Hands-On Gear Reviews & Buying Guides for Every Home, Workshop & Adventure

PalmGear publishes honest, hands-on reviews and no-fluff buying guides for the gear that actually matters — RV accessories, home & kitchen tools, heat press machines, printers, radio equipment, and home networking. Every pick is independently researched so you buy right the first time.

Earth&Sun for Palm OS: Sunlight, Sunrise and World-Time Calculations on PalmPilot

A restored history of Earth&Sun, the PalmPilot program that visualized Earth's sunlit hemisphere and calculated sunrise, sunset, and longitude-based time. [full]

Foto Timer for Palm OS: A Photography Interval Timer for Palm Handhelds

Foto Timer was a freeware Palm OS interval timer that PalmGear listed under product ID 9302 and a 2002 astronomy column recommended for long exposures and darkroom work. [full]

Handspring Blazer for Palm OS: Early Mobile Web Browsing

A historical look at Handspring Blazer, the proxy-based Palm OS web browser that shipped on Treo phones from 2001 through 2006, later continued by palmOne. [full]

handX weblog for Palm OS: Blogging from a Palm Handheld

handX weblog was a free, standalone Palm OS application for writing blog posts offline and publishing them through a HotSync conduit rather than direct FTP. [full]

Jovian for Palm OS: Observing Jupiter and Its Moons on a Palm Handheld

A restored historical record of Jovian, Hans Anger's Palm OS utility for tracking Jupiter's Galilean moons and Great Red Spot, PalmGear product ID 6343. [full]

LFtp for Palm OS: The Freeware FTP Client for Palm Handhelds

A historical look at LFtp, the freeware command-line FTP client for Palm OS handhelds by Laurent Thaler, once listed on PalmGear and bundled with Torpedo and PHTML. [full]

Lucky Draw for Palm OS: History and Features

A restored historical record of Lucky Draw, a freeware lotto number generator PDAsoftnet released for Palm OS in 2002, rebuilt from archived PalmGear listings. [full]

Moonphase for Palm OS: Tracking Lunar Phases on a Palm Handheld

A historical restoration of Moonphase, the freeware Palm OS lunar-phase app by developer Steven Kienle that PalmGear cataloged as product ID 1489 back in 1998. [full]

NewPen for Palm OS: Writing Graffiti Directly on the Screen

A historical restoration of NewPen, the freeware Palm OS utility that let users write Graffiti directly on the screen instead of the dedicated Graffiti area — including its confirmed use on the Handspring Treo 90. [full]

Palm VersaMail 2.5: Email on Palm OS Handhelds

Palm VersaMail 2.5 shipped April 15, 2003 with scheduled mail polling, POP3/IMAP4/SMTP, basic HTML rendering, and an Outlook conduit. PalmGear listed it as product 48823. [full]