From one extreme to the other, both bad

Palm has sent a cease and desist order to Tealpoint to stop distributing its nifty launcher TealOS. I'm not the only one absolutely mystified by such a move. This is outrageous on several levels, and here's why.

I hate Lotes Notes

I hate Lotus Notes.

I will admit that it isn't the fault of the developers, not totally, anyway. After all, they'll be the first to admit that it was not designed as an email client first, which is how most people (especially those like me who hate it) interact with it.

Searching for sympathy, I found the website Lotus Notes Sucks (site was taken down; here's an old copy of it). It's a shame that the creator of the site appears to no longer be updating it. What is available on the site, however, is still sufficient to justify the simmering hate that users feel when they are unwittingly subject to the madness that is Lotus Notes.

My take on the Pre? I'm keeping my Treo 680 for a bit yet

OK, we've seen, we've heard, we've liked what we saw...and yet...and yet...

I can't quite wrap my head around this new paradigm...

In Defence of Starbucks

I don't fully understand why all the vitriol aimed at Starbucks these days?

Starbucks would be the bad guy if they arrived on your local corner selling coffee for 39 cents. The mom'n'pop shops would cry that the big bad soulless corporate behemoth was undercutting them out of business. But, Starbucks doesn't do that; quite on the contrary, when they show up and overprice their coffee, they drive business to the mom'n'pops (studies are in - local coffee shops overwhelming do better when Starbucks is nearby) - that's not so bad, is it?

MyLocation now available on Palm OS GSM devices

Palm inc. continues to frustrate its remaining core users, but one of its strengths is its strong 3rd party developer community. This latest offering is extremely cool, but also telling of issues at Palm that must be more alienating than endearing.

While Palm Inc. says that a Google Maps location-finding feature is only available on "newer Palm phones", the developers at Razix are proud to present MyLocation, for use with Treo 650 and 680, and get this - it's free.

I won't get into a rant on how frustrating it is to be a Palm user these days. Right now I just want to enjoy the benefit of being in a community that will do as much as it can, no matter how little effort Palm Inc. puts into supporting us.

Enjoy!