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title: Pilot Bridge and Discord |
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date: 2024-10-07 |
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Syncing Via the Web with Pilot Bridge |
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While this post was originally going to cover another piece of |
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software to sync my calendar/email/notes, on Saturday I came across |
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something else that immediately grabbed my attention. |
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Earlier on October 3rd, someone commented on a gotosocial post I |
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did about the Zire that they were working on a web-based hotsync |
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engine called PilotBridge and if I was interested to join the |
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Palm Discord. |
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Pilot Bridge |
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I fired it up in Safari, only to get greeted with a message that I |
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needed to use a browser that supports WebUSB. One Chormium |
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download later and I was able to hotsync my Zire with my MacBook Pro |
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laptop. |
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Palm Bridge |
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Everything seems to sync, but there doesn't appear to be a way to |
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add/modify PIM-type data like Todo or Calendar. It does make it |
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extremely simple to add software downloaded off PalmDB, which is |
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the goto place for any Palm related downloads. |
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PalmDB |
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Exploring Palm Software |
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Using Pilot Bridge, I started downloading various things from |
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PalmDB and was able to give them a try. I tried out a few games |
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like some Mahjongg games and newer developed games and apps like |
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Captains MiniGolf, Rosary and pBill. |
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Astraware Mahjongg |
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Captains Minigolf |
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Rosary |
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pBill |
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Captains MiniGolf is what got me first started on wanting to get a |
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Palm device, since the article written about the development was a |
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fun read and it was cool to see a modern development on a platform. |
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It also plays really well on a lower end device like the Zire. |
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Holy smokes, I just released a MiniGolf game for Palm OS in 2024 |
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xBill for PalmOS receives an update after 25 years |
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pBill |
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Mahjongg |
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Palm Discord |
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After checking out Palm Bridge some I joined the Palm Discord and |
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discovered a small but active community on a variety of topics. I |
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joined the Palm Bridge channel and asked if anyone else had use of |
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syncing a calendar using it, but haven't seen a response yet. |
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No doubt I'll use the Discord for asking questions and general |
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information about using a Palm device in contemporary times. |
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