Merry Christmas to Everyone

I just wanted to take a few seconds (lines) to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas from all of us here at Canuck-PDA!

Resco on Palm OS Software Sales - The Device Ranking

Tam Hanna from Tamoggemon Communications (of TamsPalm fame) sent us the following Press Release:

Resco on Palm OS Software Sales - The Device Ranking

Ed Colligan recently repeated his announcement to discontinue handheld sales due to lack of interest and “future perspective”. As his statement did not include any useful numbers, we from Resco s.r.o. are glad to fill up the void for you with the following numbers.

Surprisingly, handheld users bought more software over the last 30 days:



When breaking it down on a per-device perspective, the following “market shares” can be computed:


From our point of view, the discontinuation of new handhelds is a very bad move which will hurt the already struggling Palm OS economy significantly. We cannot see why other manufacturers like HP are highly successful selling their non-smartphone devices, while Palm struggles!

Douglas C. Jeffries to Join Palm as CFO

Douglas C. Jeffries to Join Palm as CFO

Andy Brown to Remain Through January to Ensure Smooth Transition

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Dec 15, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) --

Palm, Inc. (NASDAQ:PALM) today announced that Douglas C. Jeffries, previously chief accounting officer at eBay, will join Palm, Inc. in January 2009 as the Company's Chief Financial Officer. Andy Brown will transition out of the CFO role and stay with the company through January.

"I am delighted to welcome Doug Jeffries to the Palm team. His extensive financial, operational and strategic experience will contribute enormously to Palm's future success. I look forward to partnering with Doug as we lead Palm to new levels of achievement in the years ahead," said Ed Colligan, president and chief executive officer. "I also want to personally thank Andy for the way he has guided Palm's finance organization and all that he has accomplished over the past four years. Andy was instrumental in our recent recapitalization and has been a key part of Palm's transformation."

Brown stated, "My experience at Palm has been exciting and fulfilling, but the time is right for me to pursue other interests. Palm's finance organization is well-positioned to support the company's strategic and financial objectives, and I am leaving the many responsibilities of the CFO role in exceptionally capable hands."

Doug Jeffries will assume the role of Palm's senior vice president and chief financial officer effective January 7. In addition to his role as chief accounting officer at eBay, Jeffries has held financial and information technology leadership roles at GenCorp, Red Herring Communications and Cardinal Health. Jeffries began his career at Price Waterhouse, is a CPA and holds an MBA from the University of Southern California.

Jeffries stated, "It's a great pleasure to join the Palm team and I'm thrilled with the prospect of helping to lead the company forward. As we complete the company's transformation and establish Palm as a leading innovator in the smartphone industry, we will continue to focus aggressively on financial discipline and shareholder value."

Handango's 12 Days of Savings

Today (Friday, 12 December 2008) Handango has started a sale entitled "Handango's 12 Days of Savings"

On the 1st Day of Savings
Handango gave to me…
15% off everything today

Use code FIRSTDAY at checkout

Be sure to visit Handango.com for a new deal every day during our 12 Days of Savings — now through December 23rd.

Resco Explorer 2009 for Palm OS Released!

Handheld / Smartphone feeling bored? Put it on Resco Explorer 2009! Our award-winning file manager for the Palm OS has just received a significant update, adding new features to make life easier. Explorer 2009 is the latest version of Resco’s award-winning file manager for the Palm OS. It moves, copies, finds and edits files on the go – if you have a memory card in your device, you need Resco Explorer to stay on top of your data.

If your device has a network connection or a Bluetooth radio, things get even merrier. Get camera images off that pesky N-Series camera phone! Get MP3 files off your Windows PC via WiFi. Save important files to an FTP server on the go. You name it, Resco Explorer does it! I guess that we didn’t win the Handango Champions Award for nothing after all, did we ;).




New feature: Folder Sync



As memory cards become bigger, sophisticated tools are needed to keep files in check. Resco Explorer 2009 introduces “Folder Sync” – a technology allowing you to keep files synchronized between two folders (on your handheld or the network). Just choose the folders, and select which changes should go where: a godsend for keeping your files in sync!


New feature: Card Scan



File system damage is the #1 reason for data loss on Palm OS devices.
Resco Explorer contains a card scanner, allowing you to detect damaged file systems on the go.

New feature: Better Network Engine
Network support has always been important for us. Resco Explorer is the only Palm OS program supporting FTP, Bluetooth file transfer and SMB (Windows) shares. This version revamps our network core, improving SSL support for even higher security.

New feature: Tarball Support
We were among the first companies to make zip support available to our
customers: and now go one step further. Resco Explorer 2009 allows you to get files out of compressed and uncompressed tarballs (.tar, .tar.gz, .taz, .tgz) – no Unix head should be left standing in the rain.

Free Trial Available
A free trial of the program can be downloaded from Resco's web site! Resco Explorer costs $29.95 and can be purchased at all mayor retailers. Customers who have bought the program in the last year get a free upgrade, all other Explorer customers can get a 50% rebate by contacting customer support.

ScrapBook 1.15c Released by Slow Cooked Software

Slow Cooked Software revolutionizes Palm OS note taking with ScrapBook 1.15c

Creating a note on Palm OS is easy. Finding the note you want, when you want it, efficiently and quickly, is what ScrapBook is all about.

The simplest way to use ScrapBook is to create notes as needed, assigning a title to each note, but not spending any extra effort to organize the notes in any way. This makes it very easy to capture bits of information on the fly, with very little overhead. When you want to find one of your notes afterwards, ScrapBook’s sorting and searching capabilities are very effective tools to help you locate the note you want.

Those who want their notes to be well organized will be happy to know that ScrapBook provides three methods for organizing your notes: nested folders, categories, and keyword lists. You are free to use any or all (or none) of these methods on a note-by-note basis. You may, for example, have a group of notes that cover different aspects of a particular topic, and may wish to group those notes together in a folder that represents the topic.


Or, you may have a large set of notes, scattered across a variety of folders, yet they may all have in common the fact that they need to be considered when it comes time to prepare one’s taxes! In this case, assigning the keyword “taxes” to each of the notes would make it easy to call up this entire group of notes by performing a search for the keyword “taxes” – regardless of which folders or categories the notes are actually stored in.



Notes which are not organized at first can easily be organized later.
To find such notes, ScrapBook provides sort orders that help you locate notes created recently or notes not yet linked to a folder. You can then create appropriate folders (if necessary), and link each of the notes to a folder so that they are properly filed.

In order to keep your data safe, we support industry-standard encryption. It can be selected on a note-by-note basis to prevent slowdowns, but keep important data safe. The encryption feature is well integrated with ScrapBook’s searching capabilities, so one can allow a search to scan encrypted notes too (ScrapBook will prompt for any passwords needed - your data remains safe).

Some enhanced note-taking programs provide extended searching capabilities but only offer standard ‘categories’ for organization; and some programs provide enhanced organizational capabilities such as nested folders, but offer only a limited search capability. What distinguishes ScrapBook is that it is strong in both these areas – providing two enhanced organizational tools (nested folders and keyword lists), and also providing outstanding search capabilities!

Cutting a long story short: ScrapBook is the ideal note-taking application for tech-savvy power users. If you have outgrown the Memo Pad, this is your new best friend.

A free trial of the program can be obtained at the ScrapBook web site. The full version can be purchased at one of our distributor partners (eSellerate, PalmGear, Handango, RegNow, MobiHand) for $15.