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PathAway GPS 4 is designed to meet the next level of power and usability on the latest Pocket PC and Palm OS mobile devices.

PathAway GPS 4 sports new features such as Track up navigation, improved Bluetooth communications, Satellite Sky View and Compass View screens, Picture and Audio waypoints, new map calibration options, measure distance between 2 two points, plus many more.

If you get out and go places, PathAway is the companion to take with you. PathAway is the all-purpose tool for GPS.

Key features of PathAway include:

• GPS navigation with most GPS devices (including Bluetooth)
• Import your own maps using PathAway map manager
• Intelligent moving map display
• Map projections, UTM, OSGB, and Datum support
• Add personal points of interest/waypoints
• Record and follow your tracks
• Point to point routing
• Navigation warnings and alarms
• Onscreen trip statistics on a customizable dashboard
• Palm OS and Windows Mobile versions
• Transfer data to and from Garmin and Magellan GPS Devices

All-purpose GPS program in the palm of your hand.

There is an abundance of software for Windows that allows you to tweak and enhance your digital photos. What happens though if you want to edit photographs on the fly while you’re out and about? Get hold of Photos HQ for your Palm and you won’t go far wrong. The application is designed to improve the quality and definition of the pictures your take on your device’s camera.

Thanks to its rather nifty system of pixel replication, the software is able to actually increase the resolution of the camera. For instance, if your terminal has an SVGA camera, Photo HQ increases the number of pixels from 640×480 to 960×720. The process is very simple and the results are surprisingly impressive.

In addition, Photo HQ includes several levels of digital zoom, options for improving the focus, a ten second self-timer function and a helpful picture-in-picture thumbnail view.

Advanced editing features and effects are thin on the ground, but if you want to quickly bump up the resolution of your camera phone’s pictures, Photo HQ offers a pretty idiot-proof solution.

Review by James Thornton

One of the most important skills for musicians of any kind is the ability to correctly identify intervals by ear. Ear training is therefore a substantial building block of any kind of music education. Typically practicing this skill happens during class or with a private tutor and takes some time. EarMan is a tool that can enhance proficiency in ear training and can aid greatly in the process of advancing in this difficult subject.

The program offers a way for “spot learning” where specific interval sets can be practiced in specific ranges. This can be used to focus on weaknesses. Every session is graded in once completed. In addition EarMan offers a complete curriculum that trains the user step by step from correctly identifying simple intervals in limited groups to the full range including compound intervals.

EarMan uses RoGame’s sound library and includes a Grand Piano library for playback on devices with Palm OS 5.0 and higher. Intervals a shown in grand staff notation to aid the learning process. Interval sets include complementary intervals. The interface for the application has been designed to be free from distractions so that one can fully concentrate on the sound.

Just because the Apple iPhone does something in a certain way, it doesn’t mean that it’s the perfect way of doing it and that everyone else should copy it. Hang on, actually it does. Treobble is the latest in a growing number of programs designed to replicate the iPhone’s intertia contact scrolling feature, this time for Treo devices, allowing you to peruse your address book simply by touching and sliding your finger up and down the screen.

It would be unfair to say that’s all that it does though, because there are plenty of other features that help you enhance your contacts book. For instance, you can view all data from a particular contact, initiate a call, send an SMS message or an email, all without having to use the pointer.

The scrolling feature works surprisingly well unless you have lots of contacts, in which case it can get quite jerky. It also lacks the ability to perform incremental searches of your address book, which can get a bit annoying.

Nevertheless, Treobble is probably the closest thing you’ll get to the iPhone’s cool contact-scrolling function without actually upgrading to the Apple device.

Review by James Thornton

Supercharge the address book with TealPhone, the contacts replacement with superior interface and options. Highlights include enhanced display, search, phone-dialing, groups and linking options for all your contacts.

TealPhone includes a one-screen integrated display, eye-saving large number view, quick seek index bar, recently-used city and country memory, powerful search features, TealPrint summary, entry and label printing, and switchable sorting by first name, last name, and company.

Also supported is phone number dialing through integrated phones, modems, phone add-on peripherals, and cabled and infrared GSM cell phones. TealPhone is PalmOS 5 compatible and takes full advantage of extra address fields and enhanced display modes of the Tungsten T3, HandEra 330, Samsung, Alphasmart, and Sony CLIE handhelds.

Some of TealPhone’s main features include:
• Integrated data preview display
• Enhanced dialing view
• Enhanced finger-friendly view
• Quick-seek index bar
• Large phone number display
• Phone number select on main list
• Sorting by last name, first name, or company
• Powerful search options
• Contact linking
• Editing auto-completion
• Editing popup history
• Editing popup number pad
• User-definable groups

Popular application for expanding your phone book’s possibilities.

If you’re a creative sort of person then often you might get the urge to start doodling while you’re sat around. If there’s no pen and paper handy then you might want to consider installing a drawing application on your handheld device.

HandPainter is a simple piece of software that allows you to draw and design digital images on your Palm, and is a free, scaled-down version of HandPainter-PRO. Installation is a little fiddly than most programs as you need to install three separate files onto your device to get it running.

Once you’ve done this you’ll be presented with a blank canvas and a range of icons that represent tools such as sketch, paint, fill, spray and shapes. There are some extra icons at the top that let you perform tasks like clearing the page, undoing, and save/load.

It’s not a particularly professional looking interface - the icons are very blocky and the toolbar seems very squashed. Nevertheless, the tools on offer can be accessed pretty quickly once you figure out what they all do and are sufficient enough for creating rough doodles and sketches like you might create in MS Paint.

It’s hardly the prettiest paint program ever, but it’s good for satisfying your creative urges while you’re sat on the bus.

Review by James Thornton

4cast is a weather browser – downloads weather information from weather.yahoo.com and displays forecast for the next 5 days, plus some details (e.g. wind, humidity …) for today. Allows auto-updated at scheduled intervals. 4cast can also be used as a plugin for 2day, DateBk6 & ZLauncher to show today’s forecast and temperatures.

A simple and easy to use weather forecast plugin for Palm PDAs.

The best universal remote control software that covers all the popular PalmOS based handhelds and lets you create your own remote! With NoviiRemote Deluxe on your handheld you can operate your entire home entertainment system, including TV, VCR, Cable/Sat, TiVo, DVD player and more…

The main features of the program include:

• Quick setup. The steps to set up NoviiRemote Deluxe are faster and more intuitive. Get up and running in just a few moments
• Unlimited user-defined options let you design your own remote control. Name and draw your own buttons or make your own button layout! If you want the power button on the other side of the screen, move it there. If you want the ‘Mute’ button to be square instead of round, change it. If you want the ‘Record’ button to be blue instead of red, edit it
• Programming multi-command macros to one button push. For example, you may create a macro that will turn on 3 devices with one button, switch your Cable TV for your favorite 155-th channel by the only click, etc
• Easy navigation. Our interface allows two clicks access to virtually any section of software
• About a hundred of pre-installed infrared codes for many popular devices (TVs, cable and satellite boxes and others). Just select your device by means of the Add wizard and begin using the remote

Butler is a practical tool designed to increase the functionality of your Treo’s built-in alarm. Butler includes the following features:

• MP3 alarms - uses the Treo’s built in MP3 software
• Set the alarms to repeat on the days you select.
• Choose snoozes, snooze delay, vibrate, LED, and more.
• Alarms will ring even if the keyguard is active, an SMS is showing - and will survive a soft reset
• Attention Grabber - makes sure you know about calls, sms, voicemail, appointments and other alerts by reminding you as often as you ask it to.
• You can set the attention grabber to play a tone, vibrate, play an MP3 or set the LED (or any combination).
• KeyLauncher - access your favourites from anywhere
• Press and hold a key at any time to launch the application that is assigned to it
• Volume Buttons - make them work! Use the volume buttons to scroll through list, text, applications, buttons, etc.
• Phone Keyguard - (extra strong!). Stop the space, delete and return keys from answering and dropping calls.

And much more! All in all, this is a feature packed must for your Treo.

SkinUI is a palm application/hack that changes the way the user interface looks. This means that there is no more need to look at all those square boring buttons and scrollbars and the rest of it all.