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New Cards Include World'€™s First 8-Gigabyte (GB) Type I High Speed CompactFlash Card

Cologne, Germany, Sept. 29, 2004 SanDisk® Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) announced today that is has quadrupled the capacity of its high-speed SanDisk Ultra® II line of flash memory cards that includes the development of a new 8GB CompactFlash® Type I card. The top end SanDisk Ultra II Memory Stick PROÔ and SDÔ cards now boast 4GB and 2GB of capacity respectively. The announcement was made at the Photokina trade show where SanDisk is demonstrating products. Each SanDisk Ultra II card features a minimum write speed of 9 megabytes per second (MB/sec.) and a minimum read speed of 10MB/sec.* (Results based on testing with the popular HDBENCH benchmark software; actual results in digital cameras will vary by camera model.) The Ultra II cards are primarily targeted at serious photographers with 4-megapixel or higher resolution digital cameras that require fast, high capacity digital film cards to quickly shoot many high resolution images. Martin Achatzi, owner and general manager at Foto Achatzi in Bad Laasphe, a leading photography retailer, said, “SanDisk is a well known brand and the SanDisk Ultra II cards have been very popular with digital photographers who use cameras such as the Canon EOS Rebel or the Nikon D70. Our customers expect high quality products with matching performance and we believe the new high capacity Ultra II cards will exceed the expectations of our customers.” Tanya Chuang, SanDisk retail product marketing manager, said, “The award-winning SanDisk Ultra II line represents an ideal combination of high capacities, durability and proven performance at exceptional price points. These cards are designed for improved performance in a wide range of cameras rather than a select few. Once again, the SanDisk Ultra II line raises the performance and capacity bar that all other competitors will struggle to meet.” The SanDisk Ultra II cards are designed to be a reasonably priced, high performance solution for the photography channel while the new SanDisk Extreme III line, with its even higher performance, is for the professional photographer who needs the absolute highest performance and maximum reliability. Pricing and Availability The SanDisk Ultra II product line is available in CompactFlash, Memory Stick PRO and SD formats. Suggested retail prices and availability are as follows: Capacities US$ € (ex. VAT) Availability Ultra II CF 256MB - 2GB $49.99 - $249.99 €44.00 - €245.00 Now 4GB $479.99 €465.00 October 8GB $959.99 €930.00 November Ultra II MS PRO 256MB – 1GB $74.99 - $249.99 €73.00 – €259.00 Now 2GB – 4GB $479.99 - $959.99 €495.00 - €990.00 November Ultra II SD 256MB – 512MB $64.99 - $89.99 €45.00 - €72.00 Now 1GB – 2GB $119.99 - $239.99 €119.00 - €239.00 November SanDisk Ultra II cards are available at most of the 80,000 consumer electronics stores and other retail outlets where SanDisk products are sold worldwide. SanDisk, the world’s largest supplier of flash memory data storage card products, designs, manufactures and markets industry-standard, solid-state data, digital imaging and audio storage products using its patented, high density flash memory and controller technology. SanDisk is based in Sunnyvale, CA.

*Results based on testing with HDBENCH benchmark software. Actual results in digital cameras will vary by model.

Dom Perignon IV Speed Contest To find the answer, participate in the Dom Perignon IV Speed Contest!

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Just type the 40 words on the left with the method of your choice and record your time.

Acceptable input methods include:

• FitalyStamp, FitalyVirtual, and the Fitaly keyboards for the Palm, and Pocket PCs.
• Atomik, Silkyboard, TapPad, TapType, MessagEase, and other Graffiti area overlay solutions.
• On-screen Keyboards for the Palm such as Qwerty, Keyboard Hack, QuickWrite, and other keyboards activated by a pen.
• On-screen Keyboards for the Pocket PC such as Resco and WordLogic.
• Palm Handwriting software such as Graffiti, Jot, TealScript, RecoEcho, and MyScript.
• Pocket PC handwriting methods such as Block and Letter Recognizer, CalliGrapher, Pocket Tablet, PenReader, and BijiWriter

The foundation for smartphones and new categories of wireless devices

MUNICH, Germany, PalmSource™ Euro DevCon, September 28, 2004 — PalmSource, Inc. (NASDAQ: PSRC) provider of Palm OS®, a leading operating system powering next generation mobile devices and smartphones, today introduced Palm OS Cobalt 6.1, an enhanced version of Palm OS Cobalt. Designed to accelerate the development of next-generation Palm Powered™ smartphones and wireless devices, Palm OS Cobalt 6.1 builds on the foundation of Palm OS Cobalt and provides integrated telephony features, support for WiFi and Bluetooth and enhancements to the user interface. Palm OS Cobalt 6.1 offers new functionality aimed at Palm OS licensees looking to participate in the growing wireless market, while maintaining the flexibility, ease-of-use and compatibility that are the hallmarks of Palm Powered wireless devices. "We believe Palm OS Cobalt 6.1 optimizes our platform for the creation of cutting-edge smartphones and wireless devices that are powerful yet easy-to-use," said David Nagel, president and CEO of PalmSource, Inc. "By integrating state-of-the-art wireless functionality into Palm OS, we are providing our Palm OS licensee and developer community a real time-to-market advantage in delivering smartphones and wireless mobile devices to consumers."

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The Register says it could be as early as next week.

PalmOne is set to cut the prices of its current PDA line-up next month as it gears up for the Holiday sales period and the release of its latest Tungsten handheld, The Register has learned.

Reliable sources familiar with the company's plans suggest that the new Tungsten's launch could come as early as next Monday.

The Node Explorer

Node has created a dynamic solution for interpreted exploration and site management of open spaces.

Integral to this is the uniquely designed robust Node Explorer. Combined with the Node Engine and Dock this provides the ultimate platform for ‘location aware’ interactive experiences in open spaces, such as city parks, urban thoroughfares and country estates.

The Node Solution is the first of its kind to be tailored specifically for open spaces to provide experiences to visitors, based on who they are, where they are, and what they’re looking at.

What's new in 2.0.8?

Palm

• Configurable Hardware buttons
• Works better renaming a page on the Palm in edit mode
• Links are shown in red once they are held down long enough to activate back Link mode
• Palm can un-encrypt a page correctly
• Clicking links on a line that starts with bold works correctly on the Palm
• Rename page doesnt lose data when in edit mode and cancel is pressed
• Fixed bug with creating new pages in an encrypted book on the Palm
• Fixed bug with Back needing to be pressed twice on the Palm, when a book name is used in the link

PC

• Enabled backups properly
• Backups use a directory name that is sortable
• Editing on the PC will go to the bottom of the page
• Tabbing on PC without a panel open won't cause a crash
• Paste from clipboard automatically creates a new page
• Insert link around text on PC maintains cursor position
• Insert link and Goto page on PC uses incremental search

General

• Support for Previous and Next page
• Consistent sort order between Palm and PC

I first encountered Mike Rohde via his e-mail newsletter, Palm Tipsheets. He hasn't put them out for a while now, but I'm still able to keep up with Mike via his weblog and rss feed. He's created an archive of all Palm Tipsheets on his current site.

"However, I do own all rights to all of the Palm Tipsheet documents I've created (40 issues, to be exact).... As this is no longer the case, it's time to put all 40 of my back issues up on my own site, in HTML, Palm Doc, iSilo and Plucker formats. The new link for the archive is: http://www.rohdesign.com/palmtipsheet/ I still believe my the Palm Tipsheet documents still have value, at least as historical pieces of information. The articles I and others wrote over the years, were almost always practical in nature — how to and why to articles, rather than dime-a-dozen reviews of products."

nosleep software has released a .1 version bump update. 6.1 adds more customization features in the preferences, including better bluetooth support.

TealPoint has added TealBackup to their stable of Palm OS software. Highlights:

• Card Backups
• HotSync Backups
• SD/MMC flash compatible
• Compact flash compatible
• Memory Stick compatible
• MemPlug flash compatible
• Dual automatic timers
• Incremental backups
• Blowfish encryption
• Compression
• Multiple folders
• Exclusion lists
• Inclusion lists
• Backup logs
• PalmOS 5 compatible

Version 2.90b

Version 6.0 provides support for new plug-ins easily accessed in Bible With You that will help study the Bible in greater depth and understanding. The new features are:

• Support for Bible Images Provides an ability to view pictures of historical and archaeologial places, people and objects related to verses in the Bible, while reading the Scripture. The support of Bible Images will contribute greatly to your Bible studies by helping you feel the atmosphere and get a better concept of the Biblical times.
• Support for Dictionaries Pop-up definitions of words in the Bible, provided by plug-in Dictionaries like Easton's, the KJV Bible Dictionary and the Revised Webster 1913 Abridged.
• Flying Command Bar A Command Bar with icons for the most often used commands with options for Always Shown, Always Hidden or Shown only at the expanded Hi-Res+ screen mode.
• View Last Line option Allows you to choose whether to view the last line of the previous page, when moving the text by pages, and during screen-wrap reading.

Blogger has a mail to blog feature that allows blogging by e-mail. I'm sending a test post from my T3.

There's a large number of freeware titles available for use with Palm OS powered devices. One of the most comprehensive collections can be found at FreewarePalm. There is some advertising to scroll through when viewing the site, a small "price" to pay for a one-stop collection of freeware.

Version 4.15b1 adds the following new features: All platforms:

• Added support for the following dynamic title components:

o \Xdate; for the conversion start date with the optional parameters Y, Y2, M, M2, D, and D2. o \Xtime; for the conversion start time with the optional parameters, H, H2, M, M2, S, and S2. o \Xtitle; for the first source file title. o Manuals updated with documentation for dynamic title components. Version 4.15b1 addresses the following issues: All platforms:

• Exporting all targets as named targets may generate a corrupt document.

Mike Rohde points to a brief procedure for doing a clean-sweep re-installation on a Palm OS device. I'm forever installing, uninstalling and tweaking software on my T3, which leads to numerous crashes and the occasional loss of data. I'll add bookmark to this for future reference.

About Palmtops/PDAs is looking to build one of the best PDA freeware resources on the internet. Is there PDA freeware that you find indispensible? Send in your suggestions.

This announcement is a little ambiguous:

This update corrects incompatibilities discovered between third-party desktop Personal Information Managers (PIMs) and Tungsten E, Tungsten T3, Zire 71 and Zire 72 handhelds. In addition, the update includes several smaller code adjustments and solutions.