I was a palm nut before I bought the Nokia. I was ready to give up on Palm. (Anyway, that is another story).

So, I have loaded garnet on my n800 and have used it for a couple of weeks. The Nokia syncs with my mac over wi-fi using missing sync. Frankly, if garnet had been available 3 months ago, I would not be the dubiously proud owner of an iphone. Such as it is though, I sync and overwrite the calendar, and contacts. It does not hurt to have a back up, and a back up of a back up and so on.

I have found that many of the applications that I used before work with a few exceptions. The only problem with the exceptions is that they crash garnet so hard that all of the loaded palm apps are deleted.

So these are applications that I have paid for in the past 4 years or so and work.

Astraware games:
Bejewled
Bookworm (my favorite of the Astraware games)
Sudoku
TextTwist

My favorite freeware title HandyShopper works. I have an extensive grocery list built up over the years and the way HS manages the lists is great.

Handmark Scrabble, the early version, works great.

I am pleased that Oxford Dictionary, the latest version, works. However, I only had the old version downloaded and it crashed garnet, erasing all of the palm apps.

Splash Money appears to work. However, I have not tried to do much with it until I can be sure garnet is stable - as it was erased once again last night with my attempt to load Good Fortune, a really cute, rather sophisticated fortune cookie app.

Two other nice programs that were not too cheap also do not work, but do not crash quite so badly. Pennovate Notes and CalenNotes do not work. Still, now that the window area is so small, it is difficult to write there.