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Full-time computer network engineer
Part-time computer science teacher
Christian till the end-of-time <><
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Roman Pedan
Palm V/Vx
Will get a Palm OS 5 handheld
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Ed, thanks for all the work you put into PIC on a daily basis to keep it THE prime Palm OS site.
Ryan, loking forward to hearing more from you, and seeing where we go from here. You know that the speed issue is partly due to everyone hitting the site now because they could not get their "PIC fix" this morning!
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I'd sad to see Ed go, but I'm glad to see that Ryan will be continuning his major role as site editor. Good luck in your future ventures, Ed the former ed.
--
Ben Combee, CodeWarrior for Palm OS technical lead
Programming help at www.palmoswerks.com
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Yeah, well I'm a littled dismayed that they "can't pry his hands off" of the a Toshiba PPC, but all in all, I'll miss Ed.
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I say get rid of the "i" shadow and the circle gradation, and give the circle a black line, with the same point size used on the outline of the words. It'd be nice and bold. My opinion only, don't boot me :)
Otherwise, great!
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Wow?
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: contenet and reduce the Trolls.
Unfortunately, it won't improve the spelling and grammar of posts. ;)
All kidding aside, this is what I hope for, too. Now we can reply to (or flame) others by their registered names instead of referring to "I. M. Anonymous @ 10/1/2002 2:59:29 PM." Long threads were pretty hard to follow when they were all anonymous. @X(
Jim
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We'll miss you, Ed. Thanks for all your work over the past years.
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They were just trying to get more color combinations of grey by dithering... :)
Thanx for all the great articles Ed.
"There are 2 kind of people my friend....those with wires and those without"
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I want Wes back! I'm curse the name of all PIC workers and won't rest until I have justice and the return of Wes...
What's that?
Oh, sorry. Flashback time. :-)
Seriously, new design looks great. Any way to contact Ed now and send best wishes?
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Welcome Ryan, I like the new look too and even like it with no anon....good job
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Looks great, Ryan!
Full-time computer network engineer
Part-time computer science teacher
Christian till the end-of-time <><
I was when PIC didn't come up for my morning Coffee...
Keep up the great work.
RE: I was when PIC didn't come up for my morning Coffee...
Also, the new buttons arent what I would have expected.
Now on to Ed Hardy's position with PIC. Maybe Ed left to write for the pocketpc site. I think the PocketPC has gained another win, which proves that the PalmOS is dying again.
Need it be, I have friends who are trolls to this site, including my favorite friends from www.werewolf.com. Need it be, they will continue to flood the site with postings from fake and newly created usernames from every single IP address of each of our campuses and home computers.
Dont worry, you cant evade the power of the annonymous postings forever!!!!
AWoOOOoOOOOoooOOOOh
Also: I feel this will decrease the traffic to PIC because of Ed's extensive reviews. It really is a shame Ryan couldnt have Ed stay a while longer.
"Now thats just PRIME!"
RE: I was when PIC didn't come up for my morning Coffee...
Im obviously mad PIC lost ED, but im also mad that the site will go down in 6 months in flames.
Sorry to bother anyone.
and refute any and all information about the trolling. Those days were fun, but we now have anonymoue posting disabled.
"Now thats just PRIME!"
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btw, you can call me 'Fzara' for short. ;)
"Now thats just PRIME!"
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Lastly, to those other PIC readers who simply want solid information and informed, rational discussion, please do yourselves a favor and ignore postings from admitted trolls like Fzara2000. They're only here to try to push people's buttons, and when the buttons don't work, they move on.
PDABuzz managed to get Fzara2000 to give up, so perhaps PIC can, too.
RE: I was when PIC didn't come up for my morning Coffee...
If the well established people would stay on and on,
no "freshman" would have a chance to build up some reputation.
It's sad, though, but i can't imagine that this site's success is only based on one singel guy!
First typo?
"If you have not done so already, please take a moment to create a PalmInfocenter.com."
Should probably have account appended to the end. Although I am interested in making websites, I don't feel I can make a PalmInfocenter.com anytime soon. =)
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Fammy
No more anonymous posts
Thanks, Robrecht
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Love the new look.
Ed will be missed :(
Long live Ryan!!
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http://www.palminfocenter.com/view_Story.asp?ID=4208
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Palm Sux, Sony Rulz!
Love the new changes
RE: Looks good
Ed thanks for all your contribution over the years.
Let Users Control Font Size
>> has to go. It is barely legible on my PC.
> I thought I was the only one with that problem.
Same here. It wouldn't be so bad if you could resize the font (in IE, etc.), but they are locked.
I recommend that the webmaster/editor check out this article by the 'father of usability', Jacob Nielsen. It is very timely.
Let Users Control Font Size
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20020819.html
It may not be much of an issue on CRTs depending on the resolution you run it at, but for LCDs it can get pretty bad as you almost never use a resolution lower than the max.
I recently went from a 15" XGA (1,024 x 768) LCD to a 17" SXGA (1,280 x 1,024) and the dot pitch went from 0.297mm to 0.264mm.
I just don't get it...
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And thanks for requiring user names and accounts, now we will get a little less crap posted here.
BTW, why is the site so slooooow to load? Am I just having a bad internet day?
I see change at Brighthand
Congratulations to Ryan on the beautiful new site, and to Ed on the new gig.
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Nice job on the redesign. Sorry to see Ed go. Keep up the good work.
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I thought I was the only one with that problem. I use Mozilla and the font displays as if it were 2 pt.
Sorry to see you go Ed. Nice to meet you Ryan. I had no idea this was your site.
PS Can we have the option of quoting someone's post?
Great work....
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New registration
I finally registered because I had to. Well, I hope I don't lose my password and have to create a new one. I'm extremely paranoid and have a different password for every single site I need to logon to. It doesn't help that I have really bad memory but too paranoid to write it down. This is the reason why I never bothered to register before.
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Also, for a non-hi-tech solution, you could give all the random accounts you don't care about the same password. Even if the password gets compromised it doesn't really matter...
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I used to be a big fan of Secret, but now I use SecureIT. It's free, and has a bit better encryption.
http://www.palmgear.com/software/showsoftware.cfm?sid=46042620021002175657&prodID=15316
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Sean
It is not very comfortable to have the gift of being amused at one's own absurdity.
-Somerset Maugham-
So long "I.M. Anonymous"...
Ryan, thank you *SO* much for implementing this - PIC is without a doubt the highest profile Palm OS News resource available on the Internet, and I'm certain that this change will result in a much more civil and informative dialog among the members of the Palm OS Community!
Congratulations! We're looking forward to enjoying the results of this long-overdue change :)
Cheers,
Dan
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Fammy
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*I* was going to do that!
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Anywho, this was a *much* needed feature, which I think we can agree on. Bye bye trolls. :)
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Mario
O/T Mod
[url]http://www.wc101.com[/url]
Thanks!
Congratulations and nice work!
It's great to see I.M. Anonymous leave after all these years.
Sweet site
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RE: Ed's sources
That's not to say that Ryan and others do not also have their own anonymous sources -- I'm sure PIC will still break stories. But if they were Ed's sources, they are probably still Ed's sources, not PIC's.
It seems to be unanimous: it is great
I.M. Anonymous must be very disapointed though... but who cares?
Nothing: the worst you can do.
PIC Always getting better
Guinfs
No more colors!
Any chance of this returning?
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The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
-Hubert Humphrey
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Fammy
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I also need myy blue back... not really =)
I was using the blue to verify I was logged in...
C_Blue
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RE: No more colors!
Hey Ryan, if you like blue, and we like blue, why not default to blue? (It's your website ... you can make the default any colour you want 8^)
~ "Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed." - DV ~
Doesn't feel right registering
Just to warn you all, I intend to continue moaning (in a constructive manner) until I actually get a Palm (then I'll moan about something else) or I buy another PDA (then I'll moan somewhere else) :)
Zuber
RE: Doesn't feel right registering
Moaning is OK, as long as it's constructive. What annoys us all about anonymous postings is that they're unspecific, often unfounded, blanket statements that are based on no logic whatsoever.
You want to moan? Feel free. As long as it's specific and rational and you're willing to accept different opinions on it, I doubt anyone will mind.
Congratulations on a job well done!
Thanks for all of your hard work putting in news stories into PIC....everyone was grateful for your time, and enjoyed each and every story! Welcome back to the public eye Ryan, congratulations on the new site-look, it's great and simple!
-jeremy
Awesome!
Ed will be sorely missed tho :(
Ryan. Make Ed come back :)
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Sorry to hear Ed go, maybe this opens up room for me :)
Nice update Ryan, contact me @ npenree@penreesoft.com and I'd be glad to help out.
Nicholas J. Penree
PenreeSoft
http://www.penreesoft.com
Have to add to the deafening roar of approval and thanks...
Ryan, Thank you for all you have done with the site over the years and what it will become now with the reins fully and completely in your capable hands.
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"If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight." - George Gobol.
Site Slowness
-Ryan
webmaster@palminfocenter.com
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RE: Site Slowness
BTW, where you said "allot" you mean "a lot" -- two separate words (and not "alot" which isn't even a word, nor "allot" which has an unrelated meaning).
Slow to innovate
The PPC sites can stream MP3s and have a voice recorder.
At this rate PIC will be dead in 6 months.
-jk
Had to get the troll stuff in. Great new site and I love the new fonts. So much more efficient!
RE: Slow to innovate
Its good Ed moved away from PIC, as this website is almost like a website for democrats or republics, trying to make their side sweeter and the other bitter.
Ed, I am glad you have moved to a better, and yet more wide website.
"Now thats just PRIME!"
RE: Slow to innovate
Well, at least we can pin down trolls and informed lunatics.
I don't think you understand the gravity of the situation. We're in space.
News Center
Performance today seems pretty slow, hopefully that'll improve. I like the new look but I too would like to see some different color "skins" available as well.
I will remain loyal to PalmInfoCenter as long as the content is here. Ed did a great job but we must give props to PIC for remaining a **Palm** news site!
-Kevin Crossman
Avango?
By the way, bye Ed, good luck... welcome Ryan, good luck too
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PS> Ed...thanks for a great job over here. I will be visiting you over at BH soon enough.
Peace and blessings to all.
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David
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Awesome work Ryan! Can't wait!
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"If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight." - George Gobol.
Miss you Ed
Nice
No more flames... I got so tired of reading them it drove me nuts, thank goodness for user names... Only question I have is why is there a delay when you drag the mouse over the links under the Main Menu tab? Other then my nitpicking, great work!
Thanks, Ed
Dennis G. Esler
scouter075@attbi.com
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Will this mean that Brighthand and PIC start crossposting in much the same way as PIC and Geek?
The community isn't that big ... is there enough content to go around? Or will it become a battle of the "insider information"? Whatever the case, as a consumer, the competition can only be good.
Best of luck to Ed ... and welcome back to non-Anonymous content from Ryan.
~ "Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed." - DV ~
RE: Thanks, Ed
Think about it: SO many improvements, the day Ed leaves? its kind of trying to mantain the numbers of users on PIC, from going to brighthand.
Honestly, Ive never even heard of brighthand before ;)
"Now thats just PRIME!"
RE: Thanks, Ed
I did talk with Steve and Ed about the change. Here's what they had to say:
http://www.palmloyal.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1048
If you always do what you always did, you'll always get what you always got!
Type to you later,
I.M. No More
Wonderful Change
I appreciate the information I find here each day. It keeps me on the front edge of info with my perspective clients and fellow Palm users. Most interesting thing is, I am not in the business of selling Palms. My field is completely unrelated, however it is being customized to fit the PDA realm. In turn, I find myself spending a great deal of time helping people understand the potential of our devices and helping them with the purchase of the right PDA.
Ryan, my hats off to you. We will miss Ed, but have no doubt you will find the right people to assist in keeping things going.
Sincerely,
Kevin Bingham
Addicted to Palm
Nice Redesign!
Ed, you forgot something!
I like the new look, subtle yet powerful!
Ahh.. it's good to be back
Good luck on with the site Ryan, and keep up the good work!
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Outstanding!
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
Great Job!
Ed, thanks for all your hard work and we'll miss you! (actually, Ed's hiring might even make me dig up my old Brighthand bookmark, which I discarded after the ugliness on the forums with Steve Bush)
Ryan, keep up the good work!
Good luck!
Glad to see that anonymous posters will be gone.
My only other suggestion (which I've made a few times in the past) is that I don't like the "branching"-style commenting on news posts. I'd much prefer it if the news stories linked to the standard forums. Part of this is so that I can be updated via email of any responses to stories that I've commented on. Of course, I think you had trouble supporting that in your forums anyway (must be an ASP vs PHP thing).
As the title of my post says, good luck. With Ed at Brighthand now it will be interesting to see if the community can support a fair number of Palm-related web sites.
Scott
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Mozilla Issues
Apart from that really nice makeover.
Kudos due.
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kHiTeDev
Font, bandwidth
I'm getting much reduced bandwidth on the site also
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Hotoru
I. M. Anonymous & Anoraks
I. M. Anonymous has not gone, s/he simply registers as I M Anonymous or other variations Sam, Lawrence, Guess Whom I Am, Tree......
RE: I. M. Anonymous & Anoraks
I applaud this move :-)
Best of luck PIC.
miss u ed
Changes
PIC's new design is really clean, so clean in fact that one might conceivably claim to be doing "research" while surfing the forums at work! Fun, clean, and informative!
Great job, Ryan!
-- True Believer = 1/4 Research, 1/2 needs assessment + 1/4 Informed decision.
Ed's the man!
Thanks;
Mark
New site
Cheers,
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Fonts and Browser Rendering ...
More accurate description. Within a reply, the opening paragraph is fine, but subsequent paragraphs appear at type proportions (hmm, will that appear rendered as HTML or not ... "font size=+1")
Just thought Ryan might like to know.
BTW - Opera is the most standards compliant browser on the net. If your page renders well in it, it will look good on everything else.
~ "Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed." - DV ~
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Token.
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Thanks.
~ "Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed." - DV ~
are these editors paid pro's or unpaid hobbyists?
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David
RE: are these editors paid pro's or unpaid hobbyists?
If you always do what you always did, you'll always get what you always got!
Type to you later,
First was Wes and now is Ed
Thanks for all those news and articles Ed.
Congratulations for all that great work.
Remember Way Back When...
I stumbled arcoss this site called the Interactive Archive - Way back Machine
"The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public "
You look at how the site looked Nearly each month from Aug 15, 2000 - Jan 25, 2002
http://web.archive.org/web/*/palminfocenter.com
This site is pretty cool. Take a look how Palm.com looked like back in 1997
www.usr.com/palm/index.html" rel=nofollow target="_new">http://web.archive.org/web/19970416071315/www.usr.com/palm/index.html
Try your favorite site
It does work for every site; even though they attempted to archive them all.
Have fun. PIC live on! Thank Ed for the Ride.
Without you, I would have never been inspired to start
http://www.palmloyal.com
Carl Brooks
If you always do what you always did, you'll always get what you always got!
Type to you later,
RE: Remember Way Back When...
RE: Remember Way Back When...
Some Things Never Change
When are you going to expand your Links section? You've had basically the same handful of site listed since you started this site. Any plans to have a links page? Your top links on the front page the rest of us on the links page? Just curious.
If you always do what you always did, you'll always get what you always got!
Type to you later,
RE: Remember Way Back When...
Back to the Future - Hawkins Interview
http://www.palmloyal.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1042
If you always do what you always did, you'll always get what you always got!
Type to you later,
HOORAY!!!
Way to go claiming your much deserved credit!
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** I Love Clie!!!!! **
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Design of Discussion Forums
Trolls
Sony releases too many products -- they suck!
Palm never innovates -- they suck!
Handspring sucks -- they suck!
All the other licencees -- they suck too!
A Suggestion for the Main Page
Thanks!
RE: A Suggestion for the Main Page
Separation of news articles....
Hope you can separate the articles again since most magazines do. Thanks
iSilo Downloads
One small observation - I use iSilo to download the site for reading on the way to work - and the new-style buttons linking to the forums don't seem to work.
I have to check some of my iSilo preferences to see why - or maybe iSilo just can't get the links from the buttons.
Other than that, the site looks fantastic viewed on a Mac. No trouble with fonts under Netscape 7.
Happily trying to sync an iPod, Palm m505, T68i and PowerBook G4. Life is so simple!
hmm...
One day before the first ever OS5 PDA is launched...
hmm...
Nice, but slow
But the most important thing for me ( I'm online with an ordinary 56k modem )... I dislike the new speed. The new site is much slower than the previous.
Can you do something about that ? Thanks !
New format
Attn Admin/Ryan
-thermite
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-Ryan
webmaster@palminfocenter.com
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