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• Hard To Cut!!
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  I have just started this project and using an exacto knife and a pocket knife (both very sharp) its taking FOREVER to cut all the pages! Deas anyone have on idea as how to cut them faster?
  Thanks
  -Gigman

  Posted by Gigman on September 01, 2006 at 13:54:45 Pacific Time

• Gotta Have One of These!
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  I loved this article. Read it over and over. Then I ordered a keyboard on Ebay and started looking for my old Palm III. One question though. The author mentions that he would use bluetooth if he had to do it over again. I have done a lot of searching over the past couple of days, but cannot find anyone who has put bluetooth into a Palm III, but it certainly seems that it shouuld be possible to connect the serial transmission lines of the connector to a bluetooth dongle, and power it from the main board when turned on.
  
  I found a bluetooth serial end plug for using old serial devices via bluetooth, but they are very expensive and it doesn't seem too elegant a solution. My area of making is primarily gunsmithing with the occasional batch of homebrew thrown in. Anyone out there have input on how to hack a bluetooth adapter into this little beauty that someone with pretty rudementary electronic knowledge could perform? I'd love to hear about it.

  Posted by Dacotti on August 21, 2006 at 15:56:01 Pacific Time

• Gotta Have One of These!
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  Did you use any particular keyboard?
  What are the dimensions?

  Posted by Odovacer on August 22, 2006 at 12:27:22 Pacific Time

• Gotta Have One of These!
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  Dacotti, I'm humbled by your enthusiasm for the article. I hope your Palm project turns out great! When I was writing the article, I was already thinking about the next version and how it would use a recent palmpilot (with bluetooth). For the Palm III, I think the wired keyboards are the way to go.
  
  I hope everyone who attempts this can find the keyboards for reasonable prices. After reading your comment, I did a search, and was shocked at how much people are charging. I was given my Landware GoType by a friend.
  
  

  Posted by allenwong on August 23, 2006 at 22:53:13 Pacific Time

• Gotta Have One of These!
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  Ahhh. So the Bluetooth thing was more for the keyboard connection? I was thinking in terms of a more convenient way to hotsynch. However, I get the sense that a Bluetooth USB dongle, while it doesn't need drivers with later versions of Windows, or at all with Mac OS X, needs some intelligence to tell it what kind of a port the device want's it to be. Thus, there would need to be some kind of program on the Palm III that could talk via a bluetooth USB dongle.
  
  I was also thinking of looking into the ease of moving the IR port to the back of the book binding or somewhere that it could point at a USB IR dongle connected to my PC. I had a friend at work a few years ago who synched via IR, and he just pinned up a CD to his cube wall to reflect the signal to the back of his laptop where the IR port was visible. That could get rid of the wire at least. Any way, lots to tinker with this winter after the firewood and hay are put up. ;^)
  
  PS - I'm thinking of using
  24 Hours in Cyberspace
  as the donor book. Just about the right form factor I think.

  Posted by Dacotti on August 24, 2006 at 11:32:08 Pacific Time

• Gotta Have One of These!
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  The author, Allen Wong, used a Landware keyboard at the link above. I ordered a Belkin because of the low price, but I am kicking myself now. I really wanted a Palm keyboard, that folds up to about the size of the palm pilot itself. I got to thinking that with that one, I could use a smaller book, and make the outer sides of the keyboard fold into the middle to fit within the sides of the book.

  Posted by Dacotti on August 22, 2006 at 14:05:15 Pacific Time

• fantastic
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  Great job. Substitute a Palm T|X and you have in my opinion the perfect mobile device.
  
  That book wouldn't happen to be "HTML publishing on the Internet" by Kenny Chu, Francis Chin would it?

  Posted by j_knight on August 17, 2006 at 09:57:40 Pacific Time

• fantastic
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  Thanks! For the next one, I thought I'd break down and get the TX.

  Posted by allenwong on August 23, 2006 at 22:44:38 Pacific Time