The PDA of tungsten

Stylus is one of the elements of our PDA that influences more in the comfortable thing which this one is to us in the daily use. For that reason, never it is of more having stylus of quality and in good conditions. Taking it to the end, we can do to us with one of the MontBlanc mark, the famous fablicante of luxurious fountain pens and mainly of excellent quality.

In PDAExpertos we can read a complete news article on stylus of this mark, being very peculiar to see the characteristic white star, emblem of the mark, in the superior part of such. The basic models are worth their $40 dollars, but there is not even a model with inlaid diamonds of which I do not know the price, and I believe either that it needs to know it.

Stylus MonBlanc of platinum and diamonds

But if really we want to be original and to have class, we can make our own stylus MontBlanc from a vedadero MontBlanc ball-point pen and stylus, as this user explains in PalmAddicts. One is to modify the red load of the ball-point pen to replace the end to him by the head of stylus.

Disassembling to the ball-point pen and stylus

The result, like we can see, is than acceptable more.

The MontBlanc ball-point pen turned stylus

Somebody is animated? If it is thus, we want to see his photos in the group “pdatungsteno” of Flickr.

By: Tricks
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A very frequent doubt of the possessors of a Palm is if they exist virus for Handspans. The answer is that yes, although they are almost testimonial, the majority simple concept tests (similar to which it happens at the moment in Linux). Let us see some examples:

• Triangle of Sierpinski exists a called troyano, call thus because when it is executed draws east fractal, whereas in background a… is dedicated; to erase our information!

If you get to see this, olvídate of your data

This troyano has been programmed by an anonymous user without, a priori, “malas intenciones”. Motivated by the appearance of one it notifies in which the birth of a new virus for PocketPC was shown, has decided to put in evidence hollow of security in the movable operating systems and that can derive in the lost total of the data almecenados in memory.

The troyano is hidden in a totally functional application that reproduces a pretty fractal known like the triangle of Sierpinski, the dark side is that while we delighted with this pretty fractal in background it is erasing all the internal data bases of the Palm.

• Another little benign troyano is Liberty, that indeed is made happen through crack of the emulator of Gameboy of same name. The file usually is called “liberty_1_1_crack.prc” and its title once installed is “Crack 1.1″. One is a troyano, like the previous one, since it does not have capacity to talk back themselves nor to only execute themselves. When the user executes it, he tries to erase all the archives of the Palm, and later he reinitiates it.

Crack installed and ready to erase our archives

• Shortly after the appearance of Liberty, it appeared the first virus in all rule, call Dubbed Phage or PalmOS/Phage.936. This one yes had capacity to infect archives. The good thing is that it did not produce any damage to the equipment nor eliminated data, and is easy to eliminate. Nevertheless, it laid the way to future destructive developments of virus for Handspans.

To the being transferred to a pocket computer Palm and executed, the virus causes that the screen is extinguished during some moments and that the program is closed. At those moments, the virus is locating and infecting the other programs installed in the system. Later, all the applications repeat the same procedure to the being executed. In order to return to normality it will be necessary to erase all the applications and to reinstalar them.

The security before this type of threats is based such on principles that the one of the PCs: to never install programs of doubtful origin. In order to facilitate the things always we told to us on the emulator of Handspans where we can prove the suspicious program and see how one behaves.

Nevertheless, also they exist antivirus designed to work in an equipment with Handspans. For example there is one of F-Secure and another one of Symantec. Nevertheless, for that they do not want to have a program more in his Palm consuming ram, the possibility exists simply of scanning previously with the antivirus of the PC the archives that are going away to install by Hotsync, as they recommend in Symantec. Clear that we will thus not be protected of the threats that we pruned to unload directly in our Palm from Internet, or by any other means.

In summary, the virus for Handspans yes that exist, although is not a great threat. Nevertheless it has to have them in account, and not to install gladly everything what we are by Internet, but to have a little precaution and common sense.

By: General
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Thanks to an excellent initiative of the community of PDAExpertos, already exist repositorio of manual and the original documentation of our PDA and smartphones, in format pdf. At this moment they count on the manuals of most of equipment that works with the system Garnet/Palm OS.

The manuals are available in the page dedicated to each equipment

If you need to consult the manual of some terminal Palm OS, no longer it is necessary to look for it in the original CD or by other means.

It cheers to us to announce that from same today the manuals begin to be available for all the users of PDAExpertos.com, user's guides and first passages in format pdf of almost all the terminals Palm OS of the market.

Right now already these files for all the models of Palm, Handspring can be unloaded, QDA and Garmin that are in our section Models of PDAs. They make a total of 109 files for 60 terminals.

You can find files pdf in the card of the corresponding model, underneath the photography of the terminal.

Only they already need the manuals of the Zodiac, so if you have one and you still have the manuals, you can enviárselos to complete repositorio. They already have the manuals of all the models.

Between this initiative, and repositorio of CDs of installation that MrAnderson also compiled for many models, now is very easy to become the necessary thing to take advantage of to the maximum the PDA yet or smartphone although we have bought it of second hand or we have not been careful with the content of the original box.

By: New features
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For a moment I am going away to leave the main subject of blog, radically changing to speak of the smallest screens to greatest, to make use to which has happened through the experience to take control of a flaming panoramic display and to be with improvisto of which its collection of screen bottoms is suddenly completely useless. Monitors of 22″ with native resolution of 1680×1050 píxeles does that to use of screen bottom an image of 1280×1024 píxeles, until recently enormous time, is little recommendable (mainly by the deformation produced when stretching horizontally).

A panoramic monitor of which we are speaking

A panoramic image is an image of film, computer or television with an aspect ratio greater than the standard than the Academy developed during the era of the classic cinema of Hollywood: the dumb cinema projected with a relation of four units to the wide thing by three to the stop, which is expressed with terminology 4:3 or 1.33:1.

And it happens that recently a great amount of monitors with panoramic format has been introduced in the market (they widescreen). Many manufacturers have practically left traditional format 4:3, choosing by the 16:10. The main reason is the proliferation of material panoramic multimedia in the PCs (films and TV), as well as the capacity of many modern games to take advantage of this new format, more natural due to the disposition in horizontal of our eyes.

A Vista film in format 4:3 and panoramic one

• Advantages: in surroundings multiprocess, with several applications executing itself simultaneously, it is easier to place several windows one next to the other. In addition, since we have seen, most of the DVD and programs to digital television they are (or they will be) in oblong format.
• Disadvantages: a monitor with aspect ratio 16:10 has a 6.8% of visible area less than one of the same diagonal (for example both of 19″) that one of relation 4:3. In the case of the relation monitors the 16:9 loss arrives at 12,3%. What means this? That pears with apples cannot be compared, that is to say, monitors with the same diagonal but different aspect ratio. In addition, applications as the text processors are not going to take advantage of the extra space to the sides, although always can be chosen to place the monitor in vertical direction, something that without a doubt will know those that works in the world of the desktop publishing (monitors DTP).

But coarse of explanations. If your monitor is panoramic, we see some solutions the problems that you have been:

Compatibility of games

The original Quake in way widescreen thanks to DarkPlaces

The modern games of computer usually support to the new resolutions and panoramic formats. Nevertheless, there are many games that, although do not tell on this option, can be hackear easily to cause that yes they support them. The bible of the game in widescreen is without a doubt the page Widescreen Gamer and the forums Widescreen Gaming Forums, with an impressive data base of hacks for games, as well as a catalogue of monitors and, really, all the information that a player in panoramic display can need. Thanks to these pages I could solve the problem with the for Need Speed 2 Underground and NFS: Most Wanted, Quake 3 Sand (and all the games that are based on their graphical motor, like the Medal of Honor: Allied Assault), or Max Payne, to put some examples.

Bottoms of screen

Some smart bottoms of screen to animate the writing-desk

Due to the proliferation of these monitors, already they exist multitude of pages dedicated to the panoramic bottoms:

• InterfaceLift with extensive sections of bottoms to 2560×1600, 1920×200, 1680×1050, 1440×900 and 1280×800.
• Blatte’s backgrounds, an impressive collection of fractals, with versions to 1280×800 pixels, 1280×854 pixels, 1440×900 pixels, 1600×1024 pixels, 1680×1050 pixels, 1920×1200 pixels and 2560×1600 pixels.
• Wallpaper graffitti, with galleries to 1440×900 and 1920×1200 píxeles.
• BlurBurger produces bottoms of screen with appearance of cómic, very coloristas. Also multiresolution: 1680×1050 and 1920×1200 píxeles.
• Blasphemy digitalis, one of my favorites, also tells on a version 1920×1200 píxeles of resolution of all its bottoms.
• Deviantart, home of thousands of digital artists, counts on a complete section dedicated to screen bottoms widescreen. In order to lose the pleasure.
• Caedes, another community of artists, with bottoms to 1920×1200 píxeles.
• Flickr is an inexhaustible source of images. For example, we counted on the mural (group) 1920×1200 Desktop Wallpapers, or the Widescreen Wallpapers. Another option is to directly make a search of images to a certain resolution.
• For the cinéfilos, MovieWallpapers also counts on versions widescreen of some of the hundreds of posters of cinema films that reunite.
• WallPaper Stock is another gallery of panoramic bottoms.
• The photos macro (of objects small as insects or flowers) are always spectacular, but the colorista gallery of Mike Swanson deserves to dedicate a good short while to him.
• David Lanham is an artist who among other things draws panoramic bottoms with a style of comic.
• Desktopography is a spectacular gallery of bottoms of screen related to the nature, with panoramic versions of some of such.
• Art of Greg Martin is another gallery of bottoms of very spectacular screen, with coloristas and detailed space landscapes. Their bottoms also have versions widescreen.
• Jurko.net also has varied bottoms of panoramic display of thematic. Peculiarly also they have a gallery of bottoms of screen for PDA.
• For most lucky (and with a table very great), with two monitors connected to the PC, Mandolux it has bottoms of panoramic display and multimonitor, so that it is left the image distributed between both monitors.
• For the lovers of the cars, Widescreeners is a gallery of photos of automobiles in panoramic format and great quality.
• For jugones, Cabrobueno has a collection of panoramic bottoms inspired by games of PC and console.
• Finally, for that they want to animate its writing-desk with some pretty girls in panoramic display, we have Skins.be, Widescreen Babes and Widescreen Girls. I do not become person in charge of which they say its pairs to them when seeing them in the monitor of 24″.

And I believe that I will stop here, although exist many more pages of bottoms of panoramic display, which testifies the increasing popularity of this format of monitor. I hope to have helped that they have been seen suddenly in the same situation that I. In next post we will return to the habitual subjects in the PDA from tungsten.

Published: Carlos me has remembered another category of bottoms of screen very demanded: animate and sleeve. It is more difficult to find pages dedicated to panoramic bottoms animates, but for example we have Wallpaper Shrine. In addition, making the suitable search, good material in sites like Flickr, andDeviantart can be found.

By: General
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Once again MrAnderson flatters to us with one of his posts very useful. In this case is to make hard reset, that as we know leaves the Palm like just exit of factory, but without the problem lose all the information and programs that we have installed since we bought it.

The hour arrived to make cleaning in our PDA

Really, a method to leave only the necessary archives in the Palm, and to eliminate therefore the temporary rest of desinstalaciones and archives that are generated in the day to day, with which our Palm will have more free space in memory, and will work faster in general. MrAnderson has filled the tutorial of screen captures so that we do not have any problem at the time of following the steps. In its own words:

All that that has a Palm knows that sometimes reset is necessary to make hard to clean all those bookstores that involuntarily were not desinstaladas or applications that produce conflicts and that are obstructing the good operation of our device.

But also certain that we do not want to lose the information of the basic applications of the Palm, also it is known like PIM, such as Calendar, Contacts, Memo, Fast Notes, Tasks, etc. Certainly the rest of the applications we can return to synchronize them and to install them, but not to lose the information of these applications it is necessary to make a procedure that is not difficult, but that there is to do correctly.

The tutorial account with images step by step

A procedure that, executed once in a while, will maintain our PDA or smartphone fresh Palm and frees of problems. MrAnderson advances that post will write next on desinstalación tools, without a doubt the best way to cause than this hard reset nondestructive is necessary with much less frequency.

Published: Juan Carlos Martín recommends an alternative method to us that consists of eliminating only a file of the PDA, although later is necessary to form our preferences again. The best thing is to prove both to see which we preferred.

By: Tricks
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