Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Cheap Hewlett Packard 200LX 2 MB Palmtop PC


I bought this thing when it was first released in 1999. Even for the time, the technology was substandard and the operating system was primitive. It's pretty much a useless gadget that doesn't even look cool by today's standards. Honestly, my first generation Palm Pilot was more useful than this thing.Get more detail about Hewlett Packard 200LX 2 MB Palmtop PC.

Buying BookArmor (tm) BookCover Edition High Impact Travel Case for Sony PRS-505 PRS-700


The interior of the "double shell" will not stay glued to the outer nylon covered part. The plastic flaps won't stay glued either. It's a great protection for the eReader, but the workmanship on the case isn't the best, and the glue definitely needs to be changed to something that will stick to that nylon outer part AND the smooth plastic inner part. Zipper works great.Get more detail about BookArmor (tm) BookCover Edition High Impact Travel Case for Sony PRS-505 PRS-700.

Monday, January 11, 2010

Order Sony Clie PEG-NX73V Handheld


I've had this PDA since 2003 and I have to say, I still carry it as much as I did when I first bought it. I've had it for 6 years and it still has more functionality than the new products currently out on the market. I love the photo and video functions of this thing. I have downloaded a ton of games onto it that keep me busy. The MP3 player, the voice recorder, etc... I whip it out and feel like James Bond! It's that cool. When I bought it, I told myself this was going to be the last PDA I was ever going to buy, and so far, I've remained true to that statement. Get more detail about Sony Clie PEG-NX73V Handheld.

Sunday, January 10, 2010

Shop For Sony CLIE PEG-TH55/U Handheld


One thing to note about the TH55 is that it has TWO versions of each of the built-in applications. From the app launcher, you can tap the icons for Memo, or Datebook, or Todo, and you get the old OS 4 applications, the same as on any other Palm powered device. There is a tabbed menu alongside the right hand side of the screen that also has the items Memo, Datebook, Todo, FreeNote, etc...tap one of these and you get the enhanced versions.

The new MemoPad has a 32 kilobyte text buffer, although the clipboard capacity is still 1K. If you fill the buffer past the old 4K limit, you can beam all the memo to another Palm PDA if you use the "Split Memo Text" option in a menu. If you have 32K of text, it will be split into 8 memos of 4K each in the other PDA. The only thing missing, I think, is that you can't go the other way. If you have alot of 4K memos from other PDAs that you want to combine into a big 32K memo, you have to do it one kilobyte at a time via the clipboard. It'd be nice to be able to combine small memos with a menu option.

Haven't used the new Datebook much, but it has a totally different appearance.

The real gem is the new Todo...it works like an outlining program with a hierarchical structure in which each item can have a sub-item, and a sub-sub-item (3 levels of nesting supported). You can collapse the sub-items with a tap and hide them out of sight, so you can make more efficient use of the screen space. Items can be promoted/demoted with a tap. Items and sub-items can have attached memo notes or FreeNote drawings (just four kilobytes, though). Also, the way item Priorities works has changed...in the old Todo, you can only use Priority to change the way the items are sorted. In this new Todo, you use Priority to change which items get displayed. Although only three levels of item nesting are supported, in combination with a clever assignment of priorities, you can select which items show on the display 15 different ways. The one thing that prevents the new Todo from being a fully-functional outliner is the fact that the sub-items are not "attatched" to their parents. If you move an item that has children, only that item moves to its new location in the hierarchy -- you have to then relocated each of the children to stay with the parent. But since, practically speaking, you spend alot more time just looking at an outline than you do creating it, moving items around. So all in all it's a nice little improvement.

The FreeNote drawing program absolutely blows away Clie Memo.

I also have the UX40 and UX50, and was disappointed to find that although they run OS5, only same old tired Palm apps are built-in. I hate hate hate 4K memos! Yes, with a keyboard like the PEGA-KB100, you could actually use the TH55 to write your novel.

One convenient thing for those like me who also own the SJ33 is that the batteries and the chargers are identical to those for the TH55.

For some reason the Movie Recorder application is not built into the ROM -- you have to HotSynch it in from the CD.

I'd give the TH55 five stars, except that I feel the camera should have more than 300,000 pixels. If it had a sharper camera like the NX80V or the NZ90, it'd be the cat's meow!

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Saturday, January 9, 2010

Sony CLIE PEG-SL10 Handheld


This PDA is very functional and easy-to-use. It stores quite a bit of memory, and the features are very nice and useful. The only things that I disliked were that it is black & white (though color PDAs were hardly on the market when I bought it), and that sometimes the font is very small and I couldn't find a way to change that. It provides a great memo pad, Paint program, and photo viewer. You can also add creative touches to your downloaded pics using the paint program, which proved to be entertaining. You can also get great features and downloadables for this PDA, which is a slightly older model. I would definitely reccommend the sony CLIE PEG-SL10 Handheld!!Get more detail about Sony CLIE PEG-SL10 Handheld.