Have you ever wondered just how many days it will be until a certain event? My kids ask me daily how many days it is until Friday, Saturday, or Sunday for church. Fortunately, those are easy amounts to figure out, but if you have something a bit further down the road, then you may wish to check out Date Wheel 3 for your Palm OS PDA or smartphone. With just three sections to press and enter data into, you’ll know in an instant how many days it is until you get an extra hour of sleep when we fall back. See our review for more details.
In order to celebrate Valentines Day next week, Astraware and PopCap Games have introduced a Valentines Day version of Bejeweled, the bestselling game for handheld devices. This special version combines all the fun and excitement of the original Bejeweled with a few special editions, including red heart shaped jewels and a ‘Valentines Special’ option so you can bejewel your Valentine with special personalized messages.
Current owners of the original Bejeweled can download the Valentine’s day special for free. If you don’t have the original you can purchase it at a special Valentines spot on Astraware’s site.. If you purchase the Valentines day special, your code will also work for the original game, so either way if you purchase one, you get the other for free. It will only be available for a couple of weeks so get yours today!
The new version of this classic game is available for several new devices, including Smartphones (including landscape screens) and Windows Mobile users with 240×240 screens.
When I checked in to CES yesterday, I couldn’t believe my eyes. They were scanning my card through a reader attached to a Handspring PDA. A black and white model, even!
When I was at one of the manufacturers I was interviewing, I asked for details on the legacy hardware use. I was told that all the vendors are forced to rent them at a couple of hundred dollars a day and they have to pay for the data at the end of the show! Now I did see other booths with the more modern readers, so when the word “forced” was used, I suspect that’s if you don’t bring your own fancy new bling version. Still, funny to see Handspring living after all these years of being absorbed by Palm, Inc. Grand.
Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq:PALM) today announced it has signed an agreement with ACCESS Systems Americas, Inc. (formerly PalmSource, Inc.) to license the source code for Palm OS Garnet, the version of the Palm OS used in several Treo(TM) smartphone models and all Palm(R) handheld computers. Under the agreement, Palm has a perpetual license to use as well as to innovate on the Palm OS Garnet code base. Palm will retain ownership rights in its innovations.
The new agreement also provides Palm flexibility to use Palm OS Garnet in whole or in part in any Palm product, and together with any other system technologies. The company plans to ensure that applications now compatible with Palm OS Garnet will operate with little or no modification in future Palm products that employ Palm OS Garnet as the company evolves it over time to support Palm’s product differentiation strategy.
In addition, Palm has secured an expansion of its existing patent license from ACCESS to cover all current and future Palm products, regardless of the underlying operating system.
For all of these rights, Palm will pay ACCESS a total of $44 million, which will be paid in Palm’s third quarter of fiscal year 2007, and will be recognized as an expense over the next several years. This single payment eliminates the requirement for Palm to pay ACCESS continuing royalties of 10s of millions of dollars over the coming years.
“This agreement gives Palm increased ability to innovate on the Palm OS Garnet base, and to effectively differentiate Palm products long into the future,” said Mark Bercow, senior vice president of business development at Palm, Inc. “We value the Palm OS development community, and are very committed to our loyal base of Palm OS customers, all of whom will benefit from the agreement just concluded with ACCESS.”
Just as it will continue to enhance Palm OS, Palm will continue to support and further innovate on its implementation of Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC Edition, which it licenses from Microsoft. By supporting both operating systems, Palm gives its customers — from carriers and enterprises to consumers and small businesses — a choice of operating environment.
Astraware(R) and Sandlot Games are excited to announce the release of Glyph for Palm OS(R) and Windows Mobile(R) for Pocket PC and Smartphone.
Save the dying world of Kuros by reassembling ancient glyphs hidden beneath layers of rock and glistening stones. Using stylus or buttons, clear groups of like-colored gemstones to break through the layers of rock and reveal the glyphs. Several different types of powerup will aid you in your task. Progress through 5 elemental areas and 125 levels to complete Quest mode, or explore the simpler challenge of over 100 levels in Action mode.
“Glyph is, in a word, gorgeous!” said Howard Tomlinson, CEO of Astraware. “A fun game with a simple premise, but with an incredible depth of atmosphere that draws you in to keep on playing!”
Glyph for Palm OS(R) and Windows Mobile(R) is based upon the highly-acclaimed PC game from Sandlot Games. With its beautiful graphics, ethereal soundtrack and atmospheric sound effects, Glyph is the perfect game to enjoy through the Holiday Season and into the New Year.
“Glyph is a game which works extremely well in a handheld touch-screen environment,” said Daniel Bernstein, CEO of Sandlot Games. “We are once again excited to have Astraware as a partner to deliver this quality game to the handheld market.”
Glyph is available now for devices running Palm OS(R) 5.0 with high resolution screens, Windows Mobile(R) for Pocket PC 2003 and higher with QVGA, VGA and 240×240 square screens, and Windows Mobile(R) for Smartphone 2003 and higher with standard 176×220, and portrait or landscape QVGA screens. Glyph is priced at $19.95 with a special release discount for Club Astraware members.
The Holiday Season is upon us and if you’re searching for the perfect gift for your favorite Palm OS(R) or Windows Mobile(R) user, why not get them an Astraware Gift Certificate? It’s the ideal way to buy games for your friends and relations without having to know device IDs, and also allows you to give Astraware games to people who don’t have a credit card.
Buying a Gift Certificate is very simple - you only need the recipient’s name and email address. Astraware even offers a choice of gifting options: either buy and print the Gift Certificate so you can hand it to the person directly; or buy the Certificate and send it via email - ideal for those last minute gifts or long distance friends and relations. Astraware Gift Certificates are available in a range of values from $15 up to $100. For more information, visit the Astraware website: http://www.astraware.com/giftcertificate/.
What’s more, if you’re a Club Astraware member, you can earn points from any Gift Certificates you buy, and those points can be used to treat yourself!
I know, I know, I know, it ain’t even Thanksgiving yet and I’m already telling about cool software for Christmas. Well guess what? This will also work for your Turkey Day shopping list, too. Ya, it’s that good!
Long time readers will know that I’m a fan of SplashData products and one of my absolute favorite list program anywhere is SplashShopper. In its current form, it only plays on Palm OS devices in the PDA realm (but my inside source tells SvenOnTech a Windows Mobile version is on the way!) It also will sync with both the Apple Mac OS X or Microsoft Windows desktop versions.
SplashShopper will allow you to, “Manage your lists of groceries, gifts, to do’s, wines, music, movies, and more! Track prices and locations.” What better way to shop for your loved ones this Christmas? With its powerful organization, easy to read screen, and swift synchronization with your desktop computer, how will you not be a head of the crowd this season? With over a dozen five star reviews from users at Handango and PalmGear (yes, we chuckled at the lack of lesser star reviews ourselves), you can guess that this really is a great list keeper for your Palm. Again, we love it and we know you will, too.
Merry Christmas, er, Happy Thanksgiving.
Earthcomber offers location-aware Where to Wear shopping guides for Palm OS and Windows Mobile. You tell it the kind of merchandise you’re after, and as you move about the city (there are versions for New York City, Florida, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and San Francisco), it will ping you with the locations of stores that match your wish list. You can pull up details on any of the stores that are listed and determine whether or not it’s worth the trip, and if you decide to go for it Earthcomber will give you directions on how to get there. The businesses that are listed in the Where to Wear guides have been reviewed by the professional shoppers of Fairchild & Gallager, publishers of the print editions of Where to Wear.
The learn more about Earthcomber, be sure to check out their site.
Save the dying world of Kuros by reassembling ancient glyphs hidden beneath layers of rock and glistening stones. Clear groups of like-colored gemstones to break through the layers of rock and reveal the glyphs. Several different types of powerup will aid you in your task. Progress through 5 elemental areas and 125 levels to complete Quest mode, or explore the simpler challenge of over 100 levels in Action mode.
Glyph for Palm OS® and Windows Mobile® is based upon the highly-acclaimed PC game from Sandlot Games. With its beautiful graphics, ethereal soundtrack and atmospheric sound effects, Glyph is the perfect game to enjoy through the Holiday Season and into the New Year.
Astraware and SvenOnTech is making Glyph available for pre-order now with $5 discount off the regular price . Order now before this special offer expires December 6th!
With the end of PalmSource’s commitment to the Palm platform, MyPalmLife (MPL) just seems to have little reason to go on. With the lack of Palm centric articles and news (we haven’t even made a post in a month, there) it really doesn’t make sense to have a site called MyPalmLife if there just any life left in the Palm, huh?
We’ll keep MPL up and running (hence the yellow link above) until we either suck in all the articles into SvenOnTech or just archive the database and delete the site. Hopefully that latter doesn’t happen, but hey, this is cyberspace where caskets don’t exist. So until we do take care of this house cleaning, enjoy it in its “shell” for the time being and just stick hear to SvenOnTech for Palm and other industry news updates.
It is a sad day that for the PDA creator (yes, debatable as the Newton was before the Palm) we no longer can cherish it and love it like we once did. I haven’t had the same excitement I had with my PalmPilot or with my Palm V. Heck, even my T3 gave me that same excitement as my first two, but no longer. Palm is dead and now so is MyPalmLife.