may be critical for users of handheld computers with little memory.

Games

Some vendors start thinking seriously about turning in Palm gaming platform. It should be noted that they have it pretty well, and games for these handhelds is written several times more than major programs. Of course, the Palm platform has its drawbacks: the lack of sound quality, low resolution screen, a little on the game's standards the amount of memory, but this does not prevent developers to create beautiful and interesting game. The most beautiful of games can rightly be considered AbaBall from the above-mentioned companies Iambic. This is a clone of the famous hit desktop computers - "Arkanoid". The essence is simple: you control the movement of plates on which bounces the ball and knocked bricks, some of them entered the prizes you want to catch. Despite all the shortcomings of Palm OS, the creators managed to do the impossible: to outdo version of the game for a desktop computer.It offers beautiful and challenging levels, and amazing graphical effects, it would seem unrealistic for such a small screen, and weird enemies that appear in the most unexpected places. The program is in black and white and in color, but in any case (even if you're not a fan of the game) put a demo, just to see what can your PDA. Fans of shoot is also not gone unnoticed. Company LudiGames released a pocket version of the game SiberianStrike. It offers three aircraft and simple in essence, the problem: bomb the enemy base, breaking through innumerable squadrons of enemies. While you are collecting medals, and at the end of each level you are waiting for the law of genre particularly strong monster. Playing well done and will certainly find its fans. Another "letalka-shooter" this type is represented by Astraware and called Zap2000. The purpose of roughly the same as in SiberianStrike, that's just cosmic scenery. Thrust players probably want to take it from beginning to end, but for everyone else on the site of the developer are codes that give the opportunity to feel like a superhero and see the cosmic neighborhood, born fantasy artist. Fans avtoimitatorov also not been bypassed party: Game Race Fever - this three-race Formula 1. " Take exams for driving, choose a car, track, pass a qualifying race - and participate in professional competitions. It is worth adding that in the Race Fever wondering sold control of the car: no buttons, as usual, and a pen for graffiti area.

The famous game Simcity - for PDA

Probably, most users prefer the Palm platform intellectual games. The choice is huge: from the popular "Monopoly" of Handmark, which if you want you can play with the other owner of the Palm's infrared port to SimSity. Yes, it SimSity - the very, first, classical versions. Surprisingly, the small screen is quite enough to display the miniature machines on the roads, trains, moving in small rails, and even the spectators in the stadium during the game - that's really where the tale of a "town in the snuffbox" truly becomes a true story! Sports-themed seriously engage the firm Megasoft, and with it you can play "pocket" analog billiard and bowling pins.

Popular financial game "Monopoly" on the palm of your hand

The last category, which we consider - puzzles. They differ in that if you get into your Palm, then linger there for long. Of the most popular are noted Bejeweled company Astraware, which offers to put a record on clearing the screen of gems. It is also widely known and Bubbles firm Absolutist.com, a successful remake of the popular game Snood. User shoots colored balls, and the groups in which balls of one color is more than two vanish.

A few words in conclusion

Unfortunately, to describe all the programs for Palm, one article does not manage - to produce at least a small book. Finally a brief 'has a few useful packages.Program for handwritten notes BugMe - a good substitute built-in notebook and just a necessary thing for the rest of the CCP, having no application to enter records pen. BugMe is a full-fledged image editor with a decent set of tools, the ability to view your images directory, issuing an alarm to a specific record, and most importantly - the special module helps later to view images on a standard PC. The program converts JpegWatch PDA running Palm OS in a photo album. Its charm is that it supports, as the name implies, a popular format jpg, works with memory cards (which is especially nice for owners of computers from Sony) in high definition. In the Setup Complete JpegWatch is a small application to your desktop PC, through which images can be easily adapted to a handheld format.

Thoughts Manager - an easy way to "organize" your thoughts

Small Thoughts Manager program is a sort of organizer, allowing you to create multilevel lists, and their individual items can be marked with a tick - an indispensable thing for shopping! Perhaps the most energy users handheld computers spend on reading books. Very convenient - downloaded from the Internet fresh news or entire books - and read it on the road. But what saves space and money! For such purposes a good program TealDoc version 4.6 of Teal Point Software, which provides a nice navigation through the document, full screen view (that is important in low resolution) and work with memory cards. Of the rest of the popular "bookreaders" electronic information can be noted SspotRun and ISilo. Lovers of fresh news simply to draw attention to a product called AvantGo eponymous firm. This program allows you to use so-called information channels. For this you need only register at the developer's site, choose from an extensive list of interesting subjects to synchronize Palm and enjoy reading is far from a desktop PC. Among the hundreds of channels, there are Russian speakers, as if may seem small, the number of mouse movements in a "channel" becomes available to any site. Do you think that the CPC is running slow? Probably affects the longing for the hundreds of megahertz, big machines. Unfortunately, the handheld computers running Palm OS speed yet unattainable, but something still can be done. The program FastCPU Russian company Megasoft integrated processor speed is increased by almost half, ie, if there were 16 megahertz - will be 32 and was 33 - will be under 60! It is true that overclocking experiments pocket another may result in failure, until its complete failure. Even with favorable conditions, sometimes there are freezes and refusing to work on the IR port. But with each new version (as of this writing - 2.8) "bugs" getting smaller, and made the program so that you can not speed up the whole system and individual applications game. Applications for the Palm platform for more than ten thousand. Many are written by professionals, but it is impossible to predict the behavior of a program is in your computer. Given that the Palm all the information is typically stored in RAM, hard reset it leads to a complete loss. Therefore it is advisable to copy from the site www.palmos.com Palm OS emulator for the PC and all the experiments, first to hold it. Most programs for the Palm are distributed as shareware. You can rewrite the program from the developer's site, install it on your computer, but some time after the end of the trial "period, it will prompt you to enter a registration code by paying him a sum of money. In addition, prior authorization of certain features of the program, such as maintenance or synchronization may be unavailable.Most modern office software for Palm consist of three main components:

• Set of applications installed directly on the Palm PC
• A separate small program with its own interface, the head of the synchronization process is the application
• Special synchronization module, called Conduit, automatically integrates into Palm Desktop (the main program for the exchange with Palm).

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Preference for PocketPC: how will it be?

The most high-profile projects this year - certainly, the action is to develop a preference for PocketPC and Palm. How to start a project can be found at the site www.palmclub.ru, but we also take a look at the alpha version of the game, courtesy of Site PocketGames.ru Moscow Palmklubom represented by the project coordinator Andrei Kuznetsov. So, I open the letter with the coveted beta. Alpha version of the game is a file WinCE_EN_Preferance.exe, size 317 KB (not bad!). Although the version is marked as "English (EN index in the name), messages in the game are given mainly in Russian (some places only have English in the names of buttons and menus). While for the installation does not use any special equipment, they will appear later. So just drag the file in a carefully created catalog \ Program Files \ Pref \ and run it from File Explorer (or whatever, you are familiar shell). Bah, what we see! Habitual green field "Marriage" (it was used as the basis for the preference for PocketPC, I must say that in general, and the other was not), with the logo in the center of the field, and menus. From the menu, several items - Game, enigmatic "V. .." (In fact, everything is simple - it is a bullet) and Tools (with the only item About). Shaking hands, select the Game, New ... A window opens the game settings. You can specify a name, select a partner (the classical student, Bachelor and Master), but if you want by clicking the Game, go to the window of configuration options. Through it. Just say that many fields have not yet active - this is future. General tab allows you to configure "Length bullets," "Game Type" (still hard-coded "sochinka, but it seems more planned and" Leningrad "," growth "and" Mixed "). The number of players still can not be customized (the field is disabled), "Miser" ("M-9-foot" and "M-9-IBE-9bp)," First Move "(" In the light "and" In the Dark ") and" Konsolyatsii when hoisted "(10 to 15, or whist, although I really like some still have not heard that they were in the prefecture sochinke ... but the thing is, age play and learn). In the tab "Wist" gives the options "cost" ("Half of the cost of the game" or "full cost of the game)," Desyaternaya game "(" Checking "or" Vista ")," Type vista "(" Gentleman "or" Zhlobsky " , there is clearly not enough, but the way in the "marriage" there are only two), "Responsibility for 8 and 9 of bribes (" Both VIST "or" Last ") and" Miscellaneous "(Vist Paz Polvista", "Care no three no whist "," Stalingrad (whist at 6 peak). Bookmark "Raspasy" gives options "Progression (" Missing (x1 x1 x1 x1 ...)", "Ogre. Arith. (X1 x2 x3 x3 ...")," Ogre. Geometer. (X1 x2 x4 x4 .. .), "Unlimited. arith. (x1 x2 x3 x4 ...")," Unlim. geometer. (x1 x2 x4 x8 ..."), "Exit" ("Simple (6, 6, 6, 6 ...)", "difficulties" (6, 7, 7, 7 ...)", "hardening (6, 7, 8, 9 ...)") and" Other "(" Open prikup "" Exit hoisted). look, to fix something for themselves, then OK and click Start. Traditional alignment, all in the same way as in "Marriage." Tips on the current action are displayed in the top row (and not so visible). Management and interface - familiar from the "marriage", so everything is clear right away. Until that moment I was looking forward to the game, so like a true foodie tried to delay the start of ... And rightly so. The first few minutes showed that it is precisely the alpha version. Alignment of repeats. That is, if you leave the game and run it again, we see the same cards. In any case naughty. At vosmernyh-devyaternyh games to play do not like. Rented, traded, but in the end, preferred to lose, even with very good cards (earnings before that devyaternoy game and tambourines in trumps, if I have a scenario, the only bubnushki, fold both). In the love of raspasam (both Windows-version of "marriage"), by the way, is not seen. Gear-semernaya game is played normally, albeit with nonsense, as without it (take the six-game one-trick with a decent layouts - it should be able to), but is playing. But I must say that while the picture looks like until the debugging interface and basic functions of the program (rules, interface, management, and so on) while stuck terribly truncated core, which a person (whether to simplify the process, whether to accelerate) does not play, but when am feeling that you have to spend some time on account, simply folded. Let's hope that it so far. In addition, there are visual bugs (wryly written text, lines that do not fit into the allotted them a place neprorisovki, etc.) and global strangeness (more error) - the player on the left shows is not the trump card, which really is (besides, it seems he is also changing, but here not sure). Plus, oddly bought the game rules a player does this more often, not paying attention to what, to whom came map. If passes, then you vistuete, for some reason begins to play, although I must sit in silence yourself. On misere for some reason in the field to indicate ordered the game draws a simple figure 9. A couple of times early in the game - player believes "and all, I had the once in five minutes of waiting, then stopped. In the pool is not showing the alignment (that is, "Maryazhe). With closed whist somehow see the map. According to the developers, the problems are known - and now they are still working on getting it fixed, have at least made a new design (version yet). And soon, if developers will not have insurmountable difficulties, the program will be ported to the Palm OS. In conclusion ... anyway thank you very much! Yes, let the damp. It is still buggy. There are a lot of work. But - prefecture runs on PocketPC. Cheers, gentlemen! Screenshots layouts with a few games that illustrate the typical places, you can see here, in the end. Sources, Materials:

Palm OS 5.2: some errors

There is a user environment one simple rule. It sounds so - do not take the hottest, with the heat from the heat, software, wait out the first patch. Typically this is true not only for applications but also for operating systems. Moreover, operating systems, it is generally true first and foremost. Think of the many "glitches" in the new versions of Windows. Absolutely nothing will save - if you upgrade to the new OSes recklessly defying the ancient instinct for survival. By the way, when selecting a new computer (PC or PDA - the big difference there) should not rush too. From the record "rate of fire and reliability is better to have the latter than the former. But this is a separate issue ... lived up to the first major patch and Palm OS 5.0, a new name - 5.2. (Number, number only - so much part of all operating systems, normal names they are only at the design stage, and then only the number). For corrections and talk.

Number of turning into money

Changes a lot, perhaps even too much - in the list of fixes 52 points. Why is too much? Because they have held a full and software errors should not be - at least not in such a depressing number. Although the owner of the PDA (with all new computers based on Palm OS 5 as the ROM used rewritable flash memory) is the ability to upgrade the operating system. But only if every user of the new Palm `as if engaged in enough risky replacement procedures OSes? Nevertheless, on Palm OS 5.2 should expect a more stable work ... It is fair to note - most made in the new version of OS patches does not mean that the machine with the old OSes without them will not work. Most likely, those errors that are in the operating system 5.0, does not appear and the user will not notice that his computer is not working properly with the modem (very few people connect to a PDA modem - that's the whole reason). All corrections can be divided into several groups. The first concerns the proper operation of the memory. With flash memory cards Secure Digital 128 MB or more, as recognized by the developers of PalmSource, Tunsgten T (and fixes are intended primarily for the computer) is prone to lockups. The new release of OS bug is fixed. Next - an error occurs when you exit the program and play audio files when you run the application. Also eliminated errors exchange of information between RAM and flash memory. The second group relates to emulation fixes CPU 68k. That is a new release of the operating system improves compatibility with software for old computers Palm. This is good news because the new programs that are optimized for use in Palm OS 5, while not as much as we would like. The third and largest group of corrections relate to the network operating system. Judging from the extensive list of corrections, Palm OS 5 with network connectivity to work no matter. Although it is networking opportunities, the fifth version of OSes have been one of the most promising features. Thanks to them, humble handheld organizer into a network terminal and a device for mobile access to data ... Most of the patches the average user (not wanting to delve into the details of the arrangement of the OS of your computer) will not be as noticeable as a complete reorganization of the system input. Alas, but the well-known system of computers Palm Graffiti will be no more. And yet the fact that the new system, called Graffiti 2 developers, will be better than usual. Not least because it is not Graffiti, and we know of computers Pocket PC software handwriting Jot.

We've been writing - we wrote ...

It is noteworthy that more than ever about the imperfection of the system Graffiti no one spoke. In contrast, many Pocket PC users with a melancholy glances enviously at a much more simple Palm `s just because of handwriting. System Graffiti - is first and foremost, a different approach to the technology handwriting recognition.If all competing systems focus on "adaptation" (or self) of the program to the peculiarities of the handwriting of the owner PDA, the Graffiti handwriting becomes accustomed to the user. In practice, this process takes no more than two or three days. All characters Graffiti - reduced numbers and letters that have uproschennnoe mark. Learn a simplified alphabet is a hundred times easier than, say, verbatim letter, which is often compared to Graffiti. Moreover - Graffiti is the simplest and yet perhaps not the only effective tool running quickly enter information into PDAs. In a competing system, Jot, the brainchild of Communications Intelligence Corporation, also used a simplified mark characters. But if the Graffiti characters are rigidly defined by only one stroke of the pen, the Jot variants are possible. Useful, at first glance, the possibility - as you can, and write - leads to recognition errors. Letter "a" in Jot you can write in four ways, in Graffiti - one. At the same time to remember the stroke Graffiti - "roof house" - is simpler than all possible Jot. No doubt, in terms of self-Jot perfect than Graffiti. In the main program handwriting recognition software for Pocket PC (except Jot there are many other programs, each of which is only approximated in the usability of Graffiti) can be pre-set the mark of the main characters. But at the operational work with the CPC is making an even greater confusion. Inscription options becomes greater and the user is forced to remember what a stroke he assumed a particular letter. Another thing, if there were a system of recognition of continuous cursive. But all systems are still only recognize input letter by letter. A weak attempt to achieve recognition of continuous tracings and are trying to ... Why is the manufacturer Palm `s refused to Graffiti? The reason is not at all hypothetical imperfections of the system. The reason for the legal intricacies of using Graffiti. After the court recognizes the copyright holder of Graffiti in its true inventor of the company Xerox, the use of "raspoznavalki in Palm handhelds is illegal. And we are deprived of the most attractive features a pocket typewriter - perfect running system handwriting ... Service Pack Operating System Palm OS 5 can not but rejoice. Operating system "matures", and together with her "grow up" and the computers of the family Palm. But that's what turns a thing ... After the change of handwriting and the disappearance of Graffiti is very difficult to find arguments that would convince users to choose Palm, and not the Pocket PC. Comparable to the cost of computers competing platforms have not so very similar features. With multimedia applications Pocket PC handles better than the Palm Tungsten T. And the stock performance - in the calculation for the future - for Pocket PC is much higher. What then must persuade customers to pay money just for Tungsten? The unusual design? Big name manufacturer? High-resolution (physical size is smaller than the Pocket PC)? It is doubtful ... The old Palm `a was a significant plus - it could lead fast tagging. Right on track to record in the address book name and phone number, drop a line memo about the meeting or about the price of a curious commodity. Now this opportunity at Palm `not to be. And for quick entries will either have to painstakingly draw in detail scribble in Jot, or call the on-screen keyboard. And, both the Pocket PC sold no worse than in the Tungsten. But on machines with the operating system from Microsoft's music and play videos. Moreover, it is much better than the Palm `s history of the competition ... Palm and Pocket PC is increasingly reminiscent of the confrontation, Microsoft and Apple. But we should not forget that Microsoft is an active player on the field of Apple (ie not just a competitor, but also a partner) and makes the Macintosh a lot of great programs. After picking the public at various exhibitions, Microsoft and Apple are working, if not together, side by side and in the same direction. And the Palm - it's not Mac. PSNew versions of currently available only for developers. Period of occurrence of updates to polzovatley not yet known. All information on Palm OS 5.2 is available in a special section on the site of PalmSource. As of version 4.1.2, you can learn about it here at this address - http://www.palmos.com/dev/programs/pdp. PSS And download a demo version of Jot from here. The authors, translation: