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Linux for PDAs? Cough It Up Already March 17, 2006

So I’m surfing the net and I come across this great big showy press release about a Japanese company acquiring PalmSource, the spinoff company that’s behind the PalmOS operating system for various mobile devices and PDAs. Seems the company is part of a group dedicated to creating a Linux enivronment on mobile devices, as well as a development environment for anyone wanting to writing code for mobile Linux.

But gosh darn it if I could actually find any damn info on where I can get mobile Linux or even when it’ll be released. Pretty damn frustrating, if you ask me. I …

Some Tricks For Your Treo

There are some excellent articles over at Treonaut giving a number of cost-saving tips for your PalmOne Treo. Overall, this is a great resource if you own a Treo, or even just a PalmOS-based PDA or smartphone. My fave article is the one showing you how to create your own ringtones at no cost. The article talks about the 3 different file formats you can use, and how much space they take up, which free software tools to use for creating the ringtones from your favourite songs, and so on. This is definitely worth a read.

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MyGlobalCity - Publisher’s Agenda

MyGlobalCity.com exists for a number of purposes. First and foremost, it exists to showcase companies, technologies, software, and gadgets that bring us closer together as a global society - a global city, if you will. This includes anything that makes it easier for all of us to be mobile, to move around with ease.

It also exists to highlight where technologies have gone or will go wrong. I am, for example, the strangest dichotomy of part-Luddite and full on gadget freak. But while I am sucker for cool gadgets and love well written websites like TechnologyEvangelist (Better Living Through …

Welcome to My Global City

For a few decades now, the media has used the term global village. It means different things to different people. But to me it refers to the fact that it’s relatively easy for people in two different parts of the world to do business with each other and generally communicate as if they were next door. With the introduction of the Internet  to the general public around 1995, the world was changed forever, arguably for good.

Now, with VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) and Skype and GoogleTalk and all those other VoIP clients and VoIP phones, you can communicate practically for …

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