Economy Size Geek

Ok so I’ve had a WiFI network for a long time (not as long as some of you - but probably longer than most).

I recently upgrade my Palm Pilot. I had a venerable m500 for a long time. Actually they haven’t even made one in a couple of years so mine is seriously old in gadget years.

I upgraded to the TX

I was excited because it is a huge upgrade (benchmark on it shows that it is 567% faster than my old palm), color ,and both Bluetooth and Wifi. I thought that would be pretty cool and then I sort of felt let down. It just didn’t seem to add that much.

Now that is changing for me :)

First - I used to subscribe to Audible.com. I really liked it - but I hated my Rio64. I figured I might sign up again once I get an Ipod or something that would make it easy to use Audible on it.

Turns out thanks to AirAudible they have an app that lets me download books directly onto the Palm with no pc involved. Plus I can choose not just the book but what part of the book I want - very convient.

They’ve probably had this for a while but I turned on network syncing under windows - it was nice to be able to sync the palm without going into my office.

It appears that if you use

pilot-xfer -p net:any -l

you can actually wi-fi sync to Linux as well. That’s very nice.

Only one small problem - pilot linux under Linux wants to backup WikiForLib.prc and for some reason that just doesn’t work :( I figure that will get sorted shortly.