Category Archives: Palm

Treo: Shortcut5

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From treoAddicts

If you miss the ability to edit your own shortcuts on the Treos (my Treo 650 lets me invoke the pre-defined shortcuts using the shortcut symbol, e.g.: s+Alt+Down+Down+Down+L+U = “Lunch” but doesn’t let me create my own like I could on previous Palm devices), then check out Shortcut5 from Mark Tamura.

My two favorite custom shortcuts are:

.ds = @@y4-@@m2-@@d2 (date stamp in YYYY-MM-DD format, my favorite because it sorts most logically)
.dts = @@y4-@@m2-@@d2 @@ts (date and time stamp)

Treo: Stuck Shift Key

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From treoAddicts:

A few weeks ago I started experiencing problems where my Treo 650 would become totally unresponsive – none of the keys would work. Even a reset didn’t help. I was convinced my Treo had died but I eventually happened upon the cause.

Somewhere along the way, my right shift key lost its elasticity and became hard as a rock with no spring to it. It’s permanently stuck physically and apparently it very easily gets stuck electronically as well, thereby disabling all other keys.

I’ve tried and failed to unwedge the key with a tiny screwdriver or needlenose pliers. It still has that hard feeling with no give. Next I guess I’d try opening up the unit, but it seems to need some tiny Torx bit that I don’ have (smaller than T-10). Anyone complete this operation successfully?

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.