It is the mark of a well programmed utility when it works without you noticing, and when people like me can barely find any words to write about it. The Palm Treos and Centros suffer from a very annoying problem of time loss when you reset them- it is inexcusable that Palm decided to allow this ‘feature’ into these devices, and even worse that it was never fixed.

Tamoggemon Software has come up with a solution called TimeDrift which solves this problem completely. It takes less than 50kb memory and once installed and enabled can be forgotten about. In future when you reset your Treo or Centro, the correct time will be displayed (up to a maximum drift of 30 seconds).

I tested it on my old Centro and it works as claimed- following 5 battery pulls, the time was still accurate and after 2 days my Centro was keeping good time. It is such a simple application and well priced at $7.95 (until December 12th) and there really is nothing bad I can say about it.

When you pay £149 for a Centro, an extra £5 is a small price to pay to solve an annoying issue that Palm has never bothered to fix. Well done to Tamoggemon Software for coming up with such a simple and worthwhile solution.

Available here for $7.95 until December 12th ($9.95 thereafter).