Two Palm OS developers have recently created blogs: “Palm OS® Protein News(All about the new native application model used in Palm OS® Cobalt)”:http://palmosprotein.blogs.com/ and “Combee on Palm OS(Ben Combee)”:http://palmos.combee.net/ …
From Brighthand I learned that the first Palm Pilot was demonstrated at Demo '96 by Jeff Hawkins and Ed Colligan. I've been here over five years and I'm not even an old-timer. No mention of this anywhere on our website, but I suppose it's not a major milestone or anything. The Company Backgrounder does mention that the first Palm Pilot was launched in 1996 (I believe it was in April).
I've been meaning to do more playing with Bluetooth capabilities of my Palm Tungsten T3 (other than just connecting to another Palm device), so I finally bought a Belkin F8T001 USB Bluetooth adapter (available on Buy.com for about $40 with free shipping). Installing the Belkin software on my Win2000 system was straightforward, as was pairing my device with the desktop. What was not easy to figure out what sharing the internet connection so I can run e-mail and web browser on the Tungsten. The Belkin software wizard led me to turn on Internet Connection Sharing within Windows, but it gave…
From Gizmodo, I learned about Reiter's Camera Phone Report which is a weblog dedicated to wireless digital photography. Among his recent http://www.ordergenericpropeciaonline.com posts is one about companies forcing handset vendors to remove cameras in phones due to security concerns.
Today while catching up on PalmInfocenter, I saw a new application called ForPhotos which takes pictures from your Zire 71 and posts them to a web site during synchronization. You can create a free trial account on ForPhotos.net or sync to any compatible server. You could actually set up your own server to do this because they've provided a spec for the photo transfer XML-RPC interface. Very cool. I tried it out with a couple of pictures from a Giants game last month and it worked quite well (Brian's Palm Photos). Their software takes the notes from the picture to…