Cobalt Screenshots II
February 10th, 2004
PalmInfocenter has their first batch of Cobalt
screenshots, taken from the audience of Dave Nagel’s keynote address
at the 2004 PalmSource Developer Conference.
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Archive for February 10th, 2004
Cobalt Screenshots I
February 10th, 2004
The first Palm
OS Cobalt screenshots are starting to appear. (Someone really badly
butchered the scaling—I hope it was PocketLoft, and not PalmSource,
holding the cleaver.)
“… quack war president quack war on my mind quack I see dangers.”
February 10th, 2004
Reuters — “Conservative television news anchor Bill O’Reilly said on Tuesday he was now skeptical about the Bush administration and apologized to viewers for supporting…
February 10th, 2004
Reuters – “Conservative
television news anchor Bill O’Reilly said on Tuesday he was now
skeptical about the Bush administration and apologized to viewers for
supporting prewar claims that Iraq had weapons of
mass destruction.” (Don’t worry, he blames it on
intelligence failure, and therefore on Tenet.)
Detroit, Photoshopped
February 10th, 2004
Artists touched up the photo by splashing light onto darkened windows
and streets and adding roofs where there were none.The final product made Detroit’s lonely blocks look as Super
Bowl-worthy as busy Houston.
From the Detroit Free Press: how Detroit fixed
up its skyline in Photoshop as part of its 2006 Superbowl
candidacy. (Don’t miss the before and after
pictures [PDF].)
Press Release:
February 10th, 2004
Press Release: PalmSource
Introduces Palm OS Cobalt. “Formerly known as Palm OS 6, Palm OS
Cobalt is a complete rewrite of Palm OS designed to maintain ease of use
and software compatibility while creating a foundation for
next-generation Palm Powered devices and solutions tailored to the
growing needs of the communications, enterprise, education and
entertainment markets. […] Palm OS Cobalt provides rich graphics and
multimedia features derived from the Be OS, which Palm®, Inc. acquired
in 2001.”
And Roll Out
February 10th, 2004
Transformers
Instruction Books, painstakingly scanned for your nostalgic
wallowing.
newer: Press Release:
older: Palm OS 6 now “Cobalt”; 5.x now “Garnet”