eReader, which describes itself as “The World’s Largest eBookstore,” is my favorite ebookstore. I bought my soft copy of “The Google Story” there. It also offers free downloads of the eReader software, which smartphone users may use to read ebooks on their Palm OS, Symbian, WinMobile,  Apple and other mobile devices.

“The newsletter says eReader offers 25% discount, but my computation — if I remember my Math correctly — reveals that the price cut is actually around 34%. Here is the list of old and new prices:

• Twilight (Twilight Series Book 1) from $10.99 to $8.21
• New Moon (Twilight Series Book 2) from $10.99 to $8.21
• Eclipse (Twilight Series Book 3) from $19.99 to $14.93 (34% off)
• Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga Book 4) from $22.99 to $17.17 (34% off)

A spokeswoman for Meyer said that in less than three years, the first three books in the series sold 6.5 million copies in the United States alone. According to a New York Times report, “Breaking Dawn,” the fourth and final installment, sold 1.3 million copies in its first 24 hours on sale.

NYT columnist Gail Collins read the first two novels and tried to search for the key to the series’ success. “The attraction is clearly the vampire hero, who is a perfect entleman, eternally faithful and — as the author points out repeatedly — quite a hunk,” she writes.  She then lifts some description of the vampire: “He lay perfectly still in the grass, his shirt open over his sculpted, incandescent chest, his scintillating arms bare … A perfect statue, carved in some unknown stone, smooth like marble, glittering like crystal.”

Like Harry Potter — whose story captivated millions of children and adults in the world with its last book selling 8.3 million copies on the first day — the Twilight books encourages young people to read. Collins notes: “Before you make fun of this, I want you to seriously consider whether you’re interested in denigrating people who spend their leisure time actually reading books rather than watching ‘America’s Got Talent’”.

In its review of the first book in the series, Amazon.com writes that “the precision and delicacy of Meyer’s writing lifts this wonderful novel beyond the limitations of the horror genre to a place among the best of [young adult] fiction.”

Read the first chapter of the first book on NYT.

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Recognizing Facebook’s huge membership — having been “recently ranked by M:Metrics as one of the sites people visit most often on their mobile devices” — Palm created Facebook for Palm.

I downloaded and tried to install it on my Treo 650, but it isn’t compatible with my device. Facebook for Palm is supposed to work with Palm Centro, Treo 755p and Treo 680 smartphones.

Here are more details about Facebook for Palm from the official Palm blog:

You can use Facebook for Palm to:

• Send and receive messages
• View and post status updates
• View and post photos from your smartphone
• See your friends’ profiles and photos
• Read and write Wall posts
• View News Feed
• Upload videos taken from your Palm smartphone
• Use a mobile “Contacts” tab that aggregates friends phone numbers – view your list of friends and dial or text them directly

Maybe Palm could also come up with Friendster for Palm and Orkut for Palm for its customers in Asia and South America, respectively.

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StyleTap Platform, I learned, is a mobile software that enables thousands of applications written for Palm OS to run on other devices. Styletap for WM has long been available, while a version for Symbian is already in beta testing. The iPhone version will be released this July.

A free 14-day trial of StyleTap Platform may be downloaded for free on its official website. A registered copy costs US $49.95.

Isn’t it great to know that you may enjoy the wifi capability of WM and Apple devices and still run your favorite Palm apps on it?

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Their free games include a series of IPuzzle Basic games, Logic Puzzle, Roman Table, Illusion Cubes, JoQPo, HandMemory, Stonestris and Triball. I downloaded and installed IPuzzle Basic edition 6 and Stonestris. IPuzzle is basically a sliding puzzle where you move squares one at a time to to correctly complete an image. Stonestris, is — of course — a tetris game. Handycase games may not be as crisp as the usual commercial ones, but they are still worth trying.

Other freeware from them include HandTube, a utility for YouTube users; HandClock, an analog clock; Priorities, an app that organizes your priorities; FreeContacts, a contacts and reminder suite; HandDraw, a paint-type app for Palm; TopicList, a to-do-list-type app that organizes information and tasks; and HandWriter, a text editor.

Handycase also offers a diverse line of commercial software for personal, professionals and corporate use.

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• Palm Bible Plus
• World English Bible for Bible+

Just download the files, then save it to the Launcher folder on your SD card. For more info, visit the Palm Bible+ website.

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Google Maps offers maps–of course– as well as real-time traffic details in over 30 major US metropolitan areas and detailed route with step-by-step directions on how to reach a certain location

I thought Google Maps only renders maps and data for locations in the United States. Since I’m in the Philippines and I have no need for US maps, I did not bother downloading it.

But earlier this week, I got excited upon learning from the Fire Eye’d Boy that Google Maps also renders Philippine locations and displays some major roads. Last night, I downloaded and installed it on my Treo 650.

The first location that I saw on Google Maps on my Treo was San Francisco. I showed it to Mhay and she thought it’s San Francisco Del Monte, an area in Quezon City. We later learned it’s actually the city in California where many Filipinos live.

I zoomed out the map and dragged it until it showed other states and countries. When I reached the Philippines, I zoomed in on Marinduque, my province. The map showed only the national road and the names of the six towns. Higher in the map were the southern Luzon provinces and cities. I zoomed in on Quezon City, and it indeed displayed the major roads like EDSA, Quezon Ave, Aurora, and E. Rodriquez.

At present, Google Maps can only be a substitute to the generic Philippine map we generally see in bookstores. It can tell us on which part of the province a certain town can be found and show how the national highways pass through these towns. It also shows the cities and municipalities and some of the bigger roads in the metro. but it cannot help us yet in locating specific establishments or knowing which streets are congested.

Hopefully, these useful functionalities will be available soon.

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Snap is like a digital memo pad you can use to take notes that you could later it turn into appointments, contacts, tasks and more.

Here are more features from Splashdata.com:

* A central place to put all your notes that you want to organize later.
* One tap icons along the right quickly convert text to appointments, addresss book items, tasks, memos and more.
* Treo features including battery level, reception indicator, and dialing.

Download Snap until 11:59 p.m. CST today at Handango.com.

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Gaya ng ikinuwento ko sa ederic@cyberspace, kakapalit ko lang ng operating system ko. Mula sa Windows XP ay lumipat ako sa Ubuntu, isang Linux-based operating system. Di tulad ng mga OS ng Microsoft, libre ito. Nalaman ko ring sa una lang ito mukhang mahirap gamitin.

Sa pagpapalit ko ng OS, ang compatibility nito sa Treo ko ang isa sa mga concerns ko. Ayon naman sa mga nabasa ko, ayos lang ang Palm at Ubuntu. Totoo naman. Eto nga ang isinulat ko sa kabilang blog:

Inalala ko rin yung pagda-download ko ng mobile news sites sa Treo gamit ang AvantGo account ko. Akala ko, mahihirapan ako. But no! Mabilis kong nai-configure ang Palm OS Devices settings, at nakapag-sync ako nang walang hassle. Na-update rin ang AvantGo ko nang di ko na kailangang mag-download at install ng karagdagang software. Ang hinahanap ko na lang ngayon, kung nasaan sa Desktop PC ko yung mga contacts na nai-sync ko, hehe. Mamaya o bukas, madi-diskubre ko rin iyon.

Nalaman ko na ang sagot sa tanong ko. Sa Evolution Mail client pala nasi-sync ang mga datos galing sa Palm ko. Nakita ko ito matapos kong i-set up ang Gmail account ko sa Evolution. Sa kabila nito, siyempre, hinahanap-hanap ko ang Palm Desktop, na sa Windows at Mac lang available.

Dahil dito, sinubukan ko ang KPilot. Hindi ko ito napagana. In the process, nagkaproblema pa pati ang AvantGo download ko. Dahil dito, naisip kong kadalasa’y dapat tayong ma-kontento sa kung anumang meron tayo, at huwag nang maghanap nang mas higit pa sa kaya natin. Applicableito sa buhay, pero lalo na sa mga gadget at computer. Kung hindi, either made-depress o magagastusan lang tayo.

Pero makulit pa rin talaga ako, lalo na kung may pagkakataon. Kahapon, naisip kong i-reinstall na naman ang OS dahil sa hang pa rin nang hang ang PC at na-corrupt ata ang files dahil sa forced na pagrere-start. Ang bago at malinis na installation ay muling nagbigay sa akin ng idea na subukan ang isa pang mala-Palm Desktop linux application : ang J-Pilot.

Noong una, bigo pa rin ako. Sinunod ko ang mga instruction dito, dito, at dito, at nag-experiment ako sa settings. Dinownload at in-install ko na rin yung plugins. Sa kakakalikot, finally ay gumana na ang J-Pilot, pati ang AvantGo.

Sabi ko nga sa Palm Forums, ito ang unang “successful and complete” hotsync ko sa Ubuntu.

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Buti na lang at sa kaka-google ay natagpuan ko ang MiniTones ni Nicolas Pabion. Libre lang ito. Kapag na-install mo ang MiniTones sa Treo mo, hahanapin nito ang MP3 files sa phone mo at puwede mong piliin ang gusto mong idagdag sa ringtones mo.

Mada-download ang MiniTones sa MyTreo.net. Eto pa ang karagdaang info mula pa rin sa MyTreo.net: “[MiniTones] also features a file splitter so you can use a section of a song instead of the whole song. A drawback to this is that it copies the file to main memory and can be a memory hog. Usage of the files does not require the app to be installed.”

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Sa Palm blog ko nakita itong TreoTwit. Kailangang i-download at i-install ang TreoTwit, at siyempre dapat may Internet connection ka para makapag-post ng updates. May links din ang TreoTwit papunta sa Twitter pages na kapag pinindot ay mabubuksan sa Blazer o alinmang browser na gamit mo.

Ito ang link papunta sa unang post ko gamit ang TreoTwit. Yung nga lang, hindi mo maa-identify bilang galing sa TreoTwit dahil from Web lang ang label nito.

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