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Program Requirements: Device: PalmPilot Professional, IBM WorkPad, or Palm III 150 K free RAM Desktop: Windows 95 or NT 4.0 For years, if you wanted to develop thermal profiles you could break out the old FLUKE thermometer, take your readings, and download them to your laptop. But now you can use the Versid Temperature […]
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Official Gadgeteer Hands On Review: KuGiGi Super Frog (Virtual Pet) by Julie Strietelmeier Last date revised: 03/25/99 KuGiGi Super Frog is a virtual pet available from the Adam’s Apple Communications Group. Like most Tamagotchi type toys, you must feed, play, and clean up after your virtual friend. What sets this toy apart from the others
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Official Gadgeteer Hands On Review: Visionary 2000 Clear Flip Cover by Julie Strietelmeier Last date revised: 03/25/99 Accessories for the PalmPilot seem to be popping up all over the place and one of the latest is the Visionary 2000 Clear Flip Cover. This is not a case for the Pilot, but a screen protector. It
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Official Gadgeteer Hands On Review: Sega Nomad by David Lection Last date revised: 03/25/99 Do you like handheld computer gaming? Do you have a large inventory of Sega Genesis games? if the answers to these questions is yes, then you may just want to head on down to your local Toys R Us and pick
The Wrap2 case by Innovations to Industry is a leather case for the PalmPilot. The Wrap2 comes in several varieties. The differences between the case are color, decorative metal corners and a quick release belt clip. The colors that the case is available in are Black, Navy, Burgundy, British Tan, Nubuck Red and Nubuck Petrol
One-Touch Communicator by JP Systems, Inc. is a powerful email package for the PalmPilot. The software and manual come on a floppy diskette. The diskette also includes documents such as the licensing agreement, quick start user guide, and a readme file. You can purchase a copy from their web site, PilotGear as well as many
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The Palm Glove 3 case for the Palm III is made by E&B Company. This is a leather ‘play-through’ case made esspecially for the Palm III. The screen cover portion of the case is re-inforced with a hard insert. There is one business card slot in the cover. On the outside of the cover is
The Stylus+ from Autopoint is a stylus/pen/pencil designed for use with any PDA or HPC. As with most similar products, there is a .05 pencil with an eraser behind the cap at the end. The Stylus+ comes in only one color, black, and will be available at OfficeMax stores around the country. The Stylus+
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The guys at Tech Center Labs have done it again with a nifty accessory for any PDA. It’s the worlds first lithium powered stylus! This little gem is a small metal stylus about the size of the original PalmPilot stylus (but it does not fit in either the Palm III or PalmPilot stylus holders. Nor
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The C.E.O. (Classic, Elegant, One-of-a-kind) case by MarWare is a leather play-through type case that comes in black or burgundy. This case earns instant points from me because it doesn’t require you to put Velcro on the body of your Newton! Your MP2xk is held in place by two elastic bands and by sliding the
Program Requirements: Device: Compatible with SH3 and MIPS Palm size PCs. Needs 98k of RAM. Feeling nostalgic for the days when you would cut class, run down to the arcade and feed the coin-ops your allowance in quarters? Remember playing those great games like Centipede, DigDug and PacMan? If so, MazeCraze for the PSPC by
Program Requirements: Device: Palm III, Older PalmPilots that have been upgraded to the Palm III level with the 2meg upgrade board (with IR), Any Palm OS PDA with the OmniRemote external IR module 36 K free RAM Pacific Neo-Tek has done what everyone said couldn’t be done… allow the Palm III to be a universal
Most people won’t argue when I say that the Palm V is a very cool PDA. It looks cool, it feels cool, it is just downright cool. But, there were loud complaints when it came out. People moaned that it only had 2meg of RAM and that it could not be upgraded. I could understand
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The Screecher by Pacific Neo-tek is a small hardware module that plugs into the hotsync port on your PalmPilot. This module when used with certain software will generate a 90dB alarm sound. How does it work? You first need to install some software that will let you use the Screecher. Any software that works with
Quicksheet by Cutting Edge Software is a powerful spreadsheet package for the PalmPilot. The software and manual come on a CD. The Microsoft Word formatted user manual (which can be viewed or printed) is clearly written and illustrated. Installing the included software on a PC is quick and easy. Installing the .prc file on to
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Program Requirements: Desktop: Windows 95 System Configuration: Pentium 75mhz or faster Bi-directional Parallel Port, (ECP for optimal performance) 16MB RAM min. Sound card, microphone, speakers. Enough free disk space to store your videos. The eCam from Newcom Inc. is a desktop digital video camera that you can use to take videos, and email them to
Program Requirements: Device: Pilot 5000, PalmPilot Personal, PalmPilot Professional, IBM WorkPad, or Palm III 150 K free RAM Desktop: Windows 95 or NT 4.0 (NT 4.0 users require Service Pack 3) Netscape Navigator 3.0 (or greater) OR Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 (or greater) HotSync Manager 1.1 (or greater) Microsoft Virtual Machine for Java 16 MB
Program Requirements: Device: PalmPilot Professional, or Palm III with 35K for program and 100K for data free RAM Desktop: Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0 with 16MB of RAM. Internet connection software. Dialup networking detection requires Microsoft Windows Dial-up Networking. Palm Desktop 2.0 or higher. InfoRover is a subscription based news retriever/reader and web content
Program Requirements: Device: Palm device running OS 3.0 or above with at least 2mb of Flash memory. This includes the: Palm III, Palm IIIx, Palm V and PalmPilots with the 3com 2mb upgrade card. 57 K free RAM FlashPro by TRG is a software product that takes advantage of the unused Flash memory on Palm
The Throttle stylus made by Tools is a new idea for an old concept. This is a dual action stylus with a ink pen, and a PDA stylus in one package. The Throttle is made of grey plastic (the same grey as the PalmPilot casing). When the top red button is pressed in, it can