Blog from the Loft

I live on my palm Treo. I realized that the one non Palm application that I use the most is — Handy Shopper. A freeware shopping list manager. It is a little quirky. But it does the job. It is the perfect app for a PDA. Go try it out.

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Finally, we don’t have to suffer the not very useful mapquest smartphone interface. Go to Google here right on the treo to download and install the software. You can see satellite view (glad we have EVDO speed) and traffic condition. Very cool app for the Treo.

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I owned a long list of PDA’s and ultra portable devices before they were mainstream. It never worked for me. No matter how small these devices are, I just couldn’t carry one around with me all the time. The only thing that carry with me at all times is — yes, my cellphone. I don’t [...]

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I love my Treo 700p. It’s the first time I have my PDA with me all the time, because it’s also my phone, and my link to the internet. I also like PalmOS. I often think of it as the Mac of Smartphone. However, I hate the HotSync process. It is a way to backup [...]

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Many Palm OS programs “ships” in a zip file. You unzip the zip archive, and click on the PRC file to send it to the Palm via HotSync. Simple, right? I wish more authors / publishers will make sure that their zip archive are setup so that it unzips into its own directory. The Mundu [...]

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Since I got my Treo 700p, I started lots of research on the web for reviews, tips and tricks, and products. After a while I notice some thing strange. A lot of the online retailers are related or backed by the same company. I dug deeper. What I found is pretty “interesting”.

Starting with
TreoCentral. It is [...]

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I made the switch. I am ebaying my Nokia 9300 smartphone and switched over to a Treo 700p on Verizon Wireless.
You can read my full review here.
Why switch? Two reasons:

I can never get good reception in my loft with T-Mobile

While Edge is pretty good for data, EVDO [...]

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