Palm OS

I had a couple of Palm OS devices so far, and it is amazing to see the progress in features and performance in a relatively short period of time.

	Palm III, Apr 1998	Sony Clie PEG-T615C, Mar 2002	Palm Treo 680, Dec 2006
Dimensions & Weight	4.7 x 3.2 x 0.7 inches; 6 oz	4.65 x 2.83 x 0.5 inches; 4.9 oz	4.4 x 2.3 x 0.8 inches; 5.5 oz
Memory	2 MB RAM + 2 MB ROM	16 MB RAM + 4 MB FLASH + Memory stick	64 MB FLASH + SD card
CPU	Dragonball 16MHz	Dragonball VZ 33 MHz	Intel PXA270 312 MHz
Screen	160x160, 4 gray levels	320x320, 65K colors	320x320, 65K colors
Wireless	Infrared	Infrared	Infrared, Bluetooth, quad band GSM
Features	none	WAV and MIDI playback	MP3 playback, voice recorder, VGA camera, video capture

Good sites to buy or download applications are PalmGear.com and mytreo.net.

These are some applications I use, in no particular order:

EasyCalc - Powerful calculator that can do hexadecimal and binary calculations, financial calculations and graphs.
Plucker - HTML and ebook reader. A lot of open source manuals and books from Project Gutenberg are available as Plucker databases.
eReader Pro for PalmOS - nice reader for dictionaries and eBooks
- Agfa Monotype eBook Font Pack for PalmOS
- Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus
- Webster's New World College Dictionary
Mobipocked - another reader for dictionaries and eBooks
- LONGMAN Dictionary of Contemporary English - I like this dictionary a lot. Better than Webster because it has real world examples for every meaning described.
Handy Shopper - Application that helps you keep shopping lists on your palm device
YAUC - Converts between quantities expressed using different units
KeyguardTime - Displays a nice clock on your Treo at a push of a button.
LingvoSoft Dictionary English-Romanian
Google Maps

Utilities

UnDupe - Eliminates duplicates from your databases
FileZ - File manager for palm
FieldPlus - Helps you select text on a Treo using the keyboard (without a stylus)
WebSphere Micro - Runs Java programs