CorePlayer v1.1 Update Released

Yup, this is one of those "refer back to the original registration e-mail we sent you 9 months ago for the download link" programs.

I'd wager a good chunk of mobile piracy is due to stuff like this. It's often easier to hunt around for a cracked or warez version of many apps online than it is to try and use the developer/publisher's broken/abandoned/flaky/processed by human reg code systems.

I wish someone would publish a sh!tlist of companies who have impossibly restrictive/bad reg code systems.

For example, my 700p has a rapidly dying digitizer. Yet I am terrified to get Verizon to send me a new one under extended warranty because then I'd have to get new reg codes for apps that are tied to the device ID (TomTom 6, for one). Then if I upgrade to a 755p or an 800p or whatever in 6 months to a year I'll have to go through the same hoops again.

Valve Software's Steam platform is the PARADIGM for downloadable software.

You know, I once counted it up and I since the days of my Vx I figured I'd spent $300 (perhaps more by now) on Palm OS software that had been adandoned or from companies that had gone under. That really irks me. And it does no good to print out the e-mails & reg codes for apps that require a new reg code to be generated each time you change to a new piece of hardware.

Pilot 1000-->Pilot 5000-->PalmPilot Pro-->IIIe-->Vx-->m505-->T|T-->T|T2-->T|C-->T|T3-->T|T5-->TX-->Treo 700P

Yeah - this was odd - just got mine too and it actually pointed to a *real* download link. Guess the coreplayer people got tired of answering their phone, fax and email for the same question ;) This is the first time I've ever got a link from Mobihand, and I've been signed up all along.

BTW - looks like Crashpro finally was updated for the 755. But the file Mobihand points to is still v2.26 right now, gotta go to the developer's site..

Sorry ... didn't see your reply joad. ;)

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T|E -> T|X -> (N80IE?)

Thanks, Ryan. I have the "email me when an app is updated" box checked, but I never hear from Mobihand (the same backend for Palminfocenter I think). Maybe they'll implement it so you won't need to call them next update ;)

When I originally logged into Mobihand this morning they didn't have the links up, now they do. Odd.

Compounding all of this is CorePlayer's utter lack of an auto-update from within the app. Hey, aren't Treos (and their companion Foleos) supposed to be the new PCs? Well at least give us the option to update it from within the app. Normsoft has this down pat with PTunes. Kinoma does it very nicely as well! The CoreCodec team are becoming the Palm of the software worls--an early hit (TCPMP/Pilot) then numerous missed deadlines, half-baked products, and stingy/greedy business practices that are so bad they keep current users from upgrading and make their old products appear nearly superior in comparison!

As to that customer-unfriendly blacklist I mentioned earlier.....I nominate Aerodrome Software, DataViz, TomTom, MDM/Filao and CoreCodec as the inaugural members. There are a couple of has-been game developers that have gone cell phone exclusive or simply folded but the above should be a good start.

Oh, and so no one fusses--I've had nothing but superb support from Toysoft, Hobbyist Software, Astraware, and SplashData in the past . I will continue to use, purchase, and recommend products from those guys.

Handmark has a poor history of actually supporting their apps (heck, I'm still waiting on OS5, 320x320 and/or 320x480 support for some of their titles!) but their actual customer service reps are friendly and helpful.

Pilot 1000-->Pilot 5000-->PalmPilot Pro-->IIIe-->Vx-->m505-->T|T-->T|T2-->T|C-->T|T3-->T|T5-->TX-->Treo 700P

"Kafkaesque" - nice word. I had to Google this one.

Kafkaesque
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"Kafkaesque" is an auctorial descriptive which is used to describe concepts, situations, and ideas which are reminiscent of the literary work of Prague writer Franz Kafka, particularly his novel The Trial and his novella The Metamorphosis.

The term, which is quite fluid in definition, has also been described as "marked by a senseless, disorienting, often menacing complexity: Kafkaesque bureaucracies" [1] and "marked by surreal distortion and often a sense of impending danger: Kafkaesque fantasies of the impassive interrogation, the false trial, the confiscated passport . . . haunt his innocence" — The New Yorker. [2]

It can also describe an intentional distortion of reality by powerful but anonymous bureaucrats. "Lack of evidence is treated as a pesky inconvenience, to be circumvented by such Kafkaesque means as depositing unproven allegations into sealed files ..." Another definition would be an existentialist state of ever-elusive freedom while existing under unmitigatable control.

The adjective refers to anything suggestive of Kafka, especially his nightmarish type of narration, in which characters lack a clear course of action, the ability to see beyond immediate events, and the possibility of escape. The term's meaning has transcended the literary realm to apply to real-life occurrences and situations that are incomprehensibly complex, bizarre, or illogical.