Cameron's Thoughts

Long time, no update. Haven't been too busy, just haven't gotten around to posting an update. Mostly just been spending time with my family recently. Was working an creating a Clie NX version of the Clie UX Graffiti and status bars skins. Pain in the butt since the UX skins are vertically aligned and the NX skins are horizontal. And the skins just had to have a stupid gradient, so I had to go in and create new buttons with the gradients in the right direction, and then copy and rotate the icons to the right direction also. And this had to be done by selecting everything pixel by pixel. It's done now and you can find the skins in the skins section of ClieSource.com. I am still making a Japanese version of the Graffiti skin since someone requested that. I have never done that before, so that will be something new.
One thing I am going to be doing soon, and have already started, is something that I have been meaning to do for some time now. I am compiling past versions of my websites to create an archive here. Kind of a CBulock.com history. But this site has actually gone through a number of changes. It was originally called Omega's Lair and was hosted on Tripod. Then moved over to Freeservers and became Omega's Lair 2000. Then, at one point, I purchased the domain name CBulock.com, and then hosted the website off of a PC at my home. Now it's being hosted by CirtexHosting in it's latest incarnation. I know that Freeservers is still hosting my old website there, and I have found old CD's with some backups of my older websites. Soon, I will have them accessible here, I just have to get the pages cleaned up a bit. You'd be surprised how a just a few years how many links and such no longer work.

At ClieSource, Ayasin posted a sneak peek of the next Clie coming out. Looks like they improved the audio system a bit, and it will be a pretty powerful machine. And, in the tradition of the NZ series of Clie models, they didn't quite consider the size of this unit. I thought the NZ was a bit big, but they might have gone a bit overboard with this one. I don't know what they will do for the next NZ device.

The Tapwave Helix gaming device has now been renamed to the Tapwave Zodiac. It's going to offer some pretty impressive games. PDArcade has some previews of some upcoming games. And here is a pic that shows a comparison of the game SpyHunter with the Zodiac. It's compared to the GBA, the Nokia N-Gage/Series60 phones, and the older low-res Palm version. This looks to have graphics close to the PS1.
Here's another link. http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a=tpc&s=50009562&f=34709834&m=4620975863 Don't put your Palm in the oven, or you might regret it.