Comments on: Software Updated For High Res Screens

I've switched to Plucker 1.6 now because it does almost everything I want or need -- it has a command-line converter for my server to use, a GUI converter for my desktop, and it can display hi-res formatted documents with images and links. It's also open-source, it's free, and my documents aren't stuck in a format controlled by someone I don't know. The Plucker developers have also addressed a few lingering issues, like documents larger than 32k being broken into chunks -- now they're kept as one large document, without segmentation, and it's made reading much more pleasurable.

While I have nothing against the iSilo developers I'd prefer that the document format was open. And I really like iSilo's command-line converter, its speed, the way it handles images, and the .ixl formatting system -- but I just feel locked in by the closed document format, the prospect of paying for upgrades sometime in the future, and the fact that it doesn't do anything (except automatic bookmark detection), that Plucker can't do.

Besides all that, I can share Plucker and Plucker documents without having to worry!

And $10 isn't much for an upgrade (even after the $15 initial cost) but after two upgrades it could rankle a little. What about the third, or fourth upgrade? If you've got a lot of documents it might start to feel like extortion... :)

Anyway, they're both great tools, and there's lots to like about iSilo -- but it doesn't cost anything to try Plucker if you've already got iSilo, and I'm sure the Plucker team would value your feedback and suggestions.

Thanks! I'll check it out.

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-400Xscale, can't hack the 800mHz bulverde yet. Sony hasn't given them the code.
-64MB. Hey that's plenty enough, who needs 128MB, let those PPC have the 196MB.
-BT (who needs WiFi)
-VGA. (But will emulate 160 x 160, not to worry)
-900mAh non replaceable battery.
-10 days of use (aka, 20 minutes of normal use when using the screen)
-Slider. (wee, one hand operation)
-SD slot. (what do you mean you want peripheral, it's SDIO, if you wait long enough....well wait some more..)

-$399 (why mess with good price)

PIC announce T|T5 as the best PDA ever made by the world. It will regain POS market share, now standing at 20%. Yeah, T|T5 will finally teach those Pesky PPC. This is what real PDA suppose to look like, who needs triple wireless and 800mHz and 196MB RAM? VGA with 400mHz Xscale is perfect!

ps- I am a moron!

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El ignorante afirma, el sabio duda y reflexiona.

What was wrong with the m505 screen? Palm said it had "brilliant" color. Was that a lie?

Sometimes the truth just isn't pretty™

Good. Mr. Nagel's "friends" won't have to drop by your house to have a little "chat" with your knees tonight.

I thought T4 will be basic PXA 263 with 64MB and HVGA screen and will be out by April/May time frame. Have they delayed that again?

I had heard that the T|T 4 was going to be shelved, but maybe it's back on again. I'm afraid it just won't be that competitive in six months, though.

Was just joking about the 20% amrket share. POS probably will stay around 40%, while Palmone holding mid/high 35% by Q3.

I realize you were joking about the market share. But I was serious about the battery life figures. Strange how no one laughs about PPC battery life these days...

Sony seems to be in total implosion mode.

Don't ever bet against Sony-zilla. The Beast from the East always finds a way to win.

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Hee Hee Hee poor ska...

Sometimes the truth just isn't pretty™

You know exactly what type of Post PIC can't handle. VERY BASIC data. PIC even erased 'size and battery' comparison before and claim it as a lie. Now, that's funny. Of course there are finally too many pictures and numbers floating around to sustain the illusion.

Another type of post PIC cannot stand is negative financial data. Post: profitability data, marketshare data across time, list of Bugs and hardware glitches, and it'll be erassed immediate.

..and of course sardonic parody.

They aren't condusive to Palm economy, it's kinda like stalinistic state. The truth is state secret. heh heh...

Say whatever happen to 'PIC, the voice of Palm economy' logo? I thought that was one of the funnier stuff to see.

Ska

Now that's a low blow. You've truly hurt my feelings and I expect you to apologize. Now.

PPC troll? Only in your fantasies. But I'm not so mindlessly devoted to Palm that I don't try other platforms. I've used pretty much every PDA OS that's ever been available, but have stuck with Palm because that's what works for me. But if Microsoft (or Symbian, or Linux, or Sponge Bob, or even CrApple) released a better OS tomorrow that did what I wanted, came on hardware I liked, and had the apps I need, I wouldn't think twice about switching. It's called being platform agnostic (look it up) and is what gives Palm executives nightmares.

Try to look at the bigger picture, Fooey. Like whether or not Palm can innovate, or maintain quality control, or fight off PPC and Symbian, or make it in the smartphone world. These questions are a bit more significant than things like whether or not the new CLIE has a flip cover or comes in an electric pink case.

And please don't take tongue in cheek posts to heart - doing so will land you in the asylum at a tender age. I wouldn't want to see that happen to you. I'd suggest you seek advice on this from well-known PIC contributor and author of several copyrighted articles, Mr. Mike C©.

I'll bet a dollar that you're (or your Mommy is) a Mac user.

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will the real ska please stand up?

Ska

http://www.palminfocenter.com/view_Story.asp?ID=5730
"I've had TnH come to life when I'm trying to grab the slider -- why wasn't that area of the screen mapped off-limits? "

How about this master piece.

http://www.palminfocenter.com/view_story.asp?ID=4562
"it's uncommon to find programs for the Palm OS larger than 150K, on the PPC side, it's hard to find any sort of app, smaller than 500K. "

Those two are factually wrong at the time of article publication date. You don't seem troubled using those type of misinformation.

Ouch. And I didn't realize Alexa was even still in business.

While PIC seems to have faded in the past couple of years - (remember good old, I.M. Anonymous?) - it looks like most remaining Palm sites aren't much better. Just look at what happened to PalmStation.com. Others sites have been bought out by PPC. Most regurgitate press releases as "news" or "reviews". All struggle for advertisers to pay the bills.

The sense of community that was there in the early days has evaporated. Malaise and ennui have set in. People have moved on. Doesn't bode well for the platform.

Sometimes the truth just isn't pretty™

Is apalm dying? who knows, It's busy digesting Handspring right now. But the fact PIC quits posting marketshare 'news' is proof enough, Palm is not at the best shape in that area.

>>>http://www.palminfocenter.com/view_Story.asp?ID=5730
"I've had TnH come to life when I'm trying to grab the slider -- why wasn't that area of the screen mapped off-limits? "

Hey, you psychotic bag of MS-centric sh*t, how dare you say that what I've REPEATEDLY experienced with PPCs isn't so. YOU might now have have come across this, but like most PPCers, you probably don't actually *DO* anything with that damned thing except consider it as gadgetry Viagra. I've yet to come across *ONE* PPC owner who does one QUARTER of the work I do on my lowly mono CLIE S320. All those early iPaq adopters were brainless dweebs who plopped in Microdrives and treated it as an iPod. And this is coming from someone who has been around *hundreds* of these people at *TWO* MS-sponsored PPC events here in NYC, where I made it a point to go around and ask people what they actually *did* with their PPCs (which were primarily iPaqs). I'm still laughing over the day one d*ckhead at a PPC user group asked if anyone actually *used* Pocket Word on their PPCs. No one said they did! So much for MS pitching it as a productivity tool. It's nothing but a shiny toy for brainless and balls-less boys.

And if anyone from the "PalmOS camp" had trolled a PPC forum as *you* do, there'd be *worse* comments.

Just ask Foo how little it took for *him* to be banned from a site!

You PPC cretin. You MS flunky.

(Not that you have ever acted like ska on PPC sites -- those cultists just can't stand a dissenting opinion... of *any* kind.)

By the way Donna, would you drop in the adress
of this site? I'm fed up with low-res games!

I set this article up as a discussion so post your own favorites here. palmsource also has a good list:

http://www.palmsource.com/interests/games/

Palm Reader Pro 2.2.9
- Add support for reading books with the slider closed on Tungsten T3 handhelds.
- Add an option to turn off the underline on links (in the General Preferences dialog).
- Fix a bug where notes and highlights appear in sidebars and footnotes.
- Fix problems with five-way buttons on Tungsten, Zire and Treo handhelds.
- Requires 300K free memory.

Probably the same "problem" that Launcher X will encounter...

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