Quickies: Treo Battery Charger, Slide Analysis, Resource2

This this round of quickie news bits we point you towards a handheld giveaway from fatwallet, highlight a new Treo battery charger with a review from Treonauts, a new Palm OS developer tool named Resource2 has been let loose, PDAMill announced they will drop their Palm OS product line and more. Read on for the full stories.

Seahorse Software Releases Pyramid Solitaire 6.0
James Lee writes, Seahorse Software fans rejoice! Your most favorite application has just gotten 4 new levels. Yes your tried and true favorite, Pyramid Solitaire, now has 4 new Hard Levels. What makes them hard? How about taking away the ability to match overlapping cards in the pyramid! These new levels are sure to put the most die-hard players to the test. And of course, a new best scores list has been created for this. So dust off your making skills, and put this new version to the test.

Palm Handheld Giveaway from FatWallet.com
Palm Inc. have partnered with one of the web's leading deal discussion sites, Fatwallet.com, for a new contest. The grand prize winner will receive a Palm TX and the two runners-up will each receive a Z22 handheld. The Palm devices up for grabs are refurbished units. At the time of this writing, it appears from the 139 pages of entries that the TX is the overwhelmingly preferred device.

The contest runs through April 19th at 11:30am Central Time. Contestants must be a registered member of the FatWallet community and will be contacted by Private Message notification alone.

Treonauts Review New Palm Treo Battery Charger
The always-reliable Andrew over at the Treonauts blog has posted a surprise review of the recent, quietly released Palm Treo Battery Charger. Essentially a highly mobilized version of the Palm Treo Cradle Kit's charging cradle pocket, this nifty little item allows the user to insert a Treo battery for charging via any sort of MultiConnector-equipped cable. The review mentions that AC, DC, and USB charge cables all work fine with the charger but unfortunately none are included. Some fine close-up product shots are also provided, along with a comparison with the similar but larger, more feature-packed Seidio version of this charger. No word if the unit will accompodate the extra-thick Seidio 3200mAh Treo battery that I use.

Palm OS Resource Packager, Resource2 Released
PDA Performance, Inc. has debuted Resource² for developers. Designed to work around Palm OS limitations ? and to provide hassle-free resource management across multiple platforms ?Resource² provides the most complete set of multiplatform resource management tools. The software library provides a highly robust API, which allows developers to work with resources just as easily as working with files stored in VFS. Resource² supports Palm OS 5, Tapwave (TNA applications), Windows Mobile, and Windows Mobile Smartphone.

Brighthand Analysis of Palm's Linux-based OS Slideshow
The online world has been filled with buzz in the week since Palm's Analyst Day conference. The main focus of that day's presentation was first bits of information released on their upcoming Linux-based Palm OS replacement. Brighthand has posted a thorough analysis piece that examines several key slides from the Palm presentation and how they might leverage their traditional strengths to best develop a new smartphones OS. As BH clearly acknowledges, Palm has been very tight-lipped with details since last week's presentation. Therefore, any current analysis of Palm's future OS or hardware plans requires a great deal of speculation and evaluation in hindsight of their past efforts.

PDAMill Drops Palm OS Product Line
Jeff Mitchell writes, Was cruising around looking for updates to applications and noticed PDAMill (Gamebox Solitaire and others) had renamed itself and also discontinued its Palm OS line of applications.

A statement from the company reads:

"Unfortunately, due to some of our Palm OS products literally working on a device by device basis and recent developments with the Palm OS platform itself, PDAmill is officially discontinuing all of our products for the Palm OS platform."