Yard Sale/Swap Meet, anyone?

The regional Mac user group has a swap meet every year or so, to allow members to shift their equipment and software from one person to another. They're kind of fun, if you're geeky enough to enjoy that sort of thing. (What am I saying - this is the website for a group of PDA users!)

So, I'm proposing we do the same at our next meeting - look through your basement, closets, or the Dead PDA Drawer and pull out all the stuff you no longer use or want, and bring it out. We'll set up tables, have "show and tell" of the strangest devices and software, and I'll have a few t-shirts and maybe some more stuff to give away.

It's a central meeting month, but instead of lugging stuff into Panera, perhaps I can arrange to get a different location with a bit less public face. More as details become known.

New post of interest to Mac folks

I have posted an article about Mac apps for Palm over on my personal blog. Thought you folks might be interested.

October Meeting

The October meeting of TAPIT will be at the Panera in Patterson Place. This is the new shopping center on the Durham side of 15/501 from I-40. Here is the google map page.

We have lots to discuss: the selling of PalmSource, the Windowization of the Treo, the Palm® TX handheld, the Palm z22, and other news. Plus, there's the new portability options from Apple in the form of the video iPod, downloadable TV shows at $2 a pop, and I'm sure bunches of other items of interest. See you all there, 6:30, WiFi at the ready.

Tonight's meeting location - Panera in Centrum on Walnut in Cary

(I can't think of a way to add more prepositional phrases to the title.)

Centrum is the shopping center just past Crossroads on Walnut on the right. They have WiFi, and it's a good sized store for a meeting.

I apologize for not getting this updated sooner. I have been out of town working over the weekend, and my plane was diverted and the flight cancelled last night - long story.

Directions:
I-40 to Hwy 1 South, Get off immediately at Walnut Street.

Turn Left onto Walnut Street, go through 4 lights. The 4th
light is at Dillard Drive, just past the Lowe's Home Improvement Center on yur right.

After passing through the light, take a right into Centrum Center.

Take the very first right, and you'll pass by Carolina Ale House. The next group of buildings is anchored by the Panera.

New HotSpot directory

I just had to pass this along. Alan Hoyle just sent me a link to the best HotSpot directory I've seen yet. It's very complete, fast, and uses something we've not seen in a while - straight HTML. No funky Java, Ajax, or Flash to trip up your Palm's browser, just pure, sweet HTML, the way the Web was meant to be.

http://www.wi-fihotspotlist.com/browse/us/2000252/

That's just the NC hotspots. The searching and such is pretty easy to find spots in other states and countries.

Go forth and surf!!!

4-18-05 Meeting Links

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Aeroplayer at Aerodrome.us

Blog upgrades

This blog now has a working syndication feed (you'll find a link in the sidebar). It's an Atom feed (because Blogger no longer supports RSS), but it should work with most aggregators. Let me know if you have problems with it.

I also gave the blog a makeover with a new template because the original one was really primitive and ugly. But I've saved a copy of the old template, just in case everyone hates the new one.

This is my way of making up for missing three meetings in a row.