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Cake Mania: Back to the Bakery - get it while it’s hot!

THE MIDLANDS, UK - March 29th 2007 - Astraware and Sandlot Games are pleased to bring you Back to the Bakery - an expansion pack to Cake Mania - Yahoo’s Best Casual Game of 2006. Cake Mania: Back to the Bakery for Palm OS(R) handhelds includes all the culinary chaos of the first game along [...]

Idea Pad v3.3 - Freeware Mind-Mapping on the Palm

Idea Pad (TM) lets you easily draw a diagram - mind map, concept map, or flow chart - and convert it to a text outline, and vice versa.
Diagrams can be exported to any desktop graphics program, and Outlines can be exported to any word processor via the Memo Pad.
Use Idea Pad to brainstorm new ideas, [...]

Update Your Palm for Daylight Savings Time Change

New Daylight Saving Time Changes
Beginning in 2007, Daylight Saving Time starts on the second Sunday in March (March 11, 2007), and changes back to standard time on the first Sunday in November (November 4, 2007). This is a change from the current start/end date that is built into some Palm devices.
Palm devices, both smartphones and [...]

San Diego Police Department Arms Officers with Smartphone Solution

Field Police Officers Run License Plates, Incident Reports and Criminal Records Using Custom Applications on Palm Treo 700w Smartphones
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb 22, 2007 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq:PALM) today announced that the San Diego Police Department (SDPD), a department serving one of the 10 most populated cities in the United States, has deployed Palm(R) [...]

ForceDelete v1.00

ForceDelete is used for deleting files in RAM (or Program Memory) that cannot be normally deleted because they are in use.
It does this by scheduling them to be deleted on reset and then by performing that reset.
ForceDelete is a control panel so you need to open the Palm Prefs application to access it.
ForceDelete requires [...]

It’s Open Season on Gnomes with Hammer Heads

THE MIDLANDS, UK - February 7th 2007 - Astraware® and PopCap Games® are excited to announce that it’s open-season on gnomes with the release of Hammer Heads for Palm OS® and Windows Mobile® for Pocket PC Smartphones and PDAs.
Hammer Heads is a frantic fun-fest for anyone with an aversion to those pesky creatures that live [...]

MemoLeaf 5.1 Released

A short summary of the enhancements is listed below. For more information,please kindly read the “MemoLeaf Readme” and the revised “Quick Start Guide”document. More usage information could be found in help message under thecorresponding screen.
Compared to MemoLeaf 5.0, following enhancements have been implemented:
1) Enhanced to support extra 4 tiny fonts in the memo [...]

Microsoft’s Direct Push Technology Comes to Palm OS Based Treo Smartphones

Palm Brings Microsoft’s Direct Push Technology to Palm OS Based Treo Smartphones: “Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq:PALM) today announced availability of Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync(R) Update for Palm OS(R) devices for the Palm(R) Treo(TM) 680 and Treo 700p smartphones. Palm OS based Treo smartphones have long been able to use Exchange ActiveSync(R) to access Microsoft Exchange Server information [...]

Palm and Orange Announce Treo 680 Smartphone in Switzerland

ZURICH, Switzerland, Jan 22, 2007 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq:PALM) and Orange have announced the Palm(R) Treo(TM) 680 smartphone, running on the Palm OS(R) platform. The Treo 680 smartphone is ideal for the professional consumer who wants a more advanced phone experience on a single device, including access to email, web browsing, messaging and [...]

Use Smartphones to Fine-tune and Safety-check Automated Doors

Technicians at Stanley Access Technologies are using customized software to improve the process of installing automated doors at hospitals, airports, hotels and restaurants.
With the Treo smartphone running custom-built applications, technicians use the smartphone connected to the door controller to calibrate door settings with an easy tap of a few buttons on the screen, as [...]