::sigh::

After seven years of daily use as a PDA and a music player, my old Sony Clié won't hold a charge for longer than a couple of hours anymore. Time to replace it, but with what?

The Palm T|X would (I think) let me keep all my current apps. and games and data, plus give me web browsing over WiFi. The transition should be pretty straightforward, but the model is already three years old and I haven't heard of any prospects for new designs or an updated OS. Is Palm a dying dinosaur?

For the same price I can get an 8Gb iPod Touch, but the range of apps. and games to match what I'm used to aren't out there yet. What are the prospects?

Ideas? Suggestions? Recommendations?

I don't think Palm is a healthy company, that's just my 2 cents. I have no insider knowledge. I had a Palm T|X that I liked (bought it last year and sold it after I decided to move to a smart phone). Might be you interested in Windows Mobile devices?

It seemed to me when I purchased the T|X that Palm was focusing on the Treo and other phone/pda pairings. After my very negative Lifedrive experience, I think Palm just isn't putting a lot of focus into its pda lines.

I think there is a sale on: buy a T|X and I think you get another pda for free. I think I saw that on engadget.

What am I missing.

If you can make Word or Outlook format it correctly once, you could always save that version as your signature. (Which would be kind of a PITA for emails you wanted to sign differently, but possibly less of one than correcting Word's capitalization every time.)

dcp, have you looked at a Centro or a Treo? They don't have wifi, but they do have (cellular) web access and run PalmOS.

Which would be kind of a PITA for emails you wanted to sign differently, but possibly less of one than correcting Word's capitalization every time.

I don't think I'm quite thankful enough to make that switch worth it. I just have my sig set up as my contact info. I think I may have also added a V-card to it while I was futzing around with it. Still, it has no graphics, I'm not sending on patterned background, so I consider myself tidily within business-appropriate grounds.

I'm admittedly snotty, but I don't think there should be much embellishment in business emails. I want enough formatting to enhance data transmission and that's about it.

ita ... is "ita" in AutoCorrect for some other word? Possibly that's causing it to capitalise the "i".

Also, re replacing your desktop system: does it have to be a brand name PC? Couldn't you buy the parts individually, and build it yourself? Sure it might not be quite as cheap but at least you get exactly what you want in terms of case/psu, vid card, cpu, etc., etc..

(Which would be kind of a PITA for emails you wanted to sign differently, but possibly less of one than correcting Word's capitalization every time.)

Doesn't it allow mutlitple signatures? Courier (FKA Calypso) lets me have as many as I want, and lets me choose which one to use via a pulldown menu.

is "ita" in AutoCorrect for some other word? Possibly that's causing it to capitalise the "i".

Nope. And it's in the dictionary, and Ita is AutoCorrected to ita. Sometimes I hate being helped.

I'll toss around the idea of making my own PC. It's been a while since I got my hands dirty.

Bah. Here I am, on my broken MacBook, because the internet access on my Mac Mini is frelled. About 6 or 9 months ago, Comcast had to come out and reinstall my internet. The guy had me run some special Comcast software on my Mini to activate my account. (No idea what it was.) Anyway, it didn't work, but we got the connection set up the normal way. But now, everything on the internet I try to get to gets redirected to Comcast. Every web page, every URL I ping ends up at the same place. I checked all the obvious network settings but everything looks normal. Reboot didn't help. So I guess there's some Comcast application doing this.

Huh, I should check running processes, huh?

It's a first-generation Mini (Power PC) running 10.4.something....

eta: Bah. It's a known issue with Comcast software on a Mac. Requires IE 5 (no really) to run their stupid software. Which is why it never worked for me. Still haven't figured out how to get it off....

ita, could it be capitalizing the "i" as the beginning of a sentence or paragraph?