Just bought har’s old Palm T|X of of him. It’s a bit sexy, having twice the memory of my old T|3 and wifi built in, but Garnet’s still a bit of a pants OS. I really REALLY wish there was a way you could simply upgrade to Cobalt, but I don’t believe there’s any possibility of that, since PalmSource’s takeover...they’ve decided to create the new PalmOS out of Linux, which is a fantastic idea, but will take some time. Bah! Now. I need an MSN client that actually works and isn’t verichat (as this charges monthly subscriptions. Gah!) am fiddling with MunduIM, but not overly impressed. There’s a couple of things that keep me hooked on Palms tho...my iPaq was seriously irritating, Palm software tends to be easier to find, Palm applications tend to be smaller (I have over 100 apps installed and still have half my 128meg ram left) and better supported by Open Source stuff. TCPMP plays me divX with no frame dropping at 320x480 full widescreen. pTunes plays me oggs, has a 10 sec crossfade and gapless playback, a parametric EQ and podcast/net radio support Plucker is simply amazing. Imagine RSS feeds, but for the whole of the web. You configure the desktop client to grab from news sites, fun, blogs, anything on the web and when you hotsync it grabs from all the sites, reformats the images to work on a smaller screen, compresses the text and installs them on your palm for offline reading. And Sunrise does the same for RSS/Atom feeds. Weasel eBook reader can deal with pdb files and has a perl script for converting plain text files to the pdb format. All four of these software devices mean I’m not tied into any dodgy proprietary formats and can do what I want with my media. Which I think is a good thing The TX remembers settings down to IP address and stuff for individual wireless networks, so whereas I have DHCP at work I don’t at home but I can switch painlessly between the two (unlike Windows!). I have a dodgy version of the NetFront web browser, the same one that’s in SonyEricsson mobiles, this along with the supplied Blazer browser is enough to play with. And I have something called Warfare Inc, which is a bit like Alpha Centauri...so I can even play silly games on it. Along with the ZX Speccy Emulator, a Gameboy emulator, an Amstrad emulator, an Atari ST emulator, a port of Lemmings, pacman, arkanoid, Tetris, something called Ishido, I won’t be getting bored any time soon. Heh. Now, all I need is an Atari 5200 emulator so I can play the original Last Starfighter game that everyone who saw the movie when they were 10 really really wanted to play. Although this is probably a little more fun — I’m going to MAMEify it and see if I can’t find SOME way of getting it to work correctly on my Palm. Just for fun Speaking of which, the The Last Starfighter DVD arrived yesterday, so I watched it whilst fiddling with getting mobile access to my palm sorted a bit. Sorta worked ok. Forgot how cheesy the film is, but it’s still fabulous. And there are bits where the CGI is actually half decent. Shocking. It was rendered on a Cray....poor thing couldn’t cope. Watched it with the audio commentary afterwards too. Fun stuff This weekend I’m doing precisely fuck all I think. May add some bits to www.circus2iraq.org and might also finish freakcity and make a start on the java version (yarg!). Need to also peer at what flickr have done to their RSS feeds as all the flickr piccies have vanished from freakcity. Woopsie. Ordered a 4gig SD card for an amazing £17.99 — woo!