From PalmPowerups.com
"PalmPowerups PowerClip has been released and can be downloaded here. It is a simple, FREE, no-nonsence no-slow-68k-code clipboard expansion tool. It expands the normal PalmOS clipboard from measly 4KB to 64KB. No UI, no nags, no paying, no slowness, no nonsence. Enjoy."
Download at Palmpowerups.com
PowerClip released by Dmitry Grinberg
Congradulations Canada!!!
For 2 straight weeks, the world's best athletes, amateur and professional, banded together to show the world that we can be as one - and still have fun. At the 2006 Olympics Winter Games in Turin, Italy (or Torino, Italiano for you Italian folks out there) hundreds upon hundreds of athletes fought hard against each other for the gold medal - with each event ending up in a mix of laughter and tears for everyone involved.
During that time, our Canadian Olympians participated throughout the Games, receiving medals for 21 events in 10 of those disciplines. Not all of our athletes made it home with medals, but the experience of being there itself is rewarding enough.
While watching our fellow Canadians overseas in Italy was probably one of the most exciting things for us non-athletes back at home, watching our nation's flag being raised as our athletes stood on the podium was even more exhilerating. And no matter what placing our Canadians received, we stood behind them all the way, from start to finish.
So a great big THANK YOU to all of our Canadians who competed in Turin, Italy, as well as those here at home supporting our athletes! And thank you to the people of Italy for making 2006 a great Winter Games!
Finally, one big GOOD LUCK to our Canadian Paralympians who are heading over to Turin for their run starting March 11!
Now that the main Games are over, 
the world readies for another 4-year wait until the next Winter Games. Well, everybody except Vancouver, B.C. Instead of sitting back and practicing our triple axles, wrist shots, and 540 McTwists in the half-pipe, we begin the hard work for welcoming the world for the 2010 Olympics Winter Games. Mayor Sam Sullivan was there in Italy to accept the flag and bring home the Olympic spirit to Vancouver.
From UBC to Richmond to Cypress to Whistler-Blackomb, Vancouver's Olympic committee is busting chops to make sure that we make 2010 happen.
So, as one Game ends, a new one begins...
See you in 2010!
UnCache released by Dmitry Grinberg
"UnCache has been released. It will speed up boot times, give you more control on what is loaded at reset, and on NVFS devices free up more DbCache, thus allowing better emulation and generally faster system performance."
Download at Palmpowerups.com
More on ALP
Mobile-review.com has and article about the recent 3GSM Congress, which included a demo unit of the Access Linux Platform (ALP). Below are some images of the demo unit. The first image seems to show some part of the launcher. If I had to guess, I would probably say it would be a menu to access the 4 parts of the ALP Application Launcher (as shown here): 68K PalmOS Apps, GTK Apps, J2ME Apps, and the native MAX Apps.
Pictures of the Palm OS Emulator on ALP
From PalmInfocenter:
PDAExpertos caught a glimpse of a preview version of the ACCESS Linux Platform at 3GSM. They have published an article on ALP and got a picture of the ALP Palm OS emulator running on a smartphone. The phone is a Haier N60 phone that is sold in China and normally uses a version of Linux. What is not shown in the photos is the new MAX user interface, which is the main UI and features a new look and features.
Hockey World Championships
We talked about this great new game in our first Canuck PDA Podcast, and what a game, it's Hockey World Championships.
The most realistic hockey experience you can find on your Palm OS device is right here. Five-on-five full ice action and easy to use controls make this a very fun distraction.
You'll need at least a 320x320 16 bit color screen and a beefy OS5 Palm with a recommended 250-300 MHz CPU but you can also expect some pretty nice graphics. A tutorial helps you get accustomed to the controls which are simple and effective. Sound effects and music are also fairly good.
Gameplay consists of single matches and, as the name of the game makes obvious, championship tournaments and with eight hockey teams from various countries of the world.
I'll admit the game is not perfect, not yet, but Deluxeware is active in developing their games and though the game hasn't been out for very long, it's already up to version 1.03, so expect future improvements.
A great game, check out Hockey World Championships from Deluxeware.
ACCESS and PalmSource Announce the ACCESS Linux Platform
ACCESS and PalmSource Announce the ACCESS Linux Platform ________________________________ 3GSM World Congress, BARCELONA, Spain-February 14, 2006--- ACCESS' goal is to have ALP become the platform of choice for the development of high volume, feature rich smartphones and mobile devices for high performance networks, including 2.5G and 3G, worldwide. ALP is designed to provide a complete, consistent and customizable solution for handset and mobile device manufacturers and mobile operators. ACCESS and PalmSource expect to make the ALP Software Developer Kit (SDK) available to its licensees by the end of this year (2006). "We believe that ALP combines best-in-class open source Linux components with proven mobile technologies developed by PalmSource and ACCESS' Linux expertise," said Toru Arakawa, president and CEO of ACCESS, Co., Ltd. "As a commercial-grade, flexible, open, robust and standards-based mobile Linux based platform, ALP is designed to provide handset manufacturers with faster time-to-market while supporting the goal of operators to offer revenue-generating services, applications and content."
From the ACCESS Press Release webpage:
New commercial-grade Linux-based platform designed for smartphones and mobile devices
Open, Flexible and Customizable
Intuitive and Easy-to-Use
Total Integrated Solution
ACCESS Co., Ltd., and its wholly owned subsidiary, PalmSource, Inc., today announced the ACCESS Linux Platform (ALP), the latest evolution of Palm OS(R) for Linux. The ACCESS Linux Platform is designed to be an integrated, open and flexible Linux-based platform tailored or smartphones and mobile devices.
Further information can be found here:
http://www.access.co.jp/english/press/060214.html
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Personally, I think this is a huge step forward into the future of Palm handhelds, and definitely a step up from Palm OS. For quite some time now, Palm users have been discussing the possiblity(ies) of Palm on Linux as the future OS, as well the possible death of Palm OS - doesn't Palm OS Cobalt sound familiar to you? If all goes well, Palm may be on top of the market once again, just as it was when it first caught on in the early 90's.
I think this will be a great way for Palm to start fresh again. Palm has always been badgered by people to change things; and change they did.
One small step for Tux, one large step for Palm OS.
Fossil Ends Production for Wrist PDA
Fossil has recently removed their Wrist PDA product from their website. Abacus, the other brand, has also removed their version of the Wrist PDA.
The Wrist PDA was a nifty little device, bringing all the essentials of a PDA into a tiny watch. It featured Palm OS 4.1, 8 MB of RAM, and a 160x160 backlit LCD digitizer (touch screen). Of course it had an IRDA infrared communication port and USB port for data transfer, and a rechargeable lithium-ion battery.
Fossil's and Abacus' Wrist PDA didn't do so well at the start. It was named "Best of COMDEX" a while back, but was delayed for nearly 2 years before being released in January of 2005.
Finally a VoIP Application!
mobiVoIP is currently in a beta testing phase however once it's complete, it will be the first fully functional VoIP program for the PalmOS. You'll be able to use Bluetooth, Wifi, EDGE, EVDO on your PDAs or Smartphones to call your friends. mobiVoIP also is being tested for low bandwidth connections like GPRS and IrDA. With mobiVoIP, you'll be able to call other people with mobiVoIP as well as call people on POTS (the Plain Old Telephone Systems).
Personally, I'm a bit worried that the audio quality won't be up to par or that the price might be to high, however I look forward to seeing a VoIP program for the PalmOS. It's about time!
A glimpse into the future of iSpin and TapTarget
From TapTarget's Wiki:
SpinOS is a next step of Palm OS launcher development performed by TapTarget.com. Palm OS constrained capabilities forced to create an additonal system environment - SpinOS, which provides additional services either for Palm handheld user and Palm application developer.
SpinOS is a set of programs installed on the Palm handheld. It consists of SpinCore, which is loaded into handheld's main memory at boot time. It intercepts system API calls and controls underlying Palm OS behavior. It also provides API for application developers.
SpinOS comes with additional software specifically designed to run under SpinCore. Desktop, Explorer, Web browser and others are to be included into SpinOS distribution package.
The SpinCore provides the following capabilities:
- Cooperative multitasking - allows to run several Palm OS 68K applications concurrently (SpinCore cannot run ARM native applications. In the future it is supposed to implement preemptive multitasking)
- Virtual file system - hides all the differencies among various file concepts introduced by Palm OS. It provides universal API to access files in handheld's main memory, card, etc.
- Graphics engine provides simple API to handle JPEG images and perform image 3D trasformations. The engine is implemented natively in ARM and provides high performance.
- System registry is a single place where applications may store their settings and user preferences.
For more information, please, visit SpinOS wiki page.
Apple to take bite at Palm?
From Personal Computer World:
Speculation that Apple plans to buy handheld maker Palm has been revived by a call from two leading Palm investors for the company to be put up for sale, according to the local paper of both companies.
Mike Nelson, who owns eight per cent of Palm shares, argued that the company is poorly equipped to dominate the market for smartphones which are beginning to eat into sales of traditional PDAs, reports Siliconvalley.com , online edition of the San Jose Mercury.
The drift from PDAs to smartphones is borne out today by a report from analysts IDG.
Palm has sold one million phone-enabled Treos and its stock has nearly doubled in value over the past year.
But Nelson is reported to have told the Palm board that competitors are developing products quickly and could afford to sacrifice profits to gain market penetration.
Another shareholder, with five per cent of Palm shares, also urged a sale of the company late last year.
The fact that Apple has been named as a possible buyer may seem strange to those who recall that one of the most controversial acts of CEO Steve Jobs was to kill off the pen-driven Apple Newton, a pre-cursor of the Palm Pilot, when he returned to the company after a 10-year absence in 1996.
Yet the two companies are closely linked. They are near neighbours and several early Palm employees, including co-founder and former company president Donna Dubinsky, previously worked with Apple.
Palm, at least in its early days, also enjoyed the kind of anything-but-Microsoft fan base that has long sustained Apple.
Jobs tried to buy the company in the late nineties, according to the Mercury.
Neither Apple nor Palm has given any sign that there is any basis for the renewed speculation but there are obvious fits between the two companies.Apple's Ipod boom can hardly be sustained unless it can head off competition from PDAs and smartphones that can pack music players along with a host a other functions.
Palm itself was slow off the mark in adding tricky telephony technology to its products and Apple would have a hard time starting from scratch in the market.
Also, for all their vaunted style, the latest Apple notebooks look like antiques beside the latest pen-driven Tablet PCs.
The company will sooner or later be forced to offer a pen interface, and could benefit from Palm expertise in the area - especially as tablets are getting smaller, and may eventually supersede the PDA.
Palm Universal Wireless Keyboard Drivers for TX
Enhancements: (01/19/2006)
- Adds support for Palm TX handhelds
- Resolves Bluetooth wireless compatibility issues seen on the Palm TX handheld when the 1.08 version of the driver was used. Symptoms could range from the inability to add a Bluetooth device to total lockup of the Palm TX handheld
- NOTE: Do not install this version unless you have a Palm TX handheld
Treo 650 running Linux
It seems that someone has managed to get Linux to run on a Treo 650. Check out a bunch of pictures of Linux on a Treo 650 here
Treo 700p Info and Pictures
According to a guy at Treocentral, the Treo700p has a EVDO data support, a 320x320 pixel display, a 1.3 megapixel camera with a 1280x1024 max resolution and 62.8 MB of free RAM. He also claims it runs Palm OS Garnet v5.4.9, and has PocketTunes, Blazer v4.5, Sprint TV and Documents to Go v8 built in. He also reports that it may have a 312mhz cpu, and performance seems faster than the Treo 650.
You can check out the Treocentral forum thread here
You can check out the PalmInfocenter article here
You can check out the Treonauts article here
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