Several years ago my boss and friend gave me a Palm III for a present. I had a Psion series 5 already, so it sat in the box for a few years until the psion bit the dust (the infamous flex-cable failure that they all seem to get), at which point I moved most of my data (well, addresses anyway) over to the palm and started using it. It's really not a bad device for browsing info that you've entered into the PC, but I still think that Grafitti just sucks even after using it for almost a year.

In any case, I like (and use) the GNU/Linux operating system so I've been trying to figure out a good scheme for maintaining contact info on GNU/Linux and the palm.

• pilot-link - low-level routines for syncing data between the computer and the pilot
• PilotManager - a GUI wrapper for pilot-link
• http://www.sun.com/software/xml/developers/palm/index.html - use XML on the server side.
• http://www.pyrite.org/ - python tools to convert web pages and text docs into a format that's readable on the palm.

-- TobyCabot - 13 Jun 2002