Seidio Treo 650 Hotsync cable – with a Hotsync button!

Posted on 2005-12-15 by Marc

Seidio Treo 650 Hotsync cable – with a Hotsync button!,
originally uploaded by msabramo.

Great accessory. My Boxwave miniSync seemed to be acting flakey (couldn’t get Hotsyncs to work, I suspect it takes too much abuse in my pocket) and I had long wanted the Seidio retractable sync charge cable after reading the review of it at treoAddicts . It’s just really convenient to have a Hotsync button on the cable. No more futzing around with the Treo itself and keyguard, etc. Just reach over and press the button. Simple and easy.

I smile every time I push the button. It’s funny how such a simple product can be so satisfying.

Anyone try Avvenu with their Treo?

Posted on 2005-12-15 by Marc

Avvenu is a program that lets you remotely access files on your Windows PC from your Treo. Anyone try it?

These days my PC is running Linux instead of Windows but I suppose if this were good, I could keep Windows running all the time in a QEMU session so that I could run this.

Treo 650 SIM tray update

Posted on 2005-11-30 by Marc

Last night I received a small envelope in the mail from Palm. It was stamped “Replacement parts enclosed” and I was puzzled because I didn’t remember ordering any parts from them.

It turns out that they’re sending out replacement SIM trays to all Treo 650 Cingular Wireless customers. Apparently, the original tray doesn’t provide a tight enough fit for some SIM cards and can cause malfunctions. The new SIM tray has some additional ribbing to hold the card in place.

Kudos to Palm for supporting their customers and simply automatically sending out the part to those affected.

Great Sudoku freeware for Palm

Posted on 2005-11-28 by Marc

This weekend I discovered, and became addicted to Sudoku.

My family was sitting around the table doing Sudoku puzzles on paper that we had printed out from Web Sudoku and I was sitting there making little pencil marks with the possibilities and then erasing them and making a mess and it made me think how much better it would be if I could do Sudoku on my Treo…

A few minutes later, I had downloaded an excellent, color, freeware Sudoku game from Andrew Gregory. Very nicely done. The color makes it really easy to spot the numbers and there is excellent 5-way navigator and keyboard support on the Treo so that I can just move around and type the number I need to pencil it in or erase it. Hitting the number again marks it as permanent if it’s the only one left and it automatically fills in a number when all of the other possibilities have been eliminated. It’s a little bit hard to describe, but suffice it to say that the UI is very intuitive.

It’s freeware but Andrew asks for donations and I’m definitely going to send him something to thank him for the time he invested in this great app.

Using Bluetooth DUN on my Treo 650 with Mac OS X

Posted on 2005-11-23 by Marc

I actually set this up a few weeks ago and was meaning to blog about it, but it slipped my mind.

Using the info in this article, I was able to set up Bluetooth DUN on my PowerBook so that I can surf the Web using my Treo’s wireless Internet connection. The speed is actually not all that bad. What’s much worse is that the connection gets dropped a lot, so if I use it for a long time I need to keep reconnecting, which is a pain. The nice thing about it is that I can have Internet access in a pinch even when there’s no WiFi around, like at my in-laws’ place.

http://captnswing.net/howto/treodun/

Here’s the settings that work for me with Cingular Wireless:

(The password is “cingular1”).

I show them because what goes in the “Telephone Number” and “Account Name” fields is not so obvious.

PHP-PDB: PHP library for manipulating Palm OS databases

Posted on 2005-09-21 by Marc

PHP-PDB is a set of PHP classes that manipulate Palm OS databases. It lets you read, write, alter, and easily use data that is meant to be sent to or retrieved from a handheld.

http://php-pdb.sourceforge.net/

PRC-Tools: GCC for Palm OS

Posted on 2005-09-16 by Marc

Here are some really rough notes on how I setup the prc-tools and the Palm OS 5 SDK on my Windows box with Cygwin. I jotted these down a few months ago and never published. I’m publishing now on the off chance that this may be useful to someone who wants to get into Palm OS development.

http://prc-tools.sourceforge.net/
http://prc-tools.sourceforge.net/install/cygwin.html

16:08 Marc@marc2k:/PalmDev$ tar -zxf palmos-sdk-5.0r3-1.tar.gz
16:08 Marc@marc2k:/PalmDev$ ls
palmos-sdk-5.0r3-1.tar.gz  sdk-5r3/

16:10 Marc@marc2k:/PalmDev$ palmdev-prep.exe 
Checking SDKs in /PalmDev
  sdk-5r3       headers in 'include', libraries in 'lib'

When GCC is given no -palmos options, SDK '5r3' will be 
used by default

Writing SDK details to configuration files...
...done

16:13 Marc@marc2k:/PalmDev$ m68k-palmos-g++.exe -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/m68k-palmos/2.95.3-kgpd/specs
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/m68k-palmos/specs
gcc version 2.95.3-kgpd 20010315 (release)

Marc Abramowitz

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