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1. Liens2. Flux RSS2.1 Palminfocenter Palm, Inc. has announced that a public beta version of the Palm webOS Plug-in Development Kit (PDK) is now available at the Palm Developer Center. Palm is demonstrating new games from early PDK developers in its booth at GDC (No. 2016).
The PDK complements the Palm webOS Software Development Kit (SDK), letting developers use C and C++ alongside the web technologies that power the SDK and mix them seamlessly within a single app. The PDK enables new functionality, including immersive 3D graphics, and gives developers who have built games for other platforms an easy way to bring their titles to the webOS platform. Developers can download the beta PDK and start developing today, but distribution of games built with the beta PDK will require functionality provided in an upcoming Palm webOS update. In a rather unusual move for a carrier long fond of sizable mail-in rebate offers, the Boy Genius Report brings news that, as of Friday, March 5th, Verizon Wireless is immediately offering their two Palm webOS devices without mail-in rebates. The carrier will instead offer the Palm Pre Plus for $149.99 out the door with a two-year contract. The Palm Pixi Plus will now ring in at $79.99 under the same terms.
While a great deal for would-be Verizon webOS owners everywhere, especially on the heels of last week's webOS 1.4 update release and the ongoing "BOGO offer", the pricing still comes in above Best Buy's in-store pricing of $49.99 and $99.99 for the two smartphones.
Palm Inc. has released an updated version of their Facebook app for webOS. The application is being billed as new major version, as it was rewritten from scratch by Palm's own developer team this time around.
The new v1.1 Facebook app brings an improved interface and much improved functionality allowing users to do all that Facebook stuff. Highlights include an enhanced inbox, improved news feeds (shake to refresh), profile views, better photo albums and photo video uploading, events and birthday support, people search and more Palm Synergy integration. The application is free and is available from the Palm App Catalog and online.
Palm Inc. has released an updated version of their software development kit for the webOS platform. Release v1.4 coincides with the recent OS update and brings a number of changes and makes some new functionality available to developers.
Some of the highlights of the release include:
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[+] webOS 1.4 Now Available
Palm has release the long awaited webOS v1.4 update early Saturday morning. Users on the Sprint network in the US and on the O2 UK, O2 DE, O2 Ireland, and Movistar networks in Europe can now find the OTA update via the Updates app. Palm says on its blog that other networks (namely Bell, Telcel and SFR) will see this "soon."
The full changelog is now posted on Palm's support page. Major new features include: video capture and clip editing, performance and battery life changes, various new messaging, contacts & calendar changes and options and updates, LED based notifications, new ringtone/alert options, mail improvements and various other system tweaks and such. webOS 1.4 also brings support for the Adobe Flash 10.1 Beta plugin. Adobe will presumably release their Flash beta for the Palm Pre sometime soon via the Palm App Catalog. Update: Verizon users are reporting that the update is now available for the Pre & Pixi Pluses.
CNBC tech reporter Jim Goldman published a scathing piece on Palm Inc. late Friday. The article conveys the frustration among some investors and analysts have with Palm's management over ill timed misleading statements and the recent financial warnings. Goldman points to a perceived increasing lack of credibility which has been accentuated by recent disclosures.
Palm's got a credibility problem, and it's the kind of thing that seems so insidious, and so systemic, that it might pose a deep threat to the company's ability to keep going. [...] The Wall Street Journal has published a memo sent out to all Palm employees today by CEO Jon Rubinstein. The letter goes into more detail behind they days financial readjustment press release and provides some background on Palm's current initiatives to drive sales. The letter also discloses that Verizon felt the webOS launch was below expectations, but remains committed to working with Palm.
Sprint has quietly lowered the introductory price on the Palm Pixi. New customers can now purchase the Pixi direct from Sprint for $50 after the usual rebates and new contractual discounts.
Sprint was the first carrier to offer the Palm Pixi back in mid-Novemeber. It's initial asking price was $99. Earlier this month Verizon began offering an updated Pixi Plus version which includes WiFi at the same price point. That too was initially offered at $99 and has already been reduced to $79.
Palm, Inc. issued a press release early this morning to warn investors of that its financial performance will not meet its previously stated expectations due to soft demand. The revision laid out below estimate a 30% reduction in quarterly revenue. The full release follows...
Palm, Inc. today indicated that it expects that revenues for the third quarter of fiscal year 2010 will be in the range of $285 million to $310 million on a GAAP basis and in the range of $300 million to $320 million on a non-GAAP basis. Revenues for the quarter and full year are being impacted by slower than expected consumer adoption of the company's products that has resulted in lower than expected order volumes from carriers and the deferral of orders to future periods. Accordingly, Palm expects fiscal year 2010 revenues to be well below its previously forecasted range of $1.6 billion to $1.8 billion. The company will provide more detail on its financial results during Palm's third-quarter financial results conference call currently scheduled for Thursday, March 18.
Shares of Palm Inc. hit a 52-week low on a double dose of analyst downgrades early this week. Three Wall street analysts issued gloomy reports for the company sending shares down to close around $8.45 Tuesday on overall sales and market penetration concerns.
The biggest blow came from longtime BOA/Merrill Lynch analyst Vivek Arya who remarked in a note to clients that Palm's newest webOS phones have seen "sluggish" sales since debuting on Verizon. [+ desc]
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[+] PDA Offers RelaunchesI didn't get to check out the relaunched PDA Offers site until after the DevCon, but now that I've visited the site, it's something I can heartily endorse. The site has several RSS feeds that provide information about discounted applications for mobile devices, as well as a set of main pages that aggregate the offers by device type or application type. As a developer, you get to advertise your applications by providing discount opportunities for the PDA Offers readers. You get a page on the site for each offer giving more information about your program, showing a screen shot, and providing links for more information, downloads, and purchasing. You also specify how long your discount will remain active. It looks like a nice system; I've already added the Palm OS feed to my RSS reader. Life at the Developer Conference gives you little chance for reflection; you're rushing around, trying to meet with people, see talks, catch the exhibit floor, spend time in the labs, do some networking, and getting the occasional nap to keep your energy up. I'm writing this early on Friday morning at the gate for my flight back to Austin; this really has been my only break since my last posting. Wednesday morning opened with a great keynote talk by author Don Norman. It was about the emotional aspects of design, how the shape, functionality, and aesthetics of products affect how we perceive them. He had customized his talk a but for the Palm OS world, using examples of good and bad PDAs and smartphones, and it was both entertaining and insightful. After Don's talk, Larry Slotnik, PalmSource CTO, talked about their OS roadmap, about what they'd done in the last year and what was coming. There are no big surprises; they are expecting an alpha-quality release of Palm OS for Linux to licensees this fall, with the 1.0 version coming in the first part of 2006. They had shipped Palm OS Cobalt 6.1.1 to licensees a few months ago, an update to the release last fall to fix stability and five-way navigation issues. Mark Bercow from palmOne gave a talk later that morning, highlighting the current product line. He commented on the reports about palmOne losing market share, noting that a lot of the reports depend on how you define the PDA or smartphone spaces. It's good to note that we've had seven quarters of year-over-year sales growth, our margins are going up, and volume continues to increase. Also, about 70% of Zire purchasers are buying their first PDA, showing that there's still plenty of growth room in the entry-level market. I had my talk on NVFS on Wednesday afternoon, right after Chris Dunphy's talk on the PalmSource Installer. I really like where the PSI format is going, and they've built some nice tools to prepare both over-the-air and desktop installer versions of your application. Chris really showed that it's easy to setup your XML files and configure the installation process, and the PSI system will generate all the HTML pages you need to automate installation of applications from your website. My talk went better than I expected; I'll be posting both my notes and the notes from the follow up lab session in a separate entry. Wednesday night featured a loud and dark party, and bright and active developer labs. Some devs were busy getting their entries ready for the PalmHack VII contest, while others were just taking advantage of the many PalmSource and palmOne engineers that were hanging around. I was one of the hack judges, so in-between giving people CodeWarrior tips and diagnosing memory leaks, I got to see some interesting and completely wrong applications. The judges were up past 2:00AM debating which submissions should get which prizes and what jokes we were going to make onstage, but I think the late hours were worth it. I missed the early presentations on Thursday; I slept in an extra hour and then was working the palmOne booth. However, I did get to catch David Fedor's excellent talk on going wireless. The main thing I took out of that talk was to try out the AppNetLib code that's on the conference CD; this is an HTTP library that PalmSource is providing in source form for all developers, and it makes it easy for your applications to ask a web server for information. The conference closed with Michael Mace's keynote talk about the Palm OS market. He showed clips from several focus groups highlighting the three main markets for smartphones: communicators, information junkies, and entertainment users. Each type of customer related to their PDA or phone in different ways: communicators tended to have a more emotional relationship with their device, but while they spent a lot of time with it, they didn't use a lot of extra applications. The information junkies were most likely to use vertical applications and load their devices with data, but they viewed them more as tools and not something they used for fun. The entertainment market was younger and easily bored; they saw a PDA as a necessary tool, but also something that they could use to keep stimulated during the day. After the keynote was announcements of various contests. I'm glad that my friend Scott Maxwell won the Aceeca virtual sheep shearing contest. For PalmHack, we gave our grand prizes to a "Crazy Clock" application for Palm OS Cobalt and a WiFi Theremin application on Palm OS Garnet that varied the sound playback based on the current WiFi network signal strength. A dishonorable mention was made of Scott Corley's "Sock Monkey Knife Fight" game which wowed the crowd with bloody puppets jumping around the LifeDrive's screen. Scott had left already, so I accepted his award doing my best rabid monkey impersonation. The first full day of the conference brought a lot of news and some good sessions. The big deal was the announcement of palmOne's new license agreement for Palm OS, and their purchase of the name "Palm" from PalmSource. I don't have any details outside of the press release; it looks like palmOne will be changing its name back to Palm in the near future, and that PalmSource has a few years to rebrand itself and its OS. Outside that note, this morning's keynote address wasn't very surprising. I caught a bit of the palmOne talk with new Senior VP Mark Bercow which mainly was about our product line strategy and how we rely on developers to produce interesting software. While working the palmOne booth on the exhibit floor, the most common questions were "can I play with a LifeDrive?" and "what's the difference between the different Treo 650s you're selling in the store?". This evening was fun; I was one of the on-stage experts for the "Stump the Experts" panel. We didn't have a huge number of questions from the audience, but it was enough to fill the hour, and I got to pitch in on some NVFS and Sony questions. After that, I hung out at the hardware labs and mostly answered CodeWarrior questions. I also helped one of the PalmSource engineers get their PalmRC compiler plugin for CodeWarrior working better; this is one of the tools available as part of the PalmSource Inside Track program, and it's pretty nice for people who want to use the XRD format with the CW V9 tools. I've registered here at the PalmSource 2005 Developer Conference, and my first impressions are good. They are still getting a lot of the conference space setup, but attendence is high, and the talk schedule looks good. Of course, the most important first impression for a conference is what kind of free stuff you get as an attendee. The 2004 PalmSource conference bag was pretty sparse, but this year the contents are looking a lot better. First, there's the bag itself. It's a black backpack with the "Palm Powered" and "PalmSource" logos on it, but no mention of the event. I guess that lets PalmSource reuse any leftovers. It has a rubberized bottom, two deep side pockets suitable for holding water bottles or laptop power adapters, a primary holding area with a laptop pouch, space for papers in the main flap, and a front pocket with a snap-off organizer. All of the zippers have zip pulls, and the back straps look to be well constructed with lots of stitching.. I think it will be a useful addition to my collection of show bags, and I'll probably switch to it as my day-to-day laptop bag. In the backpack was a variety of papers, gadgets, and software included:
Tonight is the Palm OS Users Group meeting, and tomorrow morning is the opening keynote. It looks like David Nagel will still be delivering the talk, even though he resigned as CEO of PalmSource over the weekend. Both the Tungsten T5 and the new LifeDrive have an application on them called "Files". This is the file manager that lets you navigate the collection of files that's on your SD card or on the internal volume. To support opening files on external media, palmOne has extended the Exchange Manager by defining some new values. Traditionally, an application registers for a file extension or MIME type and says that it will process items that match that registration when they are received via a beam or some other exchange library. This is done using the Exchange Manager function ExgRegisterDatatype along with one of the constants exgRegExtensionID or exgRegTypeID. In the palmOne SDK, the header file "common/libraries/filebrowser/FileBrowserLibCommon.h" defines these values: #define exgRegEditCreatorID 0xff7b // creator ID registry #define exgRegEditExtensionID 0xff7d // filename extension registry #define exgRegEditTypeID 0xff7e // MIME type registry These are new values you can pass to ExgRegisterDatatype to tell the system that your application can handle opening files on a VFS volume that match a particular creator ID, extension, or MIME type. More details on registering to handle files on external media, how to register icons to go with those types, and what to do when the system tells you to open a file are in the palmOne Developer Guide in the "File Browser API" section. On devices with this API, there's also several shared library calls that you can use to present "open file" and "save file" dialogs. While the file browser APIs are palmOne-specific, the methods of registering with Exchange Manager and having a file browser application activate registered programs have been submitted back to PalmSource for standardization in their Palm OS APIs. The scheme isn't too bad and fits in with the other uses of Exchange Manager, so I hope they accept it as an OS-wide standard. [Note: if any of you are developers of software that have the ability to unzip files, adding support for this would be a very, very, very cool thing. Hint, hint.] You should have seen the palmOne announcement of our new LifeDrive mobile manager handheld this week. It's been in the rumor mill for a while, and I enjoyed reading the slightly inaccurant rantings from the Palm OS enthusiast community. The LifeDrive is new technology in the PDA space; it doesn't do everything you'd want it to do the speed isn't as good as I'd like, and I wish the hard drive was at least 20GB, but I already think it is really, really useful in its current configuration. The LifeDrive works pretty well as an external hard drive for your laptop or desktop system. It's got a FAT32 file system and enough space to store a lot of documents. This tends to change the synchronization paradigm a lot; where before, you had conduits that reformatted or excerpted data between your PC and your device, now you can just have the data in one place -- on the LifeDrive -- and have your PC directly modify that data. This opens up some real opportunities in the application development space for the PDA. In particular, I'd love to see more applications that can parse and manage data from desktop apps. I use Eudora for my email, and I think it would be really good to see an update to Eudora for Palm OS that works off VFS storage. Eudora already is very portable from PC to PC, and being able to keep the same mail store when I'm mobile would be really, really nice. I could see similar things for PC databases and vertical applications. John Marshall just put out the notice on the emulator forum about a major update to the Palm OS Emulator source code to fix issues with building it with recent compilers and libraries. It doesn't update POSE to handle Palm OS 5 or ARM code, it's just a fix for "bitrot", as John puts it. Here's the text of his announcement:
Ton van Overbeek's done it again. The developer of the prc-tools patch for supporting debugging of multiple code sections now has developed a TCP/IP-to-USB bridge program for Linux and Cygwin, similar to the one that Florent Pillet did on Mac OS X. This enables direct debugging USB-based devices on those systems, and it also bypasses PalmSource's USBPort.dll meaning it works around some bugs that prevent CodeWarrior or Palm OS Debugger from talking to some devices that don't identify their debug channels correctly. I've quoted Ton's message about this below. If you're using those tools, I'd urge you to check it out and provide feedback to him.
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[+] SXSW Database MusingsI've just put up a new article about how I setup my on-device data structures for the SXSW 2005 schedule application. I think it is a bit too long for a blog posting, but you can read it from the Articles link on the sidebar or by following this direct link to the article. I support a "Update my Application" feature in my SXSW 2005 schedule application. I do this by setting up a series of URLs on my webserver, one for each version of the program that was released with the web update feature:
The application turns its own version string (retrieved from its 'tver' #1000 resource) into a URL using the format string
A user with an current version of the application gets directed to a "you're using the latest version" message, while a user with an older version gets a link to the PRC download. I could also have used HTML auto-refresh to just start the download automatically, using HTML code like
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2.3 Palm 24/7»
[+] Site updateI think that I have fixed the remaining few bugs with the news display system, so, hopefully, we should be running back at full capacity, with support for the "Today's archive" feature. Of course, there's probably something which I've missed...! »
[+] WM247Just to let you all know that we are looking at WindowsMobile247 to see why today's news did not update as expected. Should be resolved very soon. I am also looking at the archive links as there seems to be a small issue there. This is the LAST time we move to a new server... ever!:) »
[+] Howard speaks... Just spotted a nice message written by Howard Tomlinson at the Astraware company blog- "PDA247, also known as Palm247 and WindowsMobile247, with its roots back to the Sony Clie range as "Clie World", is 5 years old today, and I thought I'd make a comment (or two!).
What I like about PDA247 isn't that it features every press announcement going (it doesn't) or make full software and hardware reviews of every new release (again, it doesn't), but that... PDA247 has somehow managed to reach the grand old age of five today and it's hard to believe that it has been so long since I sat in front of my PC when my son was 1 year old and built the first site in about 30 minutes (and it showed!) Here are some interesting facts from the past five years-We have published over 17,000 news articles and many reviews and interviews in that time also. Much discussion has been generated in the forums... »
[+] QOTD: Had to be asked...This question had to come up at some stage. Does the Apple iPhone tempt you and if so what device would you be moving from? If it is not your cup of tea feel free to let us know why not... I thought I would post an article from almost four years ago as it is our birthday. Actually the real reason is because I managed to stuff up our news system last night and lose the one that was already set- it is now 12:23am and I am too tired to write a new one.
A World Without Technology? (30/04/03) I was talking to a friend I used to work with the other day and we tripped onto the subject of how little technology we used back in the late 80's.... "Is a loved one missing some body parts? Are blondes becoming extinct? Is everyone at your dinner table of the same species? Humans and chimpanzees differ in only 400 genes; is that why a chimp fetus resembles a human being? And should that worry us? Theres a new genetic cure for drug addictionis it worse than the disease? We live in a time of momentous scientific leaps, a time when its possible to sell our eggs and sperm online for thousands... »
[+] 8GB for under £60 Clove have some great deals on memory cards at the moment including an 8GB SDHC card for only £57.58 inc VAT. SDHC cards are the newest form of memory cards that maximise the potential storage capactiy of the memory card, for use with the latest devices. Fully Compatible with SDA 2.0 specification. Suitable for SDHC compliant devices, High Speed transfer rate. Perfect for highend digital devices. »
[+] DXFV PRODXFV PRO looks impressive for under $50- "DXFV PRO is a CAD DXF file viewer compatible with Autocad v12 dxf files. You can use it to view, pan, zoom, write notes on the drawing and save them, take accurate measurements using snap to end, intersection or middle. With the DXFV PRO on site view and comparison with the drawings becomes easy. No need to carry tons of drawings from your office and taking measurements using rulers! You just move your dxf... »
[+] Kill TreoKill Treo is bizarre but true (thanks to Abraham)- "Make a donation, help me get a Treo 750 and vote you favorrite way to watch a Treo die." [+ desc]
2.4 Palm Addicts![]() [From Eric Mann] Read Engadget's take on Palm's webOS PDK beta. "We just sat down with Palm here at GDC and fished out a few more details on the PDK beta front. Firstly, and most interestingly, Palm has confirmed that the PDK now works on all of its handsets (instead of just the Pre and Pre Plus), which means Pixi buyers can stop hating themselves pretty soon. Apparently the level of performance degradation should be comparable iPhone 3G vs. 3GS, which doesn't sound too horrible. This is functionality that wasn't available even to Palm's early PDK partners like EA and Gameloft, so we should be seeing versions of existing games make the jump to the Pixi when the time for PDK beta-developed apps to hit the Palm App Catalog." Read in full. ![]() [From Laurie Cutts ] Miller Lite is launching a new iPhone application called Tip ?n Spin in time for March Madness. The new application provides a unique, fun experience for legal-drinking-age basketball fans by allowing them to compete and earn points by balancing a basketball on a Miller Lite bottle with their iPhone. The application was created by leading digital agency Digitas in partnership with premier U.S. mobile media agency MediaMob.Tip ?n Spin, MillerCoors? sixth iPhone app, is a great example of how a leading consumer packaged goods brand is embracing mobile technology to tap into passions of their audience. The application is integrated with Miller Lite?s March hoops marketing campaign that is rolling out nationwide. Fans can download the app from iTunes or the App Store on their iPhone or iPod Touch and can play, earn points and then later share the results with their friends on Facebook. ?We?re thrilled to be able to provide our fans and their friends with a fun and engaging way to connect with their favorite light beer as they enjoy March hoops,? said Mike Davitt, Miller Lite marketing manager. ?Mobile applications have been a huge hit with beer drinkers.? The application provides an easy tool to add fans to the ?Miller Lite Taste Nation?? Facebook page as well as a landing page within the application to drive downloads for other mobile applications from MillerCoors. Additionally, a promotional video for the app will be featured in an online ad on CBSsports.com during the March tournament. Tip ?n Spin App on iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/ MillerLite Facebook Fan Page: http://www.facebook.com/ [From heiditwit] Hi Sammy! I live somewhere in the middle of the U.S., and wandered into a big box retailer looking for a Pre to play with. I need something easy to type on, and after reading reviews, was sad to think there were no good word-processing alternatives to my rapidly aging Treo.
I'm happy to report the keyboard on the Pre is easy to type on. I didn't feel the sharp edges the bloggers are complaining about, and the keys themselves have a slight stickiness to them, so a type-with-your-nails person such as myself can accurately hit the keys (with my Treo, I have to get the key between my nail and fingerpad, or my fingers slide off the keys).
The screen works good with a fingernail touch as well, not like the iPhone that only likes fingertips.
Now I have to pray and hope my Treo lasts until the 4G Pre comes out (in June, maybe?).![]() [From Bill, Nicaragua] Dear Sammy,
Today, there was a big political rally in the center of town because the Sandinista party(leftist ruling party of Nicaragua) had won regional elections.
I was able to send out twitter and Facebook updates with my trusty iphone 3g. [From Darcy Boese, in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada] Hi Sammy! Apple tried to keep it all a big secret. Specifically, by signing the agreement (and if you don't, Apple won't distribute your apps), one of the terms is that you cannot talk about the agreement. It's just like Fight Club!
But thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, the EFF obtained a copy of the agreement from NASA.
A full copy of the agreement is available for all to download as a PDF. And yes, I agree with the EFF that certain specific portions of this agreement are "troubling". More details here.
"We are aggressive in our webOS development because we believe in the quality of gameplay that it brings to the end user," said Baudouin Corman, Vice President of Publishing, Americas, Gameloft. "Palm's support and its powerful PDK have helped us bring high-end native games to market quickly. Our investment is paying off because Gameloft games have been doing remarkably well in the Palm App Catalog, which proves that smartphone consumers love the rich and advanced gaming experience." A selection of games currently live include: Assassins Creed(TM) Altair's Chronicles: Experience the power of the Assassin. Plunge into this direct prequel to the critically acclaimed Assassin's Creed(TM), offering rich gameplay and a well balanced mix of stealth, chaotic action, and puzzle-solving exploration in the midst of fully 3D-rendered, historical Middle Eastern environments of the Crusades. The benchmark of action/adventure available on Palm Pre. Asphalt 5: Get in, start up and punch it in the fastest dream cars ever created by some of the most prestigious manufacturers in the world. Take a ride in over 30 of the fastest, most prestigious cars you've ever dreamed of. Highly polished HD graphics let you see every detail and animation of the track as you speed over snow, mud, dirt and more in 12 beautiful locations around the world. Dungeon Hunter: A 3D epic quest set in a dark fantasy world, in the tradition of the most successful action RPGs. A great gameplay experience (hack 'n' slash) for real-time fights, providing a heavy dose of fun for everybody. Real Soccer 2010: Get ready for the soccer season and battle for the cup with Real Soccer, the benchmark for mobile soccer games. Choose from 245 teams in 8 leagues with nearly every player thanks to the FIFPro license. Face off in 14 stadiums detailed in 3D as you perform amazing moves with a simple and intuitive touch of the screen. The directional touch pad allows for great precision. For a full list of games available on Palm Pre phones go to: http://www.gameloft.com Kindle fans may be interested to know that Amazon is working on a better web browser for the ebook reader. "Ask any Kindle owner about browsing the web on the device, and you?ll get the same answer: Well, you can do it, but? And then you?ll hear how abysmal the browsing experience really is. " Read in full.
The cleverest function of AppSpy is the price tracking feature. Price Tracking is a great way of getting the games you want without having to pay the high prices of a newly released game. App prices generally fluctuate soon after a mobile game releases. Price Tracker allows the user to tag the desired App for tracking and be informed of any price reductions and take advantage of ?one-day only free? promotions.
In addition to being alerted when prices drop, users can read and watch quality reviews of all the hot new games while gathering information on the latest iPhone gaming news. "We wanted to design an easy to use site that will improve user experience while shopping for Apps,? says founder Adam McKinnon. ?AppSpy.com makes it easier to find exactly what you?re looking for.?
AppSpy has a team of enthusiastic iPhone gamers who play and review the latest release games from across all categories in the AppStore. There are up to six game reviews released a day, including full video reviews which demonstrate actual game play. All videos are linked to AppSpy?s popular YouTube channel. Reviews include a list of pros and cons, verdict, screenshots and a 1 to 5 rating system.
The AppSpy news team keeps an eye on all upcoming game releases, product launches and technological advances for their users.
For more information on AppSpy, please visit: www.appspy.com. [From Hans] Hans points out that Apple had warned handset manufacturers that they were going to be stricter about enforcing their patents. "Starting in January, Apple launched a series of C-Level discussions with tier-1 handset makers to underscore its growing displeasure at seeing its iPhone-related IP [intellectual property] infringed. The lawsuit filed against HTC thus appears to be Apple's way of putting a public, lawyered-up exclamation point on a series of blunt conversations that have been occurring behind closed doors." Gizmodo for the full read.
The PDK complements the Palm webOS Software Development Kit (SDK), letting developers use C and C++ alongside the web technologies that power the SDK and mix them seamlessly within a single app. The PDK enables new functionality, including immersive 3D graphics, and gives developers who have built games for other platforms an easy way to bring their titles to the webOS platform. Developers can download the beta PDK and start developing today, but distribution of games built with the beta PDK will require functionality provided in an upcoming Palm webOS update. "Palm webOS is the go-to platform for great games on two of the three leading carrier networks," said Katie Mitic, senior vice president, Product Marketing, Palm, Inc. "We have both the developer tools and the hardware necessary for a world-class gaming experience, and an impressive portfolio of webOS game titles from top-notch developers to show for it." At CES in January, Palm introduced 12 games built by four leading developers with early access to the PDK:
Since then, more than 20 exciting webOS titles have been launched by these early-access developers:
"The Palm webOS PDK is extremely powerful and far-reaching, as evidenced by the number of titles we've been able to bring to the webOS platform in a very short time," said Baudouin Corman, vice president of publishing, Americas, Gameloft. "It's quite difficult to make a great phone that's also an outstanding gaming platform; Palm has been successful delivering both." More information about the beta PDK is available at the Palm Developer Center (developer.palm.com). More information about games for Palm webOS is available atwww.palm.com/applications.
![]() [From Michael Tayne] I have been a Blackberry user for many years and have only just jumped to the iPhone and I'm loving it. Apart from the fact that I can just as easily email, I can also web surf and actually be able to view the pages. I also write memos and send to people, saving as templates as I go along. Thanks Sammy for an enjoyable daily read.»
[+] iPod Touch for surfing [From Eric Mann] Hello Sammy,
How I now use my iPod
I use my iPod for games news
hotspots wifi web surfing shopping.
Apple has a lot of good free apps for
both the iphone and the iPod.![]() [From Michael Rushie] My centro serves a vital part in keeping me organized with DateBk 6. The app keeps all my todo's and appointments right at hand. As missing a task or appointment really fouls up my schedule. When I have down time I often use Documents to Go to read items in preparation for other meetings or work. Many times I will use Pocket Tunes or TCPMP to unwind if I have to wait to see someone. Even though the TX is older it's screen size and wireless feature makes it a great device.»
[+] Mail on my Treo![]() [From Paige] I continue to love my Treo 680. I'm happy to have all the Palm apps I've been running for years, but my favorite is ChatterEmail. I have several email accounts setup, but I only get notifications on my main account. I also have Attention Grabber installed to enable my LED for notifications in case I missed the initial notification. It's much easier to check email on my Treo than the computer. Love the site Sammy! [From Tom] It keeps me on schedule and keeps track of all the people I don't want to talk to.
It stores photos of my nieces and nephews and entertains me with my old time radio programs.
Now if only it took dictation.»
[+] Using my Palm Treo 750v![]() [From Adam] I use my Palm Treo 750v for quite a few different tasks. Thanks to SyncMate it stays in sync with my Mac, so my Contacts and Calendars are all up to date (via Bluetooth). It makes a brilliant phone too, the threaded view making it extra easy to help think out what I'm going to say. The Opera browser is brilliant, I'd say it's even faster than my iPod touch!![]() [From LAttilaD] Most of time, I'm using it for writing my novel, Kissy
(http://kissy.lattilad.org). It's entirely written on my Palm, using
Peter Thorstenson's tejpWriter. I'm using the same program for etext
reading, too.![]() [From Cindy A] Hi Sammy,
Hope you're doing great... love the photos you post on Facebook, you sure do get to some beautiful spots on earth! I was thinking about how I've been using my TX and Treo lately anyway, so here's a user thought for you. By the way, you can enter me in any contest :-)
I have a TX which gets use each day at least twice. In the evening I use it as my alarm clock and to read MyBible 5.0 (my favorite translation is the NLT) after checking my reading schedule in Documents to Go, and some times check email before nodding off. In the morning, I wake up to the alarm, and if I have time I'll check the local weather forecast on Live8.com (which has the forecast, radar, weather alerts and closings). Once in a while I use it to play games and/or surf the web on the weekend.
My Treo 755p is my workhorse. I use it as a phone, personal info. manager, check register, mp3/podcast player, to manage my budget, my diet, my passwords, check Facebook, play games.... and the list goes on.
Of course some day these devices will need to be replaced, but for now, I'm a happy two-Palm user... And always a Palm addict! :-)»
[+] Still loving my Palm Pre»
[+] Thank you Palm Pixi [From Delman Viars, Sent from my Palm Pixi] Lets see where to start I have my mucic, my to do list, and work times keeping me all on track. My phone also keeps me connected to myspace, facebook, palm central, and palmaddicts. I would be so lost without my "personal assistant" I wouldn't know what to do. Thank you palm pixi»
[+] Using my iPhone daily [From Aaron, Sent from my iPhone] Hey-
I use my mobile device instead of my computer. Leaving my Mac tower
off on a daily basis saves me on my electric bill. My iPhone pushes me
email, tweets, social networking information, and breaking news. I
even pack Documents To Go and type up full documents. Using my Apple
wireless keyboard via jailbreak hack, it is faster to edit a document
on my iPhone then booting up my Mac.
My smartphone keeps me in sync. Only problem, I have to put it down
when sleeping.»
[+] Mobile developing [From Matthew Justice] Hey Sammy,
I'm lucky to be a Mobile developer and get the chance to work on all
main-stream mobile devices. I have am currently carrying two devices;
the iPhone 3G and the Palm Pre. Each of them have their pros and cons
but the Pre along with the Classic Emulator allows me the ability to
run my legacy Palm OS programs (big plus). I am currently learning
the PhoneGap [ http://phonegap.com/ ] framework that will allow me the
ability to develop for the Palm Pre, iPhone, Android and Blackberry
all with a (mostly) common code-base. I still use my iPhone for
iTunes syncing and listening to podcasts, as well as watching TV on my
SlingBox. As more and more applications are ported to my Palm Pre I
expect i will start to carry it 100% of the time and move my iPhone
off as a secondary device.
Thanks for you site, I have been a follower for many years!»
[+] Using my TX![]() [From Leon Gray] Sammy:
I've been using my palm tx in so many different ways that it's hard to put into words....but I'll try. I the TX to read the papers, listen to podcasts, look at Youtube via Kinoma, listen to music, watch movies on trips, and with the help of my keyboard write short poems for my wife. Very, very, happy with my all purpose three year old TX!»
[+] Playing Fair ![]() [From Darcy Boese, in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada] Hi Sammy! Over the weekend we were playing a long board game, but hadn't finished before time ran out. So I pulled out my iPhone and snapped a pic of the board. Now we will all know where the pieces were and can pick up right where we left off!Tonight we have a TX to throwaway thanks to Andy Wolstenholme for donating. It's never been used [apart from testing that it works] and is in the original box. The first person that emails me a couple of lines on how they have been using their mobile device, gets their mucky hands on the Tungsten TX. Please put MONDAY in the subject line and email me at sammymcloughlin@gmail.com ![]() [From Eric Mann] Mobile application market could grow to over $15 billion by 2013 according to the BoyGeniusReport. "TechCrunch found an interesting study by analyst firm research2guidance. The study claims that the mobile application market place could grow from a $1.94 billion business in 2009 to a $15.65 billion business in 2013; a growth rate of around 807%. The study also predicts the smartphone user base to grow from 100 million to 1 billion in that same time frame. " Read in full. "iPhones, Zunes, Smartphones lack a DVD drive, so to be able to put a movie on these devices, a DVD needs to be changed into something that will work with them. You can buy/rent movie files from Apple's iTunes store, but these only work with iPod and iPhone devices. If you own a Zune, a PSP or anything else, you can not use iTunes to get your movies. While some companies do offer video downloads one way or another, they usually require you to pay for movies you probably already own or DVD anyway. This is where DVD Catalyst comes in. DVD Catalyst transforms your DVD movies and TV shows into video files that you can use with your device. By installing DVD Catalyst on your computer, you can convert your own DVD collection (as well as video files you might already have) into something that will play on your Blackberry, PocketPC etc. No need to pay for the movies again, or worry about watching them within a day before they expire. With DVD Catalyst you can watch your own movies and TV shows in a waiting room, entertain the kids on a long ride, or show off your home recordings to your colleagues, regardless of what device you use." Use the promo-code TOOLS20 at checkout to get the 20% discount. Make the jump. »
[+] Tesco iPhone app [From Adrian Beattie] Sammy,
This probably has more to do with UK users - I was standing in the queue at the tillin Tescos when I saw a guy bring out his iphone and put it in front of the loyalty card scanner - and lo and behold - I searched the app store and there is indeed an app to store your Tesco Loyalty card (displays as a bar code when you enter your card number). Alas there is nothing foir Nectar (yet!).![]() [From C Dodd] WebOS is by far the best mobile operating I've used. It is easy on the eye, fast ans there are some terrific apps emerging. I think developers were a little slow at first but it's good to see new apps being added to the catalog on a weekly basis. I've long forgotten about my Blackberry, the Pre is my way forward. By the way I use a palm pre. Read an E-Book Week has begun for 2010 according to the Mobile Read. "Read an E-Book Week has begun for 2010, and this year promises to outdo all previous years by an order of magnitude. Rita Toews has been working her butt off, interviewing for periodicals and blogs, contacting and drawing in new participants and promoters and twittering until her fingers are hoarse!" MobileRead after the jump Special offer today, $6 off SplashID for the Blackberry device, use promo-code TOOLS20 at checkout. Make the jump.
Was $29.95, now reduced to $23.96 "SplashID safely and securely stores all of your personal identification information including user names, passwords, credit cards, calling cards, bank accounts, PINs, and more. Information is stored in a secure, encrypted format and is quickly accessible on a BlackBerry or Desktop computer with the included desktop software (Windows Only)." Use the promo-code TOOLS20 at checkout. Make the jump. »
[+] iPad TV Commercial [From Hans] Did you see the new iPad Apple commercial last night? ![]() [From Dom Caroll] I always said I would never get an iPhone but after seeing what people do with theirs I gave in. I now have a 3GS and would be lost without it. Obviously like most people I love listening to music on it but I also surf the internet, check email and play games. The app store is wonderful although it is too much of a temptation. Thank god I saw sense because I love my iPhone. [From Lee Allen, Sent from my Pre] I use my Pre to type because I think the keyboard is decent enough. Texting and email on the go has been made easier because of a keyboard that you can actually type on. I've tried to type on a Blackberry and it's useless with plenty of mistakes, the Pre however is decent enough. Great site, I enjoy reading it.[+ desc][+ titles]
2.5 Palm Loyal2.6 Palm OneI have a "Root" object which our system's only global pointer and is used to access all parts of our handheld framework. It's then easy to store a pointer to this class in a feature, then use it in any shared libraries. I suppose I could pass it as an argument to the shared library, but I felt that using a feature to pass it provided better backwards/forwards compatibility if I decide to pass different data down the track. On 10 March 2010 04:04, Doug Reeder <reeder.29@gmail.com> wrote: Easily access globals? No. But either a shared library or a gLib can access storage used by the main app, if you pass it a pointer. -- Alan Ingleby Easily access globals? No. But either a shared library or a gLib can
access storage used by the main app, if you pass it a pointer.
On Mar 9, 2010, at 7:13 AM, Luc Le Blanc wrote:
> I'll rephrase my question: in order to save space for users with low-
> end devices, how can I put optional features into another PRC that
> could still easily access globals from the main PRC?
>
> Is a code library a good option?
>
>
> Luc Le Blanc
> http://www.speleo.qc.ca/Auriga
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I'll rephrase my question: in order to save space for users with low-end devices, how can I put optional features into another PRC that could still easily access globals from the main PRC?
Is a code library a good option?
Luc Le Blanc
http://www.speleo.qc.ca/Auriga > Is there a simple way to leave some optional code into a PRC
> segment that may, or not, be loaded by the user?
PRCs are not loaded by the standard PalmOS like executables are loaded by
desktop systems. The code is executed in place, the OS just locks all
resources. So you don't have any memory or CPU issues with optional code.
If your application is stored in the VFS, the PRC is copied into RAM
completely and then run like usual.
Bodo
Is there a simple way to leave some optional code into a PRC
segment that may, or not, be loaded by the user? I started writing
new features to my app that some may decide not to use for lack
of interest, CPU or memory. Writing a separate app would be very
complex if gloabls are to be shared between the main app and the
optional module.
Luc Le Blanc
http://www.speleo.qc.ca/Auriga "Luc Le Blanc" <> wrote in message news:188105@palm-dev-forum...
> Checking the Aceeca website, I see the MEZ1500 (499$) and the MZIO-less
> RDA1500 (399$) are displayed, but no PDA32.
>
> Mentionned operating systems for these upcoming devices (shipping date
> TBA) are WinCE 5.x / WinCE 6.x and Linux, but no Palm OS.
>
> The Aceeca website lacks much details (in both text and photos) for its
> devices. I gather the Bluetooth option must sit inside since the RDA1500
> doesn't have a MZIO slot. What are those side buttons? Is the battery
> swappable (it doesn't say)? Can a MZIO GPS be purchased? (news release say
> so, but I can't find this item among accessories.)
>
> Perusing the forums (no message more recent than August 2009), I read
> about the MEZ2000 as if it were old news, yet I don't find it anywhere.
> Same dimensions and weight as the MEZ1500, but with a VGA screen according
> to Tam's blog. Does it exist?
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Luc Le Blanc
> http://www.speleo.qc.ca/Auriga
Hi Luc,
Aceeca still hasn't updated that product page on their website to reflect
the new/changed devices. That same page has been there for about 2 years.
None of the up to date info about the MEZ1500 running GarnetOS is there,
nothing about the PDA32, etc. I'm told they're working on a news release
and will update the website then.
The MEZ2000 was abandoned before release, maybe about 1.5 years ago.
Swappable battery: Yes for the MEZ1500, No for the PDA32.
Side buttons: just a pair of user-programmable side buttons, great for
triggering a barcode scan, for example.
GPS module: I know there is/was one for the MEZ1000 from a third party, not
sure about use in the MEZ1500.
Meanwhile, tick tock tick tock...
--
David Thacker
http://www.SatelliteForms.net
The Premier RAD Tool for PalmOS & PocketPC
in general you can read out the NAND using a microcontroller, then
find (use google) the source code to TargetFFS, use that to mount the
NAND partition, then use alex pruss's code to convert nvfs files to
PDBs
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Dmitry Grinberg
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On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Luc Le Blanc My friend tried replacing the battery, to no avail. Then he
disconnected and reconnected the LCD and his device turned itself on.
All is well. Thanks for the suggestions.
Luc Le Blanc
http://www.speleo.qc.ca/Auriga Luc, Do you still need this?
I once wrote code to do a custom progress bar with cancel.
I can email it to you if you need.
Lionscribe
"Luc Le Blanc" Hi Luc,
if he is lucky it is not the mainboard causing the white screen. In say 50% of white screen cases we are able to resurrect the device with the following steps:
1. take out the battery (it is solded on the T5)
1.1 reconnect and try to boot with the same battery
1.2 try to boot with another fully charged battery (don't ask me why but I have seen E2s turning white with one battery and running perfectly with another)
2. try to boot with annother LCD module, taken from a TX or T5 (remove battery during operation!)
3. inspect the mainboard for corrosion with a magnifing glass (battery removed!). If you find some, carefully brush off the crystals with a glass fibre brush and some electronics cleaner.
Good luck!
Harry
Maybe not so relevant, but I take a chance asking here.
Is there a way to recover PDBs from the NVRAM of a dead Palm T5?
A friend lost all his cave survey data when his PDA died on him.
The screen went white, and soft resets now freeze halfway in the
process.
Luc Le Blanc
http://www.speleo.qc.ca/Auriga Checking the Aceeca website, I see the MEZ1500 (499$) and the MZIO-less RDA1500 (399$) are displayed, but no PDA32.
Mentionned operating systems for these upcoming devices (shipping date TBA) are WinCE 5.x / WinCE 6.x and Linux, but no Palm OS.
The Aceeca website lacks much details (in both text and photos) for its devices. I gather the Bluetooth option must sit inside since the RDA1500 doesn't have a MZIO slot. What are those side buttons? Is the battery swappable (it doesn't say)? Can a MZIO GPS be purchased? (news release say so, but I can't find this item among accessories.)
Perusing the forums (no message more recent than August 2009), I read about the MEZ2000 as if it were old news, yet I don't find it anywhere. Same dimensions and weight as the MEZ1500, but with a VGA screen according to Tam's blog. Does it exist?
Regards,
Luc Le Blanc
http://www.speleo.qc.ca/Auriga [+ desc][+ titles]
2.7 Getting Things Done with a Palmbrenda@brendagann.com (Brenda) wrote: >Does anyone use the Sidetracked Sisters' methods? (It is sort of like >GTD in that they advocate putting what you need to do on index cards. >You file by date or day of the week so that when the item needs to be >looked at again, it will automatically appear in your card file on the >day you wanted to review it.) They are one of the original SHE's >(Sidetracked Home Executives) > >Here is one of their sites: > >http://www.shesintouch.com/ > >I was thinking of implementing the card file with Bonsai. > I used to. Now, I use Flylady with two Control Journals for checklists (once for Home and one for Office) and LifeBalance for both home and office tasks. S.H.E. worked for me, except I kept losing the cards . My Palm is welded to my hip (actually, the case is tethered to a belt loop) so I don't lose it. K@ Kat Nagel "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." - Walt Disney David Allen is saying something about the use of a PDA for GTD and why it might be holding you back, on his new cd GTD with Work Life Balance. What is David mentioning here? He also uses a Palm, I thought. https://secure.davidco.com/store/catalog/NEW-Getting-Things-Done-with-Work-L ife-Balance-7-CD-Audio-Pro-p-16489.php Peter David Allen is saying something about the use of a PDA for GTD and why it might be holding you back, on his new cd GTD with Work Life Balance. What is David mentioning here? He also uses a Palm, I thought. https://secure.davidco.com/store/catalog/NEW-Getting-Things-Done-with-Work-L ife-Balance-7-CD-Audio-Pro-p-16489.php Peter I have written to Natara and had a quick reply. Thank you for that advice - a duh moment!! Didn't think of the obvious. I'm now trying to resolve the problem with their assistance. Thanks again for the responses, Emily :) --- In GtD_Palm@yahoogroups.com, "juci1960" wrote: > > I'm a big user of Bonsai with GTD. However, lately I've had issues. > Hi Brenda, On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 7:22 AM, Brenda wrote: > an nutty way of looking at "going shopping". I don't have a context list > > for @Hardware Store ... I have a shopping list! My mind was getting all > > I didn't think the context was @Hardware Store I thought it was just > @Errands so when you went out shopping or whatever you would have a list of > stuff you were supposed to do when you were out. You could have "return > library books" on @Errands which is not shopping I probably worded that poorly. I have shopping lists but not a context for each store. I might have a shopping list for "hardware" which might mean I'd go to any of a number of places ... depending. > some people really are messed up enough that if they have a bunch of stuff > to do they will drive all over the area instead of planning their stops so > they get around town in the most efficient way. I tend to look at my shopping lists before I run out ... to see what I want to get, where I might want to go, if it is on the way, if I need to take measurements or something with me, etc. > > already knew how to do that. I knew that if I had to call someone I did > not > > need to look at an @Call list ... I just picked up the phone. Had I > > continued to try to fit myself to this system of infinitely small baby > steps > > I'd have wound up drooling ;-) > > Well some people might have so many people to call that they can't remember > them if they don't have a list. My list might have "Call Joe" then pages away "Call Pete". I don't have an @Calls list because I don't view them as "calls" but rather as things to do to advance some goal or project. > I think it is a good idea like he says to have a list of stuff you want to > talk to the person about when you call so you do not forget what you wanted > to say. Oh, I do that before I make a complicated call ... before renewing the car insurance I read the policy and marked it up and made a list of possible savings items. It saved me $200+ > Maybe it is the difference between big picture/detail people. I am a > details person.. sometimes I have a problem understanding the big picture > unless I look at it from the details. That actually seems to be more the AF mentality. I've gotten just a bit at odds with Mark over the concept of planning ... he seems to believe that one lets the plan "grow organically" rather than lay it out in advance. His idea is that plans always change so they are pointless. I agree they change, but that is the nature of planning, not a problem with it ... and it does save time and money when you can anticipate problems rather than wander into them. So when I used the example of moving one's home, I listed some steps but he said just put "move" on the list and when you get to it see what pops into your head. (I think I'm citing the gist of what his position is.) So he is very bottom up in his approach ... and I see the advantage in that for some things. I believe a mixture of the two approaches is called for. I don't write out a plan to eat lunch, but I do for moving my home. > > I have always had lists ... lots and lots of lists ;-) And they are very > > useful. I could CALL many of them "context lists", but it is so much > > simpler to call them: "Things do do when I'm in San Francisco", "Good > > restaurants in Dallas", "Things I do every Monday", "Things I do every > > month", "Things to buy at CostCo", etc. > > I think some of those could be called contexts but not most of them. The real problem people seem to have with contexts is that the system does not provide a way to CHOOSE a context. Rather you "find yourself there" then see what has to be done. In order to get the RIGHT things done one has to be "project centric" rather than "location centric". > > Yeah, that is one confusion people have. There are numerous posts in the > > forum about what, when, and how to dismiss and what to do about dismissed > > items. Dismissed items are EXACTLY like "someday/maybe" items. In fact, > I > > prefer the term "someday/maybe" because "dismissed" conveys that they are > > gone. > > I noticed some of those posts. > > I think it makes more sense to call them someday/maybe but even if he knows > of DA he wouldn't just want to use someone else's terms. Probably very true. > > Right, and that is one way in which mixing things works. The hard thing > > looks easier than the harder thing so it is more likely to get done. > Also, > > if you are faced with a hard rule that you must "dismiss" it or do > > "something" on it, then you will most likely do "something" on it. > > Yes but it would seem as you continually do the hard thing because there is > a harder thing you dont want to do.. eventually all that would be on the > list would be the hardest things.. and then it would be procrastination big > time. Not so much as you will have seen that really hard thing about 30 times before you HAVE TO ma Long message truncated by MailBucket. If it were me, I'd post this problem on the Bonsai user forum at www.Natara.com. Natara staff monitors those forums and in the past have responded fairly quickly to my queries. Mark --- In GtD_Palm@yahoogroups.com, "juci1960" wrote: > > I'm a big user of Bonsai with GTD. However, lately I've had issues. > > I have Palm TX and desktop Bonsai - latest version. The problem is that when I open desktop Bonsai none of the outlines are showing. I have to manually open each and everyone which is a real pain. This was not the case, and I've absolutely no idea why this has suddenly started to happen. I can't think of any setting changes I've made. Everything is marked to sync with Palm etc. > > Any ideas on how to fix this?? I'd love to know! I'm going nuts trying to figure this out :( > Hi Teri, Wednesday, April 15, 2009, 4:46:02 PM, you wrote: > Yep, I read that book too. I am basically a productivity book junkie > ;) (Yes, I am currently reading the book written by the Zen Habits > guy.) What I was thinking about is how LB will hide things for you I don't know who that is. > and let them come up on the list at the appropriate time. And it is > tricky to set things to work just right. (You may not have adjusted > the pie chart slices or set the importance correctly at the parent > level.) I don't remember how much I worked with it... I know I was afraid I might mess it up so that might have meant I never really tried it because I was too afraid I would lose my info coming up at the right time. > There is a program for linux called Howm that does the same thing. It > runs in Emacs and will bump things up and down on the list depending I don't have linux but maybe someone else on the list does > on importance and date due. I liked using it, but got tired of trying > to deal with the Japanese translations. Oh well. The card file idea > really does work well, if you like analog. And it can be fun to have a > theme for different months of the year, to help you focus on different > aspects. I would think it would be easy to make the cards be digital. -- Brenda Hi Mike, Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 5:05:29 AM, you wrote: > Mark is from England and so English is not his first language ;-) ;-) > Seriously, I have big problems with his instructions. I had to puzzle it > out and even drew a flow chart ... several others had to draw flow charts to > understand it. When I drew the chart I realized that I had misunderstood. > Even after that, I STILL had some misunderstanding. Mark does not get that > his instructions read like Chinese instructions to connect a stereo ;-) I think what I mostly read was the stuff up to the quick start info... I don't think he should have quick info because it is so "quick" the person doesn't understand it. There doesn't seem to be enough there. I downloaded some of the flowcharts. > The other thing is that it is not just a "list" but a method of processing > and the method has to be experienced ... because how you process things > affects your attitude toward them. It is hard to explain ... it just has to > be experienced. I think I get what you mean. > an nutty way of looking at "going shopping". I don't have a context list > for @Hardware Store ... I have a shopping list! My mind was getting all I didn't think the context was @Hardware Store I thought it was just @Errands so when you went out shopping or whatever you would have a list of stuff you were supposed to do when you were out. You could have "return library books" on @Errands which is not shopping some people really are messed up enough that if they have a bunch of stuff to do they will drive all over the area instead of planning their stops so they get around town in the most efficient way. > already knew how to do that. I knew that if I had to call someone I did not > need to look at an @Call list ... I just picked up the phone. Had I > continued to try to fit myself to this system of infinitely small baby steps > I'd have wound up drooling ;-) Well some people might have so many people to call that they can't remember them if they don't have a list. I think it is a good idea like he says to have a list of stuff you want to talk to the person about when you call so you do not forget what you wanted to say. Maybe it is the difference between big picture/detail people. I am a details person.. sometimes I have a problem understanding the big picture unless I look at it from the details. > I have always had lists ... lots and lots of lists ;-) And they are very > useful. I could CALL many of them "context lists", but it is so much > simpler to call them: "Things do do when I'm in San Francisco", "Good > restaurants in Dallas", "Things I do every Monday", "Things I do every > month", "Things to buy at CostCo", etc. I think some of those could be called contexts but not most of them. > Yeah, that is one confusion people have. There are numerous posts in the > forum about what, when, and how to dismiss and what to do about dismissed > items. Dismissed items are EXACTLY like "someday/maybe" items. In fact, I > prefer the term "someday/maybe" because "dismissed" conveys that they are > gone. I noticed some of those posts. I think it makes more sense to call them someday/maybe but even if he knows of DA he wouldn't just want to use someone else's terms. > Right, and that is one way in which mixing things works. The hard thing > looks easier than the harder thing so it is more likely to get done. Also, > if you are faced with a hard rule that you must "dismiss" it or do > "something" on it, then you will most likely do "something" on it. Yes but it would seem as you continually do the hard thing because there is a harder thing you dont want to do.. eventually all that would be on the list would be the hardest things.. and then it would be procrastination big time. > It is not that the system is involved, as in complicated ... it is that the > way it works on your mind is not obvious and you would not see that from the > instructions. So many people read the instructions and then write a post > saying "That is stupid. It is just a To Do list with complicated rules. When I saw it, I was hung up on the dismissing items thing. I thought.. I don't want to write stuff and then if I don't do it when I read through my list I must "dismiss" it.. (which to me meant delete it) I don't have a problem with following what "expert" people talk about doing... I do it the way they say at least at first. I don't just go off on my own thinking I know better when I am just learning the method. It seems most people just go off and do their own thing and then wonder why the experts' methods don't work. (Ummm.. maybe because you are not doing his method??) > What's the big deal?" But it is just those rules that make it different and > make it work. There are many on the forum who complain it is not working > for them with the great results others express. When asked to describe what > they are doing, it turns out that they are treating the whole "list" as a > big To Long message truncated by MailBucket. Hi Mike, Wednesday, April 15, 2009, 4:09:04 AM, you wrote: > Hi Brenda, > On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 3:05 AM, Brenda wrote: >> It's like doing the AF on speed. Its amazing how stuff I've been resisting >> > gets done just because its the quickest way to get to the juicy task I >> > really want to do. I love it. >> I have been doing this lately. There is one book I want to read and another >> one I need to but don't really want to read it. So I decided I cannot read >> the book I want that day unless I read some of the book I need to read >> first. I have to read a certain # of pages so it can go back to the library >> on time. (Not just read one paragraph so I can say "done".) I am actually >> reading more each day than the goal. > Yes, it works ;-) Actually I was not trying to do the system then. It seems kind of babyish to have to tell yourself you can't do what you want until you do what you don't want.. like telling a little kid you can't have your dessert until you eat your vegetables. But it works. Interesting how I got myself to answer your longer letter.. I was avoiding it because it was long... but then I wanted to respond to some other mails and I didn't want to write to other people and not you because that would be rude. The person with the Bonsai question needed help and it is hard for me to resist helping people :-) (I also left this letter because I did not want to skip the longer to answer this one. That was supposed to motivate me but it didn't.) > Yes, that is why I try to do it in order but do a quick scan of the whole > list to see if there is anything that might ambush me. It only takes a few > minutes and it quiets my mind ;-) good idea > I actually do like office supplies. I'm always thinking about how a > different notebook, format, pen, etc. might work ... but I do draw some > lines about what I will spend on things. My handwriting sucks so why would > I spend $500 for a beautiful fountain pen and more on superb inks and > parchment paper ... just to scrawl my grocery list ;-) Anne would say if it motivates you, you should do it. She said she used to not let herself get new office supplies. She would say stuff like you cannot have the new supplies if you cannot stick to the system you are currently using. Eventually she realized she should let herself have the stuff. (Of course I am not saying she would say to use a $500 pen for a grocery list...) > I think one of those pictures (a few, perhaps) are of implementations in > OneNote. Thanks for the info. I don't have the Office suite. > I love 3x5 cards. I used to be organized around them ... in the days of > SHE. I used to have the colors and pads and the whole thing. I still have > my house cleaning stuff in my card box. It is so much easier than booting a > computer. I think it is great that you did the SHE stuff. Some guys would have a hang up about it since it is aimed at a female audience. > The hanewriting thing has more dimenstions though. Writting on paper is a > different experience than doing it on the computer. I find that rewriting > things allows me to think about them and gives me some insight. It is > similar to doing mind maps on a computer vs. drawing them by hand. Yes I can see why it would be different to the mind to do something on computer vs on paper. Even stuff like doing it on a dry erase board vs on paper. -- Brenda Hi juci1960, Thursday, April 16, 2009, 4:37:15 PM, you wrote: > The problem is that when I open desktop Bonsai none of the outlines are > showing. I have to manually open each and everyone I don't know but you can write to support @ natara . com and they will respond back. (take out the spaces) -- Brenda Did you try removing and reinstall Bonsai desktop? Peter > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > > Any ideas on how to fix this?? I'd love to know! I'm going nuts trying > to figure this out :( > > I'm a big user of Bonsai with GTD. However, lately I've had issues. I have Palm TX and desktop Bonsai - latest version. The problem is that when I open desktop Bonsai none of the outlines are showing. I have to manually open each and everyone which is a real pain. This was not the case, and I've absolutely no idea why this has suddenly started to happen. I can't think of any setting changes I've made. Everything is marked to sync with Palm etc. Any ideas on how to fix this?? I'd love to know! I'm going nuts trying to figure this out :( > I am now reading their Happiness File book. It is not about housework. It is about other aspects of your life. For example, they are going into stuff like "immediate action" cards that could be things like calling people or getting something at a store. (For Mike.. no it is not context related :-) Yep, I read that book too. I am basically a productivity book junkie ;) (Yes, I am currently reading the book written by the Zen Habits guy.) What I was thinking about is how LB will hide things for you and let them come up on the list at the appropriate time. And it is tricky to set things to work just right. (You may not have adjusted the pie chart slices or set the importance correctly at the parent level.) There is a program for linux called Howm that does the same thing. It runs in Emacs and will bump things up and down on the list depending on importance and date due. I liked using it, but got tired of trying to deal with the Japanese translations. Oh well. The card file idea really does work well, if you like analog. And it can be fun to have a theme for different months of the year, to help you focus on different aspects. -- Teri Pittman teri.pittman@gmail.com Hi Brenda, On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 3:05 AM, Brenda wrote: > It's like doing the AF on speed. Its amazing how stuff I've been resisting > > gets done just because its the quickest way to get to the juicy task I > > really want to do. I love it. > > I have been doing this lately. There is one book I want to read and another > one I need to but don't really want to read it. So I decided I cannot read > the book I want that day unless I read some of the book I need to read > first. I have to read a certain # of pages so it can go back to the library > on time. (Not just read one paragraph so I can say "done".) I am actually > reading more each day than the goal. Yes, it works ;-) > I would worry though if the person only does the things with the quick turn > around.. it would seem they would reach a point where all the hard items > were left. That point has been made on the forum in a number of instances. What is important is to keep in touch with what is going on in your mind when you do things. Doing things out of the order your system dictates can make good sense or it could be a way of procrastinating. It all depends on why you are doing what you do. > > So I am just bending one of Mark's steps; the one where I check if there > is > > another task on the current page that is ready to be done after I have > > crossed off the first one. > > I can see where it would be good or bad to not look for an item on the > current page. If you spend too much time going over the old then the new > will back up. If you only focus on the new then the older stuff will never > get done until it becomes a fire. Yes, that is why I try to do it in order but do a quick scan of the whole list to see if there is anything that might ambush me. It only takes a few minutes and it quiets my mind ;-) > > I don't get that excited about my list ;-) but I've seen so many people > who > > do! LOL ;-) > > You would probably think I am too excited about my lists... Ah, a closet list junkie ;-) > > Just for fun, some of the people on the Mark's forum have been posting > > pictures to Flickr ... gad, people do love their Moleskines! I've tried > and > > tried, but I can't see a $15 bound book for a To Do list! LOL ;-) > > In the Time Management book I mentioned by Anne McGee-Cooper, you would see > how she is motivated by getting new office supplies. I would be more like > her and you would probably be more like Duane her business partner. (I wrote > Anne-McGee before which was putting the hyphen in the wrong place.) I actually do like office supplies. I'm always thinking about how a different notebook, format, pen, etc. might work ... but I do draw some lines about what I will spend on things. My handwriting sucks so why would I spend $500 for a beautiful fountain pen and more on superb inks and parchment paper ... just to scrawl my grocery list ;-) I WOULD spend money on a beautiful book if I were writing something important. > > Anyway, > > you can see books and software and all kinds of tweaks with lines, boxes > > filled in, tracking metrics and tags ... oh, just about anything > imaginable > > ;-) > > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/sarahmichelef/3404249811/in/photostream/ > > > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonaz/3304749058/in/pool-autofocustimesystem/ > > Thanks for the links :-) It helps to see how other people are doing things. Yes, I like some of what I see there. People can be ingenious! > I think in this case I would do my list on the computer or Palm unless I > could find a really good reason not to. I think one of those pictures (a few, perhaps) are of implementations in OneNote. It is a nice product for this because it has the look of a notebook ... it has books, tabs, pages and sub pages. You can make it really LOOK like a notebook with no effort at all. You can also tag items and like them to Outlook to form tasks and appointments. You can have check boxes, icons, and filter by any of these things. You can also highlight, crossout, etc, with just a click of the line and a search and ... all kinds of good stuff. And the good part is you probably already have it on your computer ... if you have the full MS Office suite. If you are computer centrick there is a good reason to work in the MS Office world ... email, appointments, tasks, projects, etc. are all interlinked. (For example, I was thinking it might help me to have to > manipulate the 3x5 cards vs just writing things in the computer.) I usually > don't like to do stuff in handwriting. I love 3x5 cards. I used to be organized around them ... in the days of SHE. I used to have the colors and pads and the whole thing. I still have my house cleaning stuff in my card box. It is so much easier than booting a computer. The hanewriting thing has more dimenstions though. Writting on paper is a different experience than doing it on the computer. I find that rewriting things allows me to think about the Long message truncated by MailBucket. Hello Teri, Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 3:24:05 PM, you wrote: > Sounds like Life Balance would be perfect for this ;) I did the > Sidetracked Sisters box years ago, still have it. It is a nice, analog > way to track routine and not so routine tasks. GTD is very good for > some things but short on how to deal with housework. I tried LB years ago but I did not like it. I forget exactly what the terms are so I might have this wrong but you had to set it up so that things would come up at the right time, using its fuzzy logic. That meant I could not depend on if I would be doing it in the right way to make the things come up at the right time. Of course it could be totally different now. In the updated SHE book, the sisters talk about using their system on the computer. They use Lotus Notes as an example. (Book is 2001.) I posted on their forum recently about if people were using a computer for the system, but all comments but one focused on using the analog method. One person mentioned using Outlook etc but did not give any details. I am now reading their Happiness File book. It is not about housework. It is about other aspects of your life. For example, they are going into stuff like "immediate action" cards that could be things like calling people or getting something at a store. (For Mike.. no it is not context related :-) They even have a thing for new years resolutions.. well they don't do them that way. They list everything they want to change and then stick the items in appropriate places in their box. I am not describing it very well... that doesn't sound like it would be that helpful from my description. It is a way to better your life unlike resolutions that only last until Jan 9. One example is one of them needed to return a punch bowl, but they wrote it down to do it in June. The author said you might find that strange.. why are you waiting until June?? She figured if the person had waited 4 years for the bowl, another 8 months was not going to matter :-) The point was.. do the things that are more important first. (I would still think it is not that much effort to return the bowl when you are driving by the person's house anyway but maybe she didn't know where she had stashed the bowl :-) I am now reading the section where each month has a different focus such as January is clearing and February is romance. In the clearing section you are supposed to look at each item you see in your house and think about it. For example, when she looked at her china she realized she had never liked it. She got it because her mom and her sister had liked it. She had spent 20 years dusting china she hated. So she gave the pieces to her sister and mom, and then got herself china she actually liked. She told an example of a participant in their seminar who did not think the clearing would apply to him. He lived in a house he was trying to remodel. No appliances etc. With bare walls etc what could there be to clear? They agreed he was probably right. When he stood at his front door, he realized he did not want to live in the house, or even in the city he was living in. -- Brenda Hi Mike, Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 5:48:36 AM, you wrote: > I just came across this post on the AF list. I thought I'd share it with thanks :-) > It's like doing the AF on speed. Its amazing how stuff I've been resisting > gets done just because its the quickest way to get to the juicy task I > really want to do. I love it. I have been doing this lately. There is one book I want to read and another one I need to but don't really want to read it. So I decided I cannot read the book I want that day unless I read some of the book I need to read first. I have to read a certain # of pages so it can go back to the library on time. (Not just read one paragraph so I can say "done".) I am actually reading more each day than the goal. I would worry though if the person only does the things with the quick turn around.. it would seem they would reach a point where all the hard items were left. > So I am just bending one of Mark's steps; the one where I check if there is > another task on the current page that is ready to be done after I have > crossed off the first one. I can see where it would be good or bad to not look for an item on the current page. If you spend too much time going over the old then the new will back up. If you only focus on the new then the older stuff will never get done until it becomes a fire. > I don't get that excited about my list ;-) but I've seen so many people who > do! LOL ;-) You would probably think I am too excited about my lists... > Just for fun, some of the people on the Mark's forum have been posting > pictures to Flickr ... gad, people do love their Moleskines! I've tried and > tried, but I can't see a $15 bound book for a To Do list! LOL ;-) In the Time Management book I mentioned by Anne McGee-Cooper, you would see how she is motivated by getting new office supplies. I would be more like her and you would probably be more like Duane her business partner. (I wrote Anne-McGee before which was putting the hyphen in the wrong place.) > > Anyway, > you can see books and software and all kinds of tweaks with lines, boxes > filled in, tracking metrics and tags ... oh, just about anything imaginable > ;-) > http://www.flickr.com/photos/sarahmichelef/3404249811/in/photostream/ > http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonaz/3304749058/in/pool-autofocustimesystem/ Thanks for the links :-) It helps to see how other people are doing things. I think in this case I would do my list on the computer or Palm unless I could find a really good reason not to. (For example, I was thinking it might help me to have to manipulate the 3x5 cards vs just writing things in the computer.) I usually don't like to do stuff in handwriting. I will answer the longer email later. -- Brenda Hello Anita, Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 2:02:36 PM, you wrote: > enough of us that she could / would write back. Some of my e-mails > back-and-forth to her ended up in her first book as shared tips . thats cool :-) > like. As I recall, her reasoning was that she had tried it once and it was > too confusing or too overwhelming for her (Something like that). Well it could be she was intimidated with the Palm itself. It might have been the new thing on the block when she tried it. I almost lost my Palm years ago... if I had lost it back then, I probably would not have replaced it. Now I would replace it or at least get something similar. Also I am sure there are people out there that would still rather write a letter with paper and pen than write one on a computer or typewriter. > Whatever we do to organize ourselves has to work for us. My previous Palm > crashed and burned and I didn't get my lists back on this one. You could get a backup program like BackupBuddy. If I remember right, HS lists did not automatically get saved back then. (Don't know about now.) > Nice > conversation here -- it'll get me thinking about doing some more personalizing on my Palm. glad you like it Brenda On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 2:28 AM, Brenda wrote: > Hello Tom, > > Monday, April 13, 2009, 4:53:26 AM, you wrote: > >> Well, how do the cards handle that? > > How the SHE system handles things if it was daily, weekly, yearly etc.. Let's say you want clean the gutters twice a year. You do it today in April. You would file your card in the front of your October section. When you get to October, you will look at your cards and decide when you want to do the thing. The card doesn't keep coming up every week or month.. you don't see it again until October. > Sounds like Life Balance would be perfect for this ;) I did the Sidetracked Sisters box years ago, still have it. It is a nice, analog way to track routine and not so routine tasks. GTD is very good for some things but short on how to deal with housework. -- Teri Pittman teri.pittman@gmail.com Brenda wrote --=20 >>...One of the main reasons I want to do stuff electronically is because I= do not want to be constantly rewriting my to do list... Hey Again Brenda, I just came across this post on the AF list. I thought I'd share it with you as it kind of captures the typical feeling of people who just took a breath and jumped into the system. (The subject of the thread is "What tweaks have you made to AF?") ==================== I have now completed two hard backed notebooks worth of tasks since starting AF in December. That's well over 1500 tasks completed. My confidence has soared. I am relaxed and on top of things despite doubling my workload in my business and taking on extra projects in my spare time. And I have carefully stuck to Mark's original instructions. Every modification I tried killed the productivity. The only 'tweak' I have is this: If I have a task I really want to do now, I harness that motivation to 'power thru' my list as follows. I enter the task at the end of the list as normal. Resisting the temptation to just do it now. I go back to my current location and power thru the pages doing just one item from each page - the minimum allowed by Mark's instructions. If I can't find one item on the page then I dismiss the page without thinking too much about it. That rarely happens. Mostly I pick an item that has a quick turn round. Do it. Cross it off. Move to the next page and keep going. Soon I have reached my last page legitimately and can do my happy task with a clear conscience. It feels great. It's like doing the AF on speed. Its amazing how stuff I've been resisting gets done just because its the quickest way to get to the juicy task I really want to do. I love it. So I am just bending one of Mark's steps; the one where I check if there is another task on the current page that is ready to be done after I have crossed off the first one. Otherwise I am sticking to the original process on paper. I am so afraid to mess with the voodoo magic that works so well but I don't know why. ========== I don't get that excited about my list ;-) but I've seen so many people who do! LOL ;-) Just for fun, some of the people on the Mark's forum have been posting pictures to Flickr ... gad, people do love their Moleskines! I've tried and tried, but I can't see a $15 bound book for a To Do list! LOL ;-) Anyway, you can see books and software and all kinds of tweaks with lines, boxes filled in, tracking metrics and tags ... oh, just about anything imaginable ;-) http://www.flickr.com/photos/sarahmichelef/3404249811/in/photostream/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonaz/3304749058/in/pool-autofocustimesystem/ -- Cheers, Mike [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [+ desc][+ titles]
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