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HOT Stuff
User Tips and Tools
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Feedalot v0.15 (freeware)    
http://www.feedalot.com/feedalot/mainpc.jsp
(http://mob.feedalot.com/feedalot/mainpc.jsp - Mobile version web page)
A RSS
(What is RSS?) news reader, Feedalot provides RSS news sources to Palm, Pocket PC, Blackberry and phones (as well as to Firefox browsers).
Feedalot
Pordic Portable Dictionary (freeware)
A free dictionary software for your Palm Organizer. The program and all the dictionaries are completely free.
http://www.tinowendland.com/pordic/
Flash cards to study words; Copy | Paste to other apps; Most recently searched-for words and more.
Pordic
Jan 26 1src Podcast (freeware) 
http://www.1src.com/podcasts/1SRCPodcastSixty.mp3
by Alan Grassia, this is somewhat like a verbal, informative RSS file for the 1src site. They discuss things ranging from how the Palm platform would benefit from being taken over by Apple, to the pluses/minuses of the new Mini-Opera browser and the fastest Palm of all time (The Tungsten C!).
A mike that reduces the im"P"act of certain
spoken letters would be helpful -- but, all-in-all, this is an interesting
review of the state of Palm.
Phone Number -- USA do not call list (freeware)
Just a reminder that if you add a new pda or cell phone in the US, and want to add your new number to the list that telemarketers are not allowed to call, that this can be done by dialing 1-888-382-1222 or by entering your number into the easy to use government site (http://www.donotcall.gov).
ActiveSync Toggle v1.0.3.1 Beta (freeware)
http://micrologics.co.uk/library/ast/
The world finally has a tool to allow you to control the presumptive ActiveSync taskbar application -- including stopping it from loading at system startup altogether.
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ActiveSync Toggle
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Palm users - We know that you'll want this one.
Recal 2.5 (freeware)
http://www.schau.com/gz/palm/recal/
This tool retrieves previously set Digitizer settings (5 seconds after powering on) -- saving you from the annoying practice of having to renter them after resetting the device. It also works on those Palms that just lose, or slowly forget their settings over time.
Small Menu
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SmallMenu v3.18 (freeware | shareware)
http://tillanosoft.com/ce/smenu.html
This is a nice task manager/launcher combo for the PPC. There are a lot of useability features in the freeware version, with add ons in the shareware (smallmenuplus) version.
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Tip: Frequently Used Apps List
Under the OS5 PalmOS, you can access a list of the most recently used apps by tapping the smaller Home (house) icon on the status bar, shown in yellow below. From there you can tap the app that you want to jump to next.
Frequently used Apps
History Notes
The Wikipedia entry on the PalmOS (freeware)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_OS
Just a lot of detail about the Palm, the basic applications and links to core information pages, on one of the best known info pages on the web.
The Evolution of the Palm (freeware)
http://deeptec.com/palmevolution/palmtree.html
Taking you all the way from the LifeDrive back to the 1996 US Robotics Pilot 1000. Float your mousepointer over a device for it's name. See also the more detailed Milestones page.
Software | Hardware Updates and Patches
Palm T|X Universal Wireless Keyboard Drive update (1.1) (freeware)
http://www.palm.com/us/support/downloads/universal_wireless_keyboard.html
Adds support for the T|X and fixes Bluetooth problems.
Treo 650 Updater 1.13 (freeware)
http://www.palm.com/us/support/downloads/treo650updater/sprint.html
Update for Sprint Treo 650s, that rolls up previous updates
and includes better find-you-when-you-call-911 support as well as better memory management
for background apps.
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Development Tips and Tools
(Sites with
content most valuable to developers)
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Developing Treo 700W apps
Hello there, PalmOS Developers?
Remember back to 2005, when you could load the nice, small, self-contained Palm emulator on a system, along with the open source GCC compiler -- and install .prcs right into the emulator to do your development and testing?
(Take a deep breath before reading on).
Here is what is needed to develop Treo 700W (Windows Mobile) apps.
NewzAlert Composer 1.70.6 ($29.95USD)
If you would like a relatively simple tool to Create RSS feeds for your web pages and | or data, the NewzAlert tool provides most of what you might need. This includes remembering several entries for setup fields, so that you can cycle through them when using it again. Here is an example summary output of our October 2005 newsletter:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<rss version="2.0">
<channel>
<generator>NewzAlert Composer v1.70.6</generator>
<lastBuildDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2006 16:07:35 -0500</lastBuildDate>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2006 16:07:47 -0500</pubDate>
<title>Handheld Newsletter</title>
<description><![CDATA[Fundamental Object's Free PDA | Handheld newsletter,
containing tips, tricks and utilities for users and developers.]]></description>
<link>http://www.fo.com/newsletters</link>
<language>en-us</language>
<copyright>Copyright © 1995-2006 Fundamental Objects, Inc.</copyright>
<managingEditor>Editor</managingEditor>
<item>
<title>October 2005 PDA Newsletter</title>
<description><![CDATA[October 2005 PDA Newsletter with
a focus on the Treo 700]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2006 11:01:47 -0500</pubDate>
<link>http://www.fo.com/newsletters/fonews-101705.htm</link>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>
NOTE: NewzAlert only discusses publishing directly to your FTP site (meaning that you have to give the tool your userid & password) OR, by publishing using their fee-based service used to host feeds. But, there is Also an option in the publishing section to send the feed directly to your hard drive as a flat file. From there you can move the resulting .RSS file when and where you want to yourself.
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FO
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We have a new product offering, foLicense.
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http://www.fo.com/pda/folicense.htm
foLicense is a server-based toolset, that provides PDA user-registration in a centralized way, for multi-user apps. Rather than users having to register each individual PDA (and you having to deal with name changes; re-registering users after losing PDAs; AND supporting users during initial registration) foLicense takes care of that all in once place. On the server. Convenient web pages are available showing user counts | server counts and connections made. Multiple apps per server are also supported.
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Part and parcel with the foLicense product, we also provide custom coding for sentinel code protection devices. These newer breed "Dongle" devices help to prevent your server-based applications from traveling to places that they shouldn't -- and this is what we use to lock down our foLicense toolset.
See http://www.fo.com/pda/folicense.htm for more.
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Reader
Tips
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TIP: Is it possible to do shortcuts on the Treo 650?
Submitted by Sam Kamens, via Pilot List.
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It is possible to do shortcuts on the 650, but it's a hassle.
You have to enter the key sequence s-Alt-Alt-Alt-Alt-Center to select the shortcut symbol, and then enter the shortcut text. Not exactly a shortcut ;-).
However, there's a shortcut replacement app called ShortCut5
(http://www.freewarepalm.com/utilities/shortcut5.shtml) which turns the
period into a shortcut key.
Works great, and I use it all the time.
Sam.
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