Store Any Type of File With Receiveit

So clueless newbies don't get into trouble and clog up Palm's tech support lines even more. It's actually a smart idea on Palm's part. Anyone that needs a file manager should take the time to learn how to use it without Palm having to spend money spoon feeding them.

That is useful, and I think you'd have to be butt stupid to not understand how it works. These are the things that keep people buying PPC's (along with some palms still not having an office suite, file manager, or outlook synchronization), and palm should bundle such features right away if it wants to stay competitive in the corportate environment.

People no longer expect PDA's to be just address books and calanders. If that were the case i would still use my Pilot 5000 which did that job just fine.

Isn't there another Palm program that has similar functionality? Than it came to me, BeamPro. To my knowledge, BeamPro does everything this program claims and much, much more.

Not much use for this type of program but if memory serves BeamPro is very good software.

In the Spirit of Umoja,
Ronin

then, delete the one on your device and re-install the new one. (the version number is still the same, 1.0, when you download from our website)

Please do let us know what you think, and how we can improve this application as well as bug report at:
http://www.equattor.com/feedback.html

Thank you
EQUATTOR, Inc
The Power in Your Palm

We posted on 3 yahoo groups, the one that I have joined long time ago. Since I am a member of these groups, I decided to ask few members to test it out and to get feedback for this application.

The tests were all great, and we went public on November 12 for full version. (not beta)

We are commited to develop a stable and a very useful application for all Palm OS users.

Please posted any error, comments or suggestion at:
http://www.equattor.com/feedback.html

Thank you for trying Receiveit.

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EQUATTOR, Inc.
The Power in Your Palm

But crashes shouldn't be. Besides, just because PPC does it poorly doesn't mean that Palm needs to emulate them.

The real reason is that PalmOS is pretty limited. Why do you get good PDF viewers, image viewers, video players, etc. for machines like PPC and the Zaurus? Because those machines have decent file systems, memory management, windowing, multitasking, and all the other things people expect from a modern computer. But Palm stubbornly clings to an outdated and simplistic set of OS abstractions.

BTW, I did "read the manual" as you so gently suggested in bold letters. When a new application crashes my handheld over and over, regardless of what action I take after installing and running it, it suggests to me that there are some gross incompatibilties that need to be worked out. My post was to inform others, succinctly, of my lack of success with it. If others had the same problem, they'd know it was a more general issue and not specific to them. It seems the program is working well for you. I'm glad to hear it.

Please remember your manners when posting on these sites. It's tempting for people to type inconsiderate comments into a computer because you aren't standing in front of soemone and looking them in the face. I hope you'll treat others with the same courtesy you'd like to have extended in return.

-jcm

That's a pathetic excuse. The ability to send around images, movies, and other files is trivial both technologically and from a UI perspective. So is the ability to categorize information into a hierarchical file system, another capability that has been with us for nearly half a century and that the Palm lacks. None of those features are for "power users", they are for anybody who has more than half a dozen data objects.

I like my Palm for its basic functionality: calendaring, addresses, and todo lists. It works better for that than PPC. But I'm under no illusion about Palm's skill as a software development company: they company doesn't know what they are doing, and they are living on borrowed time. PalmOS 6 better be a technological knock-out and the BeOS programmers they hired better bring some basic technical skill to that company, because otherwise even the anything-but-Microsoft folks like myself won't be able to keep Palm afloat much longer.

Technically better? Than what? Sony's P900 is the first Symbian phone that might actually get it right. But that's assuming they've fixed all conduit issues, increased software availability and made it easier to develop for the platform. These are a new class of device and haven't even been seriously marketed yet in the U.S.A. (They have more of a presence in Europe and Sony's P800 actually sold close to a million copies, despite it being an expensive phone.) Once prices come down they'll probably do well.

What is really doomed is PDA software. The notion that a handheld needs to run extra-light software is ridiculous, given that PDA hardware is more powerful than desktop hardware of a few years ago.

In a couple of years, you can expect most PDAs to run XP, OS X, and Linux. Microsoft will phase out WinCE/PPC, and Palm will likely go the way of Be--frantically trying to create a full-featured OS and instead becoming a dumping ground for failed "new" OS ideas.

I'd be interested to know if anyone actually makes money off selling Palm software. The prices are low, there's freeware that can do almost everything you could need to do, almost every good commercial app can be cracked in literally five seconds with a piece of software we won't mention here and not many people buy any extra software. Palm Economy? Please. Besides a few companies like Astraware, I doubt it's been worth it selling commercial Palm apps. You're better off buying a copy of PDAToolbox and spewing out a few dozen cr-apps, hoping someone will be dumb enough to send you money for them. Why bother make the effort to develop real apps?

We already are seeing Linux and PPC running on mini laptops. http://www.sibelle.org/nex/nmain.htm
PDA CPUs will reach 600 MHz next year and it may seem like a no-brainer to simply port the desktop OSes to them, but it's not that simple. Yes, eventually we'll have mini versions of Toshiba's Libretto running Real Windows, but price advantages could keep PalmOS around if they get their act together and market themselves properly. 2004 is the year PalmOS either survives or becomes a dodoOS like Mac is now.

Who said anything about "replicating all desktop functions"? Running a desktop OS (i.e., desktop kernel, desktop libraries, desktop graphics system) doesn't mean that the UI needs to look anything like a desktop. The advantage of running a desktop OS on a handheld is that you can share much more code between desktop and handheld applications. With Palm, almost everything needs to be rewritten for no good reason.

So you think porting desktop Windows to a Palm will be a simple matter?

No, that's not what I wrote (sorry that you seem to have trouble with reading comprehension). What I said was that porting desktop applications to Palm is hard because PalmOS is so different from a desktop OS. It is much easier to create powerful handheld applications when the handheld runs a desktop OS.

The Sharp Zaurus already demonstrates that--even with a tiny developer community and much less time on the market, you can get a lot of heavy-duty software for it that you can't get for Palm at all or that is much more limited in functionality for Palm.

Awesome software that you will rarely need. But when you do, it repays the registration price immediately.

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Yes, it is one of the Addins. However, I still prefer UnDupe as PDT will still occasionally let duplicates slip through - only last week I had to deal with a couple. I feel more secure by simply running UnDupe every so often. Even an 'Exhaustive' search takes less than a minute, and those few seconds are worth the peace of mind.

The software is reliable, efficient and cheap. I've never had 2000 duplicates, but I have suffered from over 100 a couple of times, and I'm glad I didn't have to delete them one by one!

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