FIGURE C

Play all day with Cuepert.

Continuing our color game news, Atelier has introduced a color version of SimCity (which makes it much clearer on the Palm device), as shown in Figure D.

FIGURE D

Lose any chance of being productive when you've got color SimCity on your Palm IIIc.

Electron Hut has come out with a color version of Klondike, shown in Figure E.

FIGURE E

There's nothing like a good color Klondike game to get the juices flowing.

We also discovered an interesting tool called "Chrome", which is designed to let you create different color schemes for your Palm IIIc. So far, we've only seen one, shown in Figure F, that we're assuming has to be an example of color and not a statement of the developer's color sense.

FIGURE F

Change your color scheme to something daring with Chrome.

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Four color applications are bundled with the Palm IIIc: Album To Go, AvantGo, ChromaGammon, and powerOne.

Album to Go is a picture display utility, and probably the most useful piece of software included with the Palm IIIc, especially if you have a digital camera. You can display pictures on your Palm IIIc, as shown in Figure G. This may be the Palm IIIc's "killer app": you can carry and show pictures of your kids, the big one that got away on your last fishing trip, your company's new widgets, and so on. I foresee a lot of business people, especially realtors, being able to justify the Palm IIIc as a business expense for this use alone.

FIGURE G

Here's a picture of Cary Wilson's favorite friend, from Club Photo.

AvantGo allows you to download Web content to your Palm device for offline reading. AvantGo doesn't look or act much differently on a Palm IIIc than it does on other Palm devices, with the exception of its ability to display images in color. Depending on what sites ("channels", in AvantGo argot) you HotSync and how you have AvantGo set to refresh them, you can spend much more time synchronizing than normal. This is probably the best argument for the Palm IIIc's built-in rechargeable battery: Instead of draining your battery when you HotSync, you're charging it.

As you might guess from its name, Chroma Gammon, shown in Figure H, is a backgammon game. You can play against the Palm IIIc, against another person, or have the Palm IIIc play itself. Pink and brown stand in for the traditional black and white, making it look like a somewhat hasty port of the full-grayscale version. There is a menu option for adding checkers and chess, but details were not available at Whitehorse Games' Web site at press time.

FIGURE H

Play backgammon, in color, on your Palm IIIc.

PowerOne is a basic calculator that includes a handful of financial and general functions: sales tax, markup/discount, percent change, a tip calculator, and a date difference calculator. These functions are accessed in "worksheet" mode, similar to the more-powerful FCPlus Professional also offered by Infinity Softworks.

The color buttons, shown in Figure I, are pretty but powerOne doesn't offer many more features than the built-in Calc. Last time I checked, PalmGear listed 251 entries in their Calculators category. I'm sure people who need more powerful calculators on their Palm devices will find one or more that suit their needs better than powerOne, even if it doesn't have color buttons.