Quickies: Act!, MLB ShadowPlan and Cavemen

Posted By: Ryan Thursday, March 27, 2003 10:30:43 AM

SplashMoney 2.9
SplashData has announced an update to their personal finance manager for Palm OS. SplashMoney Version 2.9 is a free update fro registered users, New users can now purchase SplashMoney 2.9 for a limited time for $14.95, 25% off the normal price of $19.95. New features include: Budgeting and Reporting, Scheduled transactions with Reminders, Custom Transaction types, and support for high res display and 5-way nav and jog-dial control.

Bluetooth Drivers for the Tungsten W
Palm SG has released updated drivers for using the SD Bluetooth card with the Tungsten W. The software allows the Palm Tungsten W to connect to Bluetooth LAN Access Points and other Bluetooth devices.

MLB mySchedule 2003
mySchedule MLB is a sport scheduler and stats tracker for the Major League Baseball. mySchedule is a suite of sport schedulers that includes: National Football League, National Hockey League, Canadian Football League and Major League Baseball. You can find other sport schedulers at www.toysoft.ca. mySchedule MLB includes all 30 team's 2003 schedules, team rosters, coaching and staff team, player payrolls and game day games. Weekly batting, pitching and fielding stats are included and updated each week. The app sells for $14.95 USD.

AvantGo Beta
Yet another Palm OS 5 AvantGo beta client is out. Build 65 adds support for Sony's Virtual Silkscreen for full-screen browsing, a new look for the home and navigation buttons, a revised navigator and jog dial control and numerous bug fixes. -ABosco

Stone Age PlusStone Age Plus
Stone Age Plus is a new Palm OS 5 arcade game wich support High Resolution High Quality Graphics and Animation and Digital Sound. The game is $14.95 and requires 1.8 mb of free memory.

Bluetooth Toggle
Bluetooth Toggle is an os 5 application that greatly extends control over your Bluetooth radio's power on devices with integrtated Bluetooth. BtToggle can keep the Bluetooth radio off until you really need it which can save valuable battery power. The small 37k app is shareware with a 2 week demo and sells for $9.95.

ShadowPlan 2.8
ShadowPlan now has more optimized support for Palm OS 5, support for Sony Clie virtual grafitti (HiRes+), more customization and color control, sharper and configurable exports and prints and faster tagging and filtering on the handheld. Shadow Plan is a task manager, outliner, and hierarchical checklist system with a with a desktop conduit. A windows desktop and handheld version bundle is available for $22.99.

Act for Palm OS Update
Act! For the Palm OS v1.01 was recently released. Updated include Support for PalmOS 5 devices; speed improvements (4-5 times faster, according to the developer), on Smartphone devices the program allows you to select a contact, and dial a phone number from within the program.

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SplashMoney features

LanMan @ 3/28/2003 4:24:58 PM #
New features include: Budgeting and Reporting, Scheduled transactions with Reminders, Custom Transaction types, and support for high res display and 5-way nav and jog-dial control.

When will Landware's Pocket Quicken incorporate these features? PQ is starting to fall behind, IMHO.

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RE: SplashMoney features
creep451 @ 3/29/2003 12:19:48 AM #
I'm sticking with PocketQuicken. Problem with
SplashMoney is they
have a nice list of features, but most of them aren't
implimented all the way. The syncing is only one way
with Quicken, the "budgetting" is just a list
of numbers. They don't care about how well the
program is usable. They add just enough "feature" to
add it to the feature list, even if its not very usable.
Landware does it right. If the features listed, its
in there for real, unlike splashmoney. PQ's well worth the extra
few bucks. Try 'em both and see what I mean.

On the other hand, I'm glad to see Avantgo for 5.0
progressing nicely. Now if my local paper will just
join the 21st century and add Avantgo.

RE: SplashMoney features
Galley_SimRacer @ 3/29/2003 10:44:23 PM #
A desktop component is in the works! :-)

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Galley
RE: SplashMoney features
kilo94 @ 3/31/2003 7:55:58 AM #
A desktop component for which---SplashMoney or Pocket Quicken?

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RE: SplashMoney features
mike808 @ 3/31/2003 9:50:40 AM #
How seamless is splashmoney?...I hate dealing with importing/exporting files. How does it handle two users, one data file? i.e. My wife and I have two palm organizers, one checking account.

Why does everyone hold up pocket quicken as "the standard" As a personal checkbook it's very limited! Although I prefer Desktop Quicken(!!!), I currently use Micro$oft Money, because of Ultrasoft Money...THE BEST product of its kind out there IMO. It's what Pocket Quicken aspires to be!!

At any rate, I would switch back to quicken in a second if I could get a similar feature set, and seamless integration that Ultrasoft Money gives me.

RE: SplashMoney features
LanMan @ 3/31/2003 10:20:06 AM #
Landware is now focusing all of their attention on PQ for PPC (see recent Brighthand statement). However, they are behind development for that product as well. When Landware release PQ v2.0 nearly two years ago, Clinton Logan promised that there would be continued upgrades for Pocket Quicken users. Since then they have released only bug fixes with no real product enhancements. I have been an avid supporter of Landware in the past, but now I'm not sure that they can update their products quickly enough to keep up with the competition.

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My MLB schedule 2003

jaykacik @ 3/29/2003 10:34:50 AM #
This program seems a good value at $14.95, but if you are looking for just the schedules (no updateable stats, etc.), there is a guy that put together date book importable versions for every MLB team, and one for all teams (Palm OS). It runs you $1.50 per team, or $1.50 for the complete league schedule.

I haven't tried his yet, and I don't know the guy, it just seemed to go hand and hand with this story.

Here's the link:

http://www.golddave.com/palm/downloads/baseball_2003.html


- J

RE: My MLB schedule 2003
LanMan @ 3/31/2003 2:03:52 PM #
Very nice freeware:

http://www.geocities.com/schedule123/sportsindex.html

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RE: My MLB schedule 2003
jaykacik @ 4/4/2003 9:49:35 AM #
Lanman,

Thanks for the link to the freeware. I downloaded it, and it does what it promises!

- J


Benefit of Bt SD card on Tt...?

Marshall Flinkman @ 3/29/2003 8:30:28 PM #
What's the benefit of the Bluetooth card over the built-in Bluetooth capability?

RE: Benefit of Bt SD card on Tt...?
abosco @ 3/29/2003 9:59:53 PM #
That's the TW, not the TT.

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RE: Benefit of Bt SD card on Tt...?
ankers @ 3/31/2003 1:04:18 AM #
BtToggle allows you to turn Bluetooth on with apps that need it and off when switch away from them automatically - makes a difference to the battery usage. You can also control which hard keys can turn the TT on - avoid flat battery accidents.

Well worth $10.

Dave - a happy customer.

New AvantGo Beta

solemar @ 3/30/2003 11:52:57 PM #
According to the AG website the new OS5 beta (build 65): "In response to user feedback, we have further refined the operation of the Palm 5-way navigator and Sony jog dial"

Well I have got used to the previous method which, whilst clunky sometmes (e.g. BBC News site), was workable with one hand. The "new and improved" version does not actually appear to allow any navigation by D-Pad at all beyond back and forward a page plus a scroll within the current page. I cannot figure oput how to get it to move the "target" highlight and hence select new items to open. In this configuration the interface is unsuable for me without the stylus - so what's the point?

Am I missing something?

New AvantGo Beta

solemar @ 3/30/2003 11:52:57 PM #
According to the AG website the new OS5 beta (build 65): "In response to user feedback, we have further refined the operation of the Palm 5-way navigator and Sony jog dial"

Well I have got used to the previous method which, whilst clunky sometmes (e.g. BBC News site), was workable with one hand. The "new and improved" version does not actually appear to allow any navigation by D-Pad at all beyond back and forward a page plus a scroll within the current page. I cannot figure oput how to get it to move the "target" highlight and hence select new items to open. In this configuration the interface is unsuable for me without the stylus - so what's the point?

Am I missing something?

RE: New AvantGo Beta
Wolvy @ 3/31/2003 2:12:49 AM #
In AvantGo, go to Preferences and check Remap Application Buttons. This will allow you to use the ToDo and Notepad buttons to move up and down links.

Remaping in AvantGo does not interfere with any other button mappings you have made using QLaunch or other button mapping apps. This only applys when you are actually using AvantGo.

Wolvy

RE: New AvantGo Beta
solemar @ 3/31/2003 2:20:27 AM #
Thanks, Wolvy. I'm not sure how you're supposed to know this stuff, there was no readme in the beta install. I'm not actually sure I like the new button set up as before you could do all with the D-Pad, now you have to juggle that and two other buttons. Hopefully it'll become natural in a couple of days
RE: New AvantGo Beta
bro @ 3/31/2003 7:19:28 PM #
I am curious to know; have you had any problems (read crashes) with this beta of Avantgo? I used it on my old Palm but not on the new OS5, I have been reluctant to try it. I guess I want to now if you have had to do any hard resets?

RE: New AvantGo Beta
Wolvy @ 4/1/2003 1:47:33 AM #
No problems with crashes. I use AvantGo extensively every day and all seems very stable.

I find using the button assignment actually better than before, as I found it so hard to just do normal scrolling with the up down buttons. Still has some refinement needing done but going in the right direction. Would be good if they changed the Hi-res font to bold, as it's pretty small on some pages.

Wolvy

RE: New AvantGo Beta
solemar @ 4/1/2003 8:55:52 PM #
I don't like the button assignments in as much as it takes over all 4 of the hard buttons and means that getting quickly to another app such as address book requires a long press of the D-pad centre button followed by the required app button. If they would alow more flexible assignment I would be happier.

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