PowerClip released by Dmitry Grinberg

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

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!

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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

From PalmPowerups.com

"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

From the ACCESS Press Release webpage:

ACCESS and PalmSource Announce the ACCESS Linux Platform
New commercial-grade Linux-based platform designed for smartphones and mobile devices
Open, Flexible and Customizable
Intuitive and Easy-to-Use
Total Integrated Solution

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3GSM World Congress, BARCELONA, Spain-February 14, 2006---
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.

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."

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.