The PDA of tungsten

If we yesterday used the PDA as guide of the network of meter and buses, today we are going to see like turning it into everything a secuenciador to compose our own music.

Microbe is a program for the composition of electronic music. I am become fond of to this type of music, although only like listener, there am compound, and never I recognize that I have thrown a few hours playing with this program. Although it is necessary to spend two minutes learning how it works, is really simple. In summary one is a reduced musical study, with only two sintetizadores monochannel and one box of rates of 8 tracks.

Microbe has a spectacular aspect

Thus leido seems something very complicated, but in fact the sintetizadores are a “score” where a melody is made up, putting the notes that is going to touch and in which moment. And the box of rates is the same but without musical note, we chose in which moment will sound a pat, a drum, etc. To that it does not sound so complicated?

The effects give much game at the time of giving the final touch

Although not hayais touched a program of musical composition in your life (like I), you will take control of the dominion of the program from the first moment. He is entretenidísimo to be composing the melody and to try as it sounds, adding the base to him, etc. In a few minutes we have a quality composition. And the sour cherry puts the generator of effects, like distorting, phase shifter, etc. can separately be applied an effect to each melody, and a third party to the complete composition. It is only necessary to choose what effect to use, to that melody to apply it, and to play with his parameters, by means of wheels that imitate the controls of a professional secuenciador.

The unique disadvantage is that it is a payment program, but demo does not tien temporary limitation, and it does not deactivate functionalities either. It only avoids that we pruned to export our creations in wav, but to use we will not have it problems. Manual brings of user very well explained, where we will learn the four things that there are to know to use it, and to put to us to create our melodies and rates. Finally, in the page of the program we will find packs of effects of sound of gratuitous unloading to use in our compositions, and songs example to learn.

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We already are to 24 of December, so I am useful for desearos to all which tengais one

(And that Noel Papa brings many things to you for the PDA… if you have been good)

If until for this there is a program for Palm…

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I like when the PDA demonstrate all the useful one that they can be for the daily use. And Meter is a gratuitous program that does that indeed. One is a guide of the networks of public transport of than 300 cities more worldwide. This includes/understands networks of meter and regular bus. In addition the data are updated continuously. It is possible to be abreast of the changes, among others methods, by means of his blog.

The interface is simple and its very fast use

The equipment of Meter is doing a great work, since besides the concerted effort that supposes to maintain the data bases, the program counts on versions for PalmOS, PocketPC, MS_Smartphone, Symbian UIQ/SonyEricsson, Symbian S60/Nokia, Symbian S80/Nokia and Symbian S90/Nokia. In case this outside little, can be used of way online by means of this connection. In addition, at the moment it is translated to 38 languages.

Next ready the basic characteristicses of this program:

• Search of stations attended.
• List of stations for each line.
• File that keeps the last used lines.
• It has data of the schedules of operation of each line
• List of interest places (tourist, nocturnal life, etc) and detailed information envelope they.
• It allows to deactivate lines when there are works or strikes.
• The USA colors to differentiate the lines.
• List of stations corresponding to our contacts (it is only necessary to introduce the information once).
• Independent archives for each city. We only copied those that we are going to need, saving space.
• Compatibility with external memory card.
• Suggestion of the fastest route, and the one that happens through less stations.

Already sabeis, if you are going to have to live during a time in a great city, Meter is going to you to save a pile of time and worries. Acordaros to have updated it!

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The first time that I put myself to program something in my computer, 286 with 512Kb of ram that still walks by my room I did, it in BASIC. For that reason it has brought pleasing memories to find iziBasic me.

iziBasic is a compiler of BASIC for Palm. According to they comment in Palm247 first that draws attention is the facility with which one can begin to make a programita. In addition it has support for the creation as much as much applications of way text as graphical. If BASIC has some virtue it is its facility of learning, and by the east sight it programs allows you that it is also very easy to program something for PalmOS. In fact it incorporates a series of functions that allow to simplify things that in other languages are much more complicated. For example there is an instruction that draws a button in the screen, and only needs like parameters the coordinates, the width, the stop and the text. Any programmed inexperienced will develop easily with this surroundings in just a short time.

Example of a program done with iziBasic

iziBasic is only a compiler. We will have to even write it to the code in the publisher that we want, like a Memo. The result is programs that work without needing installing no additional software in the Palm where they are going to run. The functionalities that emphasize more at the time of creating our programs are:

• A window “About” personalizeable.
• Bellboys
• Checkboxes
• Bellboys with image
• Labels
• Fields for numerical text entrance/
• Menus
• Detection of pulsation of keys hardware

In summary, a very good way to begin to experiment with the programming in our Palm.

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When we have the necessity to point something quickly, by defect we have the application Notes to take notes by hand raised or small drawings, Memos to keep annotations from text, and the list of Tasks to order the things that we must do assigning to them to priorities and dates of victory.

But sometimes, we needed something a little more advanced, than he allows to keep the ideas from a hierarchic way, for example with a structure of tree, and the functionality to be pointing the completed percentage of each task, he stops of a look to know how the general progress goes. In addition, for great categorisen lists, the process to introduce text in the Palm if we do not have a wireless keyboard can get to be very slow, reason why bad power would not come to publish these lists in tree from a program in our PC.

This year I have needed a program thus to be aiming, during my project of aim of race, the different parts still to do, ideas to try, texts to include in the documentation, or tutorial that wanted to watch with more calm. For that reason I was decided to prove these porgramas called outliners, or organizing of ideas, since in addition they have its maximum utility if they are available always in our PDA.

Given the great demand that seems to have these programs, we can find many for Palm. I am going to you to comment the three that I have tried: Progect, Bonsai and ThoughtMaster:

• I am going to treat Progect first of all, because it is free and gratuitous software. It fulfills well its assignment, although it is simplest of the three. Although the page of the project seems shutdown from 2004, the developers continue communicating with the users through this group of yahoo. The part that is synchronized with Progect in the computer, is a separated project, whose name is Pdesk. I have proven the last version of both and work correctly on PalmOS 5.

  

• Bonsai is another to outliner, is of payment, but it is a great program. He is more complex than Progect, it allows some details more, to connect with our applications Tasks and Notes, to define icons for the tasks, etc. It brings including both, the program that settle in the PDA and the one that runs in the PC. It is worth the trouble to prove it.

  

• The other outliner that recomeindo is ThoughtManager. Like Bonsai is of payment, but it is worth the pain. Aesthetically less it is worked than Bonsai, and perhaps it has some option less, but in the daily use I have seen that it fulfills and so I needed.

  

Anyone of the three allows to take well organized the ideas, reason why I recommend to prove the three before choosing what to use. We can see in the page of ThoughtManager examples of in what occasions can come to us well to outliner:

• The professors can create plans of the lessons to distribute, and to point the progress of these.
• For project heads, outliner the information is the ideal application to maintain ordinate well on the advance of the projects, and the components of the group. For this task another more specific program exists, of the same company that Bonsai created, Project@Hand call, that is even compatible with Microsoft Project.
• People who work computer science technician in good condition, to maintain lists of solutions to try, and to remember which have been proven by each client.
• A priest also could use it to prepare his sermons, although not if that will be very habitual.
• The doctors and nurses can maintain the progress of the treatments and progress of each patient.
• The students can maintain their notes taken in class, and tasks, organized.
• And for people generally, with these programs it is possible to be done the list of the purchase, the schedule for a celebration, one encamped, or any other activity that he requires to check a list.

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