Palm III and PalmPilot takes a highly graphical approach to teaching readers how to use the PalmPilot Personal, the PalmPilot Professional, the Palm III, and the IBM WorkPad. The book's style--heavy on stepped procedures and screen shots--fits its subject well.
For the most part, Palm III and PalmPilot serves as a replacement of the instructions that ship with 3Com's products. However, Carlson--clearly an avid Palmist with some accumulated wisdom on the topic--goes beyond merely rehashing the Palm's own documentation. In one passage, he offers a workaround for Date Book's inability to distinguish tentative events from more certain happenings. He also comments upon popular hardware add-ons and gets into some of the Palm's more advanced capabilities, including Web surfing with ProxiWeb.
Recognizing that the standard Palm apps are inherently fairly easy to figure out, this book digs into the wonderful store of after-market Palm programs. The author pays a fair amount of attention to Aportis BrainForest, various HackMaster doohickeys, communications programs, and games. He then admits that he's only begun to describe the universe of useful software, which grows constantly. In an appendix, you'll find a directory of Pilot-related Web sites that will further fuel your downloading mania. --David Wall
Book Description
You've got your desktop and laptop computers; now here comes the palmtop. The PalmPilot from 3Com is the hottest-selling personal digital assistant, the new organizational tool that busy people, from executives to college students, can't be without. More than just an organizer, the PalmPilot does nearly everything a laptop does, including Web connections and interfacing with Windows and Macintosh applications. PalmPilot:Visual QuickStart Guide is a concise reference to the PalmPilot that delivers not only the basics of working with the PalmPilot, but also the best techniques for integrating the PalmPilot into users' lives to improve efficiency, organization, and mobile data management. It not only explains how to use the Date Book, for example, it illustrates how Date Book strategies can be used to improve one's overall time-management skills.The clear, concise writing style delivers the information users need quickly and easily. Why buy a 400 page book that is at least five times heavier than its subject? Also, the Visual QuickStart Guide is priced substantially lower than any of the competition on the market! Over 2 million PalmPilots sold already, and their popularity is growing
Straightforward instructions and advice on getting the most out of your PalmPilot. Real-world examples teach you how to manage your data and become better organized. Priced lower than any competitor
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