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The Personal Digital Assistant. A device type that has had a big impact on my life.
I posted this picture on instagram yesterday. I was having a great time playing with Microbe on my old Treo 650. Then suddenly, all the files disappeared. Which was a bit of a shame as I hadn’t played any of them for ages, and one or two I thought were actually worth saving.
I’ve no idea if anything can be done to recover them, I guess I’ll have to have a nose around the old forum to see if there’s anything there that helps. If not, well, that’s a shame.
I’ve thought about getting a Tapwave Zodiac for a long time, but never bothered, but I saw this one on eBay, and even though it didn’t have a cradle or cable for charging I decided to go for it, and for £4 (just over) it’s not bad going.
Having said that, I thought I could pick up a charger or cradle quite easily. Sadly, that hasn’t been the case so far, but I’m on the look out. Until then it’ll sit around sadly doing nothing until I can get it up and running again.
If you don’t use Bhajis Loops then please ignore this. For a long time I’ve had these two additional Bhajis Loops effects plug ins which I think are the only two ever made which weren’t created by Olivier. Anyway, the site they were on has gone now, but I thought I’d make them available for anyone who is using Bhajis Loops still.
You can find them here.
When looking back at the Capers applets I found details of this project I wrote about at Palm Sounds in 2006, and it made me wonder if I should give it another go, and that means I probably will.
I’m not sure if I’ll use the same PDA, the clie T425. I might use something different. We’ll see.
ThinkDB2.5 is a very old piece of software. I think I’d lost my registration for this old Palm OS app, but I managed to find away around that. Even though this is an old app that doesn’t mean it isn’t any use, in fact, quite the contrary. As a little database app for Palm OS it is very functional indeed. To the extent that it even has a plug in architecture, although I haven’t quite remembered how to get that going as yet.
I’m slowly remembering why the Palm was such a great platform. Who knows, I might even go back to it!
I remembered that I still had an old Palm Tungsten C which I’d bought from a friend ages ago, and I thought I’d see if it still worked. Of course it did, with one caveat, but I’ll come back to that.
The Tungsten C was an interesting device, with a full keyboard and large screen it is a very easy to use device, and it supports WIFI and bluetooth. However, the WIFI doesn’t support WPA security which makes it kind of useless now. However, it is still on the face of it a very handy device. That is until I decided to see if I could run linux on it, and then as you can see from the picture with the stripey lines, it didn’t really like it.
It restored ok, and seems to be working fine now. All I need to do is to work out what to do with it next!
I still have a number of old devices which are for the most part doing nothing whatsoever. So I started to wonder what I could do with them. Especially my Dell Axim x51. It’s a nice device, but I really don’t use it for music anymore, nor do I really use it for anything. It seems a shame to just sell it off as I’m sure I’d regret it. I’d like it to have a reasonable use for it.
So I’m going to have a nose around and see if there’s a way to get some more life out of it.
I’ve been reading Newton Poetry for a while now and have been sitting on the fence about getting myself a newton. The main reason is that I know it will be another piece of hardware that hardly ever gets used and that I feel guilty about buying.
The trouble is that I still really want to get one, and reading Newton Poetry doesn’t help at all!
I am Ashley Elsdon 