Lost and Found (Circa 2007): Is Palm Dead?

 I have been a Palm user since 2003. My first device was the Tungsten W with AT&T wireless internet. I was in love, I couldn't be anywhere with out it. At the time I had an LG cellphone so I had to carry both around, trust me, I had no problem doing so. That was until Sony Clie released the PEG-UX50. I was at Fry's and was playing with it for a good hour or so and then my Tungsten didn't look so hot anymore. A few weeks later I went on Amazon.com and bought it.

Now say what you want about Sony, I think their GUI's are always so user friendly, practical and simply beautiful. This device was so ahead of its' time it blew my mind, if it was a phone I would still have it to this day.

Now that brings me to some questions:

Is the Palm OS Dead?
Does it stand a chance against the Blackberry or upcoming iPhone?
Will we ever see ALP on a device?

I want to say no and here is my reasoning:

After Palm announced in late 2005 that they were developing a Treo Device to support Windows Mobile 5 the Palm Community had reasons to believe that it was over. Until the bloggers got a hold of this statement:

"Palm CEO Ed Colligan sent out an email to developers yesterday reassuring them that the company is fully committed to the Palm operating system and that the move to Windows Mobile is about "growing the Treo market," not walking away from "existing products or technology partnerships, like Palm OS." - Engadget

Ok cool, but we still have a few more problems. One being this company known as Access (formally known as PalmSource). Access has been pushing this new GUI platform called ALP that has never yet been released. They have screenshots, SDK's, whitepapers, framework diagrams

08-27-09 9:54 PM - I never finished this apparently, I was going through my archives and found it. Thought it was pretty neat. Like a time warp! wow!

How to Fix Youtube: "an error occurred, please try again later" message on Mac OSX

So your friend sends you a link to see Tiger Wood's Farting on Youtube and you get an error basically saying "sorry you can't watch this video on your computer and don't try refreshing, clearing your cache, cookies, history, switching to Firefox or Safari because it will still not work!"

I figured out that the issue is not the browser! It is actually the Flash Plugin.  Here is how you fix it:

• Download and Install AppCleaner (http://freemacsoft.net/AppCleaner/)
• Close all Browsers
  
• Open AppCleaner and Click the "Others" Icon (1)
  
• Scroll Down til you see "Flash Player.plugin" and Check it Off (2)
  
• Hit the "Search Button" (3)
  
• Then Hit the delete button (4)
  

 

Now all you have to do is open a Browser of your choice and go to YouTube. It will say something like "Please update Flash Player - Click Here" Click the link and install Flash. Go back to YouTube and play that video!

Did it work for you? If so rate the post or leave a comment or be a rock star and do both.

Mentioned in "Spiceworks 4.1: It’s Everything IT" Blog Post

I was informed by a friend of mine that Spiceworks wrote a little blurp about our recent SpiceCorps LA meeting.  Check it out:

Introducing Spiceworks HTML Emails… via Twitter and Ustream
One of the features they’ve been asking for a while is HTML help desk emails.  In other words, they didn’t like our plain text, circa-1975, looks-like-they-came-from-a-dot-matrix-printer emails that our help desk application would send out to their users with ticket updates.  You know, the “your ticket has been received and is being processed” sort.  So, we spruced it up AND we let users edit the html to their hearts content.  With this change our nearly 750,000 IT pros can now tweak the email with their logo, colors, messages, etc. to look like the polished… and individual IT pros that they are.
To give you an inside peek at how our feedback loop goes, watch minutes 54:00 to 58:27 in this Ustream recording of a recent SpiceCorps LA meeting. They’re talking about their desire for HTML emails in  Spiceworks.  Jeff Keen, a SpiceWorker, is watching the Ustream and tweets Justin Dorfman, the SpiceCorps LA pioneer, with some good news: HTML emails are in 4.1.  Standing ovation ensues.

As always I am flattered when any one/company mentions me, but this one especially since it validates how powerful social media is.