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TamsPalm-the Palm OS Blog is an interesting blog by Palm developer, Tam Hanna. The site is updated several times a day by Tam and a number of contributors and includes Palm OS tips and secrets, product reviews, general musings on the future of the handheld scene and the process of software development along with a number of technical pieces replete with code examples. Tam's the guy who wrote the utility that lets the Netfront browser (which normally only works on Sony Clies) run on Palm branded devices.

Tam is using a Wordpress theme called Lesbar to create the PDA version of the blog. Lesbar strips the blog down to a single column containing just the blog items along with a search box at the top and a form for writing to the "shoutbox" at the bottom. In general, Lesbar does it's job allowing a mobile user to read sequentially through the blog starting with the most recent post. Like CoolSmartPhone, the pages are big - so you need something like a Palm Treo or Opera Mini to fully appreciate the TamsPalm site.

Update: Tamspalm no longer offers the Lesbar theme and worse yet the current theme is terrible for mobile users. The best way to read TamsPalm on your phone is with an RSS reader like Bloglines Mobile.

I don't have any Palm OS devices anymore and hadn't visited MyTreo in quite awhile. I was pleasantly surprised when I dropped by the site yesterday and discovered that they now have mobile versions of everything; the news blog using Alex King's WordPress Mobile Plugin, two mobile versions of the Forum (Regular and Lite) and a mobile version of MyTreo Downloads. The download store is particularly impressive. It's a searchable database of thousands of open source, freeware, shareware and commercial Palm OS and Windows Mobile games and applications. There are screenshots and user reviews for almost all of them. They even have the hard to find, now that Palm has abandoned it, IBM Java run-time needed to use Opera Mini on Palm devices.

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Formerly called Pre Central, this site covers news and rumors about the Pre, Pre 2, Pre 3, Pixi, Veer and Touchpad devices and the recently open sourced WebOS platform. Also features a mobile friendly forum and homebrew apps gallery.

WebOS Internals' Wiki is one of the leading independent resources for WebOS developers and the vibrant homebrew community. HP and Palm before them have been quite supportive of people who want to access Linux (aka root) and hack their Pres, Pixis, Veers and TouchPads. HP even donated a $10,000 server to WebOS Internals to better host the site.

The mobile version of WebOS Internals has selected content from of the full version of the Wiki.

Palm news, runnors and product annoucements updated daily. New items daily

Palm news, opinions and reviews. Updated daily. Poor usability on mobile devices due to formating that requires horizontal scrolling even on PDA browsers like NetFront and the latest version of Palm's Blazer.

Comprehensive, catergorized directory of Palm OS OpenSource software. Capsule descriptions of each app. All software can be downloaded from the site.

Sister site to PocketPCFreeware.mobi. Over 9000 Palm OS freeware downloads. These are nicely done sites with user reviews and comments and screen shots of each application. I hope they do a SymbianFreeware.mobi.

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