Utility

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

Program Requirements: Device: Palm 1000, Pilot 5000, PalmPilot Personal, PalmPilot Professional, IBM WorkPad, or Palm III Some available free RAM depending on how many news topics you’ve subscribed to. DOC reader   If you are like me, you like to keep up with the news of the day. Now there is a free service available

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: 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: 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 PalmPilot is a perfect information gathering/lookup device. A good way to take advantage of this fact is with a database program. Databases let you collect and view data.  There are several available ranging from freeware to commercial. I’ll be reviewing all of them. Let me know if I have overlooked any other database programs.

What is one feature that we love most about Palm OS PDAs?  Customization! If there is a feature we don’t like about the Pilot, then chances are someone has written a program that fixes what we don’t like. Third party application launcher programs are one such feature that has fixed what we don’t like about

What makes the Palm OS PDAs so great is that virtually everything about them software-wise can be modified via 3rd party add-ons, or replacements.  The T9 keyboard by Tegic Communications is one such program. The T9 keyboard replaces the built in QWERTY style keyboard.  The T9 (which stands for “Text on 9 keys”) product isn’t

  The Fitaly Keyboard by Textware Solutions is an alternative keyboard for entering data into the PalmPilot or Palm III. The name “Fitaly” is derived from the center row of keys as shown below. Before I go any further, I have to stress that everyone’s typing and graffiti writing abilities are different. So whether you

Jot by CIC is a handwriting recognition package for Palm OS PDAs. It’s really more of a character recognition package though as you still can only input one character at a time. You can not input a string of connected characters like on a Newton device for example. The program can run on any Palm

Dietlog by Healthetech is one module in a suite of great health related programs for the PalmPilot. Dietlog is like having your own personal dietitian. With Dietlog, you can enter your body information (weight, height, activity level, age, and gender). You then enter your goal weight and either the number of weeks that you want

This is the first in what I hope will be a series of software reviews for Palm devices, as well as others that have tickled my fancy & proven to be useful. There are some great & prolific software writers out there. Unfortunately, they don’t all write for the same platform. As a result I