When I became Palm-obsessed, I tried to use the Memo pad to replace the right-hand notes and journaling pages, but it just wasn't the same. Keeping those memos organized, and remembering where I'd put what information, seemed like such a bother.

I eventually gave up on journaling entirely. Natura's DayNotez (for Windows, Palm, and Pocket PC) is a replacement for the right-hand page of your planner, providing organization options and easy ways to access your information.

Overview
Figure A shows a day's journal entries in the Windows application and the Palm version. Naturally, the Windows application shows more information, but both are clear and easy to understand. Each type of entry can have a color and an icon assigned to it to distinguish it from the others.

FIGURE A

This combination picture shows both the Windows and Palm screens, which are both well designed and make good use of the available space. Click picture for a larger image.

While DayNotez can, of course, handle free-form notes, to my mind it's the template feature that really shines. I created a template for the writing journal entry shown in Figure A. This uniformity makes it easier and more productive to compare notes over time.

Is DayNotez for you? Heather Wardell discusses a good program that has some strange problems.

]]> http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00039054.html http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00039054.html discounting prices on Warden Security for Pocket PC to celebrate.

Maintain your peace of mind this Spring with this ultra sleek security system for your mobile companion. Keep intruders away by locking them out of viewing your personal information or making fraudulent calls. It even provides assistance in case of an emergency and takes preventive measures to secure your device from ever getting stolen in the first place... and much more.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00039015.html http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00039015.html the rollout of its 3G wireless network by launching its UMTS/HSDPA network in New York City. T-Mobile plans to continue the rollout of its 3G network across major metropolitan markets through the year. By year's end, T-Mobile expects its high-speed data network will be available in those cities where a majority of its subscribers currently use data services.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00039016.html http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00039016.html the HTC Touch Diamond. Delivering unmistakable style and meticulous craftsmanship the HTC Touch Diamond is defined by its compact size, game-changing Internet and its new captivating 3D touch interface called TouchFLO 3D.

The HTC Touch Diamond is the first device to feature HTC's new 3D touch interface called TouchFLO 3D providing animated quick and easy access to people, messaging, email, photos, music, weather and more. Further supporting touch innovation, HTC is introducing a touch-sensitive control making it simple to utilize the full features on the device.

In addition, the HTC Touch Diamond incorporates advanced wireless capabilities and auto sensor screen pivoting allowing its users to stay connected wherever and whenever they need. The device will be available to customers across all major European carriers in June. It will be available later this quarter in Asia and the Middle East. The North American and Latin American versions of the Touch Diamond will be available in the second half of 2008.

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]]> http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00039017.html http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00039017.html and lucid at 6am Florida time.

If you know our fearless leader, you know he's definitely not a 6am kinda guy, so the only way this is going to fly is stay up and do the show before going to bed. In any case, if you happen to be up at 4am and located pretty much anywhere on the western side of the US (50,000 watts reaches a long distance at night), you can tune in. You can also listen via their Web feed, should you be in a different part of the world. David promises to do his best to keep you awake throughout the full hour.

And, if you're mature and sleeping, like all good people should be at that hour, we'll post the download link sometime in the next day or so when it makes it online.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00039010.html http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00039010.html get its Flash player installed on more mobile devices and set-top boxes. Dubbed Open Screen the initiative lifts restrictions on how its multimedia handling software can be used.

Adobe will stop charging licencing fees for mobile versions of Flash and plans to publish information about the inner workings of the code. In taking this step Adobe hopes to repeat on mobiles the success its Flash technology has enjoyed on the web.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00038994.html http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00038994.html The Washington Post has published an interesting but bizarrely flip-flopping editorial from PC World Contributing Editor James A. Martin entitled Is the Palm OS Dying? Should You Care? The piece discusses the uncertain future facing both Palm Inc. and the Palm OS, now owned by Japan's Access Software. In short, Mr. Martin makes no bones about Palm's gradual, protracted decline due to its aging OS and increasingly unglamorous hardware specs, calling Palm Inc. a "third-tier smartphone vendor" but ultimately asserts the platform as still viable and offering a compelling combination of friendliness, flexibility, and value.

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]]> http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00038995.html http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00038995.html Mobile Admin is an enterprise network administration platform that allows unified management of all IT systems from any computer or handheld device. The Mobile Admin server software is installed on a single server on the network and allows for instant management of all other systems, without the need to install any agent software on the systems to be managed.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00038996.html http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00038996.html offering their joint Wi-Fi service May 1 in San Antonio, the corporate headquarters of AT&T. By the end of 2008, AT&T said it would be offering Wi-Fi at all company-operated Starbucks stores.

After a six-year run with T-Mobile providing fee-based Wi-Fi access in its 7,000 coffee shops, Starbucks announced in February that AT&T would be its new carrier for wireless service. The ubiquitous chain is also brewing up a new deal for Wi-Fi customers: up to 2 hours of free Wi-Fi service per day.

In addition, all Starbucks partners will receive free Wi-Fi accounts allowing them to use the network in Starbucks company-operated locations. AT&T said more than 12 million qualifying AT&T broadband and AT&T U-verse Internet customers will have unlimited free access to Starbucks' Wi-Fi service.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00038979.html http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00038979.html a new BlackBerry Certification Program that will extend a reliable, comprehensive certification testing service in support of the BlackBerry wireless platform. The new BlackBerry Certification Program is intended to provide an empirical means of measuring and validating the real world skills and knowledge used in planning, administering and supporting BlackBerry product deployments. The program, which is designed for IT professionals and consultants as well as wireless carriers and other BlackBerry partners, will be available in 135 countries.

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]]> http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00038980.html http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00038980.html The Echo--Mirror Screen Protector protects your LG Viewty and offers more than meets the eye. When your LG Viewty display is switched on, the Echo acts as a simple screen protector, but as soon as your display backlight is switched off, the screen protector acts as a mirror, meaning you can look just as beautiful as your Viewty.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00038981.html http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00038981.html now available to users of Windows Mobile devices such as the Treo 700xw, Mogul, Ace, and Blackjack. The feature that has made FlipSide such an instant hit among BlackBerry users is its iPhone-like interface that allows users to visually "swoosh" through their music quickly and easily.

Navigating through music and selecting tunes is a simple process with FlipSide: scroll through the Album Covers, or flick through them using your finger on the screen, then click on the navigation button to open up a vertical list of the tracks. The spacebar is used to start, pause and skip songs, while the navigation button is used to scroll either left or right to either fast forward or rewind within a song. FlipSide for Windows Mobile plays music stored on memory cards in MP3 & WMA formats.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00038959.html http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00038959.html HanDBase Applet of the Year contest, seeking the most innovative uses for its popular HanDBase mobile database program for PDAs and smartphones. The goal for this year's contest is to demonstrate how easy it is for anyone to develop a mobile solution for either work or personal use.

The company will reward the Best Commercial Applet and Best Personal Applet with "HanDBase Runtime" licenses (a US $1,000.00 value) which will enable the winners to turn their entries into commercially-available standalone mobile applications. DDH Software's Web site currently offers the largest online gallery of free custom applets for mobile devices, including Access (Palm) OS, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry and Symbian handsets. Submissions are due before June 30th, 2008, and the winners will be announced on July 31st, 2008.

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Version 2.12 introduces support for the Palm Centro GSM (AT&T) smartphone, an optimized layout for text and icons in list views, improved voice launching capabilities, along with various functionality refinements.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00038961.html http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00038961.html GPS Protective Carry Cases at half price, yes, that's a huge 50% off. All you have to do is enter LOVEMYGPS at the cart page when you're purchasing your case and you will receive this massive discount.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00038962.html http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00038962.html Dating DNA Web App for Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch Internet devices. iPhone and iPod Touch users can immediately start browsing photos and compatibility scores with thousands of singles worldwide from the the Web browser on these handheld devices, or by visiting Apple's Web site.

The Dating DNA Web App brings the photo browsing and compatibility scoring features from Dating DNA's popular free service to the palm of the user's hand. Dating DNA users, when not at their computer, can now browse photos of other compatible singles, then delete or skip each match, or select to have them added to their favorites section, called the "DNA Strand."

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The previous report showed excellent consumer satisfaction levels for the two smartphone frontrunners--with Apple sporting a 79% Very Satisfied rating for its iPhone models and RIM grabbing a highly respectable 54% rating for the BlackBerry. But what is it about these two brands that have consumers so very satisfied?

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00038944.html http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00038944.html http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00038917.html http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00038917.html turning off the MSN Music license servers by the end of this summer.

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]]> http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00038921.html http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00038921.html the novelty of his methods will wear off, he predicted.

"At some point the word 'blogging' will be anachronistic," Schwartz said at the Web 2.0 Expo here in San Francisco. "I communicate."

And he predicted, in effect, that the rest of the executive world will catch up. "Historically, communication took place by being a celebrity CEO who met with heads of state, and got the local media to cover it," he said in an on-stage interview with O'Reily Media chief Tim O'Reilly. "You got the message out in an inefficient and environmentally irresponsible way. Then the Internet came round and gave you a way to reach the entire planet."

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00038922.html http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00038922.html Voice Command service will soon be no more. The service, which allowed Sprint-Nextel phones to dial two buttons and then give voice commands to place calls, will be discontinued on July 1st, 2008, meaning that all your server-based contacts will soon be inaccessible. Aside from removing the VC fee from your monthly bill, Sprint is advising users to download and print their contact lists, and better still, encouraging users to rely on handset-based voice-activated dialing.

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ZATZ Publishing today announces that national security concerns published by David Gewirtz, ZATZ Editor-in-Chief and the author of Where Have All The Emails Gone? have been proven true in a particularly tangible and unfortunate example.

Today, Fox News reported that Rafael Quintero Curiel, lead press advance person for the Mexican Delegation was caught stealing six or seven BlackBerry devices belonging to White House staffers who were attending meetings between U.S. President George W. Bush and Canadian and Mexican leaders in New Orleans this week. Unfortunately, Quintero Curiel was caught after the devices had been in his possession for some time.

That's the equivalent in strategic U.S. government information of about 28,000 printed pages of data, or seven complete sets of all seven Harry Potter novels. And that's per BlackBerry. Given today's incident, that's seven times seven complete sets of all seven Harry Potter novels.

Read the full text.

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CLEARSYNC - THE BETTER SHARING CALENDAR
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]]> http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00038897.html http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00038897.html new rules of being the techie gentleman or lady.

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"Just last week, we loaded 15 BGUs in the OTB and got an output of 1,300 cycles, which shows our testing program is right on target."

You might have missed it, but half the room was day dreaming and the other half were checking email on their BlackBerrys. What they were not doing: considering whether they should budget for this technology, because you had lost their attention. Can an over-reliance on tech jargon be bad for your career? Some experts say yes.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00038903.html http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00038903.html Comcast is throttling more traffic than it has previously admitted, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin told a U.S. Senate panel April 22. Martin also told lawmakers it appears Comcast broadband customers are not free to access all content on the Internet, including the ability to fully use peer-to-peer networks.

Martin's comments come after two FCC hearings on charges that the nation's largest cable provider deliberately throttles P2P applications such as BitTorrent during peak network hours, a practice that Comcast admits to. Comcast says its policy not only falls within the FCC's reasonable network management exception to the FCC's network neutrality rules, but it is also "imperceptible to the customer."

Martin refuted Comcast's claims, telling the Senate Commerce Committee, "It does not appear that this technique [throttling] was used only to occasionally delay traffic at particular nodes suffering from network congestion at that time." According to Martin, the testimony so far presented to the FCC indicates Comcast's efforts at managing P2P traffic "is typically deployed over a wider geographic or system area and would therefore have impacted nodes within a system simultaneously."

Comcast's technology, Martin added, "blocks the uploads of at least a large portion of subscribers in that part of the network, regardless of the actual levels of congestion at that particular time."

Martin also said he had no fix on when Comcast will actually stop using its current approach, although Comcast said it plans to move to a "content-agnostic" platform available for up to 20 percent of Comcast's customers by the end of the year. One of the primary network neutrality complaints against Comcast is that it singles out one program over another.

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]]> http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00038875.html http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00038875.html here's your chance to get a sneak peek at it. Those of you who are already Personal, Professional or Mobile 360 licensees can purchase an upgrade to Visual CE 11.0 beta in advance of the production release. You will be sent the production release at no additional charge, as soon as it is available. Those who do not yet have a Visual CE license of any type can buy the 11.0 beta now to get started and will also receive the production release at no additional charge, as soon as it is available.

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But if you thought that the price might have come down to bring in the curious consumer, you're wrong. And endearingly naive. At $1,600, it costs more than a few iPhones, most quality laptops, and even a couple of Danny Dumas or Brian Lam haircuts. Heck, you could even take a round trip to see Lebedev himself in Europe--why don't you buy him a beer in Russia's most expensive pub for coming up with such a cool and crazy-cracky product? Or you can stare at tiny screens and see your own fonts come to life, which is its own type of fun.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00038877.html http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00038877.html voice search for Blackberry devices before it goes live on Windows Mobile handsets. Tellme keeps track of where you are through your phone's GPS radio so your search results are local to where you are. Device owners can tap a button and speak their search query; in return, Tellme will offer local results using the Microsoft Live Search engine.

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]]> http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00038878.html http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00038878.html the 1TB DriveStation Combo4. Built with universal connectivity and speed in mind, the new DriveStation Combo4 comes equipped with four interfaces--eSATA, FireWire 400/800, and USB 2.0.

DriveStation Combo4 is a stylish yet powerful addition to your work space or home office, designed for Mac or PC users who need a flexible connection and fast data transfer and throughput speeds. Backing-up and transferring larger files is quick and seamless, especially since the device is enhanced with Buffalo's TurboUSB software, which offers 20% faster transfer rates than most other USB drives on the market. It also incorporates a blazing fast 7200-RPM SATA drive.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00038857.html http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00038857.html V2R PhotoViewer allows you to quickly generate your own photo album gallery to quickly watch all the photos and images in your selected albums. You can easily add and remove albums to your gallery and then easily finger navigate through your albums and galleries.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00038858.html http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00038858.html GoTreo Software is now offering live tech support in conjunction with its recently released SafeGuard utility. SafeGuard is an application designed to troubleshoot, prevent and help diagnose software problems and misbehaving 3rd party applications on Palm OS devices. The company is now offering a new SafeGuard Live service to help frustrated users diagnose and solve their crashing or locked device issues via live phone help, instant messenger or email. The company aims to remedy and stabilize any software issue no matter the offending application.

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]]> http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00038859.html http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00038859.html Mickey Mouse silhouette into the new Mplayer Season I MP3 player available now at DisneyShopping.com.

Inspired by Mickey Mouse, the iriver Mplayer Season I is fun, simple and compact, and serves as a cool and unique accessory as well. The MP3 player is available in five colors (black, white, blue, pink and silver), is USB powered and can carry a good variety of music in its small package with 1GB NAND Flash memory. The Mplayer Season I retails for $69.99 MSRP and is available at DisneyShopping.com. It is also available at Disney theme parks.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00038846.html http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00038846.html SplashData has announced Mac OS X versions of its SplashMoney personal finance application and SplashID 4 secure password manager. Both applications synchronize with their respective mobile applications. The company also announced a standalone version of SplashMoney for Mac OS X for users that do not have a compatible mobile device.

With SplashMoney, Mac users now have access to a complete personal financial manager that enables them to securely record transactions, track account balances, generate reports and budgets, and manage finances while on the go. SplashMoney features wireless access to online bank accounts--an ideal feature for laptops and smartphones, a streamlined user interface, charting of financial data, the ability to assign icons to transactions, transaction filtering, and bank account reconciliation.

The Mac version of SplashID 4 includes substantial updates such as Web Auto-Fill, Panel and Tree views, and an Auto Search feature that retrieves records simply by entering a few letters in the Find box.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00038847.html http://www.computingunplugged.com/newsitems/00038847.html MobileForms Toolkit 2008 Volume 2. The new version of this suite of Visual Studio components designed specifically for mobile devices will be released on June 10th, 2008.

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