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...lost in gadget reverie the other evening on the train, fiddling with a sleek new Palm Vx, when I felt a fellow commuter plop down next to me. He sat close--too close--so I looked up and saw a man in a suit leaning over me, peering at my screen. "Got any good games?" he asked. Then he whipped out his own Palm (some kind of III) and pointed it at me. No good games, I admitted, but I did have Vindigo, a real-time list of things to do in Manhattan. "Cool!" he said...
...have finally reached the tipping point. Well over 6 million people now own a Palm--the personal digital assistant that accounts for 79% of the market--and use it for everything from managing their calendars to playing infrared Pong. While there are some advantages to having a PDA that runs Microsoft's Pocket PC operating system--most new Pocket PC-running machines feature color, digital music players, handwriting recognition and ClearType, a way to make pages more readable on small screens--Palm remains the standard in the handheld world. There are something like 3,000 programs written for the Palm...
...question is, Which Palm OS-running machine should you buy? Last year I figured it would be Handspring's Visor, a Palm clone. It runs the same operating system and the same programs. But unlike the Palm line, Visor has a Game Boy-like slot in the back that allows you to drop in gear to extend the machine's functionality. Great idea, but as of last week I could find only three hardware add-ons that were available in retail stores--a modem, a universal remote and a digital camera. The EyeModule ($149) camera is a particularly fun idea...
Choir members say they can opt out of duties that make them feel uncomfortable, such as acting out the story of Jesus' entrance into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday...
KNOWLEDGE TO GO The venerable Encyclopaedia Britannica (founded 1768) announced last week that it would make its entire contents--all 44 million words--available on the popular Palm VII handheld computer, via the Palm VII's wireless Internet connection and a free program called Britannica Traveler (downloadable at palm.net) Surfers already have access to the encyclopedia at Britannica.com Now, with the pocket-size Palm VII, they'll be able to browse all 32 of Britannica's volumes wherever they go, from Aachen to Zwickau...