Palm OS Programs

Battery Prefs

Description

Battery Prefs sets the default battery type of your Palm OS device. It also displays statistics such as voltage level and low battery warning levels. This program shows up in your Palm Preferences application (known as “Prefs”) and not in the application launcher.

This program displays various information for the current battery type. The battery type can be changed so that the low battery warning is properly calibrated. The warning and critical voltage levels change depending on the battery type selected. “Default” refers to the factory default battery type. Setting the battery to the wrong type may result in loss of data. Use this feature with caution.

CCrypt

Description

CCrypt is a simple encryption program for a Palm OS device.

McChords

Description

McChords will display the notes of sixty chords and forty-eight scales. It also has a four octave (six if your device has a collapsible graffiti area) playable piano with pitch pipe capability. The key and chord are selectable via onscreen buttons. There is an option to play the notes of a chord or scale as well as a pitch pipe.

McColors

Description

McColors is used to display all colors available on a Palm OS device.

McEcho

Description

McEcho is a sequence repetition game. Simply repeat the ever-growing sequence by tapping the appropriate ButtonLight (red, yellow, green and blue). Each level adds one more ButtonLight to the random sequence. As the levels progress the sequences get faster. The faster you repeat each sequence, the higher your score will be. At the completion of each level a bonus will be awarded.

McPhling

Description

McPhling allows you to quickly switch from your current application to the previous one by simply swiping your pen from the silkscreen “Apps” button into the upper-left graffiti area. In addition, a swipe from the “Menu” button to the “Apps” button will pop up a list of your most recently used applications (application list) for you to select.

Other Features of McPhling Include

• You can configure how McPhling is activated by configuring the swipes or by configuring it to work with buttons or keyboards. Jog Dials and custom buttons are supported.
• On a Palm OS 5 device, McPhling can be activated by tapping the McPhling icon in the command bar. The command bar can be made visible on most Palm OS devices by performing a swipe from the bottom left of the “abc” portion of the graffiti area to the upper right of the “abc” portion of the graffiti area. This swipe looks like a slash, “/”. If your Palm OS device has a keyboard there may be a key to bring up the command bar. Be sure to consult the documentation for your Palm OS device. Note that enabling this feature has been known to slow down the command bar on some devices.
• You can choose which applications will be ignored by McPhling from the preferences screen in HackMaster (or whatever Palm OS system extension manager you use).
• You can choose “favorite” apps which will always be shown in the applications list.
• You can choose DAs (Desk Accessories) to be launched by McPhling. Note that a DA must be set as a favorite in order for it to show up in the application list.
• Applications that reside on external memory cards show up and are underlined in the applications list.
• You can select the number of applications in the applications list.
• You can choose the order of the applications list. Ordering options are:
  • Most Recently Used
  • MRU with Favorites at Top
  • MRU with Favorites at Bottom
  • Alphabetical
  • Alphabetical with Favorites at Top
  • Alphabetical with Favorites at Bottom
• You can select whether the current application is displayed in the application list.
• You can select whether the last run non-ignored application is selected in the application list.
• You can clear the cache of applications stored by McPhling from the preferences screen.
• Small icons give you a visual cue in the most-recently-used list. Note that if an application does not have a small icon, it will not show up in McPhling.
• McPhling can be configured on whether icons are shown or whether there is a click when the application list is brought up.
• A second swipe from the “Menu” button to the “Apps” button will remove the applications list if it is already up.

McPhling5 is a stand-alone application that will only work in Palm OS 5.x. It has its own icon and shows up in the launcher.

McPhling4 requires a Palm OS system extension manager, such as HackMaster, in order to work. It will only work on Palm OS 3.x and 4.x. It is assumed that you are familiar with using Palm OS system extensions, so please read your Palm OS system extension software documentation before installing McPhling4. In particular, you should always disable system extensions before uninstalling or upgrading them.

There are various programs that are HackMaster compatible. Here are the ones that I am familiar with and recommend:

• X-Master by LinkeSOFT (original, bad link), freeware (my favorite);
• X-Master, by LinkeSOFT (from the Internet Archive Wayback Machine), freeware (still my favorite);
• TealMaster by TealPoint Software, shareware $9.95;
• HackMaster by DaggerWare, shareware $5.00.

Awards

• One of the winners of the 2001 HandEra 330 Software Developer’s Contest.

McRazor

Description

McRazor, the buzz of the Palm OS community, turns your Palm OS device into an electric razor.

Awards

• Finalist for Most Unusual Application at the Handheld Computing Best Product 2001 awards.

Owner

Description

Owner is a Palm application that brings up the “Owner” Palm preferences form. If your Palm OS device is lost and then found by an inexperienced Palm user, then this is an easy method (for inexperienced users) for finding the owner preference form. Owner is named with dashes (“-”) at the beginning and end of the name so that it will show up first in a list of applications.

Screen Prefs

Description

Screen Prefs sets the default screen color/gray scale depth and color scheme for your Palm OS device. It can handle screen modes from black and white (1-bit) all the way up to 16-bit color. This program shows up in your Palm Preferences application (known as Prefs) and not in the application launcher. However, it can be configured to show up in the application launcher.

TC Assist

Description

TC Assist is a tool designed to assist in filling out daily timecard entries. The user can enter start and stop time as well as the number of hours taken at lunch and hours worked. Either the start time, stop time or hours worked can be solved based on the other three parameters. An alarm option is also available.

TikTok

Description

TikTok is designed to be a simple, no nonsense, timer utility for a Palm OS device. Using it is dead simple. Tick on a checkbox to start a timer, edit its description to tell you what it is you are timing. Simple!

This is based on TikTok 1.07 by Dave Pearson.

Palm OS Articles

Read some Palm OS development and Memo Pad organization articles on Mike‘s Palm OS Articles page.