Kile Mullen: PDAs

Fri, 18 Jul 2003 15:03:36 GMT

Software for the Type A parent...

Dr. Spock Would Be Prould - Tracking Your Baby with BabyTracker
That is Dr. Spock, not Mr. Spock, although he would be proud too if he had any emotions. ;) "If you want to be a better parent and you want to keep, organize information about your baby, track his/her development at anywhere and anytime. The BabyTracker for Pocket PC is right solution for you. BabyTracker is the first line of parenting tools designed to easily capture and track the important information of baby. With BabyTracker parents and caregivers can easily organize care information about their baby." Any expectant parents out there? This would be a good substitute for the typical baby book. There is a trial version and you can buy it for $19.95. It requires an ARM processor to run, so it should be ok on iPAQs with Pocket PC 2000 and any 2002 or higher device. There is no limit on the numbers of babies it supports. [Pocket PC Thoughts]

Tue, 18 Feb 2003 16:02:45 GMT

If you have a PocketPC, this looks like a product to watch: WebIS @Mail 1.0.3 review [infoSync]

Fri, 07 Feb 2003 15:16:26 GMT

Review: Frontier Darxide EMP [infoSync]

Mon, 03 Feb 2003 20:31:52 GMT

You want to develop a game for the PocketPC that's like Counter-Strike but don't want to go through the licensing hassles, what do you call it? The choice is obvious (At least if you're Australian) - Counter Sheep [via infoSync]

Fri, 31 Jan 2003 12:59:27 GMT

A true Wireless GPS to PDA connection. This makes sense in so many ways. NavMan Bluetooth GPS for PocketPC [InfoSync via PDABuzz.com] Although on an overall cost basis the new Garmin Palm OS based GPS is a good choice if you don't have a PDA already or need to upgrade it in order to use the new software.

Wed, 29 Jan 2003 16:43:34 GMT

Free cases and more from Incipio [PDABuzz.com] I might take advantage of this if I could figure out just which cases are free and which ones they're charging for.

Fri, 13 Dec 2002 21:17:19 GMT

Moblogging Tool

Todd Courtois sends along news of KABLOG, his new blogging tool for mobile phones and PDAs.

"KABLOG is a tool for mobile phones and PDAs that allows you to post new blog entries to Movable Type. (It may also work with other blog services supporting an XMLRPC interface similar to Movable Type's, but this has not been tested.) KABLOG currently runs on the J2ME (MIDP 1.0) platform. Devices supporting this include:
PalmOS devices running PalmOS v3.5 or higher with a network connection. For example, the Handspring Treo, or Palm Vx.
Sprint PCS phones that can download J2ME MIDP games and other applications.
NexTel Motorola iDen phones that can download J2ME MIDP games and applications.
RIM Blackberry devices that can run J2ME MIDP applications.
Symbian OS devices that can run J2ME MIDP applications. (Note that some Symbian OS devices may only run the PersonalJava applications.)"

The software is shareware, but it only costs $10. Unfortunately, my Sony Clie N710C doesn't have any type of a network connection so I can't try it out. I'm definitely intrigued, though. The only other PDA blogging software I know about is PocketBlog, which is for Pocket PCs (and is free). Are there others out there?

It's great to watch this software niche grow, because I'm a firm believer in the interactive, always-on, wireless future, and I think people will be blogging, taking pictures, video-conferencing, and more with their handheld devices in the (relatively) near future. I'd be doing it now if I had enough money for the right equipment. Consider this another reason for your public library to implement a wireless network for the public.

[The Shifted Librarian]

Tue, 10 Dec 2002 16:56:09 GMT

RSS Feeding Frenzy I'll have to keep an eye on this. It follows with my desire to have a news aggregator I can use on my wireless PDA. It makes sense to to have a server that's online all the time and access it with the PDA. I wonder if I can come up with a theme for Radio that's PDA friendly but still displays decently on a standard screen. Supposedly I can do it with CSS and XML. We'll see how far I get before I'm distracted by another neat idea.

RSS Coolness
RSS Feeds for Online Library Technology Journals
"RSS feeds for online library technology journals:
Ed Summers has recently created RSS feeds for D-Lib and Ariadne. The RSS feeds are available at:
http://www.inkdroid.org/rss/ariadne.xml
http://www.inkdroid.org/rss/dlib.xml (Thanks, Ed!)" [Chi Lib Rocks!]
And check out this very cool script that Devon Smith created to display various RSS feeds on a web page. To view the contents of a feed, click on its name. On the client side, it does require Javascript, while on the server side it requires XML::RSS, CGI and LWP::Simple. Devon even provides a link to download the source code.
This is a very basic version of the aggregation of Library System headlines I want to implement in our forthcoming grant software. You can see something a bit closer to what I want at ReadingEd.com. To view it in action, click on any link in the right-hand column that has an exclamation point after the name. [first spotted by Phil Ringnalda, via Too Much News]
[The Shifted Librarian]