Palm Software

Hi All
Santa brought me a Palm Tungsten..........
Can anyone recommend some good software for it?

Cheers and salutations for 2004

Billbo

"Bill Boyd" <bill.boyd1@virgin.net> wrote in message
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> Hi All
> Santa brought me a Palm Tungsten..........
> Can anyone recommend some good software for it?

DecoWeenie is quite good, but unless you use a old version, it'll cost
money... ;-(

Vic.


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Bill Boyd wrote:
> Hi All
> Santa brought me a Palm Tungsten..........
> Can anyone recommend some good software for it?

There is JPlan (http://www.fly.to/oxford) and also
(Nigel's?) gas blender program.

- Keith

"Bill Boyd" <bill.boyd1@virgin.net> wrote in message
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> Hi All
> Santa brought me a Palm Tungsten..........
> Can anyone recommend some good software for it?

General Software:
Software: http://dmoz.org/Computers/Systems/Ha...m_OS/Software/

Dive Specific Software:
Ruiz SCUBA Dive Log: http://www.ruizlog.com/ at $20
HandanGo log book:
http://www.handango.com/PlatformProd...roductId=15218
Ken Hancock's log book program (freeware):
http://members.aol.com/khancock/pilot.html

Sites of Interest:
Trimix Software: http://www.cisatlantic.com/trimix/tools.htm wohh, dude!
UK.REC.SCUBA liks pages: http://www.ukrecscuba.org.uk/links/index.html Thngs
you never knew existed until now.

Search Engine directories of interest:
SCUBA http://dmoz.org/Recreation/Outdoors/Scuba_Diving/ Please contribute
all worthy URLs, thanks.
Shopping: http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Sports/Wate.../Scuba_Diving/ Say
after me: "My Wallet Is Your Wallet"
Software: http://dmoz.org/Shopping/Sports/Software/Scuba_Diving/ Tell your
friends that you need to get a life!
Fantasy SCUBA: http://www.fantasyscuba.com/

> > I have DPlan (http://www.gue.com/dplan/) from the GUI mob and it's very
> > good for on-site (i.e. late) planning. Sadly it only does OC Buhlmann
> > with GF's.
>
> Why sadly? Nothing wrong with Buhlmann with GF.... *puzzled look*

Sadly it doesn't do CC Buhlman with GF's, which would be kinda useful.

> Use JPLAN, its free for a start, which makes it alot cheaper than the
> competition, and it does (as of V3) Buhlmann with GF for OC and CC. Oh,
> and the interface is far superior to DecoWeenie IMHO.

Thanks for that. I looked at the site before but didn't see the inclusion
of CC. If it does CC then it's defnately better than DecoWeenie!

> Since I wouldn't dive a VPM (or VPM-B) profile, it does what I need at
> least...

Agreed. I wouldn't dive any VPM(-B) schedule.

Cheers
Matt.

Imorital wrote:
> Alasdair Allan wrote:
> > Use JPLAN, its free for a start, which makes it alot cheaper than the
> > competition, and it does (as of V3) Buhlmann with GF for OC and CC.
>
> Thanks for that. I looked at the site before but didn't see the inclusion
> of CC. If it does CC then it's defnately better than DecoWeenie!

I've just been given a shiny new Nokia 3650 for Christmas so I've been
looking at Greg's DivePlan (www.diveplan.org) for Symbian OS.

I'm not convinced I like the interface, I especially don't like the way
you can have some segments of the dive in imperial and some in metric, I
can't see a use for it, and it could lead to a bad mistake being made at
some point. Surely, if I want metric, then I want everything in metric?

Added to this in an essentially GUI environment there is too much fiddling
around with the keyboard, and since I've installed PuTTY (SSH for Series
60) the onscreen font DivePlan is picking up is 4x6 pixels in size (ie way
too small!).

I think Tony's JPLAN interface is cleaner, and more in keeping with a GUI
environment where you want to keep keyboard fiddling to a minimum. But,
unfortunately, JPLAN is PalmOS only so I might be forced to write my own
application. Yes, I know I said this about the Palm but Tony came along
and saved me the hassle. I'm hoping that someone will do the same here,
but if not I need a weekend project and I guess this might be it.

On machines with screens as small as a PDA or a phone the interface is
95% of the hassle and the heartache. Oh well... :(

Al.

Bill.

If you look in the jplan programs folder there are a couple of applications
there (deco software and gas mixing)

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jplan/files/

If there are any other good free programs I can put them in there as well.

(my favourite is changename...)

Tony Jay

"Bill Boyd" <bill.boyd1@virgin.net> wrote in message
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> Hi All
> Santa brought me a Palm Tungsten..........
> Can anyone recommend some good software for it?
>
> Cheers and salutations for 2004
>
> Billbo
>
>

Alasdair Allan <aa@ukrecscuba.org.uk> wrote:

>>
>> There is JPlan (http://www.fly.to/oxford)
>
>Which has a much better interface than DecoWeenie IMHO, even if I did get
>bent using it... ;)

Well, I got bent once using a Suunto Cobra on a non-mandatory-stop
dive, and everybody knows these Suunto computers are very
conservative...

Steven
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> I think Tony's JPLAN interface is cleaner, and more in keeping with a GUI
> environment where you want to keep keyboard fiddling to a minimum. But,

I installed JPlan yesterday and it's interface is pretty similar (and in
concept almost identical) to DPlan from GUI. I haven't seen DecoWeenies
latest GUI but I agree that JPlan's is nice & very easy to use (even without
a manual!).

I've not run any profiles with it yet as I'm waiting for a key code.

BTW, am I correct in assuming that the cut schedule from JPlan was correct
(i.e. compared to DDPlan) when Al got bent (that's to say it was bad luck
not bad programming)?

Cheers
Matt.

Imorital wrote:

> BTW, am I correct in assuming that the cut schedule from JPlan was correct
> (i.e. compared to DDPlan) when Al got bent (that's to say it was bad luck
> not bad programming)?

ISTR he was doing a longer runtime than others on the same dive.
Let's see, my logbook says 55m / 25 mins for a total 68 mins
on 21/35, 50 and 100. Hmm, where did I get 68 mins from? Jplan
says 58 mins on 20-85GF!

- Keith