Apt

I was in discussions with a user from 1src.com quite awhile back, named Pent, as he was working on a new Palm application called PAP.  PAP was a Palm application that would basically, allow you to completely customize your Palm to do exactly what you wanted to do, on a Per ApPlication basis.  The overwhelming support for this application by 1src members, and the hardwork by Pent, eventually turned it into an excellent work of art, Apt/Aptitude.

Here’s an example of what you can do with Apt, by my own configurations.

1.  Pressing my fourth hard button on my TX launches Resco Explorer, pressing again launches Memo Pad.
2.  Press my third hard button and contacts launches, again launches tasks.
3.  After reset, the calendar is displayed, set automatically to display my “today” calendar view.
4. The DIA is set to, after every application launch, change to the standard two part graffiti screen, and then minimize.
5. Press my first hard button for one second, and ThumboardDA launches, to ease in text entry.
6. When TCPMP launches, the auto-off time is disabled, and the screen switches to landscape, the brightness is also set to 150.

There is also an option within the program, which I newly discovered via other 1src members, where you can disable Apt for specific programs.  For instance, every so often I launch the application LJP, (Little John) which is an emulator for NES, Atari and others.  This program (LJP) absorbs many resources, so to launch it, many applications need to be disabled that run in the background.  I configured Apt, so that when LJP launches, Apt is to disregard the standard default preferences, as well as all event/trigger queues.  As a result, the two programs co-exist quite well!  This is amazing as my device is tricked out with the newly released SkinUI, as freeware, as well as many other programs, and all applications run as smoothly as they should.

There is so much more that you can do with this application, that an entire WIKI has been established, for users to help, and contribute configurations and ideas to other users.

This truely is an amazing application.

You can download the demo at http://apt.dinglisch.net/
You can read up on the wiki at http://apt-palm.wikidot.com/

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