Calendar done!

[cjsmith]

HA. Got all the data I had in MeetingMaker (well, all personal stuff: calling gigs, sister-in-law crashing at our place, dentist appointments, crap like that) entered into my ancient creaking Palm Pilot. By hand (ouch). Across a change of batteries, no less. Criminy! But it's in there.

I can sense a Treo in my future... like an oncoming train. It's just a question of when I'll grudgingly part with the money.

Comments

Re: I swear by my Treo 650

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

I haven't needed to program it, or even wanted to -- what I wanted (or close enough) has always been available

When I first got a PalmOS machine, that was true for me as well. But when they went to PalmOS 5, they broke the "hacks" that I had bought that did integrated Jewish holidays in the calendar and allowed for Hebrew fonts (and bidi formatting) in notes.

It was certainly PalmSource's right to break the "hacks" when they went from Dragonball to ARM processors. But they didn't provide equivalent hooks in the new OS for these things, and I need these things, so that tipped the balance for me: I now needed to write my own PIM software.

Re: I swear by my Treo 650

[eichin.livejournal.com]

I *do* write code for... well, just about everything :-) and gave up on palm because it's just such a nasty dev environment. I used a wince box (ipaq 4155) for a while - because I could write python hacks on it - but found the UI wretched - borrow one and try it, if you consider that path, it's a lot more different than I expected. (These days the Nokia 6630 is an acceptable blend - I can code in python (talking to the GPS and the builtin-camera), the PIM apps are not terribly clever but also not terribly complex or broken either. I still carry a "real" camera, though.)

Several of my friends (and coworkers) love the treo, though (especially the sysadmins :-)