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Archives: May 2001
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Sun May 06, 2001
You're riding down a busy street on a bicycle, taking with you your PDA. Uh-oh! Watch out for that car! Screech! Crash. Luckily, you're ok, which is more than could be said about your PDA. More... | |
Remote access from your PDA is becoming more and more a necessity these days. No one likes being tethered to his or her Visor cradle. Card Access Inc last year came out with a fabulous modem called the Wristband Thinmodem. The beauty of the new SpringBoard Module was its size. It required no batteries and maintained the original form factor of your Visor. Well Card Access Inc just upped the ante with the next product in their line of Wristband products, the ThinModemPlus. More... | |
When a user HotSyncs BlueSync will make a back up of the card on the PC. BlueSync will also synchronize items stored on both the Palm card and the PC, allowing users to copy files into a PC directory, HotSync, and automatically transfer the files to a Palm card. More... | |
When I received the Rhino Skin case, I pulled my Palm out of the aluminum-trimmed plastic Palm-made case, and compared the two. The plastic case actually seemed heavier. Both use a stylus-like rod to go into the left stylus slot in the Vx (the Rhino Skin case uses a plastic sleeve over the aluminum rod to make it fit the Vx – without the sleeve the smaller sized rod fits the M-505 nicely). Both fold shut, clamshell-like, to protect the PDA. That’s about as much similarity as there is. More... | |
As a guy with fairly big hands, I found a long time ago that the little stylus that came with my PDA is just too small for comfort. There are a lot of nice pen-style styli and I’ve tried a bunch. I’ve found it’s best if the stylus has a normal writing point, as well, or you end up with a pocket full of writing implements. This one fits that bill, and more. More... | |
While handwritten character recognition has come a long way and is very effective for inputting small amounts of information, nobody has invented a better character input device than the basic keyboard. While many different types of keyboards have been created for the PocketPC market, everything from full-size to micro “thumb” boards, the Stowaway Portable Folding Keyboard has been a favorite of PDA users for many years. | |