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[Marc Abramowitz] Here’s a clever way that I think you can view just about any type of document format on your Treo. Use PDFCreator on your Windows PC to create a virtual printer that generates PDF files (I have heard that Mac OS X has built-in capability to do this?). Use Print in your application to generate a PDF file. Use Adobe Reader for Palm OS to sync the .pdf file over to your Treo. Also posted at Treo Addicts...

Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.

[Tamspalm.blogspot.com] Tam Hanna's Palm OS Blog: NetFront on T3: I think it may take some playing around with the actual button you press in MakeMeClie. For example, I first selected "Make NZ90" and it affected many other programs (colors were way off making viewing certain apps impossible.) But when I selected "Make UX50", everything seems to be working very well.

[Tamspalm.blogspot.com] Tam Hanna's Palm OS Blog: January 2005: Zire handhelds go for a less than 250$, the most even go for 100$ and have only the most purist features. When you look at the advertising slogans PalmOne uses for the Zire series(see this article for details of the PalmOne advertising), one clearly see that they are advertised as an all-in-one effortless solution for users who do not know much about computers. They are intended for use as tools-the users use whats packaged and thats it! Some users treat these just as a replacement for the filofax-not grasping the idea of expansion/extension of possibilities.

[Tamspalm.blogspot.com] Tam Hanna's Palm OS Blog: April 2005: The Archos player only has one major flaw, a lack of card slots, which are essential for a portable media viewer, since they are mainly used for uploading pictures away from a computer. The device does have USB host drivers, so it can still upload pictures to its harddrive, but must use the camera as the card reader, which will drain the camera battery. It even has a 30gb harddrive, but runs linux, which somewhat takes away from its usefulness as a PDA, since users will mainly be forced to use the included programs, or any written by third party developers (screen size is an issue for programs). The screen is only 320 by 240, or QVGA, the same res as all older PPC devices, so though they claim that it can handle enhanced definition content (720x480, Wide DVD), it can only decode it, not display it in its full glory.

[Palmaddict.typepad.com] PalmAddicts: Native PDF viewing on your Treo 650: From Shawn at TreoAddicts "I’m not sure how legal this is, but a member of TreoCentral’s forums managed to get a hold of a ripped copy of Picsel Browser off of an i539 that works with the Treo 650. Picsel is a great document viewer and the only native pdf viewer on the Palm platform (to my knowledge). You can view pdfs with Adobe’s Acrobat Reader for the Palm, but it converts the file before moving it to your palm device. This is inconvenient if you received the pdf through your email or if the conversion strips some nice formatting.

[Gigaom.com] Om Malik’s Broadband Blog » The Hidden Cost of Tiger OS: Like countless other mac addicts, I am patiently waiting for Apple to release their Tiger OS-X on April 29, 2005. Going through the publicly available information on their website, the feature that has me most excited about is the enhanced iSync feature. Thus far we have been able to synchronize our Bookmarks, Calendars and Address Book with a certain limited set of phones and between Macs using the dotMac service. (I have in the past criticized Apple for being slow in supporting the newer phones and basically making phones like my lovely Nokia 6620 redundant for most part.) However the new upgrade will allow us now to sync Mail, Mail folders and Password Key Chains.