Meeting #18

General

This month, we had 9 members at the Wednesday meeting and a year to date best 15 members at the Saturday meeting.

Wednesday	Saturday
Al-Noor Alladin	Ron Apperly
Pat Cooper	Rob Bowen
Sean D.Evans	Steve Cook
Ernie do Forno	Paul D'Auvergne
Matt Fozard	Kenny Delaney
Bryan Glahom	Dave Dickson
Dave Harvey	Eria Evans
Joeseph Klamer	Sean D. Evans
Kim Waddell	Geoff Edgecomb
	Steve Hetherington
	Art Liem
	Bruce McKay
	Sam Peralta
	Russell Scheer
	Trevor Wilkinson

Topics

Enhancements

Well you know that this was going to be a fun meeting before it even started.  I mean really.  Enhancements!  Who doesn't like enhancements.  Oh you!  Well you can can click here.   Psyche.

We had some handouts, some demos and some first hand experience with several different enhancements for the Palm OS handheld devices.

Digital Cameras     Smile (well really you don't have to because we can add the smile later)

There was an article in TAP Weekly which introduced two digital camera enhancements to your Palm OS device.
IDEO has a still camera for the Handspring.  It can take black and white or colour pictures with resolutions of 160x160 and 320x240.   You can store as many as 500 images in 5MB of memory and the included software will allow for printing, beaming and e-mailing the images.  Kodak has a snap on camera for the Palm III series called the PalmPix.  The camera snaps on to the HotSync port with a lens that point out from the bottom.  The PalmPix captures 640x480 pixels, 24 bit colour images and has a 2X zoom lens.  Both of these cameras display the images on the PDA screen for viewing.

Silkyboard

Silkyboard, a product by Softava, is a combination screen protector and Palm OS keyboard application.  This product allows for the keyboard to be viewable at all times without blocking the screen as there is an overlay that fits over the Silkscreen area.  The overlay protects the Silkscreen area and its characters are clearly visible.  The application was designed to let the user to switch between using the keyboard or writing Graffiti seamlessly.

DotNote

DotNote, by útilware, is a freeware keyboard application designed to be used with one hand.  Every user has been in the situation that they needed to take a note, but only had one had free.  DotNote to the rescue.  This application has a large on screen keyboard that allows the users to type with one hand.

APCalc

APCalc, by Mike Davis, is an advanced programmable calculator application.  It features variables, looping, 64 bit floating point and much more.  A mathematician's dream application.

Backup Bitster

Backup Bitster, by Katz & Karsai, is a Palm OS application that allows the user to decide exactly what gets Hotsync'd and what does not.

PDActivate Suite

Suite, by Synergy Solutions, Inc, is a set of five applications designed to increase productivity and enhance the functionality of the Palm OS device.  Included in the suite are:

Launch 'Em - a popular application launcher
List Maker - an advanced application for managing all types of lists
SynCal - a fully algebraic calculator application
SimpleSketch - a drawing application that allows large pictures by the use of scroll bars
Today - shows your Datebook and ToDo items in one screen

Magic Text

MagicText, by Synergy Solutions, Inc, is an application that allows the user to easily manipulate text on a Palm OS device plus a system-wide contextual menu.  Features of this application includes double-tap to select a word, triple-tap to select a paragraph, quadruple-tap to select all, drag-and-drop, plugin architecture and more.

HiNote

HiNote, by Cyclos, combines the capabilities of an outline program, a notepad program and a drawing program to let you store text and pictures in a hierarchical format.

TextPlus

TextPlus, by SmartCell Technology, is a dictionary based word and phrase list which helps complete words after one or more characters are entered.  It has a customisable dictionary, help, font sizing and more.

TealLock

TealLock, by TealPoint Software, replaces the standard security application with a powerful and flexible system with many activation and customisation options, including shortcut stroke activation, custom lock screen text and images, and optional automatic locking and private record hiding immediately at power down, or only after a specified period of time.

GoBar

GoBar, by Digivello, is an enhanced application launcher with navigation techniques that are familiar to desktop computers.  Features settings, documents and program menu items, date/time, memory, battery level and more.

Prizes

The prizes were determined by means of a blind draw from the garlic bread basket. 

Wednesday	Prize	Saturday	Prize
Al-Noor Alladin	Hi-Note by Cyclos	Ron Apperly	Text Plus by SmartCell Technology
Pat Cooper	PDActivate by Synergy Solutions, Inc	Rob Bowen	Digivello Application
Sean D.Evans		Steve Cook	SilkyBoard by Softava
Ernie do Forno	Passed on prize.	Paul D'Auvergne	TealLock by TealPoint Software
Matt Fozard	ThinkDB by ThinkingBytes Technology	Kenny Delaney	Text Plus by SmartCell Technology
Bryan Glahom	Backup Bitster by Katz & Karsai	Dave Dickson	Text Plus by SmartCell Technology
Dave Harvey	Digivello Application	Eria Evans	Attention, M&Ms, Pizza.   She had it all.
Joeseph Klamer	Hi-Note by Cyclos	Sean D. Evans	Cheese    Which part of" no cheese" didn't they get?
Kim Waddell	Digivello Application	Geoff Edgecomb	Digivello Application
		Steve Hetherington	TealLock by TealPoint Software
		Art Liem	Digivello Application
		Bruce McKay	Hi-Note by Cyclos
		Sam Peralta	APCalc by Mike Davis
		Russell Scheer	APCalc by Mike Davis
		Tom Wilkinson	APCalc by Mike Davis