PalmCentral.Com* Appears in Wall Street Journal Article ------------------------------------------------------- ARLINGTON, Massachusetts, September 18 - PalmCentral.Com was featured in an article appearing in the September 17th issue of the Wall Street Journal. Relevant portions of the article are included below for your enjoyment. +++ Begin article +++ The Wall Street Journal -- September 17, 1998 Where Frequent Surfers Go In Their Spare Time On-Line By REBECCA QUICK Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL You don't need to be a rocket scientist to know about the usefulness of big Web sites such as Yahoo!, Excite or Netscape. But some of the most interesting and useful sites rarely get much publicity. What are some of these lesser-known gems? To find out, we asked a dozen heavy Net users, ranging from an on-line privacy expert to a soccer star: Where do you spend your spare time on-line? [Web Surfing Illustration] Sure, our experts responded with some of the usual suspects -- news sites such as MSNBC and CNN, sports giants like ESPN.com and CBS Sportsline, and major "portal" sites such as Lycos. But when we filtered out the familiar names, we were left with an intriguing and eclectic assortment of Web sites (who knew there was a site dedicated to Tibetan sand painting?). What follows are our picks from their picks. <... portions deleted ...> Computers/Technology PalmCentral.com Internet Type www.palmcentral.com Foundry Index www.typeindex.com Chez Mac www.ualberta.ca/ Newslinx ~mmalowan/Picks.html www.newslinx.com MacInTouch www.macintouch.com The Internet is no longer just for techies. These days, Web demographics aren't too different from the demographics of mainstream America, and cyberspace content -- which targets everyone from grandfathers to soccer moms -- reflects that. Still, there are plenty of sites that cater to the wired crowd, and our panelists gave us their favorites. One of the most useful sites recommended is PalmCentral, a haven for owners of the PalmPilot personal digital assistant. This site, which is run voluntarily by a PalmPilot devotee, has thousands of programs PalmPilot users can download for everything from games to navigation and mapping. <... portions deleted ...> +++ End article +++ Background: PalmCentral.Com is an award winning software archive consisting of over 2000 freeware, shareware, and demonstration software titles for the 3Com Palm III, PalmPilot, Pilot and IBM WorkPad connected organizers. Ancestors of PalmCentral.Com have been in operation since January, 1997. PalmCentral.Com has served over 2.5 million unique visitor page views. PalmCentral.Com provides brief descriptions along with local copies for most of the listed software titles. PalmCentral.Com operates purely as a free distributor of software and information. Although it is supported by commercial sponsorships, it does not offer any product directly for sale. Relevant URLs: PalmCentral.Com: http://www.palmcentral.com PalmPilot WebRing: http://www.palmcentral.com/webring.html Palm Computing: http://www.palm.com Wall St. Journal: http://www.wsj.com For more information, contact: Raymond Lau, operator d/b/a PalmCentral.Com mailto: mail@raylau.com *PalmCentral.Com is a trademark of Raymond Lau. 3Com and Palm Computing are registered trademarks, and PalmPilot, Palm III and Palm OS are trademarks, of 3Com Corporation or its subsidiaries. IBM and WorkPad are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation. All other products or company names mentioned are used for identification purposes only, and may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.