Palm Tungsten E2 and Hotmail II w/Firefox
I have joined the MP3 world in a portable way with my purchase of a Palm Tungsten E2 and 1 GB expansion memory. The goal is to be able to view some text files I have, carry family photos around with me, access the genealogy database at the cybercafe and use the music/MP3 capabilities. Syncing with my copy of Outlook was easy, copying photos straightforward and loading over 500 MB of music required that I remove/re-rip several CDs that I'd been listening to on my PC as WMA files which the RealPlayer tool on the Palm wouldn't read. With a $32.99 pair of Panasonic headphones, I'm now one of those people you see on the street grooving to their own choice of music instead of the sound of traffic. It looks like I'll have to pay about $25.00 to get some genealogy software that will do the job as the MyRoots only allows 20 individuals in their demo mode. Bummer, since I still use the free Personal Ancestral File (PAF) from:
http://www.familysearch.org/
and their PAF for Palm seems to have disappeared. I think I managed to get a utility that converts from *.txt format to the format to read on the Palm though have Palm Reader and Adobe Acrobat Reader for the Palm.
UPDATE (12 May 2006): To get the Palm reader program (52Kb), you have to go through the registration process and when get a choice of what to download, it's at the bottom of the list.
UPDATE (18 May 2006): My full GEDCOM of 4.4 MB wouldn't fit on the Palm, so that means they must be using the main 32 MB RAM, actual capacity 26 MB, rather than the 1 GB expansion memory so had to cut it in half and 2.2 MB fit ok. Major bummer as can only have one database in at a time and have to hotsync to do that. Maybe time to pay for a gene product.
At home, am going to play around with VMWare from:
http://www.vmware.com/
where they have free, 30-day-trial downloads compared to Microsoft's Virtual PC which has a 45-day-trial download.
What's the deal about VMWare/Virtual PC? Well, on top of WinXP, you load the VMWare program and then can open sessions for DOS, WinXP, Win98SE and Linux on a machine with enough RAM and a big hard disk drive (mine is 160 GB). For example, I recently had to convert a WinXP machine back to Win98SE so I could read some Zip cartridges I had formatted in Drive Space 3 which is not supported under WinXP. With VMWare/Virtual PC, I could have just opened another session, installed W98SE and enabled the DS3 capability and read the DS3 cartridges on the same machine. As well, will be trying out Red Hat Linux and SUSE to see which I'll use on the second machine. Lots of fun. After the trial VMWare is $189.00 vs Virtual PC for about $129.00.
On the web-based email front, my Hotmail account from about 1998 or so has been upgraded to 2 GB storage with the activation of the beta version of Windows Live™ Mail (WLM). One problem is today I launched Firefox at the cybercafe and WLM thought I was using the old Hotmail format and suggested I upgrade to the latest IE and once switched to IE6 had what I expected to see; wouldn't you know it but WLM doesn't want to play nice with Firefox.
UPDATE: 2006/07/13 WLM now promises to work with Firefox v1.5
I wonder about Opera and Netscape. My gmail account now is up to 2.7 GB of storage space. My Yahoo account is still sitting at 1 GB, which is plenty. That makes a total of 5.7 GB of space between the three accounts. The several other accounts I had over the past few years have expired for a variety of reasons, most like www.alberta.com provided by Telus because they ended the service.
Cheers, Ray
http://www.familysearch.org/
and their PAF for Palm seems to have disappeared. I think I managed to get a utility that converts from *.txt format to the format to read on the Palm though have Palm Reader and Adobe Acrobat Reader for the Palm.
UPDATE (12 May 2006): To get the Palm reader program (52Kb), you have to go through the registration process and when get a choice of what to download, it's at the bottom of the list.
UPDATE (18 May 2006): My full GEDCOM of 4.4 MB wouldn't fit on the Palm, so that means they must be using the main 32 MB RAM, actual capacity 26 MB, rather than the 1 GB expansion memory so had to cut it in half and 2.2 MB fit ok. Major bummer as can only have one database in at a time and have to hotsync to do that. Maybe time to pay for a gene product.
At home, am going to play around with VMWare from:
http://www.vmware.com/
where they have free, 30-day-trial downloads compared to Microsoft's Virtual PC which has a 45-day-trial download.
What's the deal about VMWare/Virtual PC? Well, on top of WinXP, you load the VMWare program and then can open sessions for DOS, WinXP, Win98SE and Linux on a machine with enough RAM and a big hard disk drive (mine is 160 GB). For example, I recently had to convert a WinXP machine back to Win98SE so I could read some Zip cartridges I had formatted in Drive Space 3 which is not supported under WinXP. With VMWare/Virtual PC, I could have just opened another session, installed W98SE and enabled the DS3 capability and read the DS3 cartridges on the same machine. As well, will be trying out Red Hat Linux and SUSE to see which I'll use on the second machine. Lots of fun. After the trial VMWare is $189.00 vs Virtual PC for about $129.00.
On the web-based email front, my Hotmail account from about 1998 or so has been upgraded to 2 GB storage with the activation of the beta version of Windows Live™ Mail (WLM). One problem is today I launched Firefox at the cybercafe and WLM thought I was using the old Hotmail format and suggested I upgrade to the latest IE and once switched to IE6 had what I expected to see; wouldn't you know it but WLM doesn't want to play nice with Firefox.
UPDATE: 2006/07/13 WLM now promises to work with Firefox v1.5
I wonder about Opera and Netscape
Cheers, Ray
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