01:21 PM by Bob Russell in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

Engadget is reporting "These portable solar chargers may be a bit on the pricey side ($150 for the 6.5-volt model, $275 for the 12-volt), but it looks like that’s the price ya gotta pay to be an evironmentally conscious geek. Both PowerPocket models will fold up to stash away in your bag and come with full array of adapters to accomodate most any electronic device you’ve plunked down on. Apparently the 6.5-volt model will charge most devices—like PDAs, MP3 players and digital cameras—in 2-4 hours, with the 12 volt PowerPocket cuts that down to 1-3."

More info here.

10:13 AM by Alexander Turcic in E-Book General | Deals and Resources (No...

Manybooks, which contains more than 10,000 e-books from Project Gutenberg and other free sources has added support for a new format: iPod Notes. E-books in the iPod Notes can be read on Apple's iPod (Mini or 3rd+ generation). Simply unzip the downloaded file and move it into the "Notes" directory on your iPod player.

Thanks to Brad from ePublishing Blog for the news.

09:51 AM by Alexander Turcic in Archive | Sunrise

One of our members, mibe, wrote a small javascript plugin to integrate Sunrise with the Opera browser. Since I don't have Opera installed, I'd be glad if Opera users could test the plugin and post their findings in this thread.

02:53 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

MobileTechReview reports that those of you who have a locked XDA II, XDA III, or Magician (XDA II mini) can now use an updated version of the free tool xda2unlock to unlock your phone. It supposedly works even without the need for a hard reset. Important links:

xda2unlock discussion
xda2unlock download

02:28 AM by Colin Dunstan in Miscellaneous | Lounge

An entertaining Economist editorial ponders the question what $80b company Google is all about. You have to give them at least that: They know how to talk about food!

[via Slashdot]

02:12 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

Jump straight to PalmAddict's fourth podcast (21 mins) performed by Tyler Faux this morning, covering various current Palm topics including PalmSource's new partner LG, the whole Is the Palm dead story, and more.

Edit: Looks like Sam was missing a link to the podcast. I digged it out for you here. And while we are at podcasts, make sure also to not miss 1Src's recently updated podcast #32!

02:04 AM by Colin Dunstan in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

Innobec released a small Windows utility called SideWindow allowing you to transform your Pocket PC into a virtual desktop extension and to drag Windows desktop applications to your PDA screen. Not useful? Who cares! It's definitely an eye-catcher.

05:34 PM by Alexander Turcic in Archive | Handhelds and Smartphones

Interested in how Palm became PalmOne and then Palm again? Engadget (via PalmAddicts - thanks Sammy for all the great finds!) has a timeline for you depicting the turbulent corporate history of the company.

Palm is truly an investment banker's dream if you just think of all those mergers, acquisitions, spinoffs etc. (which certainly don't come cheap).