PDAmill is giving away all of its PalmOS games for free

Filed under: Fun, Games, Palm, Mobile Minute

Over the last few years we’ve seen the Palm OS platform stagnate while Microsoft, Apple, and Symbian continue to develop their mobile operating systems. Oh sure, there will be a new version of the Palm operating system at some point, but at this point we’re not sure there will be any manufacturers willing to run Palm software on their devices.

But here’s one good reason to pull your old Palm PDA out of the junk drawer, or even pick up a used one on eBay: Game-maker PDAmill is offering its Palm OS games for free. All of them.

The game developer recently announced that they would stop developing for Palm. And while the company could have continued charging a small fee for some of its excellent video games, they instead decided to give them away.

The games included Arvale, an RPG, several games in the GameBox series which include classics like Solitaire, Mahjohng, Snakes, Blocks, and Cannons, and Snails, which is a turn-based action game similar to Worms.

[via Palm InfoCenter]

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PDAmill is giving away all of its PalmOS games for free

Filed under: Fun, Games, Palm, Mobile Minute

Over the last few years we’ve seen the Palm OS platform stagnate while Microsoft, Apple, and Symbian continue to develop their mobile operating systems. Oh sure, there will be a new version of the Palm operating system at some point, but at this point we’re not sure there will be any manufacturers willing to run Palm software on their devices.

But here’s one good reason to pull your old Palm PDA out of the junk drawer, or even pick up a used one on eBay: Game-maker PDAmill is offering its Palm OS games for free. All of them.

The game developer recently announced that they would stop developing for Palm. And while the company could have continued charging a small fee for some of its excellent video games, they instead decided to give them away.

The games included Arvale, an RPG, several games in the GameBox series which include classics like Solitaire, Mahjohng, Snakes, Blocks, and Cannons, and Snails, which is a turn-based action game similar to Worms.

[via Palm InfoCenter]

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Next Photoshop widget-happy?

Users of the next Adobe Creative Suite may be able to mix and mash up the applications with online content and third-party tools.

In a bid to make workspaces more nimble, Adobe Systems is considering making parts of Photoshop and other Creative Suite applications available for users to manipulate within Flash widgets, according to a blog post Monday by John Nack, product manager of Photoshop.

The capability to bring tools from the Creative Suite to the desktop or the Web with Flash or Flex could lead to novel ways of exploring Adobe’s expensive, hulking software. Users have mashed up Google Maps, for instance, to display apartment listings, ecological pollution, and even UFO sightings.

“The appeal of extending one’s app with lightweight, cross-platform, network-aware widgets is so obvious that we were busy building support in my first app some eight years ago–and we had to build our own Flash Player clone to do it!” Nack wrote.

Developers would ideally be able to write one bunch of code rather than six separate chunks to create widgets for panels from Photoshop, Illustrator vector illustration, and InDesign page layout software, Nack added.

Adobe made its flagship photo-editing software available online with the March release of Photoshop Express.

The company aims to tell the public more about the next iteration of its Creative Suite on May 27.

A prerelease, beta edition of Flash Player 10 became available Tuesday via Adobe Labs. New features include effects for 3D-rendering effects and text-rendering enhancements.

Source: www.download.com

Palm opens its Virtual Developer Lab

It’s one thing to bang out a quick third-party program for a single phone model, and quite another to develop a mobile application that works as predicted on a battalion of cell phone models, each with their own set of finely cultured specs.

For numerous reasons, developers may not have all those phones at the ready, and when it comes time for final testing, emulators that live on the screen and mimic device behavior just aren’t good enough.

(Credit: Palm Software)

If you’re Palm, a mobile platform and device manufacturer that’s fighting for its slimmed-down market share, you’d want to encourage developers to get their applications out there. That could be one reason why, with the help of DeviceAnywhere, Palm is launching its Virtual Developer Lab. Simply put, developers will rent hourly remote access to Palm phones in the physical world to complete their tests and make tweaks. Software makers throughout the community will be able to collaborate on projects in real time or fly solo to finish their products and bring them to market.

It’s Palm’s undertaking, but DeviceAnywhere is running the show. Previously known as MobileComplete, the company, headed by CEO Faraz Syed, has established management systems for helping developers on all platforms port and monitor applications to shared hardware pools for over 1,000 cell phone models. The remote access software includes a built-in advanced reservation system for booking time on a device, and a first-come, first-served queue that alerts the next developer in line when it’s his or her turn to test a program’s mettle. When they’re done, a clean-up script plucks out leftover artifacts.

For the Palm Virtual Developer Lab, data centers sprinkled across the globe will house the 13 Palm handsets, for which developers will pay $100 per month and $13 to $16 per hour to access. This system replaces Palm’s previous invite-only lab for premium developing partners, said Syed, which shut out the majority of developers.

No doubt the initiative will spark discussion about Palm’s attempts to steady its declining presence in the mobile industry even after some lift brought by the Centro device in late 2007. Interested developers can register for the Palm Virtual Developer Lab here.

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Palm opens its Virtual Developer Lab

It’s one thing to bang out a quick third-party program for a single phone model, and quite another to develop a mobile application that works as predicted on a battalion of cell phone models, each with their own set of finely cultured specs.

For numerous reasons, developers may not have all those phones at the ready, and when it comes time for final testing, emulators that live on the screen and mimic device behavior just aren’t good enough.

(Credit: Palm Software)

If you’re Palm, a mobile platform and device manufacturer that’s fighting for its slimmed-down market share, you’d want to encourage developers to get their applications out there. That could be one reason why, with the help of DeviceAnywhere, Palm is launching its Virtual Developer Lab. Simply put, developers will rent hourly remote access to Palm phones in the physical world to complete their tests and make tweaks. Software makers throughout the community will be able to collaborate on projects in real time or fly solo to finish their products and bring them to market.

It’s Palm’s undertaking, but DeviceAnywhere is running the show. Previously known as MobileComplete, the company, headed by CEO Faraz Syed, has established management systems for helping developers on all platforms port and monitor applications to shared hardware pools for over 1,000 cell phone models. The remote access software includes a built-in advanced reservation system for booking time on a device, and a first-come, first-served queue that alerts the next developer in line when it’s his or her turn to test a program’s mettle. When they’re done, a clean-up script plucks out leftover artifacts.

For the Palm Virtual Developer Lab, data centers sprinkled across the globe will house the 13 Palm handsets, for which developers will pay $100 per month and $13 to $16 per hour to access. This system replaces Palm’s previous invite-only lab for premium developing partners, said Syed, which shut out the majority of developers.

No doubt the initiative will spark discussion about Palm’s attempts to steady its declining presence in the mobile industry even after some lift brought by the Centro device in late 2007. Interested developers can register for the Palm Virtual Developer Lab here.

Related articles:
For the Palm faithful: Treo 800w rumors abound
Palm closing retail stores, paying out Treo owners

Source: www.download.com

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The Internet Archive, busy protecting us from ourselves

Filed under: Internet, Security, News

We don’t like to make political statements too often here at DLS. It just seems a lot less complicated to fight over software, or whether or not something is Web 2.0, or pirates and ninjas. Every once in a while, though, something comes up that’s just a little too out of line not to mention.

Wired reports that back in November, the FBI paid a visit to The Internet Archive and served founder Brewster Kahle with a National Security Letter. The NSL (.pdf link, be warned) is a funny sort of document. It is a subpoena that can be issued without a judge’s watchful eye. It usually comes with an order to not tell anyone that the person in question has received it, excepting, of course, their lawyer. So Kahle couldn’t tell board members, or his staff, or his teddy bear without legal repercussions.

NSLs aren’t really new, but they’ve blossomed since the USA Patriot Act was enacted. According to Wired, though the FBI guidelines don’t encourage frequent use, Congressional audits and the FBI itself reveal that it is likely that hundreds of thousands have been issued in the past seven years. It’s likely, because, you know, the FBI doesn’t actually seem to track how many they’ve used. Oh, whoops.

The other dimension to this drama is that the Internet Archive is more of a library than an ISP/communications provider. It seems, in light of that, that the NSL used was actually not the proper document to request the sort of things it was requesting from that institution. Whoops again.

This week, the government and The Internet Archive reached a settlement in regards to the NSL issue. The issued NSL is officially off the table. The Internet Archive can’t say anything about what the information was that got the FBI so riled up in the first place.

Seeing that the Internet Archive archives public information, that anonymous browsing is allowed, and all that’s required to sign up for an account is an email address, username and password (Kahle says IP addresses aren’t logged) it doesn’t seem as though the FBI will really find much helpful information. They will find a whole lot of Grateful Dead recordings, if that’s any consolation.

[via LISNews via Wired]

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Power Downloader restores Mozilla applications

Last week when Microsoft released Windows XP Service Pack 3 unto the world, a few “lucky” XP users had their computers come to a screeching, brain-jarring halt. Kitty Kilobyte’s best friend Penny Penryn was hit badly by this bug, and she had to do a full reinstall of her operating system.

As frustrating as a crash of this magnitude can be, Penny Penryn was surprisingly as cool as a fan for a quad-core CPU. She didn’t lose any of her important documents because followed Power Downloader’s advice and backed them up using SyncBack. She didn’t lose any of her bookmarks, extensions, passwords, or other important settings for Firefox or Thunderbird, either, because she used MozBackup.

MozBackup is a minuscule program that makes saving and restoring bookmarks, extensions, and other personal settings a streamlined and stress-free experience. It’s dead simple to use because it walks you through both the backup and restore process. For example, even if you’ve backed up everything but you only want to restore your bookmarks, all it takes is a couple of mouse clicks.

MozBackup works with most Mozilla application, and has been translated into dozens of languages, so it can be used by the same worldwide audience that favors Firefox. It’s a must-have tool for this software superhero, and since it’s free, there’s no reason you shouldn’t have it, too.

Source: www.download.com

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The advent of Windows XP Service Pack 3 has brought with it the proverbial “beginning of the end” for its predecessor, Service Pack 2. As it is customary with Microsoft, the availability of a service pack triggers the start of expiration support for the previous release of a specific product. This is a rule that governs every software solution from the Redmond company, including the Windows operating system. “As with all releases of new Service Packs, the release of Windows XP SP3 has trigger…
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FoodFeed - tell the world what you eat. Srsly.

Filed under: Fun, Internet, News, Social Software, web 2.0

Yes. It’s true. Now, you can broadcast to the world what you eat, want to eat, feel like eating (hey, let’s keep it clean) on a site dedicated to doing just that, called FoodFeed. We guess there’s no end in sight to the banal, continuous, slog of bytes that people feel they must ingest and digest too.

Among the amazing features FoodFeed offers is the ability to search by yes, you guessed it - Food! Now you can put a search term in like, say, chicken, and bingo - everyone who has eaten chicken pops up. Wow. After you scroll through all the exciting chicken eating people, you’ll probably either a). want to find all the beef eating people b). throw up or c). find some other place to explore on the interwebs or d). go outside and get some fresh air.

If you must tell everyone what is on your plate, well you can set up a feed, but first you need a Twitter account. Just add “having” as a friend on Twitter. Then check your feed out at “http://username.foodfeed.us.” You can post by sending tweets to @having (showing up in your Twitter updates) or d having (not showing up in your Twitter updates).

What do you think? Do you think people are interested in your food itinerary? Are you riveted to others’ food moods?

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PDAmill is giving away all of its PalmOS games for free

Filed under: Fun, Games, Palm, Mobile Minute

Over the last few years we’ve seen the Palm OS platform stagnate while Microsoft, Apple, and Symbian continue to develop their mobile operating systems. Oh sure, there will be a new version of the Palm operating system at some point, but at this point we’re not sure there will be any manufacturers willing to run Palm software on their devices.

But here’s one good reason to pull your old Palm PDA out of the junk drawer, or even pick up a used one on eBay: Game-maker PDAmill is offering its Palm OS games for free. All of them.

The game developer recently announced that they would stop developing for Palm. And while the company could have continued charging a small fee for some of its excellent video games, they instead decided to give them away.

The games included Arvale, an RPG, several games in the GameBox series which include classics like Solitaire, Mahjohng, Snakes, Blocks, and Cannons, and Snails, which is a turn-based action game similar to Worms.

[via Palm InfoCenter]

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PDAmill is giving away all of its PalmOS games for free

Filed under: Fun, Games, Palm, Mobile Minute

Over the last few years we’ve seen the Palm OS platform stagnate while Microsoft, Apple, and Symbian continue to develop their mobile operating systems. Oh sure, there will be a new version of the Palm operating system at some point, but at this point we’re not sure there will be any manufacturers willing to run Palm software on their devices.

But here’s one good reason to pull your old Palm PDA out of the junk drawer, or even pick up a used one on eBay: Game-maker PDAmill is offering its Palm OS games for free. All of them.

The game developer recently announced that they would stop developing for Palm. And while the company could have continued charging a small fee for some of its excellent video games, they instead decided to give them away.

The games included Arvale, an RPG, several games in the GameBox series which include classics like Solitaire, Mahjohng, Snakes, Blocks, and Cannons, and Snails, which is a turn-based action game similar to Worms.

[via Palm InfoCenter]

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Power Downloader restores Mozilla applications

Last week when Microsoft released Windows XP Service Pack 3 unto the world, a few “lucky” XP users had their computers come to a screeching, brain-jarring halt. Kitty Kilobyte’s best friend Penny Penryn was hit badly by this bug, and she had to do a full reinstall of her operating system.

As frustrating as a crash of this magnitude can be, Penny Penryn was surprisingly as cool as a fan for a quad-core CPU. She didn’t lose any of her important documents because followed Power Downloader’s advice and backed them up using SyncBack. She didn’t lose any of her bookmarks, extensions, passwords, or other important settings for Firefox or Thunderbird, either, because she used MozBackup.

MozBackup is a minuscule program that makes saving and restoring bookmarks, extensions, and other personal settings a streamlined and stress-free experience. It’s dead simple to use because it walks you through both the backup and restore process. For example, even if you’ve backed up everything but you only want to restore your bookmarks, all it takes is a couple of mouse clicks.

MozBackup works with most Mozilla application, and has been translated into dozens of languages, so it can be used by the same worldwide audience that favors Firefox. It’s a must-have tool for this software superhero, and since it’s free, there’s no reason you shouldn’t have it, too.

Source: www.download.com

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