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Palm pix

Resco Photo Viewer for Palm OS looks somewhat promising, if a bit limited in scope.

I want a mini Photoshop for the Palm, one that I can use to create and draw in as well as look at pics. The most crucial image-editing tool for me would be curves, apart from the imagemarking tools such as brush. The few sketchpad apps I have seen are like thin-featured imitations of MacPaint, very 1985.

Adobe includes Palm as a supported OS for Elements, but I haven’t yet figured out if it’s more than a simple album-sync.

While I enjoy the challenge of working in two-bit graphics (see below), it’s sort of like using a skateboard with steel wheels.

This was drawn on an old-at-the-time Mac SE, using the mouse and looking at Chloe who was atop the warm teevee.

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So, you know (and I’m sure you do) that I love posting links to paper modelcraft.

Of course, we all know what the problem with paper models is. They simply fly too slow, right?

Where’s that modern age of speed and danger that Marinetti celebrated a full century ago? Come on, man, paper models of biplanes – cloth and twigs in the original, mere leaves of a dream-folio in the model – must ultimately be assessed as puerile juvenilia, am I right?

You know, in your heart of hearts, that I am.

That’s why it gives me great pleasure to introduce you to the exciting, half-century-old practice of scratch-or-kit constructing and hand-launching flying paper or balsa wood models containing and powered by tiny refillable solid-fuel aluminimum rocket motors! What better way for a boy to learn of the hazards that await him on battlefields from Baghdad to Cold War central Europe? Watch those fingers, kid – it’s gonna get HOT!

Today, the Jetex tradition is carried on by the brave innovators of Jet-X and Rapier.