Perth Maps For Palm

Well after getting my Palm TX, I wanted to use it as a portable map for Perth, Australia. After reading a bit about GPS, it sounded pretty easy. Get a nice Bluetooth GPS unit, and the software will plot routes for me. Awesome :)

Unfortunately, GPS software for the Palm is not exactly easy to come by. In fact, there are only a couple of companies who do it. Of those companies, I could only find 2 for Australia. One looked ok, but not available for for Perth. The other was raster map based, so you can't really zoom. I don't want to pay for that!

Even the raster maps were not available for Perth! So, rather than pay for something that is not yet produced, we can use what's already out there: whereis.com.au. If you get the map for the area you want, view the printable image, then you can download that to your PDA. Easy, and works for Perth :)

Palm TX Buzz / Hum

Long time since my last post!
Well I just upgraded my PDA to a Palm T|X, and it's nice :)
When I got it however, the unit seemed to emit a high pitch buzz / humming noise. Apparently it's the pixel clock on the screen. You can get a free app that fixes it called WhineHack . At least, it fixed the problem on my unit!