Palm and Treo

Hacks 344: Introduction With the introduction of wireless technologies (Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, cellular) into Palm devices, a whole range of new applications opened up. Even with these newer technologies, some vintage applications still workwith the seri...

Depending on your PDA, you have several different choices for getting on the Internet. All Palm devices can connect to the Internet via modem or serial cable and most can connect via infrared (IR). Bluetooth-equipped Palm devices can connect via Blu...

Are you going to let that get in the way of your email fix? Of course not; you have your Palm device with you. Once you have connected to the Internet [Hack #34], sending and receiving email is trivial if you are using a dedicated Internet service f...

You shouldn't have to manually checkto see if your web site is up or not. Technology should be able to handle mundane chores like this. If you have a smartphone or wireless Palm device, then why not have it alert you when something goes wrong? On yo...

Surprisingly, you don't even need the ability to connect to the Internet to view the Web with your Palm device. If you want to lookat arbitrary web sites, or you need to view live (up-to-date) pages, then you do need to be connected to the Internet [...

On the desktop, RSS readers can take many forms. One of the simplest is the Live Bookmark capability in Firefox. This function creates a bookmark folder from an RSS feed. The folder contains one linkfor each item in the feed. You can see the name of ...

To start with, you will need to be connected to the Internet [Hack #34]. If your blog editing is entirely Web-based, then you can simply use your browser to add a new entry or edit an existing one. This procedure is no different than updating your b...

You could checkserver logs, restart failed services, or even post to your weblog [Hack #39]. If you have a home network, you can set up all of your computers so that they are accessible remotely. VNC (Virtual NetworkComputing) is an open-source appl...

You need software to convert your Palm into an infrared (IR) remote. Two choices are OmniRemote (http://www.pacificneotek.com) and NoviiRemote (http://www.novii.tv). You should lookat the home theater devices that these two programs support and pick ...