Monthly Archives: July 2005

Sync your Palm with Thunderbird address book

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From treo Addicts:

For those of you who use Thunderbird, Firefox’s email companion, there is an extension available to sync your contacts with your Palm device. PalmSync winds up replacing the Palm address book Hotsync conduit. Unfortunately its only available for Windows users. You will want to have at least Thunderbird 1.0.2 installed (1.0.6 was recently released).

I have not tried this yet, but it looks pretty interesting. It’s a Windows-only conduit for syncing your Palm address book with the Thunderbird address book. Too bad I no longer have a Windows machine at work so I could only use this at home.

Think better with chewing gum?

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Here’s an interesting article that claims that the simple act of chewing gum increases the mind’s ability to concentrate and to retain knowledge.

Research has shown that chewing does indeed increase our ability to concentrate and to retain what we’ve learned. In fact, studies indicate that, for both kids and adults, mental tasks are completed up to 20% more effectively when we chew gum.

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How to disable Tiger’s Dashboard

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Dashboard is pretty cool, but it eats a lot of memory. If you want to disable it, execute this at a command prompt:

defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES

I did this but I’m also going to try to upgrade my PowerBook from 512 MB to 1024 MB, because a lot of OS X processes use a lot of memory and I don’t think that 512 MB is enough for a power user.

Podcast about Palm development tools

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I’ve been toying with the idea of writing a Palm app or two lately so I enjoyed the last few minutes of this PalmAddicts podcast, where Tyler Faux talked about some Palm development tools such as Palm OS Developer Suite (PODS), PDA Toolbox, and Handheld BASIC (HB++). The first 15 or so minutes cover stuff about new licensees and the rumored upcoming Tungsten 7 which I wasn’t that interested in, but the last few minutes might be interesting to you if you’re thinking about doing some Palm development.

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Skyped out

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I hadn’t talked to my parents in a while and I had some SkypeOut credits and I wanted to test out my new Cardo Systems scala-500 Bluetooth headset:

I easily paired the headset with the Linksys USBBT100 Bluetooth USB dongle

plugged into my PC and configured Skype to use it.

Sound quality was fantastic and it was really nice to talk with the wireless headset. I still have 09.52 EUR left in my SkypeOut account and I will definitely be using this for future calls, since at 1.7 Euro cents (roughly around 2 U.S. cents) per minute, it is much cheaper than my AT&T long-distance phone service.

This was on Windows – maybe next time I’ll try to use the headset with the built-in Bluetooth in my PowerBook and see how that works.

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