A bunch of us ordered the Zaurus from the hsn deal here.
Well, this is a thread for us Zaurus owners to post and share our ideas, softwares, experiences!
Go Zaurus!
**04/01/03**
Consolidated Links into the top thread. Many thanks to nacs, figgypower, creegah for posting these awesome links!
Myzaurus.com is the official user site. It has a couple tips and tricks, downloads and such.
Zaurus dev forum is a more developer oriented forum (but non-developers seem to hang around and get support there too.
And of course there's Openzaurus, the opensource replacement ROM for the Zaurus. Most people seem to say it's better and I plan to do this as soon as I get a CF card (you need one to flash the ROM). Edit: I got a CF card and flashed and am now using OZ instead of the Sharp ROM as it's a lot better IMO.
For software, Zaurus Software Index seems to be the biggest and best best source of (mostly free) software.
Now for a few helpful stuff for newbies, like myself:
*A command list of all the stuff you can use at the console
*A terminal which lets you use the console instead of shutting down. There is another alternative; this is the official from Qtopia, I believe. Nacs mentioned one in the earlier thread.
*A file manager - I know there are alternatives, and they're better. However, this is nice for beginners.
*A USB cable that hooks up directly to the Zaurus, but it's quite expensive.
There's a rotation application, but I can't get it to work. You can check it out by following the links here. Look at the 3rd question. You actually need to download three apps: QPE-Rotation, QPE-Settings, and Qt-Embedded-Rotation. Of course, YMMV, because I don't know if it works or not
Just a note: the terminal program and filemanager are actually on the installation CD that comes with the Zaurus itself. Look under the "Applications" directory in the CDROM to find the ipks, install instructions and a PDF file on how to use them.
Rufio--there is also Zynergy which is basically the Sharp ROM with some bulk removed and some applications replaced. I ended up going back to openzaurus though.
Also, there is a nice unofficial FAQ.
For ebook/document lovers, Memoware is great
I found a utility called DocReader (do a search in Google) which "translates" most of the ebook formats into txt files which can be read by the Zaurus. Just Reader is a good ebook reader. The only format I have not been able to convert are pdf files.
The Gutenbrowser ipk is excellent and you can download a ton of ebooks using it AND read them within the Gutenbrowser. There are different versions of Gutenbrowser for various OS's
here
Well, this is a thread for us Zaurus owners to post and share our ideas, softwares, experiences!
Go Zaurus!
**04/01/03**
Consolidated Links into the top thread. Many thanks to nacs, figgypower, creegah for posting these awesome links!
Myzaurus.com is the official user site. It has a couple tips and tricks, downloads and such.
Zaurus dev forum is a more developer oriented forum (but non-developers seem to hang around and get support there too.
And of course there's Openzaurus, the opensource replacement ROM for the Zaurus. Most people seem to say it's better and I plan to do this as soon as I get a CF card (you need one to flash the ROM). Edit: I got a CF card and flashed and am now using OZ instead of the Sharp ROM as it's a lot better IMO.
For software, Zaurus Software Index seems to be the biggest and best best source of (mostly free) software.
Now for a few helpful stuff for newbies, like myself:
*A command list of all the stuff you can use at the console
*A terminal which lets you use the console instead of shutting down. There is another alternative; this is the official from Qtopia, I believe. Nacs mentioned one in the earlier thread.
*A file manager - I know there are alternatives, and they're better. However, this is nice for beginners.
*A USB cable that hooks up directly to the Zaurus, but it's quite expensive.
There's a rotation application, but I can't get it to work. You can check it out by following the links here. Look at the 3rd question. You actually need to download three apps: QPE-Rotation, QPE-Settings, and Qt-Embedded-Rotation. Of course, YMMV, because I don't know if it works or not
Just a note: the terminal program and filemanager are actually on the installation CD that comes with the Zaurus itself. Look under the "Applications" directory in the CDROM to find the ipks, install instructions and a PDF file on how to use them.
Rufio--there is also Zynergy which is basically the Sharp ROM with some bulk removed and some applications replaced. I ended up going back to openzaurus though.
Also, there is a nice unofficial FAQ.
For ebook/document lovers, Memoware is great
I found a utility called DocReader (do a search in Google) which "translates" most of the ebook formats into txt files which can be read by the Zaurus. Just Reader is a good ebook reader. The only format I have not been able to convert are pdf files.
The Gutenbrowser ipk is excellent and you can download a ton of ebooks using it AND read them within the Gutenbrowser. There are different versions of Gutenbrowser for various OS's
here