Archive for November, 2009

Keeping organized

More than half the time, I rely on my PDA phone to keep track of contacts and appointments. My “workhorse” application used to be iambic’s Agendus on the Palm Centro. However as I have now officially “retired” the Centro, I have been using the Treo Pro which is Windows Mobile 6.1 powered as my daily [...]

iMedicalApps

This is a little shout out for iMedicalApps.com, formerly located at iphonemedicalappreview.com.
The new URL is shorter but the content is the same - great iPhone medical app reviews. Iphone medical users should head over there.

Tags: iMedicalApps, iPhone

Lexi-comp WebOS review

RizP over at PreCentral has written a nice review of Lexi-Comp running on Palm’s new OS, WebOS.
Apart from some initial performance issues, it sounds very promising indeed. It may well turn out to be the first drug reference officially released in the Palm App Catalog.
Let’s hope Epocrates can show up quickly as well!

Tags: Lexi, Lexi-comp

The GSM Palm Pre - early impressions

The Palm Pre is being slowly launched around the world by Palm. Unfortunately, Palm doesn’t intend to launch the GSM version in my region till sometime next year. I however managed to get a GSM Palm Pre (unlocked from O2 Germany) via Expansys and these are my early impressions:
The good:
Very nice interface, slick multi-tasking and [...]

Lexi-comp arrives in the Palm App Catalog

Twitter friends have told me that Lexi-comp WebOS is a new arrival in the Palm App Catalog. We did mention that it was in beta but I am glad it has now officially been released. If I am not mistaken it is free (trial?) for the moment.
I have checked the Palm Catalog on my GSM [...]

Ares - a possible boon for physician coders?

I read with great interest Palm’s plans to facilitate coding for the masses - the Ares WebOS Development Tool which was recently demo’d at the Open Mobile Summit conference in San Francisco.
PC World has the scoop (via Palminfocenter)
Ares will give developers another way to write WebOS applications and will allow fast development through a drag-and-drop [...]