Attn: Palm OS owners... What are some apps that are "MUST haves"?

[Wingznut]

Preferably free, but if it's worth the price that's fine too.

Mapopolis is an excellent one. (A map program, if you haven't already figured it out.)

 

[Michael]

I have been using the Peanut Reader from peanut press ( www.peanutpress.com )quite a bit these days.

I also use my keyboard ( www.landware.com ) every day.

Michael

 

[Wingznut]

AventGo is an awesome program. Allows you to download webpages (including AnandTech) into your PDA, and view later.

Mapopolis is an excellent map program.

 

[2canSAM]

Another Vote for Avantgo. BankBook, Documents to go and their email apps (allow you to open MS word, excel and powerpoint attachments as well as plain text and light html, These are my must have's

 

[Wuming]

yah. avantgo, diddlebug, documents to go, and mobiledb.

may i recommend games like traffic, palmnums and puzzles-in-motion as well!

 

[marcio]

My must haves:
ActionNames ($20 replacement for the datebook and todo)
Quickphone (quick way to enter a new phone number)
HandyShopper
Avantgo
PowerOne (a calculator)

I have these five on my system buttons.

 

[MadRat]

Utility:
Afterburner/Speed Up the Palm OS
Silver
IPCalc
Documents To Go
Tiny Sheets
AppHack
Clock+
Crossword Puzzles
ptelnet/Telnet Client
Periodic Table
Control Panel
Pocket Quicken
Mobile Database
FREE Geek Sounds
pICQ/ICQ Client
Body Fat Calculator
Virtual Keyboard
Binary Clock/Clock Shown In Bits

Games:
AlphaQ/Missile Command Clone
Bombrun
Sabotage
Uboat Alley
Galax/Galaxan Clone
Froggy/Frogger Clone
Go To Jail!/Monolpoly
Hail Mary Football
Pocket Cribbage
Dragons Bane/Wizardly Clone
Free Gamepack From 3Com
Pocket Scorch/Artillery Clone
Three Level Tic Tac Toe
Pocket Casino
Munchman/Pac Man Clone
Pocket Chess
F1 Sprint Racer
Digi-Guppy/Yamaguchi Clone

other
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[Wingznut]

Holy crap!

Thanks, MadRat!!!

Links and everything, wow! :Q

 

[MadRat]

IPCalc and ptelnet are the better ones on the list if you're an admin.

 

[Schola]

Figured it out

 

[Wingznut]

Go to Home, then click on the Preferences button.

 

[Packet]

Forget the name of the program, but I use it alot

Turns your Palm into a remote control
alows me to control my surround sound, TV, VCR, and DVD at once. Makes things alot easier.
I also like silverscreen (its a icon theme program), kidna cool, but not very useful.

 

[T2T III]

Here's a few more:

- WordSmith (a much better Word processing program than Documents to Go). Supports several fonts, bold, italics, underlining, strike-throughs, etc.

- Quick Sheet (a much better spreadsheet program than Documents to Go). Allows you to creat Excel-compatible workbooks. This program allows you to utilize approximately 80 common Excel functions. Each spreadsheet can be 255 columns wide by 9,999 rows.

* My beef with Documents to Go is that I don't care for the 'read only' capabilities of these programs. I need to do some creating (adding new sheets, etc.) which are limitations of the DTG programs.

- Billiards: Great pool game!

- BrainForest: Excellent program for creating an outline or project plan. It also gives you the capability of setting priorities and due dates for specific items in the hierarchy. This program is great for managing small projects - obviously Microsoft Project hasn't been ported to the Palm, yet.

- Sub Hunt: Excellent sub game!

- Infrared Battle Ship: What can I say? Playing Battleship with another friend (via infrared and a 2nd Palm Pilot / Visor).

- NS Basic: Visual Basic-like programming environment for the Palm Pilot / Visor. You create the application on your PC and port it to the palm. Pretty neat, but it runs $99.00.

- Plus, there are several utilities such as Jump that you could utilize to 'port' a Java application to your Palm / Visor.

And the list goes on...

 

[BoberFett]

There's only two apps that I use all the time that weren't included with PalmOS:

HandyShopper and AvantGo

And for those adults here, the Palmasutra is an invaluable tool.

 

[Eug]

Backup Buddy

AvantGo

WordSmith

Backup module (heheh. only for us Visor owners )


That remote control is OmniRemote, but I find it a pain. (Pretty useless in the dark - can't see the screen.)

My favourite game is Galax.

No links, sorry.

 

[T2T III]

<< And for those adults here, the Palmasutra is an invaluable tool. >>


Schwing!!!!

 

[The Sauce]

Another vote for palmasutra. Definitely a must have.

 

[RossMAN]

Forget the name of the program, but I use it alot

Turns your Palm into a remote control

I think you're referring to OmniRemote? It's a great application, giving you the ultimate remote with customizable macro's. However I felt in &quot;real life situations&quot; when watching TV at night that it's faster to use the real remote which either has glow in the dark keys or you have memorized where all the keys are. I don't wanna get out my PDA each time I want to adjust the volume, channel, play, record, etc.

I'd rather use one of those Casio remote watches since it's on your wrist and you have fast easy access to it. Otherwise OmniRemote is a great application it's just no substitute for the faithful remote control.

 

Pilomns - Best Palm game (Columns clone).

Thanks MadRat for the excellent links!

 

[zkmusa]

Yeah, Wordsmith is excellent....

The remote control program is called OmniRemote

If you live in a big city, check out Vindigo

Excellent chess program (I can't beat the computer... excellent Artificial Intelligence): PocketChess ... I don't think Kasparov can beat this program...

Stock Manager is a great portfolio manager.

OH, AND THIS IS AN AWESOME GAME! YOU'VE GOT TO DOWNLOAD THIS GAME... YOU'LL GET ADDICTED, SERIOUSLY! SO SIMPLE, YET SO FUN! SFCave

Enjoy your Palm!

 

[Mr. Burns]

Apps:
avantgo
hackmaster
backupbuddy
silver
launch'em
diddlebug
travelclock
nowaitz (to speed up your palm)
3alarm
benchmark
weekview
Pocketquicken (if you already use quicken on your desktop)

Hacks: (These require hackmaster installed)
apphack
afterburner
invert hack (if you have palm III and don't like the backlight in dim light)

If you are a medical professional:
ePocrates is indispensible and freeware.

Tons of others, really depends upon your use, needs, and creativity in how you use your palm...