Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Atlantic Rim
Posts: 570

Meet the Cable Guy

And now, ladies and gentlemen, back to the realm of the really cool.

With all the thought energy we invest in lamenting the state of Springboard modules I am finding myself more and more cable oriented.

I have a gomadic cable connection to my Kyocera 2035a phone and my Verizon Wireless account. I just updated my Palm email client (Iambic Mail 3.02) which includes the ability to attach documents from a memory card. Translation: I can snap a picture with my Kodak camera (set for the lowest resolution, which is roughly 150k), drop the CompactFlash card into my Visor using my discount bin Memplug and email the picture wirelessly to anyone. Granted, I have no idea how or when I would need to do this, but the fact that it can be done is cool as hell.

I recently purchased a cable to connect my Visor to my Garmin III Plus unit, which will provide me the ability to interface with the GPS unit in the same basic way that the module does, but without using the Springboard sled (so I can store maps and such on a CompactFlash card along with the pictures from my Kodak camera). There is a Palm OS program that lets me walk a perimeter line and it automatically calculates the square feet of the property within...regardless of irregularity. This is beyond handy for my work.

I think the coolest thing about all this is that I already own the camera, the GPS unit, the MemPlug, the CompactFlash card, the Cell Phone (which runs on company minutes), and the Visor. Now I just wish that the darned cables weren't so expensive.