Palm / Pocket PC Device Helping Anyone?

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Thanks CSPB for the info. on Handstory, I have it installed on my palm now and can keep up to date with ICN, CIN, Zenit, and also Catholic Culture’s “Today” page without very little fuss - very much appreciated.

For those who have plenty space on their palm, you might want to try this free Rosary software - no verses just icons here, I find them very contemplative - so if you prefer this kind of approach to the Rosary this may be for you.

freewarepalm.com/religion/artimagerosary.shtml

And for pocket PC users here are a few links I’ve come across in case you haven’t found them already…

freewareppc.com/
ppc.palmopensource.com/

God bless,

Deek
 
This is a great thread. I will be getting more stuff for my Palm from this. I use AvantGo/Mobile Gabriel, Liturugy of the Hours Apostolate, Rosary, Stations of the Cross, and I will often copy and paste documents I find places like EWTN or basically any web site I find interesting into a Word document, and then load up the document into a Word reader I have.

Thanks for all the links. 👍 :clapping: :tiphat:
 
DVina, I just remembered that mobile gabriel has a text file version of the catechism for download, if you have “documents to go” or similar text file reader installed you should be able to hotsync this to your palm.

Please see following link…

mobilegabriel.com/

And go to the “downloads” page.

Hope this helps, or PM me if you have any problems.

God bless,

Deek
 
Just got my Pocket PC from Dell about a month ago. Have not loaded much on it yet but I will be in the future due to travel commitments.

PF
 
I was given one for Christmas two years ago, I can’t read the screen, can’t manage the tiny buttons even with a stylus, and can’t face the effort of entering all that data, the so called easy downloads from the PC don’t work most of the time. It is too heavy and I don’t need my purse loaded down more than it already is. I don’t need the bible and other reference works on an instant access basis, so why tote around something I will not be using except occasionally? I have the info I phone numbers I need on my 4x6 pocket calendar, don’t need to be cluttered with more info than that on a day to day basis.
 
I have a PDA which is indispensible. Aside from its work applications, I have 80 books stored on it now (not all are Catholic). I have it with me all the time, so it’s handy when I am stuck in a line or a waiting room.

Brendan already mentioned my own site (thanks, Brendan!):

Catholic Classics for Microsoft Reader

I try to convert, format, and add books as I get the time, but I’ve been rather busy of late.

'thann
 
I am getting a Treo soon.
I am sure to reference this thread, so thanks in advance…
 
For those of you with the ability to access the internet on your mobile device, I recently developed:

mobile.myCatholic.com

It has daily Mass readings, the Saint of the Day, Quotes from the Saints, a Scripture Verse of the Day, and a daily Catechism study.

It’s a mobile version of the new customizable Catholic web portal:

myCatholic.com
 
Hi Windmill,
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Windmill:
I use my palm pilot to hold an examination of conscience.
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I have an examination of conscience on my night prayer document on my palm, its a table of mortal sins and next to each one I give my self marks out of ten for each I commit since my last confession, I find this great for keeping tabs for my next confession - and for prompting me when I’ve left things too late!

Please would you tell us how you go about holding an exam of conscience on your palm?

Many thanks,

Deek.
 
Yes - I’ll either download or create documents, transfer them to my Palm, and read when I’m waiting at the doctors office - even when I’ve been hospitalized three times this year - taking the train to Atlanta, etc. I also use it to keep track of what I need to confess, those whom I should include in my personal prayer intentions, general notes that I might make such as things for which to give God thanks. It’s really just a ‘replacement’ for the pocket notebook I used to keep in my suit pocket.

I suppose that I could, with a little effort, put the Catechism in a Filemaker database with all sorts of search fields and the like - hey! I just may do that.

It’s just a tool - it certainly can’t (at this time, anyway) replace a single book in the LotH (maybe if I ‘upgraded’ my Palm model and someone came out with the software - no, I think I prefer to heave that along when needs be; something about the tactile feel, the ink on paper). So yes, it’s a tool - pocket sized and more organized even than my old ‘slimline’ Filofax.

The thing is - so MANY items can be used to strengthen and maintain faith; look at this website - look at EWTN. The Vatican website is a gold mine! The ONLY thing that bothers me, sometimes, is when a diocese or a parish has a presence on the web but the material is so outdated that the smiling bishop on the home page may have been in retirement for a year and the current bishop might die or retire before the website is updated!
 
No, I use my Rosery. It’s batteries never go dead. I do occasionally wonder however, what St. Paul would have been like had he had the internet!
 
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