john
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Registered: Sep 1999
Location: New Mexico, USA
Posts: 112 |
To all you who are still struggling w/ order and delivery troubles, best of luck. Stick it out- it's worth it. It sounds like some progress is being made. Heck, the web site's even up and hasn't melted yet.
My BVD (Blue Visor Deluxe) is amazing. I wasn't exactly sure what I'd do with it when I ordered it, but I suspected that I'd come up w/ something. I have.
StarPilot is great! The skies of New Mexico are huge, and now I have a backlit guide to what I'm seeing.
E-books are great! I'm one of the half-dozen or so folks who hasn't read Moby Dick, and now I am fixing that omission. 3 other books are loaded on the device and ready to go.
AvantGo is awesome! I've hit my maximum allocation already, and it syncs quickly over USB. I always have something current to read in my pocket. A good deal of the VisorCentral discussion fits. NYTimes front page articles and tech news, along w/ a few other news sources. I have the text from the hospital web site I set up there for reference whereever I am, and can make notes for modifications. Rumor has it that there's an app that wil actually let me work on the site via the BVD, but I haven't gone there yet.
OmniRemote works like a charm. It has learned every command I've beamed at it. I coughed up 20 bucks happily. It could be that the side-mounted IR actually is a bonus- if you program the hardware buttons you can do the most common tv commands with your left thumb and support the device w/ your four fingers. Seems a more comfortable position than if you had top-mounted IR. The Visor IR is strong enough for my needs so far.
HandyShop is, well, handy. There is a real thrill to watch items disappear from your shopping list as you check them off. It's great to assign items to multiple stores and pick them up from the first one you visit.
Hacks rock. MiddleCaps Hack, MenuHack, and SwitchHack are all must-haves that eliminate annoyances and save time. FindHack is Find on steroids.
DiddleBug handles short little scribbled alarmed items. ImageViewerIII lets me carry 16-grey pictures with me. Several of the available games are qool and nostalgic.
And LauncherIII lets me load any of these items w/out scrolling to find anything.
I like the snap-on screen protector. After seeing all the cracked screens in the Palm Graveyard, I like having something firm in front of the glass. I hope the protector can be modified to still work w/ the 6-pack springboard, or a new protector is available that will.
I like the 8 meg. I have 2637k left, and could free up more easily if I needed to, once I evaluate the multiple apps of the same type that I dl'd just to check 'em out.
I may need to get the NiMH rechargeables. Synching 10 times a day w/new apps, journeying w/ a backlit Ishmael and training the learning remote have chewed up my first set of batteries. (Be sure to have the battery compartment lid or something else handy to pry out the batteries if you don't have teeny fingers- it can be exciting as you watch your 60 seconds of announced capacitor life tick away...)
I could say more, but you get the general idea. Minor gripes- too easy to hit the contrast adjustment while going for menus, but MenuHack helps in most cases. I have activated the calculator once or twice while scrolling to the end a doc, but most scrolling is pagedown and I can be precise for the last few lines. I still make some Grafitti boo-boos, but TealScript is helping.
It looks qool. Blue and ice go together nicely. People sit up and take notice. Nobody has questioned my professionalism, except when I show them Pocket Monkey.
And regarding the nomenclature, yes, this is a BVD. (You Greenies and Graphities will have to fight it out for the GVD designation.)
And to top it off, we have an excellent venue to rant, rave, gripe, and converse about these devices. Thanks to the VisorCentral staff for all their hard work. And thanks to all (well, almost) of you for contributing- I've learned a lot.
There's a real community building here.
That's it for now.
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"Vaya con Visor!"
-john
[This message has been edited by john (edited 10-28-1999).]
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