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Maps on your Palm device? Get lost!
PalmPower Magazine - June 2000
PalmPower's resident technology skeptic has become lost in a gray void. At least according to the map he downloaded from MapBlast, that is. Both MapBlast and its better-known competitor, MapQuest, allow you to download maps and directions to your Palm device using AdvantGo. This month, Kevin Quin takes a critical look at these two Web sites that manage to lose both him and the entire Baltimore-Washington Parkway.
Dr. Strangepalm or, how I learned to stop worrying and love Microsoft
PalmPower Magazine - May 2000
If you've been listening to the prophets of doom lately, you've already heard that the End Days are here, and the Beast Whose Number is 666 is on the horizon. Microsoft's Pocket PC is coming, and many predict that by 2003 Microsoft will own over half the PDA market (assuming Microsoft doesn't get chopped into lots of little pieces), relegating Palm, Inc. to the status of also-ran. In this article, PalmPower's resident technology skeptic, Kevin Quin, takes a daring stance, embracing the apocalypse as if he were Slim Pickens riding an H-bomb into oblivion.
Why isn't the Palm organizer catching on?
PalmPower Magazine - April 2000
PalmPower's resident technology skeptic, Kevin Quin, has been feeling a bit lonely lately. When he bought his first PalmPilot, he dealt with "you geek" looks from friends and coworkers by confidently telling them they would all be Palm computer users within three years. Flash forward to present day, and handheld organizers are yet to have landed in the grasping palms of every man, woman, and child. This month, he analyzes the phenomena and offers some tips for Palm, Inc.'s marketing division in this thought-provoking and funny article.
Software for the rest of us: document readers and converters
PalmPower Magazine - March 2000
Kevin Quin, PalmPower's famous technology skeptic, is at it again. This month, he's going to give you the straight dope on the best, free document readers and converters he's found. Kevin's done all the research for you. Read and learn!
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