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User Tips and Tools
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HARDWARE – What's what?
With today's dizzying set of new vendors and new hardware releases – it can be fairly difficult to keep up with what is out there. Our newsletter starts with some sites that provide lists of the current hardware devices. Included is detailed information about each device.
All the Palm OS handheld devices
http://www.palmsource.com/handhelds/
All the Palm OS smartphones
http://www.palmsource.com/smartphones/index.html
Cell phone capabilities 
http://mobile.eric-poncet.com/phone/hardware.html
All of the current IPAQ units 
http://www.smb.compaq.com/families.asp?ProductLineId=510&oi=E9CED&BEID=19701&SBLID=
Current DELL Pocket PCs
http://www.pocketpccity.com/articles/2003/10/2003-10-15-Dell-Debuts-Pocket.html
The Axim X3 is 28% lighter than its predecessor and 17% thinner. This is a good thing, since the old one felt like you were carrying around a Compaq Portable from 1987.
TapWave ~
http://www.tapwave.com/
Zodiac ™
Here is a new one – a Palm device (running the "Tapwave enhanced Palm 5.2T OS") specifically for gaming (and videos, and MP3s, etc). Here are the Zodiac specifications. The Zodiac is wireless to allow you to play other gamers. Can you say a couple of Gameboys without the cables?
SOFTWARE
PocketPC City
http://www.pocketpccity.com/software-pocketpc.html
This is a nice site for PPC software and tips.
Consultants Travel Kit
The following are useful tools when at a client on the road...
Hours
http://hours.sourceforge.net
Hours
A time logging application that helps you to keep track of the time that you spend on individual jobs. Hours even captures break times.
License: Freeware
Accounts Manager v1.0.35AML
http://www.jltorres.com
Account Manager
You can budget and work with your job expenses. You can add a note about each expense; group by categories; and even graph the expenses per account. This is a useful application if you are managing multiple clients.
License: Freeware
FormulaCalc v1.0
http://www.40-below.com/palm
A formula calculator where you can set up (and run) your own calculations. Supports square roots, If statements, Log, Int, Sin, Degree, Rad, etc. Like a handheld calculator, there are 26 memory storage locations to hold temporary values as your calculations run.
License: Freeware
Note: Combining these tools with the Progect (a Palm-based project management tool) and Converter (which converts between many different kimds of measurements) applications from our April newsletter provides an even better toolkit.
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Development Tips and Tools
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newObjects ActiveX Pack1 1.0
http://www.newobjects.com/product.asp?ID=63
A collection of many ActiveX components and a scripting host tool for the Pocket PC. Read and write from streams, the registry, files, etc. The ActiveX pack is available for ARM, MIPS and SH3.
License: Freeware
IrDA communications
http://www.pocket-g.com/freeware.html
A basic IrDA communications Pocket PC app. Source code is included.
License: Freeware
In our last newsletter, we showed PERL and Pocket C development tools
for Pocket PC developers. The following are a set of Pocket C add-ins, as well as other traditional developments tools like FORTH, that have been adapted to run on a Pocket PC.
Pocket C (sic: that is PocketC) tools
CEAPI
http://www.pcform.net/
CEAPI provides an interface for calling Windows CE API functions directly from PocketC. Includes Windows compatible header files and example PocketC programs. Supports all versions of Windows CE from version 2.0 to PocketPC2002 on HPC, PPC, HPCPro, PocketPC, HPC2000 and PocketPC2002 platforms.
PCForm
http://www.networkdynamics.net/PCForm.html
A IDE environment, for building Pocket C forms and applications, directly on a Pocket PC device.
License: Commercial ($29.99)
Other Pocket PC/Windows CE development tools
BRexxCE 2.0.6 (Rexx)
http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/languages/rexx/brexx/html/rx.html
This one will be appreciated by old IBMers. Rexx is a vast scripting language, which feels like working with PERL. Versions are available for Windows NT, CE, 2K, the MacOS and versions of Unix. There is a help FAQ about installing and using BRexxCE on the site.
License: Freeware
dsFORTH 2.0 beta 1 (FORTH)
http://www.delosoft.com/
A ANS FORTH language compiler. Support for ALL Win32 platforms: Windows CE (3.0 only), 9x, ME, NT, 2K. Note that there is also a version for the PalmOS on the site.
License: Freeware
Pocket Scheme (LISP) for the H/PC and P/PC
http://www.mazama.net/scheme/pscheme.htm
Scheme
Scheme allows you to create files, run calculations, perform regular expression matching and more.
COM Registration Tool for Windows CE
http://www.pocketpccity.com/software/pocketpc/COM-Registration-Tool-for-Windows-2002-11-1-ce-pocketpc.html
COM Registration Tool for Windows CE 1.0
This is an interesting one for a developers' removable storage card. This works like REGSVR32 to allow you to register COM components on Windows CE.
License: Freeware
SapphireGZip v2.00
http://www.sapphire-solutions.co.uk/
A compression/decompression DLL for the eVB (Embedded Visual Basic) developer to use in working with gzip. It seems pricey at $199, but that is a fair price when compared to Windows compression libraries.
License: Demo
Patches/Updates
Pocket PC Bug fix
http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/HandheldiPAQ/us/download/19479.html
Corrects problems on the IPAQ 5500 series, including fingerprint recognition, reset problems,
Bluetooth proxy settings being erased and "Dial via Bluetooth" not accepting spaces in the phone number.
Free
Other
PDA Forums
http://www.pdaforums.com/links/pocketpc/mailing.html
Mailing lists and Newsgroups for the following topics:
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Comp.OS Ms-Windows.CE
Microsoft Handheld PC
Microsoft Palm-size PC
Microsoft Pocket PC
Microsoft Pocket PC Binaries
Microsoft Pocket PC Marketplace
Microsoft Pocket PC Developers
Jornada Mailing List
Windows CE Mailing List
Windows CE Mailing List - Portuguese
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FO News
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Fall PDA Offer
For the first time, we are offering a special on hardware for our newsletter readers.
Tungsten E
We have the Palm Tungsten E with a list price of $199USD, for $185. This includes free shipping to the 48 lower US states.
Contact us for even lower pricing on orders of 10 units or more.
This offer is only valid for readers of the FO newsletter.
Please mention the code FONEWS1003 when corresponding about this offer.
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Tungsten E features
- Memory: 32MB (28.3MB actual storage capacity).
- Screen: 16-bit, 320x320 transflective TFT color display supporting more than 65,000 colors.
- Size and Weight: 4.5 x 3.1 x 0.5 inches; 4.6 ounces.
- Processor: Texas Instruments OMAP311 ARM Processor.
- Operating System: Palm OS 5.2.1.
- 5-way Navigator: Access information with just one hand.
- Battery: Rechargeable Lithium Ion/Polymer battery.
- Headphone Jack: Supports 3.5mm stereo headphone plug (sold separately)
- Palm Expansion Slot: Add extra memory, or content like a
dictionary, sold separately. Supports SD, SDIO and MultiMediaCards.
- Updated PIM apps: Calendar, Contacts, Memos and Tasks.
- What's in the Box: Palm Desktop software for Windows and Macintosh, Tungsten E.
- Desktop System Requirements: One available USB port PC running Windows 98, 2000, ME, XP or Mac OS 9.1 or higher, or Mac OS X v 10.1.2 to v 10.2.6 (Windows 2000 and XP and Mac OS X require admin rights to install)
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