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I love my Palm Zire - I keep all of my contact details, expenses, etc on there. The only thing I don’t do with it right now is email - but that’s only because the Mail.app conduit doesn’t handle emails sent properly - and it’s usually easier to use Gmail. Imagine my chagrin, then when weird stuff began to happen - extra screen taps (that I didn’t make) interfering with my use of the handheld. It meant that I couldn’t read my eBooks under certain lighting (halogen downlights seem to worsen the problem). Same with driving at night - perhaps there is some flickering, or the sodium lights affected it too. It came to a head when it began to mark my To-Do items as ‘Done’. This is unbearable - how do I know if I’ve cleaned the car or not, if my Zire says I have? I searched through the PalmOne site and forums (by the way, they still haven’t acknowledged the Zire 21/Digital Mobile Phone resetting issue, apparently!) and finally found a post that said to re-calibrate the screen. Easier said than done, since the problem had become so bad as to cause other programs to be run, and when I finally managed to get into the Prefs, and then the Calibration section, random taps were causing the little red circles to jump willy-nilly from top to bottom. Eventually I got in three presses before the gremlins, and bingo, problem solved. Moral of this story: if you start having problems with extra screen taps, run the calibration program sooner, rather than later!

I don’t use Safari. I keep removing it from my Dock (right next to the Finder icon), yet it keeps reappearing! And not every time I restart/log-in.

I wrote a script some time ago that puts a new fortune into my Mail.app signature. However, it doesn’t seem to save the signature between restarts of the application, unless I manually open and then close the Preferences window (and the Signatures pane of this window). How bizarre!

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We watched “Secret Window” the other day - Jaq has a thing about Johnny Depp. Jason had said somehting about it not really being that good, and I didn’t agree with him, until the very end. I just didn’t care if he killed his wife or not. In fact, I was kind of hoping he would. You just didn’t get the chance to care enough about her as a character, and in fact you didn’t like her much, so too bad if she carked it.