iPAQ 3900 First Look
Just got my first hands-on with the new XScale iPAQ 3975. I have to admit, I’m darn impressed. I’m highly tempted to buy one– but not today– as my next device. It’s that good.
Palm Digital Media has released Palm eBook Reader for
Windows and Mac platforms. While I agree that one of the primary benefits of ebooks is mobility, reading ebooks within the confines
of a desktop OS has a place. Not only does the desktop version of Palm Reader allow much more text on screen, but (hint, hint) it’s
going [...]
If you’ve got 7MB or so on your storage card that you’re not doing anything with, give Lextionary a try. This is a dictionary for the Pocket PC, but it goes far beyond what a print dictionary can do. It gives you definitions. It gives you pronunciations. It gives you synonyms. It also gives you [...]
Many of you may have noticed there was no column this Monday morning. (Hey, I gave ya two last week…) I had an idea all ready to go, but halfway through the writing of it, I realized it still needs to simmer a bit. So lemme ask yous guys something. The column is called “Author [...]
There’s a new book reader out there for Pocket PC users. �Book (pronounced “microbook”) is a freeware reader that’s chock full of features. According to the website:
�Book is a simple and lean, yet powerful ebook reader for Windows and Pocket PCs that can read HTML, TXT, RTF, PDB and PRC (not secure) ebook files. It [...]
Check out PalmAddict if you get a chance. It’s another blog like this one, and it has a wealth of links, news and opinions about PDAs. Good stuff.
PalmInfocenter still has a picture of the Oslo prototype leaked by Pocket PC Thoughts (who was later asked by Palm, Inc. to remove the image). This is an OS5 device with a Graffiti area that can be hidden by sliding the case up over it. Given that Palm jumped quickly to get Pocket PC Thoughts [...]
Salon is running out of money fast, and probably won’t survive much longer despite taking in a big of cash via subscriptions. What did they do wrong?
Well, for one thing, the subscriptions ticked off more people than they signed up. Rather than adding value (like, ahem, the subscription service here at Writing On Your Palm), [...]
The folks over at The Gadgeteer have posted a review of MegaMemo for Palm OS. We’ve all seen a ton of memo pad replacements, but this one is free, comes with a desktop conduit, and allows memos up to 32k. Not as powerful as pedit, perhaps, but cheaper. If you’re only concerned about writing text [...]
Linton Weeks wrote an article in the Washington Post last weekend that poses the now tired and too-often-asked question: why didn’t ebooks work?
Frankly, I expected better of The Post. Weeks trots out some pretty tired arguments, including the following:
But maybe e-books never really caught fire because there was never a deep desire for them in [...]