By Heather McDaniel
Free stuff. We all love it. PalmPower's Site of the Month is Trevor's Home Page, a site that has a bunch of free programs for your Palm device with an educational and historic bent.
The site is owned and operated by Trevor Livett. As a Palm device owner with an interest in programming, Trevor wanted a way to share his programs with others with the same interests. This prompted him to create a site that would allow him to do just that.
You can get programs such as Famous Deaths (in case you need it for your Dead Pool game); a James Bond program which includes the car, gadget, Bond girl, and more; and Kings & Queens, which gives detailed information on British monarchs from 802 to present day.
The programs he has created are mainly educational and historic. Figure A shows that they're categorized into different formats such as JFile and cbasPad, as well as stand alone PC programs.
FIGURE A
Trev's Home Page contains a lot of free programs for your Palm device. (click for larger image)
Trevor tried to make these files as varied as possible to appeal to a wide range of people, so he included HTML documents for those that do not have Palm devices. And once again, the programs are free.
You need JFile to view these programs under the JFile category. JFile is basically a database program, and the programs Trevor created are the data or information that can be viewed after this program is installed. JFile is readily available from any Palm-related site or as an evaluation download from http://www.land-j.com. To read an article in the July issue of PalmPower about JFile, visit http://www.palmpower.com/issues/issue199807/jfile001.html.
The same applies to programs in the cbasPad category, but unlike JFile, cbasPad is the actual code, just like Qbasic for Windows. cbasPad is free and can be downloaded from http://www.nicholson.com/rhn/.
Check out Trevor's Palm site (now with a Christmas theme) at http://members.aol.com/TJLivett.
Product availability and resources
You can get JFile at http://www.land-j.com.
cbasPad can be found at http://www.nicholson.com/rhn/.
Your site can earn this special banner
Do you run a special site, one that provides a great resource for Palm device users? If so, your site may be eligible for consideration as the PalmPower Site of the Month. If chosen, you'll even be entitled to display the snazzy banner shown in Figure B.
FIGURE B
Is your site cool enough to be the PalmPower Site of the Month?
If you'd like your site to be considered for PalmPower Site of the Month, send email to heather@palmpower.com. Please specify "PALMPOWER COOLSITE" in the subject field of your email, and include a paragraph or two about what makes your site special.
