Blazer tricks and tips

Posted on March 27, 2008 in Palm and Software. - No comments

Palm’s Blazer is far from everything you’d hope a web browser would be and it looks extremely unlikely that the situation is going to get any better any time soon. There are, however, a number of tricks and tips that can improve your user-experience.

This article contains information about using Optimised mode, Fast mode, disabling javascript, using Google’s mobile search, compressing webpages using transcoder websites, general Blazer maintenance, offline content and what to do when Blazer freezes while trying to access a website.

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Saying goodbye to an old friend

Posted on October 08, 2007 in Palm and Software. - No comments

For a long long time I’ve been a fan of WordSmith by BlueNomad. I’ve used it for the best part of a decade, from when I owned a humble Palm III right until the present day and my Palm TX.

When I upgraded to the TX I was horrified to discover that if I had WordSmith installed in main memory and used the TX’s inbuilt find function that unit would reset as soon as it hit the WordSmith records! Disaster – I tend to use find fairly frequently. A workaround was to install it to a memory card, but that the broke the ability to Hot-Sync documents!

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Handpainter Pro

Posted on August 17, 2007 in Palm and Software. - Comments [1]

Pixelling take a lot of time and sometimes finding the opportunity to sit down and start painting can be difficult. Recently I came across Handpainter Pro by Soft Away who I must say have one of the worst websites that I’ve seen for some time.

My first impression of Handpainter was good and it looked as if it might be just the job for the odd spot of covert pixelling.

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UFO:Afterlight

Posted on June 06, 2007 in Gaming and Software. - No comments

Many years ago ¹, as a teenager, I spent many days sat infront of my Amiga looking at what was little more than a blank screen – and I was enthralled.

This was the joy of playing X-COM:Enemy Unknown.

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Planetarium software

Posted on December 12, 2006 in Palm and Software. - No comments

One of the reasons I decided on an ETX-90 was because of it’s size and portability. As I don’t have the luxury of an observatory or anywhere I can leave the telescope set up I needed something a little more practical. Equally important was the portability and time and effort required to set it up.

Next, I was looking for some good planetarium software however the thing that bothered me was that having the laptop was going to mean another bag to carry and something else to set up.

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