Leslie Franke

It does not take much looking to find groups of people, through the web, using illegal copies of software on their PDA. According to a forum thread at MobileRead.com it appears that the developer of Pocket Mechanic has added some coding to the program to fight back.

If someone uses a pirated serial number with certain versions of Pocket Mechanic the software detects the pirated key and hard resets the PDA. Maybe it is just me but this goes way to far. In the United States we have laws against this kind of thing, you cannot take justice into your own hands. Secondly, this is just stupid. It is a fight that the developer cannot win. Those cracking the software will always stay one step ahead, all the developer of Pocket Mechanic is doing is alienting honest pontential buyers of his software. It would seem wise to stay away from all software developed by Anton Tomov. This list includes Pocket Hack Master, Pocket Mechanic, Pocket Battery Analyzer, PocketPC Mark, GPRS Keep Alive.

Check out the latest entry into Google’s Lab: Google Maps. It looks very promising. Hopefully it will do for maps what Gmail did for web based mail.

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A second ZLauncher theme, iPalm Classic, has been added to the download package at PalmGear.

iPalm ZLauncher Theme and DIA Download Link

The ZLauncher Crystal icon set has been recreated. It now includes both large and small icons. They should be much more clearer this time. Because of the added icons, a little different approach was taken when creating this set. The set does not include as many applications this time because it was getting to big. To customize your own set get ZLauncher Iconset Factory by Bob Eaton.

Download Link for ZLauncher Crystal Icons

Just created portrait and landscape Crystal VG skins, for Clie Skinner, that matches the Crystal ZLauncher theme and DIA.

Download Link

Crystal Popup Suite 1.1, a hack/da type software with skin support, has been released. CPS comes with a full manual and including all these functions: advanced calculator, color notepad & drawing program, timer & stopwatch, and a program launcher. I had never used or even heard of this program before until recently but have begun to find it very useful on my T3 providing me quick access to many of the functions I use on my Palm in one place instead of them being scattered everywhere. If you download the software be sure to try out the Crystal skin (in the interest of full disclosure it was designed by me). It integrates nicely with the Crystal ZLauncher and DIA skins.