palm geek

I am not a gadget person, and I was not predisposed to using a PDA. I used to hate all that tap-tap-tapping that the gadget geeks used to do.
But there were two "killer apps" that got me: reading eBooks and paperless geocaching.

I run two PDA devices (used off eBay):

Palm Treo 600 smartphone.
IBM c500 (rebadged Palm m500). USB non-sync fix, palm support site. You can turn off the annoying inverse abcklight with the [shortcut].8 graffiti sequence.
Sony Clie PEG-S320 Much better backlight. Usually loaned to the wife.

I use them for geocaching, reading offline webpages, eBooks, etc.

paperless geocaching

This stuff is scripted on my linux box.

take pocket queries from geocaching.com
gpx2html.pl builds the html and .loc output
gpsbabel converts .loc to .gpx
point sunrise to the html (I have this set up as a scheduled task in WinDoze)
sync!
read in the Treo using Plucker viewer!

http://www.geobuddy.com/
http://gsak.net/
http://www.plkr.org/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sunrisexp
http://www.fizzymagic.net/Geocaching/gpx2html/gpx2html.html
http://www.gpxspinner.com/

reading websites offline

I kid you not, you can have the morning paper on your PDA automagically.

point plucker to the website (scheduled at night or whatever)
sync!

make free eBooks

download .txt (or .html) ebooks from gutenberg or whatever
convert to .html with gut (or skip if already .html)
point plucker to the html
sync!

A more throrough conversion chart is available.

palm geek

paperless geocaching

reading websites offline

make free eBooks

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