I'm sure many of you are tired of hearing about the constant Apple/Palm rumors but this story on MacUser looks like the most credible account yet of the much anticipated device. The article claims it will feature a springboard expansion slot, color screen and wireless connectivity, possibly based on apple's airport. It only seems logical since the new MAC OS X will have built in support for Palm OS devices and Steve Jobs really likes Palm devices.

The next meeting of LAPUG will be at a different location. We will meet this Saturday, February 12th, at 1030am in CyberJava, an Internet coffee shop. CyberJava is located in Hollywood at 7080 Hollywood Blvd. The cross street is La Brea Ave. The shop's web page has a map (http://www.cyberjava.com). The main focus of the meeting will be to showcase some of the favorite Palm applications of our members. A video camera will be available to share close-up views of a Palm screen. The Landware GoVox voice recorder and the Tech Center Labs Palm V Emergency Recharger will be demonstrated and David Pogue's excellent book, Palm Pilot - The Ultimate Guide, will be reviewed and discussed.

The website for the highly anticipated first person shooter Palm game, Doomling, has been updated with some new screenshots and features. The author says it's almost complete and on track for an end of March release.

Adobe Systems and Palm Computing, Inc., announced an intention to integrate Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) technologies and the Palm Computing platform geared towards the growing consumer market for electronic publishing. This effort signals an intent to bring a new level of convenience and portability to Adobe's customers and to deliver Palm users with a wealth of new content, from electronic books (e-books) to business workflow documents. Read more in the press release or this CNET article.

HandSpring announced and demonstrated two new springboards at the DEMO 2000 conference. The eyemodule digital camera and a radio module from CUE Corporation that combines high-quality audio with personal messaging. Both products are expected to in the spring.

The Nashville Palm Users Group has scheduled their next meeting! It's official, NPUG will have it's first guest speaker! Jon Wagner, the programer and owner of Wagware. He will be providing a demo of his premier software, Palm ReDirector. Palm ReDirector allows a user to redirect serial communications, printing and the Palm Clipboard to your Windows 95/98 PC (Windows NT is currently in beta). In addition, Jon will be giving away two copies of Palm ReDirector as a door prize! He will also have several copies for sale at the meeting as well. More...

On Monday at Demo 2000, Kodak announced the PalmPix digital camera for Palm III and Palm VII products. It will be available for $179 from retailers and on the Web in April according to this PCWorld article. The 1.5-ounce PalmPix camera features a fixed focus lens, 2X digital zoom, and a self-timer. Pictures can be viewed on the Palm's LCD screen as grayscale images until they're transferred via a HotSync to a 640 x 480 color bitmap. Update: Kodak's website has pictures and details about the device here.

In case you needed yet ANOTHER reason why Palm products are the de facto standard. I noticed in the readme.txt file for the recent update for Act! 2000. It reads, "Symantec no longer provides technical support for the ACT! for Windows CE product or for the link included within ACT! 2000 to Windows CE."
I don't know about you, but for some reason I hear a Celine Dion song that was the in a movie about a boat?

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Linux users sick of using a MAC or 98 machine to hotsync, relief may be in sight... There's a project at SourceForge to bring Handspring Visor support and USB hotsync capability to Linux. There's no release yet but it's worth keeping an eye on.

PalmUser magazine sample pages now available for download! PalmUser is the premier paper-based journal for Palm users, and you can now read some samples of actual magazine pages, downloadable in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format. Go directly to our download page. Most PDA magazines give you a couple of pages of Palm coverage at best. PalmUser gives you more Palm information than all the others combined, with 96 full colour pages in this issue alone!