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.