The November 2004 meeting of TAPIT found more than a dozen happy handheld enthusiasts gathered in a formerly quiet corner of this purportedly WiFi enabled restaurant. There was an access point somewhere nearby called PANERA, and everyone got a fairly strong signal, but there were huge gaps in connectivity. Several Palms and laptops never got online at all. A few got on sporadically, but none really enjoyed what I would call full wireless connectivity. I guess this was due to the fact that this place is just on the fringes of the known part of the Internet. Does anyone REALLY live out this far!?!? Sheesh!
That being said
, we still had fun. Several folks from Motricity were there, and even brought swag! The main subject of the meeting was a presentation on Facer, a very versatile application that can be downloaded from the link in our listserv for a 25% discount ($15, rather than $21). It's a launcher, a to-do list and appointment reminder, and a file manager all in one. And, as Jeff, our presenter said, it's got some nice eye candy going as well! And that's not always a bad thing.
In addition to Facer, we again went over the requirements of Margi's Presenter Pro. Since we couldn't get online reliably enough to check the web sites, however, we had to rely on what we each had experienced. Guess that's why they call these things user groups!
