Palm OS is, sadly, rather out of date these days.
What does it need to do that it fails at?
We're not gonna die. We can't die, Bendis. You know why? Because we are so very pretty. We are just too pretty for God to let us die.
Mal ,'Serenity'
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§ ita § - Dec 16, 2005 10:28:36 am PST #6039 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Gris - Dec 16, 2005 10:37:54 am PST #6040 of 10003
Hey. New board.
Mostly, I think it's just really hard to program for. Good freeware is hard to find on it, because of that fact. And things like bluetooth, wifi, and even use of memory cards are rather cludged-on (for example, most programs don't let you just explore a memory card as a file device.) and make it crash pretty regularly. I can speak to that as truth, though I don't find it to be a show-killer by any means.
I'm basing this mostly on the word of people who program for it. It's kinda like where Mac OS 9 was, back in the day - held together with spit and bubblegum.
§ ita § - Dec 16, 2005 10:39:04 am PST #6041 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Good freeware is hard to find on it
My needs must be simpler than yours, since I've never had a problem.
Gris - Dec 16, 2005 10:42:46 am PST #6042 of 10003
Hey. New board.
MP3 player. That's a big one for me. It comes with RealPlayer, but RealPlayer has the worst interface for mp3 playing ever, and the only decent mp3 players (Aerotunes and PocketTunes) are moneys-ish.
§ ita § - Dec 16, 2005 10:46:10 am PST #6043 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
MP3 player. That's a big one for me.
That makes sense. Of course, I'm multiple-devicey enough that I like to pick between the iPod, the Nano, and the Shuffle on my way out the door. Even before the iPods, I never had any interest in playing music on my PDA, even though it could.
Jessica - Dec 16, 2005 10:50:55 am PST #6044 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
MP3 player. That's a big one for me.
Huh -- my Clie has one built-in.
Gris - Dec 16, 2005 5:08:06 pm PST #6045 of 10003
Hey. New board.
There is one built in, it just sucks. A lot. It scans the entire memory card for the files and presents them all as one big file list for you to make playlists out of.
I have a 1 GB SD card. I wanted my MP3 player to be able to see my folders, y'know?
le nubian - Dec 16, 2005 5:28:08 pm PST #6046 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
did you check palmgear? there are a lot of good mp3 shareware players.
Betsy, I swear your misread of "Treo" had me laughing out loud. Thanks for that.
Theodosia - Dec 17, 2005 4:05:14 am PST #6047 of 10003
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
If I want to make a copy of a VCD, can I just copy it like a regular CD, or is there anything special I have to do -- am I misremembering there's something different about the way the files/tracks are laid down?
DXMachina - Dec 17, 2005 4:13:56 am PST #6048 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
If it's already in VCD format, yes, you can just copy it. If it's just a CD of the mpg file without the extra VCD format stuff, then you have to create a VCD from the mpg file.