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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Really useful book, better than Palm's user manual.,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Complete Idiots Guide to the PalmPilot & Palm III (Paperback)
I was looking to decide on a handheld organizer to purchase, and happened to see this book at amazon.com. I purchased it, and it gave me an in-depth introduction to the device that everyone loves. I purchased a palm III soon after, and I was hooked to the devicce immediately.I thought that the CD included with the book gave a good introduction to the best of the palm software, and saved me hours of time looking around the Internet for additional palm applications. Indeed, some of the software on the CD are real gems, and the author seems to have taken some trouble to sift through the myriad thousands of apps available. On the minus side, I wish the author went into a bit more depth on the expense application, and also would be nice if a custom chapter was available for tips and shortcuts not found on the palm user manual. All in all, a good book at a nice price.
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent book for mastering your Palm,
This review is from: The Complete Idiots Guide to the PalmPilot & Palm III (Paperback)
I own a PalmPilot, and this book is great for mastering every part of your Palm. Although many people don't like the Graffiti language, the chart in the front of the book with the Graffiti shortcuts has helped me with inserting text into my PalmPilot. Also, there are some useful applications that are on a CD that comes with the book that can help you with everyday stuff, like travel information, keeping track of your investments and some games. One minor detail is that most of the information is for the newer Palm III series of PalmPilots, so my old PalmPilot can not do all of the features mentioned in the book. If you have a newer Palm, it's a great book. All in all, this Idiot's Guide is much better than any Palm manual I know of, and it will definetly help you get started with your new Palm, whether you're an idiot or not.
18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Preston Gralla Does it Again,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Complete Idiots Guide to the PalmPilot & Palm III (Paperback)
Preston Gralla does it again! I got my Palm III last spring but had been unable to take full advantage of the many "high-tech" features it contains: until, of course, I bought this book! Whereas before my experiences with the Palm III were filled with frustration and a deep, abiding sense of inadequacy, now I feel I can use the device with my head held high. As the recently-canceled television character Buddy Farro, Private Eye said "That's what they're buying baby, Confidence, Style." (BTW Buddy Farro was based, I think, on a book by Elmore Leonard. Like Gralla, Leonard is a good writer, though he tends toward fiction.) I found the enclosed disk of Palm III software to be especially useful. I looked for days for this sort of thing on the internet, but was unable to find any. Its this type of thing (Collecting shareware aplets for a PDA and putting them on a disk included with a book on using the very same PDA) that is the real "Value Added" (As they say in Info-Tech) proposition. The next time Gralla writes on computers, you can be sure I'll be standing in line to get the book, even if I don't own the "hardware" or "software" on which he is writing. He's that good.
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