antikryst

Hi guys...ive been a long time palm user and im planning to get a T3 this christmas (upgrade at last from my old workpad c3) so im scouting for software to get as early as now. Apart from this...im just curous on what is the best software setup is and i would like to know what all of you think.

Lets just say that price does not matter (lets just say that money is no object just so that we eliminate cost out of the picture to focus more on what software is the best irregardless of price)...i would like to know what software you would get for the following and why? (in other words...lets say i would like to see the best software setup possible. Interesting??? post away! )


DOCUMENT HANDLING/EDITING: for word, excel

EBOOKS: reader and converter (doc or txt to pdb format)

EMAIL: email handling/attachment capabilities a must

FINANCIAL: budget, bank accounts, credit card (interest rate and factor rate functions built in)

WEB: offline/online web browser (well...more offline)

FILE MANAGEMENT: cleaning up uninstalls, moving files to SD and ROM, beaming to other devices, syncing and backup

PIM: replacement for datebook/to do if any. please indicate if you prefer default PIM apps even if given the budget

LAUNCHER: if any. please indicate if you prefer to stick with the default launcher.

UTILITIES: misc utilities that you need

MULTIMEDIA: MP3, video, picture viewer

did i leave anything out? i didnt put in games because people have diffrent tastes in games

dws90

DOCUMENT HANDLING/EDITING: Documents to Go, Quickoffice, Wordsmith (I'm a bit of a nut when it comes to office suites. I just love opening office applications, then closing them again. I use Documents to Go for almost everything, the others just look nice)

EBOOKS: Palm Reader Pro

EMAIL: Versamail

FILE MANAGEMENT: Filez and Zlauncher

PIM: Agendus

LAUNCHER: Zlauncher

UTILITIES: Splash ID, PowerOne Graph

MULTIMEDIA: All the built ins.

Heretic

hello,
DOCUMENT HANDLING/EDITING: Documents to go
EBOOKS: Palm reader
WEB: Definately Plucker!
FILE MANAGEMENT: Filez & ZLauncher
PIM: Agendus
LAUNCHER: Zlauncher all the way!
UTILITIES: Thats up to your needs mate...however, DA launcher and battery graph should be on any Palm.
MULTIMEDIA: AeroPlayer for MP3's MMPlayer for video or Kinoma

snark

DOCUMENT HANDLING/EDITING: Documents to go / Wordsmith
WEB: Plucker, Avantgo
FILE MANAGEMENT: ZLauncher
LAUNCHER: Zlauncher
UTILITIES: Uninstall Manager
MULTIMEDIA: Kinoma, AcidImage
EMAIL: Versamail
PIM: Builtin apps (on a T3)

Vidge

Here's the ones I have comments on:

DOCUMENT HANDLING/EDITING: DTG comes with the T3, but also have Wordsmith & QuickOffice.

EMAIL: SnapperMail for mail on the go, Versamail (comes with the T3) for syncing to Outlook.

FINANCIAL: I use QuickSheet and powerOne Financial calculator

WEB: Offline - AvantGo, online - WebPro (comes with the T3)

FILE MANAGEMENT: Filez (freeware)

PIM: The built-in apps are pretty good. I use Datebk5, though.

LAUNCHER: ZLauncher

UTILITIES: BackupBuddy VFS, Crash, HandZipper, TimeCopy

MULTIMEDIA: MP3 - RealOne player comes with the T3 but I use PTunes. Pictures - I use the Photo ap that comes with the T3, also JpegWatch to handle jpegs attached to email

HTH

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Jaap Fresco

DOCUMENT HANDLING/EDITING: Documents to Go 6 (native Word and Excel)

EBOOKS: TealDoc

EMAIL: SnapperMail

FINANCIAL: SplashMoney (i think)

WEB: Don't know, don't use that...

FILE MANAGEMENT: FileZ, CleanUp and the ZLManager

PIM: Agendus, Memo Plus

LAUNCHER: Definitely ZLauncher!

UTILITIES: Dimmer (sets the backlight), CardExport (use your Palm as a cardreader, faster then hotsync), bTToggle (saves battery and manages bluetooth profiles)

MULTIMEDIA: RealOne or AeroPlayer for MP3, Kinoma for movies and SplashPhoto for pictureviewing

Good luck in choosing!

Regards,

Jaap

antikryst

thanks guys. keep em coming

vegheadjones

FINANCIAL: Quikbudget. Best way to keep track of your spending.

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go_grant

DOCUMENT HANDLING/EDITING: Docs-To-Go

EBOOKS: iSilo!

EMAIL: Versamail

FINANCIAL: MobileMoney

WEB: AvantGo, iSilo!

FILE MANAGEMENT: McFile, ZLauncher

PIM: EasyAdress with Photo capabilities so I can have pics of my contacts... more of a fun thing than a necessity. I really like the T3 PMs!

LAUNCHER: ZLauncher

UTILITIES: Card Backup, CodeDiver (for T3), Energy Dimmer (for T3), Flyzip, McPhling

MULTIMEDIA: Pocket Tunes, Kinoma (included in T3), MMPlayer, AcidImagePro