Treo™ Pro Now Available from Bell Mobility

Treo™ Pro by Palm Now Available on the Bell Mobility Network



The Treo™ Pro smartphone by Palm is thoughtfully designed for people who define their workday the way they see fit. You can respond to business and personal email, stay on top of appointments and contacts, and use Wi-Fi or GPS.2 All on a thin device that packs plenty of battery power for a life on the go. Treo Pro. Perfectly balanced.

1 For new customers on a 3-year term when activating a minimum voice and data plan combination or combo plan of $45 per month or greater. Bell reserves the right to limit the usage. Out of bundle rates may apply. Offer ends March 31, 2009.

2 Within wireless coverage area only. Email and GPS require data services from Bell Mobility at additional cost. Voice prompted as-you-go navigation requires an additional service plan, sold separately. GPS coverage not available in all areas at all times. Wi-Fi within range of 802.11b/g network only. Some Wi-Fi hotspots require fee for usage.

Skyscape: March to 1 Million

Skyscape is getting really close to their Millionth member, "a Skyscape Millioneer!" and they're offering prizes for your help referring people to them.

Are you on the SmartLink Relay Team?

The race is on. But instead of asking you for a sweaty brow and sore feet, we'll let you run this relay in comfort. The most we ask you to exercise is your hand-eye coordination, using your mouse to link us to your friend - think of it as handing the baton to your teammate.

The winners get more than a medal. Read on.

We sent you a note earlier about our March to 1 Million program. This is a giveaway reward for the referral of a friend or colleague, to introduce Skyscape's award winning medical information on the go.

In case you missed it, we are offering some very cool prizes to celebrate our Millionth member, a Skyscape Millioneer! You can win just by being on the relay team - $100 in certificates for the Skyscape store. That's just for starters.

If you are the one who passes the referral baton to the Skyscape Millioneer directly, you will win a Sony Bravia 1080p 52" LCD television, along with Sony blu-ray player, and a scholarship for Medical and Nursing students, named after you!

The Skyscape Millioneer will also get a bunch of cool stuff, including a new MacBook, and iPod Touch and $200 in certificates for the Skyscape store. We think they will thank you.

So don't wait - the finish line is not far away and you should sprint out of the blocks to join in the winning team!

Best Regards,
The Skyscape Team

Celebrate St. Patrick's Day at PalmGear

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All coupons expire 31st March 2009, 11:59pm EST. Coupons cannot be combined with any other special offer and are valid once per customer.

Pocket Tunes 5.0 for Palm OS and Windows Mobile

NormSoft has just announced the release of the new Pocket Tunes 5.0 for Palm OS and Windows Mobile

Experience your music like you never have before with the new Pocket Tunes™ 5.0 for your Smartphone or PDA. But, don't take our word for it; try it for yourself or read this review from WMExperts.


What's New

Podcast Download and Catalog
Subscribe to your favourite podcasts and automatically download them every day. To make it easy to find your favourites, we've added a catalogue of over 1,000 of the most popular podcasts, or you can add your own. This catalogue will continually be updated as podcasts come and go. Also new in 5.0, you can set an option to automatically delete your podcasts after you finish listening to them. And, we've dramatically improved automatic bookmarking of podcasts and audio books so you'll never lose your place ever again, even if you switch between playing music and books or podcasts.


Last.fm Scrobbling
Every time you listen to a song on your Palm OS or Windows Mobile Smartphone using Pocket Tunes Deluxe 5.0, this gets tracked to your Last.fm music profile - it's called scrobbling™. Based on this profile, Last.fm creates customized radio stations of music you'll like. Plus, Last.fm also uses your music profile to give you: New music to listen to, Concert listings in your area, Music videos, Free downloads, Neighbours (people who like the same music you do), Charts based on your listening history. For more information and to start using Last.fm, visit www.last.fm


Sync with iTunes
You can now synchronize your playlists from iTunes on your PC or Macintosh with your Smartphone or PDA. Simply connect your device, and the Pocket Tunes Sync software can automatically synchronize selected playlists, including album art, with iTunes. Never again will you be without your favourite tunes. (Pocket Tunes Sync for Windows works with both Windows Mobile and Palm OS devices. Pocket Tunes Sync for Macintosh works only with Palm OS devices.)


WMA Internet Radio
Pocket Tunes 5.0 adds support for the most popular Internet radio format, WMA. With this addition, the built-in catalogue contains many more of your favourite stations, and makes it much easier to find a compatible station. Many popular AM/FM radio stations broadcast in WMA format, making it easier for you to listen to local radio from anywhere around the world.

PowerSDHC Stops T|T3, iQue, Zodiac Development

Back in June I told you that "Dmitry Grinberg of PalmPowerUps fame, is at “it” again, and has created a new blog: Palm SDHC – “The status of creation of an SDHC driver for PalmOS” to document his progress on development progress."

Then in September I told you that Dmitry had released his PowerSDHC driver (it seems Palm forced Dmitry to change the name of his driver and his blog away from "PalmSDHC" so it's now called "PowerSDHC").

I also stated in that article that I would be posting a review of PowerSDHC once I had time to review it. Sorry it's taken so long to get this posted, but it took me until Christmas to get my own copy of PowerSDHC for my PalmTX and a high-speed 8 Gig SDHC card to go with it. Once I jumped through a few hoops in order to get Dmitry's registration worked out, PowerSDHC was installed, registered and working like a charm. They say that the best thing you can say about low level software like Dmitry's driver is that it just works. Well, PowerSDHC just works! It's been running flawlessly ever since. I have kept a standard SD card with PowerSDHC (and it's key file) handy at all times. I've just never needed it.

I can highly recommend PowerSDHC to anyone wanting to add SDHC capacity to their supported device.

Which brings me to the next bit of news: On Valentines Day, 14 Feb 2009 Dmitry posted the following entry to his PowerSDHC blog

PowerSDHC on T|T3, iQue, Zodiac
PowerSDHC on T|T3, iQue, Zodiac has been canceled due to lack of time to spend on the project (T|T3) and needlessly complicated driver installation requirements (Zodiac, iQue).

I can only hope that you weren't one of the people waiting for PowerSDHC to add support for your device, because, while it's a real shame, it doesn't look like these older devices (T|T3, iQue, Zodiac) are going to be supported any time soon.

Palm Pre 26 Minute Video Live Demo

Chris Davies has posted a 26 minute long video of a live Palm Pre demo at both precommunity.com and YouTube. Taken at Mobile World Congress 2009 this is suppose to be "the most complete demonstration" available to date.

I was impressed with how deep the answers went: for example, when the_hands mention that the back cover comes off allowing you to change the user replaceable battery, Chris? asks, "can you show us" and the_hands proceed to remove the back cover of the Pre and show the battery pack (BP1) as well as the Vodaphone SIM etc. Very cool. (Yes, I know I truly am a geek).

aldweb is the new home of "Alternatives to C" page

aldweb, home of Speedy (the freeware benchmark utility for PalmOS based devices) among many other fine programs, is the new home of the "PalmPilot Software Development - Alternatives to C" page. I'll let aldweb explain why this popular developer resource has moved to their site.

The "PalmPilot Software Development - Alternatives to C" web page has always been a reference for me, and for many other Palm OS developers.
Michael Winikoff who created and maintained this reference page decided to no more host it on his web site.
But, before quitting, he fortunately dropped me an e-mail for offering me to host it.
Since I did not want to see this historical and valuable contribution disappear from the web, I decided to upload it to my web site.
I am not sure that I will succeed to maintain this page on a regular basis like Michael did, but, at least, his job is kept alive.
Thank you Michael for all of what you have done to the Palm developers community.
aldweb

While it's true that I'm a little behind the times with this announcement, since this move occurred last July, I feel that this is an important enough move / resource that I wanted to make sure any Palm developers out there, especially those new to the platform, are able to easily locate this valuable site.