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PalmTop Computing

I once used a Cassiopeia E-11. I really liked Active Sync and never had a problem with the unit, except that it was given to me free and used and you had to reset the stylus every time you picked it up. For Christmas 2002, I got a color Palm m130 -- a 9.2 on the coolness richter scale. The images are incredibly clear and crisp, and there is sooooo much more (free)software available for the Palm than for a CE device that I am in lala land. I have about fifteen games on the unit, ten AvantGo channels, and Documents to go 4.0, so I can view and edit Word, Excel and PowerPoint files. I have a nice little shopping list app, as well as several quizzes and IQ tests. I wish there were an easier way to get eBooks for free, but such is life.

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Here are some useful links:

Avantgo-- join to set up online content on CE, Palm OS, or Pocket PC Devices-- can turn any website into a channel, but their free selection rocks. Play around and see which channels work best for you. Right now I have these:
1. All the news from Reuters --excellent news channel, includes images, as well as nation, world, sports and entertainment
2. CNET News -- more techie oriented news
3. Metacritic -- compiles scores for films based on an analysis of serveral professional critical reviews
4. New York Times -- Uh, it's the NY Times. 'Nuff said.
5. Palm Boulevard -- Links to software downloads and news about palms
6. PDA Buzz -- More links to software and more Palm news
7. Rolling Stone -- Nice diversion-- Peter Travers reviews
8. Wired -- Favorite techie rag in a lite version
9. Yahoo! -- Personalized movie schedules and weather
10. ZDNet -- Currently under renovation
Active Sync-- If you have a CE or PocketPC device, you need this to transfer files between palm devices and your computer.

Software downloads

DMOZ Palm Software: http://dmoz.org/Computers/Systems/Handhelds/Palm_OS/Software/

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PalmOpenSource: http://www.palmopensource.com/

Palm Boulevard: http://www.palmblvd.com/software.html

Palm.com Software: http://www.palm.com/software/

Plucker: (HTML Reader) http://www.plkr.org/index.plkr

plucker Book Repository http://dave.pluckerbooks.com:81/browse.phtml

Tucows for Palm: http://pda.tucows.com/palm.html

PalmGamingWorldhttp://www.palmgamingworld.com/

ZDNet Downloads for Palm: http://downloads-zdnet.com.com/3101-2123-0-1.html?tag=dir