Wednesday, July 17, 2002
Palm Reader branches out to the desktop
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "SOFTWARE" @ 04:00 AM
http://www.peanutpress.com/product/reader/browse/free
If you are interested in either creating or reading ebooks on your Pocket PC and your desktop, Palm Digital Media has something you may like. They now have their free Palm Reader available for Windows and Macintosh desktops. Clearly Palm Digital Media is gunning for far more than ebooks on your PDA, squaring off against Microsoft Reader. By having a version for Windows, Pocket PCs, Macs and PalmOS devices, the Palm ebook format is available on the widest array of devices, something to consider if you want a broad audience for your material. If I had to guess, I would say they are working on ebook formats suitable for technical and reference manuals, striving to be the de facto ebook format.
Requirements for Mac is OS 8.6 or later, using CarbonLib 1.5 or later/Mac OS X 10.1 or later and for Windows is Windows 98/ME/NT 4.0/2000/XP. Their Windows CE support is second to none as well, supporting all Pocket PC's, Handheld PC's and Palm-sized PC's. (Side note: I am seeing almost weekly another piece of software that doesn't support Windows 95.) Source: Alan Barlow.
If you are interested in either creating or reading ebooks on your Pocket PC and your desktop, Palm Digital Media has something you may like. They now have their free Palm Reader available for Windows and Macintosh desktops. Clearly Palm Digital Media is gunning for far more than ebooks on your PDA, squaring off against Microsoft Reader. By having a version for Windows, Pocket PCs, Macs and PalmOS devices, the Palm ebook format is available on the widest array of devices, something to consider if you want a broad audience for your material. If I had to guess, I would say they are working on ebook formats suitable for technical and reference manuals, striving to be the de facto ebook format.
Requirements for Mac is OS 8.6 or later, using CarbonLib 1.5 or later/Mac OS X 10.1 or later and for Windows is Windows 98/ME/NT 4.0/2000/XP. Their Windows CE support is second to none as well, supporting all Pocket PC's, Handheld PC's and Palm-sized PC's. (Side note: I am seeing almost weekly another piece of software that doesn't support Windows 95.) Source: Alan Barlow.
