An application that emulates the USB Mass Storage standard and allows to manage files on Pocket PC cards and file store like on a simple USB thumbdrive.
How does it work?
You probably know that all modern Palm devices can access expansion cards, or have built-in flash
disks. In most cases, built-in flash disks also used by Palm operating system to store and access
programs and databases which were formely stored in dynamic memory. This solution brings more
safety and leads to less power consumption, but also it is slower. Many Palm users noticed increased
response time of the most applications on the newer models, this effect appeared exactly because of
slower storage memory access.
At the same time, availability of high-capacity SD cards made them more popular for keeping personal
data, applications, games, music and video. It is clear that increased card data transfers made
lack of transfer speeds more evident.
After number of investigations, Softick team developed an intelligent solution which utilizes faster
dynamic memory to remember most frequently used data, accessed by the system and applications.
As indicated by our investigations, there are many duplicated and non-aligned requests to the Palm
flash memory and expansion cards, so it was definitely reasonable to implement required read
and write optimizations.
Softick PPP allows handheld to access local and global network without using an additional networking equipment. Desktop PC is used as a gateway. Connection can be established over USB, Serial, IRDA or Bluetooth links. You will have an access to the resources of desktop PC, WWW, e-mail, news (NNTP) and so on.
Softick Audio Gateway is the first audio streaming solution for Palm OS handhelds which allows to connect Palm OS handheld to the Bluetooth stereo headphones and listen to digital audio played by any Palm OS applications including multimedia players, audio book readers and games. Softick Audio Gateway can operate with any Bluetooth audio device which supports Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP).
