(Untitled)- December 28, 2002 I'm getting in a little blogging during halftime of the Kansas-California game. It's one of the few games I've been able to watch on TV this season. I hate being in Big 10 country. ;-) If you're trying to follow your own favorite team, check out Calendar Updates, a site that provides downloads of schedules for baseball, football, basketball, hockey, racing, and golf teams, both professional and collegiate, in Outlook format. They even let you download a file for your specific...http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/categories/pdas/2002/12/28.html#a3274 (Untitled)- December 27, 2002 PDA Translates Written Signs "In Chapter Four I mentioned IBM Research work on InfoScope, a device that could translate a sign via camera-PDA-shape-recogniton-machine-translation. Wired News reports on similar work at Carnegie-Mellon's Robotics Institute. Here's how it works: The baffled tourist takes a digital photo of the sign with a camera built into his PDA, and the sign translator software detects the text within the image. In a matter of seconds, the text is translated into English....http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/categories/pdas/2002/12/27.html#a3270 Skinning Clies- December 27, 2002 Max Out Your CLIÉ Handheld: Amazing ways to alter the look and feel of your NRNX "The Palm platform has never been particularly tweaker-friendly. Sure, with the right Hacks you could play a few anemic Star Trek sounds or display a "startup screen," but that was about it. Enter Sony's high-end CLIÉ handheld series, most notably the NR and NX models. With their HiRes+ screens and enhanced audio hardware, these are tweakers' delights. I've modified my CLIÉ NR70V handheld in...http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/categories/pdas/2002/12/26.html#a3264 Crackberry Addicts Get Help- December 27, 2002 For Gadget Addicts: Splints for 'Blackberry Thumb' "There are braces for bad knees, slings for strained wrists, and now a remedy for sufferers of gadget addiction: splints for 'Blackberry thumb.' That's the ailment that afflicts people who spend too much time typing with their thumbs on the tiny keyboards of Blackberry wireless devices. When you add those to the masses using the new 'thumbboards' that hook onto hand-held organizers, it's clear that the opposable digit is under pressure. Some...http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/categories/pdas/2002/12/26.html#a3261 Another Palm Blog- December 18, 2002 The Off-Hollywood Film Guide "Many of my favorite movies aren't found in the catalogs of any major motion picture studio. Usually, I run across a film by accident, either through word of mouth, or by having something catch my eye at the video store. Now there's a portable guide to indie and foreign films that I can tote with me everywhere - right on my Palm. Each entry offers enough info to indicate whether a DVD is worth viewing or not, without boring you with pointless details many reviewers.http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/categories/pdas/2002/12/17.html#a3216 Games as a Driving Force- December 16, 2002 "In the Star Tribune, they write that 'PC games fell 6.2 percent through the first 10 months of this year, making the first such decline ever.' They go on to say that consoles will break record sales this year, and that there is a shift towards console gaming from PC. Is this due to the fact that there are now three major contenders (XBox, Playstation 2, Game Cube) and all the advanced features they offer (DVD ability on the first two etc) I, for one, will continue with my Battlefield 1942 on..http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/categories/pdas/2002/12/15.html#a3193 Bookworm or Bust!- December 13, 2002 Joy of joys! Astraware has released Bookworm for the Palm platform! It costs $14.95, works on color or grayscale devices, and even works with my Clie's audio. I'm downloading mine right now. via infoSync Of course, if you don't have a Palm, you can still play this amazingly addictive game online.http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/categories/pdas/2002/12/13.html#a3187 Moblogging Tool- December 13, 2002 Todd Courtois sends along news of KABLOG, his new blogging tool for mobile phones and PDAs. "KABLOG is a tool for mobile phones and PDAs that allows you to post new blog entries to Movable Type. (It may also work with other blog services supporting an XMLRPC interface similar to Movable Type's, but this has not been tested.) KABLOG currently runs on the J2ME (MIDP 1.0) platform. Devices supporting this include: PalmOS devices running PalmOS v3.5 or higher with a network connection. For..http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/categories/pdas/2002/12/13.html#a3186 Craning My Neck to Get a Look at that Samsung- December 3, 2002 Samsung Offers a Peek at New Pocket PC Phone "Samsung Electronics has taken the wraps off a prototype of what is likely to be the most fully-featured PDA phone it has yet produced when it goes on sale early next year. The SPH-M400 is based on Pocket PC 2002 Phone Edition, Microsoft's operating system for PDA phones, and runs on CDMA 2000 1x EvDO networks. Such networks, which are already in commercial service in South Korea, are capable of data transmission at speeds up to 2.4 mbps. It was...http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/categories/pdas/2002/12/02.html#a3112 |