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.
I’ve never really kept track of my diet or exercise in the past, and I really didn’t see the need to. Calories? Body Mass Index? Who cares, right? Well, I came across a program called CalorieKing. I installed the software on my Palm and I was quite amazed at what I discovered.
CalorieKing keeps a day by day record of how many calories I ate each day, how many I should be eating, and how much exercise I needed to maintain a consistent healthy lifestyle. Since I’m a very mobile person, I installed the King on my Palm, but versions are also available for Windows, Mac, and Pocket PC so no matter what your lifestyle, you can chose what’s best for you. I’m sure glad I gave CalorieKing a look-see. Check out the review and see in more detail how the King can help you maintain a healthy diet.
For Palm(R) Treo(TM) smartphone users and GPS enthusiasts, Palm Inc. (Nasdaq:PALM) today announced the Palm GPS Navigator Smartphone Edition, featuring new TomTom NAVIGATOR 6 software. Drivers using the new GPS Navigator with their Treo smartphones can rely on voice-guided, turn-by-turn directions to easily find their destinations as well as millions of points of interest, including gas stations, restaurants, parks, airports and more. TomTom NAVIGATOR 6 is available today exclusively for Palm’s GPS Navigator Smartphone Edition.
Palm’s new Bluetooth(R) enabled SiRFstarIII(TM) GPS receiver, which features a sleek design and easier-to-see LED lights, seamlessly pairs with Palm Treo 650, Treo 700w and Treo 700p smartphones. The product is simple to set up, thanks to a 1GB memory card preloaded with maps. Travelers simply pop the memory card into their Treo smartphone and pair the GPS receiver to access highway and street-level maps covering the United States and Canada. No desktop syncing or downloading of maps is required. Using the smartphone’s high-resolution screen, TomTom’s NAVIGATOR 6 software automatically shows the receiver’s (and hence, the car’s) current location.
“Smartphones are expanding the market for mobile navigation,” said Jim Schwabe, general manager of accessories for Palm, Inc. “The beauty is that this powerful GPS solution is always readily available because it’s part of something people are carrying anyway — their Treo smartphone.”
“The convergence of portable navigation devices is growing in the United States,” said Jocelyn Vigreux, president of TomTom. “Palm’s bundle offering with TomTom’s new NAVIGATOR 6 software reflects our joint efforts to continue providing customers with essential smartphone solutions. The Treo smartphone series provides an ideal platform for portable navigation.”
TomTom is the leading provider of personal navigation products and services. TomTom NAVIGATOR 6 software offers coast-to-coast and cross-border navigation, as well as new and enhanced options. New features include trip planning based on preferred arrival time, speed-limit information and integrated navigation to the smartphone’s contact list.
How It Works
The Bluetooth technology-enabled receiver identifies the car’s position using satellites. By communicating with the GPS receiver via Bluetooth, the Treo smartphone obtains real-time location information and displays 3-D maps on the Treo smartphone’s high-resolution screen. After a destination has been programmed, TomTom NAVIGATOR gives voice-guided, turn-by-turn instructions in one of more than 30 available voices. It will also automatically recalculate a route after a wrong turn, avoid roadblocks or circumvent traffic congestion.
Pricing and Availability
At $299 (estimated U.S. street price), Palm’s GPS Navigator Smartphone Edition includes a Bluetooth enabled SiRFstarIII GPS receiver, TomTom NAVIGATOR 6 software featuring the latest Tele Atlas(R) maps, a 1GB memory card with preloaded maps of the continental United States and Canada, a vehicle device cradle with windshield mount and a charging system.
The GPS Navigator from Palm is now available at Palm’s online and retail stores.
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Rumors, rumors. We love them at SvenOnTech and we love to report them to ya. A reader of ours from MyPalmLife has sent us an interesting morsel. He tells us that he’s reading all sorts of chatter of a Palm and Research in Motion merger. It seems both companies will be having an earnings conference call on the 29th of this month. The rumor boards are saying that this and this alone is indication that both companies will step up to the mic announcing they are one.
With RIMs ream on the lawsuit it lost last month, Research in Motion has some baggage in its house. Palm likewise has some issues at home, too. With the PDA market pretty much dead and the smartphone the wave of the future, Treo is all it has. Since PalmSource likes making next-generation operating systems yet never releasing them, Palm had little choice but to go to the dark side. Palm ain’t looking like it’s going to be able to last on just one model.
So, it is plausible that RIM and Palm would unite to strengthen their assets and consolidate the weakness. A merger would be interesting to see how the W in Treo 700w would pan out since it contains direct competition with the RIMs push e-mail service. But when the chips are down, you take some drastic moves. We’ll see if that move is made on the 29th or not.
The first time I used my PalmPilot back in 1996, I had a really difficult time getting my text into the PDA via Graffiti. Slowly I learned it and the quick tricks (triangles made Ds and upside-down Ls made Ts) but it never really did become an efficient way of entering information into my beloved Palm. Years later on the PocketPC, I discovered MyScript which was a pretty good hand-writing recognization system from a French developer. After years of the company ignore my requests for tech support and no new updates ever being released, I gave up. I just gave up entirely on any third-party Soft Input Panel (SIP). They all sucked. So I thought.
Ng Edwin of Xrgomics asked SvenOnTech to give TenGO a shot after we posted a little snippet of its latest update, version 2.0. I was all for it, but based on past impressions of other solutions I wasn’t expecting much. Truth was, this thing looked really wacky and I figured I’d be back to Block Recognizer (Microsoft’s rip-off of Graffiti) real soon.
Read the rest of the review from the Reviews section.