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Dec. 31st, 2005 10:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rivkaI was up way too late loading things onto the new Palm Pilot Michael gave me for Christmas.
The Epocrates pharmacopeia, because at work I often need to identify a drug or look up potential side effects. A document reader and a whole slew of e-books from places like Memoware and the UVA e-text library. Games like Blocks (a Tetris analogue), Bookworm, and Space Trader. The Texas Hold 'Em game Michael bought me. New Japanese picture puzzles for PictureLogic. AvantGo, which downloads web channels to the Palm. Photos, mostly of Alex. I am incredibly pleased to have a working Palm to replace my old, crappy, broken one.
I also spent some time looking for a case. There appear to be three kinds of cases for the z22, all of which have major drawbacks. I could get a clear plastic box, which I'd need to remove the Palm from completely if I wanted to use it. I could get a soft plastic gel wraparound, which protects every inch of the Palm but the most delicate and vital area - the screen. Or I could get an attractive leather case with holes for the screen and buttons and a cover flap to prevent screen damage between uses... which has absolutely nothing to prevent the Palm from sliding out of the open top edge and smashing to the ground if the case is tipped even slightly forward.
My first Palm had a hard plastic flip-top that protected the buttons from accidental pushes and the screen from accidental damage while the thing was closed. Why has that technology completely vanished?
The Epocrates pharmacopeia, because at work I often need to identify a drug or look up potential side effects. A document reader and a whole slew of e-books from places like Memoware and the UVA e-text library. Games like Blocks (a Tetris analogue), Bookworm, and Space Trader. The Texas Hold 'Em game Michael bought me. New Japanese picture puzzles for PictureLogic. AvantGo, which downloads web channels to the Palm. Photos, mostly of Alex. I am incredibly pleased to have a working Palm to replace my old, crappy, broken one.
I also spent some time looking for a case. There appear to be three kinds of cases for the z22, all of which have major drawbacks. I could get a clear plastic box, which I'd need to remove the Palm from completely if I wanted to use it. I could get a soft plastic gel wraparound, which protects every inch of the Palm but the most delicate and vital area - the screen. Or I could get an attractive leather case with holes for the screen and buttons and a cover flap to prevent screen damage between uses... which has absolutely nothing to prevent the Palm from sliding out of the open top edge and smashing to the ground if the case is tipped even slightly forward.
My first Palm had a hard plastic flip-top that protected the buttons from accidental pushes and the screen from accidental damage while the thing was closed. Why has that technology completely vanished?
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Date: 2005-12-31 03:38 pm (UTC)I _think_ the hard plastic case has a latch that flips the cover up, but it's hard to be sure from the pictures.
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Date: 2006-01-04 05:19 pm (UTC)It's not the prettiest thing ever--the front was already scratched up *while still in the packaging*--but it will let me put it in pockets/bags with keys with less worry. And hey, fifteen bucks.