Monday, June 09, 2008

Another test

So, here is a lovely picture of the neighbor's house. Yup, you heard that right. Why??

Well, I have not been able to find software for the palm that can read and resize photos from my camera. I tried "Paint" by MobiSystems" but their tech support said there was a problem with

high res images. Well, Ok since my camera puts out a 3000x2000 image, maybe that's fair.

So I found that the camera can make a copy of an image at 640x480! Well Yee Ha! Then I can import it to the palm, edit if needed with Paint, and post. Uhhh, nope. Oh, I can get it on the Palm ok, but Paint still fails. So the next task will be to see if there is a camera setting that is messing with the image format in a "Bad Way".

Until then, the picture is as created by the camera. If nothing else, and if this works, then I'm stuck with choosing pictures on the tiny screen of the camera. (As opposed to the less tiny screen of the Palm). But at least I'll be in business.
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Patton

Saturday, June 07, 2008

Here we go again

So it's late. It's Thursday. And it' s high time i left. But since no one is reading this, I can take a bit of time and practice my blogging "skills" on my PALM ® device.

By skills, of course, I'm not referring to my ability to string words together in a row. I either can or can't. It's about keying it all in.
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Well, what is invisible to the reader is that was really too hard. And though I said this was Thursday, and you see that this post is Friday, don't be fooled. Thursday was a week ago and I just could not imagine finishing the post . . . So what changed? So glad you asked.

In the intervening week, I have gotten a Universal Wireless Keyboard (Full size, Compact Design). Hey, I don't make this stuff up! That's what the package says. I tried taking a picture of it. If possible I'll send it with this post. When collapsed, it is larger than the Palm, though close to the size of the hard shell case. Open, well, it works. My fingers are used to something bigger, this is an elf keyboard. But it means I can type into my Palm and Blog from Africa . . So it's a big step.

See the Africa Blog for more. We don't go until the end of the month, but planning is happening. It's at

http://patton-africa.blogspot.com

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Patton