Palm T | X software

Someone will say, it is not surprising that with the transition to Linux, I changed my Pocket PC to Palm. In fact, I didn’t have any “ideological” objections against Windows Mobile, the main reason (besides curiosity) was that I was unable to set up synchronization between my laptop and PDA. Fortunately, Palm and Linux are more tolerant to each other. It turned out that you can buy a Palm in Kiev only if you look carefully. I found the last Palm T | X model at the time of purchase. The first impression: “Excellent!”:

• Processor: Xscale, 312 MHz;
• Operating system: Palm OS Garnet 5.4.9;
• Memory: 128 MB;
• Communication: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, infrared;
• Big 320 × 480 screen, conveniently lies in a palm, well holds a charge, solidly looks.

The positive first impression was replaced by despair: the capabilities of the device with pre-installed software leave much to be desired. But since “our proud Varyag is not surrendering to the enemy, he began to figure out what can be done with this miracle of hostile technology, and what programs exist for Palm. It was found that there are more than enough programs. Here is a list of programs that reconciled me with Palm:

Personal data management

• Contacts and alendar - quite functional address book and calendar, preinstalled;
• HiMoney - personal finance management, freeware;
• inExpense - personal finance management;
• SplashID - storage of passwords and other personal information.

Office and books

• Documents To Go - work with files created in Word, Excel and PowerPoint is pre-installed;
• PalmFiction - reading documents in a variety of formats, freeware;
• PalmPDF - reading files .pdf, freeware;
• SlovoEd dictionaries for Palm OS from Paragon Software.

Multimedia

• AeroPlayer - file player. ogg, freeware;
• Macromedia Flash Player - file player. swf, freeware;
• MoePaint - graphics editor, freeware;
• Pocket Tunes - file player. mp3, preinstalled;
• RescoViewer - view images;
• The Core Pocket Media Player (TCPMP) is a media player, freeware.

Utilities

• RusHack - crack, freeware;
• Hi-Laucher - creating a convenient program launch menu;
• MegaLauncher - an excellent file manager (and not only);
• MegaClock is an excellent program, which includes a variety of hours, alarm clock, timer, stopwatch, time calculator, etc .;
• Uninstall Manager - uninstall programs;
• Cleanup - cleaning the system from "garbage".

Synchronization

• BeamContacts - transfer contacts from your address book to your mobile phone via Irda and Bluetooth.

Palm Games

• AtariGo - version of the game Go, freeware;
• Hot Checkers - checkers, freeware;
• Feringa - chess, freeware;
• Go 169 - Go, freeware;
• Gomoku - rendju, freeware;
• Inverti - reversi , freeware;
• OpenChess - chess, freeware;
• Slide X - tag, freeware.

Pilot Install will be useful for Windows users - it allows you to install programs on Palm without HotSync, it does not require installation. PS Indeed, there were no problems connecting Palm to Linux and configuring synchronization, but ... it turned out Palm OS does not support UTF encoding -eight! I think this is a serious omission on the part of the developer. There are a few more questions that are becoming questions of the future Palm platform. However, the device itself is very interesting. I do not regret buying, although I expected more (full synchronization with a laptop).