Rick's Palm Software Page

 tryda Directory Assistant for Treo, Kyocera, Others
 Minutes PLUS for Kyocera & Treo
Real World Blackjack
Smartphone and Palm Links  

Official Support discussion forum for all of the software above can be found HERE at pdaPhoneHome!

tryda^TM Directory Assistant by TelePages

tryda^TM was developed to connect you to the businesses, people, products and services you want, whenever and wherever you want. And tryda^TM is one of the simplest and fastest ways to get 411 information on your mobile device. Many users have told us that they love the following capabilities in tryda^TM, also known as Directory Assistant:

• Dial query results directly with one click
• Find Business Name
• Find Residential Name
• Reverse Query by Phone or Address
• Directions
• Maps

• Streamlined UI: We have simplified the look and feel of tryda^TM to minimize keystrokes and improve one-handed navigation with the 5-way navigation pad
• Find by Business Category
• Saved Favorites: save frequently-used queries and results to simplify and speed up retrieval of your most frequently used listings
• Use the three-digit airport code to specify the location of your query
• Auto-notification in tryda^TM when an update is available
• Send us feedback, comments and suggestions directly from tryda^TM

Minutes PLUS

Minutes PLUS is a powerful tool to monitor and estimate phone usage and provide useful calling pattern statistics.  Users familiar with the previous version called Minute Counter will recognize some features, but Minutes PLUS has so much more!

Below are some example data screens.  These are just examples, as you can now fully CUSTOMIZE the way Minutes PLUS shows data!

An overview of the major features (IMPORTANT!  Treo users note the features that are only available on Kyocera phones):

• Completely configurable to match most carriers' calling plans
• User definable screens with dozens of fields of calculated data available to put in any arrangement you like.
• Track minutes used and overage costs for Peak, OffPeak, Weekend, Data, Roaming, and Mobile to Mobile (single number or group).
• Track high speed "3G" data if your carrier counts this type of data as Minutes. (Kyocera 7135 ONLY)
• Track SMS (Text Messages), both incoming and outgoing. (Kyocera phones ONLY)
• Exclude calls to "free" numbers.
• Estimate period-end usage and costs.
• Accounts for Holidays, can add common US and Canadian holidays automatically.
• Can handle carriers that "split" calls between peak and off-peak.
• Calculate calling statistics for any number of individual phone numbers or Address Book categories, export the results.
• Set up Alarms to alert you when you are getting close to your category limits (Kyocera only).
• Adjustments screen to account for other phones' usage in multi-phone share plans and other discrepancies
• Beam your minutes for any period to other Smartphone users' shared adjustments.  This way, 2 or more Palm phones on a shared minutes plan can keep a more accurate tally of the entire plan's usage.
• View any previous period's data as far back as the call history has records.
• Show statistics for all the call history data stored on the device.
• Export any period's call history into ASCII format suitable for importing into desktop applications.  Uses Memo application records for the transfer of this data to the desktop.
• Override the maximum number call records kept beyond what the Call History application allows.  
• Configurable colors and fonts (where supported by hardware).
• Imports preferences and data from Minute Counter, if installed.

Important!  3G Minutes and SMS will only be tracked AFTER Minutes Plus is installed.  Plus, these are Kyocera-only features!

Donating via Paypal

If you feel like this program is worthy of your financial support I have included a button below preconfigured for a $10.00 donation.

Latest version: 1.07 posted on  10 November 2004 - Fix for Adjustments not being saved (TREO ONLY) .

Click here to see the Minutes PLUS Documentation

Click here to DOWNLOAD Minutes PLUS ZIP file with documentation included

Minute Counter

Notice:  You can still download Minute Counter, though no new updates will be done to it.  It has been superceded by Minutes PLUS above.

Latest version: 1.12 posted on  29 Jan 2003

Click here to DOWNLOAD Minute Counter ZIP file with readme.txt included

Real World Blackjack

• Full set of basic Strategy tables available from the main menu or from the Tables button while deciding what play action to take.
  
• The 4 hardware buttons and scroll buttons are used during play to Deal, take play actions, call up & scroll through tables. Thus you can play without taking out your stylus!
  
• Small memory requirement, only 26K.
  
• Full set of preferences to accommodate most casino rules:
  
  
  • Number of decks: 1, 2, 4, 6, or 8
  • Number of burn cards: 1-5
  • Shoe penetration, 60-90%
  • Show player's running score?
  • Warn on incorrect play (based on basic strategy rules)
  • Dealer hits soft 17?
  • Allow resplits? (up to 4 hands)
  • Allow double after split?
  • Allow Surrender? (Late)
  • Doubling types allowed: hard 11 only, hard 10 & 11, hard 9, 10 & 11, or any 2 cards
  
  
• Requires Palm OS 3.5 or later.

Donating via Paypal

If you feel like this program is worthy of your financial support I have included a button below preconfigured for a $10.00 donation.  Thanks!

Latest version: 1.16 posted on 9 May 2007 

• Added a new Drill mode to concentrate practice on certain types of hands.
  
  A new Actions menu choice, "Drill Mode", presents four (4) options: "All Cards, No Drill", "Splits Only", Soft Hands Only", and "Hard Hands Only". If any of the modes other than No Drill are selected, a small label appears on the main screen, and the behavior of the players initial hand are as follows:
  
  Splits: 1st card comes from deck, next card is just a duplicate of this one, not from the deck. Further split possibilities are by chance only.
  
  Soft: Draws 1st card from deck, if ace draw next one normally. If 1st card is NOT ace, put in fake ace (not from deck) for 2nd card. Take all remaining cards, including aces, from deck normally. This mode will also naturally tend to produce lots of bogus Blackjacks!
  
  Hard: Skip all drawn aces. If 2nd card is duplicate of 1st, ignore until a different one is reached.
  
  The Drill Mode is saved from one session to the next until you change it. Obviously, these drill modes mess with the "randomness" of the cards since some cards are fakes not drawn from the shoe. So it'd be best to ignore your "luck" in winning or losing in this case. It's meant to be a practice mode to see if you can quickly make the right plays in a certain area that may be harder to remember than others (like soft doubling, etc).
  
• Added some simple statistics to track correct basic strategy play. Tallies are kept for total number of decision opportunities (plays) for splits, soft hands, hard hands, and total. Incorrect counts for each instance and type are kept as well, regardless of whether you have the preference selected to warn on bad play. You can view the current stats by selecting "Show Stats" from the Action menu. You can reset these to 0 while viewing the stats, or select "Reset Stats" from the Action menu. Stats are also reset when you select and confirm "New Game" from the menu. Stats are retained when you exit the application and reloaded when you return.
  
• Added Some buttons on New Game/Change Bet screen to increment/decrement bet by $5 or $10.
  
• Fix for Up and Down rocker on 5-Way navs not working on play action & tables screens.
  
• Fixed for spurious negative signs in display of cash amounts like $-999 to $-100 and $-999,999 to $-100,000.

Click here to see the Blackjack Read Me file


Click here to DOWNLOAD Blackjack ZIP file with readme.txt included

Nothing planned for now.

Links

pdaPhoneHome
Great all around Smartphone information and the best discussion boards going for the 7135 and 6035, in addition to many other brands!

Palm Developer Pages
I get a lot of questions about how to write Palm apps, tools to use, etc. This is the place to start - zillions of docs and links to get you going.

FreewarePalm
Tons of software, all FREE!

Palmgear, Handango , Palm Boulevard , Tucows PDA
These sites are some of the popular standards for info and downloads of Palm shareware & freeware.

I make no guarantees with regard to the usability of these applications. If you would like to make suggestions or comments, feel free to email the link below. I'd like to continue to improve these where needed and if I get sufficient requests will consider them, but since this is a spare time hobby, I can make no promises.

Remember 9/11