Product Requirements: Desktop: Windows PC required if you wish to use the FireCracker desktop software (optional) FireCracker 1.8meg self executing archive Remember those funny commercials for the device that would allow you to clap your hands to turn a lamp on or off? You know the jingle, “Clap on… Clap off… Clap on, Clap off. […]
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Hi Folks, I’m in a gadget rut… I need something exciting to perk my gizmo lust. Will the upcoming color Palm m505 do it? Maybe the Sony AIBO that we’re getting to review soon will do the trick (oops let that one slip didn’t I?). Or maybe I need to go look at some cool
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Product Requirements: Device: Palm III series, Palm IIIc, Palm VII series, Palm V/Vx with optional adapter PocketMail.prc 165k PMCommLib.prc 37k PMHelpDB.pdb 1k Hello, my name is Julie Strietelmeier and I am an E-mailaholic… There, I said it. I admit that I check my e-mail probably 25-50 times a day. When I’m at home, this is
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Product Requirements: Device: Any touch screen device The Sensa PDA Minx is a cool little pen/stylus combo that has a couple unique features that make it stand out from other styli. The Minx is available in either Black or Silver and can be found at StylusCentral. In 1985, Boyd Willat, of Day Runner fame, made
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Product Requirements: Device: iPAQ and Silver Slider 04/22/01 Updated. Comments on new version will be made in red. The Vaja Silver Slider iPAQ case is the only case available to date that has been specifically made for the iPAQ and Silver Slider. The Silver Slider is a modified Compact Flash Card Expansion Sleeve made by
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Product Requirements: Device: Handspring Visor Prism Desktop: PC with a CDrom (for Zap! 2016 game which is included) Most people love games and many people play them on their PDAs. The GameFace for Visor Prism makes playing games easier and more fun. What is the GameFace? It is a nifty snap on joystick for the
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Product Requirements: Desktop: Internet connection to view web page stats. Internet Explorer 4.0 or above, Netscape 4.0 or above, or AOL 5.0 or above. (The SportBrain Web site is not compatible with WebTV) How active are you? If you are an average person like myself, you might be surprised at just how non-active you are.
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Product Requirements: Device: Casio EM-500 Pocket PC Extreme Limit from Japan manufactures a line of leather cases for notebook PCs and PDAs that they call Body-Suits. I’ve reviewed several of their PDA Body-Suits in the past and now have their Casio EM-500 Pocket PC case to review. Like their other cases, the Body-Suits are not
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Product Requirements: Device: Compaq iPAQ series Pocket PC The worst thing about getting a new PDA is waiting for cases to start coming out for it. Vaja, currently one of my favorite PDA case makers, have just come out with an iPAQ specific screen cover. Notice that I said cover and not case. The iFLIP cover
Palm Organizers, a book by Jeff Carlson, proclaims right on the front cover that with it, you can “Teach yourself how to use Palm OS-based devices the quick and easy way!” Does it do this? As we say here in West Texas, “You Betcha!” Not only is Palm Organizers easy to read, it actually does
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Most people tend to carry a photo or two of their families or pets in their wallet. But how would you like to carry 100’s or 1000’s of photos in your wallet? You can with the Photo Wallet by VideoChip Technologies. The Photo Wallet is a dedicated image displaying device. It reads images from a
Guess what folks? I’m back to using the iPAQ as my main PDA again. Yeah, you can just call me fickle girl. 🙂 The multimedia capabilities of the Pocket PC is a very strong draw for me and the Palm platform is slightly boring at this point. Here’s hoping 2001 will be different. Speaking of
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Product Requirements: Device: Handspring Visor / Visor Deluxe / Visor Platinum The Extreme Limits Visor Body-suit case with accessory pack is a hard black leather case with contrasting white stitching. The look and feel of Extreme Limits cases really remind me of a well made guitar case. This case is compatible with all the current Visor
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Product Requirements: Device: Palm m100 The InnoPocket Splendid is a slightly different type of PDA case than I’ve seen before. Instead of being comprised entirely of some sort of leather, it is made of cotton canvas. The InnoPocket is secured by passing a natural colored leather tab through a matching loop. Your PDA is held
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Product Requirements: Device: m100, Palm III, and Palm VII series PDAs 45k MemorySafe.prc 5/29/01: Updated in Red below If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a thousand times, “backup your data or you will be sorry!” When you sync your Palm PDA to your desktop PC using hotsync version 3.04 or later, it will
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The iPAQ Pocket PC is a very cool PDA. It is the smallest, sleekest, and sexiest unit currently available. But, if you want a compact flash card slot for it, you must purchase a CF Expansion sleeve which turns your iPAQ into the heaviest and thickest Pocket PC currently available. Eck! Enter the Silver Slider
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Product Requirements: Device: Palm III series, Palm VII series PDAs GamePad.prc 5k A low-level shared library GamePadDriver.prc 4k The GamePad control panel Palm OS PDAs have been in existence for over 4 years now and throughout that time, one of the popular uses for these PDAs have been for playing games. Most games have had
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Technically Speaking by Julie Strietelmeier Not to brag, but I just got the latest and greatest PDA wonder. The Casio E-100. This little marvel is super fast, can play music in stereo, and movies in color! So, what does that have to do with being a Personal Digital Assistant you might ask? Not much really…
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Product Requirements: Device: Palm V/Vx Sometimes reviewing the same types of products over and over can get a little boring. Then something new and different comes along to snap me out of my reviewer’s funk. Personality Packs from Parallel Design is just such a product. Personality Packs consist of a clip-on screen cover and a stylus
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Product Requirements: Device: Palm OS Version 3.0 or later 160 K free RAM Desktop: Windows, Mac, Linux, or Amiga What is the main reason that people buy PDAs? To keep track of their addresses? Appointments? Tasks? Ummmm, yeah right… No, the main reason of course is to play games! Ok, maybe not everyone buys a
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