adoll's Journal: Palm Tungsten

Got a Palm Tungsten handheld. Love the little critter, but not so much for addresses and time schedules. It is my newspaper and jukebox.

Each morning the desktop computer downloads my principal newpapers into using Plucker (http://www.plkr.org) . The I read the newspapers on the bus ride to work, at lunch, and whenever else. The best online newpaper for Plucker is The Age from Melbourne. I also pull down the National Post and Globe and Mail.

The Tungsten also has some impressive audio capabilities... I use the Aeroplayer player (http://www.aerodromesoftware.com/) to play OGG files (that is MP3s to you less worldly). The sound from the unit itself is tinny, but what do you expect with a low-power speaker. Listening through headphones is the best way to hear the music, and it saves battery life too.

I load the music onto a 128Mb memory card (SD type) using a USB SanDisk writer. The card then goes into the Tungsten where Aeroplayer plays the music. (note to users, get the patch and make sure you save the OGG,MP3 files into a directory named "/audio" on the SD card.)

And yes, I can use the Tungsten for business apps too. MobileDB is my preferred way of accessing data from my process engineering database. A complete set of the "material balance" consumes 86 pages if printed, but fits nicely into 2 databases on the Tungsten.

Plucker?

[aCC]

I use iSilo [isilo.com] with iSiloX [isilox.com] (get sources for iSilo at turcic [turcic.com]). Haven't tried Plucker, because I read that iSilo is better.

Re:Plucker?

[adoll]

I just tried and failed to download iSiloX. It looks like shareware software? Interesting that I didn't turn up iSilo when I was looking for a palm-based web caching system.

Plucker serves me quite well. The hi-resolution version works well on my Tungsten, so I'll just stay with it.

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Re:Plucker?

[aCC]

Hmm... no, iSiloX is freeware, but iSilo is commercial. I guess going with plucker makes more sense then. One good thing is that you can integrate iSilo into LauncherX [launcherx.com].

Just in case you want to try iSilo, here are direct links:
Download iSiloX [isilox.com]
Download iSilo [isilo.com]

With what OS?

[LordBodak]

I'm curious if you are using your Tungsten with Windows or Linux or a Mac?

The Age, Handheld Edition

[hacker]

I assume you're using the handheld edition [theage.com.au] of theage, right?

Yup: The Age, Handheld Edition

[adoll]

Yup. That little treat is the reason I consider the Age the best newspaper for Plucking.

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