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Looking to get the most out of your PDA? Why not do it for free? Here are some of our favorite free utility programs.
Lexi
From the Developer: Lexi is a free flashcard program that helps you to study any topic, anywhere, at your pace. You may use it to memorize vocabulary, or to practice any other subject that can be written as a pair of question (prompt) and answer on flashcards.
Flash Math
From the Developer: Flash Math is a mathematic educational tool for children in elementary grades. Children in years past have always practiced their basic mathematics by using flash cards. This learning methodology is highly effective in sharpening children's computational capacity but lacks dynamic feedback.
MathAce
From the Developer: In MathAce you train simple math - addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. You setup the characteristica of the quiz - if it should be timed, what kind of operations you'd like, sizes of the operands, size of the answer and if you'd like negative numbers to be in the quiz. MathAce will then display a simple equation for you to solve.
ChemTable
From the Developer: ChemTable is a freeware periodic table application that runs on Palm OS handhelds. The program is quite straightforward to use. Tapping on any of the element boxes in the periodic table will bring up a form showing a list of physical/chemical properties. You can display either element symbols or atomic numbers in the table.
EzFTP
From the Developer: Easy to use FTP client with GUI. Lets you exchange files/databases between your device's internal memory or expansion card and an FTP server.
Shots 2005
From the Developer: Shots 2005 is a quick reference guide to the 2005 Childhood Immunization Schedule, a collaboration of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), and the 2004-2005 Adult Immunization Schedule, recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).
Agile Messenger
From the Developer: Agile Messenger is an Instant Messenger for your mobile telephone supporting ICQ, AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, QQ and Wireless Village.
Programmer's Little Black Book
Just in case you're curious, Programmer's Little Black Book was created and developed by your Palmtops/PDA Guide as a way to give back to the PDA freeware community. Are you a programmer looking to keep track of your software development?
Minibar
rom the Developer: Minibar is a bartending application for PalmOS. It includes a database of over 450 mixed drink recipes and filters for searching by drink and ingredient type.
Snap
From the Developer: Snap is a freeware software performing screenshots. Screenshots are saved as .bmp files on the expansion card.. Palm OS 5 is required. The main configuration screen of Snap is used to configure the filename prefix, and the hard key of the palm triggering a screenshot.
Schoolwork
From the Developer: Using the Palm OS application "Schoolwork" a student can manage all her/his homework, marks and his/her timetable. You'll get used to the very flexible and neat user environment in a matter of days (if not hours), and when you're used to it, you don't want to go to school without it!
Tide Tool
From the Developer: Tide Tool displays tide and current graphs and tables for over 6900 locations worldwide. Displays times of sunrise/sunset and moonrise/moonset, and moon phases. Covers years 1998 to 2031. User-selectable units of height and speed.
JPad
From the Developer: Get over 80% more space on your handheld screen. Get rid of those annoying text entry underlines in your memo pad edit form. This is not a hack. JPad is an alternative to the "memo pad" application aimed at providing you with more viewable text on your screen.
PlanMyDay
From the Developer: PlanMyDay imports todays entries from the built in calendar and todo application. Then the user can assign a duration for every entry and move them in the order the appointments should be done. So the use can see what to do first and what can be done today.
Forgot Something?
From the Developer: You will never lose anything anymore while going on a trip with this application. There are menus like Food, Contact, Turn ON/OFF, Accessories and more! In every menu there is a premade list of things to take with you but you can make your own custom list if premade list from chosen menu isn't enough!
PolyNote
From the Developer: The goal of this application is to provide a convenient all-in-one place for note taking. Multitude of note forms are (or will be) taken into account, including memo (text note), sketch drawing, voice memo, check list.
ProfileMD Classic
From the Developer: ProfileMD Classic is a FREEWARE personal health record that can give you instant access to your medical history in case of emergencies, physician office visits, or anytime you need the details of your medical history from your PalmOS PDA.
Pocket Flag
From the Developer: In these hard times show your pride. Carry the flag of the strongest country in the world.
Profiles
From the Developer: Missing profiles of you mobile phone on your Treo 600? Using this freeware application you can create any number of 'profiles' and switch between them instantly - in the same way as on your mobile phone...
Forest
From the Developer: Forest is a small PalmOS program. It organizes notes in folders, with subfolders, subsubfolders, etc.... It has been tested under PalmOS 4 and 5, and should work from palmOS 3.5 and better.
EZBuy
From the Developer: EZBuy helps you to make your supermarket list and shopping. You can divide the products by categories (fully editable), edit the currency and mass unity. The program can also make one estimation of how much you will spend. There are a lot of features that help you to make an easy buy.
Piggy Bank
From the Developer: Do you know how much you had put in to your piggy bank and this simple program will help you keep track the running total of it all the time.
McSchedule
From the Developer: A scheduling program to record your start/end times, lunch start/end times, hours worked, date, if you open or close the business, set alarms, and work related notes.
MyCheckbook
When it comes to software to balance your checkbook, this is one of the best programs available. You'll definitely want to check out this grat piece of software.
FileZ v6.7
From the Developer: Filez is an easy to use file manager for the Palm OS. Use it to remove, beam, or modify any file on your handheld.It's useful for removing old programs/databases and for telling some files to back themselves up.
Blast Pad
Blast Pad is a shortcut utility, allowing you to quickly and easily access your favorite applications with as little as two simple button presses. You can set up to 16 onscreen buttons as well as 6 hardware buttons to different applications, and you can set an unlimited number of categories that can switch each button's meaning.
GeekSounds
GeekSounds is a simple but cool piece of software that adds additonal alarm sounds to your Palm based PDA. Includes alarms like: Airwolf, Back To The Future, Battlestar Galactica, Indiana Jones, Mortal Kombat Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Wars: Death Star, X-Men and more
KsDatebook
KsDatebook is a great replacement for the built-in Datebook of Palm OS.
Grade v2.0
This program will help you to keep track all the grades about all homework assignments, quiz, school project, exam etc, so you know what grades you are for different classes.
BigClock
This program is one of the essential pieces of software for Palm based PDAs. The nice thing about the clock is it's large enough to be used as a bedside clock. Be sure to check this great piece of free software out.
HappyDays
HappyDays will help you remember the birthdays and anniversaries of your friends and family members.
Graffiti Anywhere
Graffiti Anywhere allows you to use the Graffiti recognition system anywhere on the screen.
Benchmark
Benchmark 2.0 measures your Palm or Visor's CPU speed and bus bandwidth utilization, and shows how your device measures up relative to other models
X-Master Extension (Hack) Manager
X-Master is a free, stable, easy-to-use hack/extension management program.
Today
This great piece of software for your Palm mimics the Today screen on Pocket Pc. Makes a great starting point for you daily routine.
Bigclock
This free program is simply a Big Clock on your Palm. A Simple but beautiful piece of software.
Projects
Projects is a power user's dream. Projects is a ToDo replacement that allows you to use multiple projects and categories. This is by far one of my favorite programs for Palm
GeekSounds
GeekSounds is a simple but cool piece of software that adds additonal alarm sounds to your Palm based PDA.
cLaunch
cLaunch is one of the best Today Screen launchers you'll find. What makes it different from most launchers is the fact that you can create multiple tabs for different categories

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