Krishnan's weblog – an assortment of things. A scribble pad. A hybrid microblog. Mostly bread crumbs of an internet journey.
The process of installing a cab file to a WM6 device is straight forward. Either using Active Sync (for XP users) or the new Windows Mobile Device Center(for Vista users), copy the cab file to your device. You can pick where you want to place it. I generally place it in MyDocuments or sometimes on my memory card. After copying the file over to your device, open the folder, highlight the file and either tap it with your stylus (Pocket PC Device) or hit the OK key (Smartphone) and it will begin the installation process. Follow the instructions that may appear (individual programs vary in what they may have you do). That’s it! Note: Some cab files are automatically deleted after installation and some are not. If it was NOT removed, you do not need to leave it on your device after it is installed. Depending on your memory needs, you may want to delete the cab file after installation if it was not removed. I generally do that and I keep a folder of all cab files in a directory on my PC in case I ever need to use them again.
Its green. It is fluorescent and phosphorescent. It glows in the light and in the dark. It is viscous. It flows, though slowly. Any thing that comes into direct contact with it glows.
At times when I’ve been really down, I’ve felt it flow into me. From my walkman, through the leads, through the wires and through my head phones, into my ears, making me glow. But it flowed slowly. The walkman seemed to be a weak pump. And for years it remained that way, oozing out slowly from a source of music.
Some times it would spill out of my ears and I always had trouble getting the right sealing at my ear to prevent the green stuff from leaking out. Years ago, I had a headphone that was glued into a position that best fit my head so that no one would change my best fit position.
But all that changed today.
The wires became pipes. The slow flowing thick liquid became thin and came down with force. It wasn’t glowing that brightly either. It did not fill me slowly, but it poured all into me and overflowed.
It was a different experience today.
To me, my new JBL reference 510 changed the way music sounded.
This is the news I’ve been waiting for.
http://www.brightcove.com/title.jsp?title=1173338163
HP iPAQ 610 ships this month or next. Hopefully it should be in India by the last quarter. It is one super gizmo which is a mini-computer with windows mobile 6, can run office, push email, a mobile phone, a camera, a PDA with a touch screen and – hold your breath - a GPS all in one tiny bundle less than 150 grams.
No wonder Apple dropped the i-Phone prices.
The specs are here and the phone retails at US$600
Now the question is, if I get to lay my hands on it. Buying this makes even more sense to me – because this can tether with my laptop, which is also HP, to give wireless internet access at every location where there is phone coverage.
I picked up a used Axim X5 from Houston’s craigslist.
This is just to get familiarised with the PPC platform. Its been reset to factory defaults. I’ve had it for over 5 hours now and strangely, I havent still installed a single software. This didnt come with any software 
The manuals are available at http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/aximx5/en/index.htm
I downloaded and installed graphing calculators for my Palm today.
Now I can choose between HP48SX, HP48GX and HP49G on my handheld 
The website version of Power 48 does not run HP49G.
There is an update available here.
Calculator ROMS are available here.
Trying to learn about RPN from Wikipedia, I landed here.
Voidware, hpcalc.org and HP calculator museum were interesting too.
I love Wikipedia for many reasons
- It is a dynamic encyclopedia
- It is free
- I can contribute to it
- It unleashes the full power of hypertext and enables the knowledge seeker to reach new limits effortlessly
Now there is one more reason to love it.
- It runs offline on my Palm.
I discovered the possibility just 5 hours ago. Thanks to the download speeds and possibilities in the U.S., Wikipedia is now running off-line on my Palm
The Piel Frama case for my handheld was delivered to me today.
After spending 74 USD, I’m learning to love the new look of my Palm TX.
I had earlier, earlier this month, bought a new Palm TX handheld with a 2 gig card.
I didn’t realize what a pain the Palm desktop was until today. I had, stupidly, hard reset my handheld after the installation of Agendus had failed. Then came the ordeal. I couldn’t recover data from my earlier hot syncs. I couldn’t use the same user name. I couldn’t get all the proggies to synchronise at once. After 10 hard resets of the hand held and installing / uninstalling Palm desktop, Documents To Go, Adobe reader for Palm, multiple times, I finally have every thing working except Palm Quick install.
I spent 10 hours today to setup this stupid handheld.
My final list of Palm programs includes:
- Adobe reader for Palm
- Documents To Go
- Geo Pro
- eReader
- pTunes
- Versa Mail
- Wifi LT
- Easy Calc
- iSilo
- ListPro
- Pocket Quicken
- Periodic Table of Elements
- SC-123PU
- Teal Info
- Unit Conversion Pro
- Yaps
It’s been such a long effort to get this stupid hand held set-up.
Now I can go ahead and waste my time punching in a gazillion contacts.
At least today, it looks to me like CASIO PV-S1600 is the best hand held in the whole world.
Phew!
On Good Friday, 4th April 2007, a new Palm Z22 handheld.
Well, I’m not impressed. I still love my CASIO PV-S1600.
Announcing the arrival of HP Pavilion TX1016AU…
Just arrived – not even registered yet.
My fifth PC and the second this year!
This baby runs warm and takes 110 minutes to accept 55 GB data through its USB 2.0 port in power saver mode. I’m missing the firewire port already.
Learning Daily is a personal blog that is just as random as my thoughts. The navigation bar at the top and the search box may be the only things that will help you find something.
My present interests lie in sustainability, peak oil, debian, Web after 2.0, creativity and epistemology. I learn daily. I learn about everything under the sun and even those beyond it. I am a perpetual student whose believes that wisdom is the real reward for learning.