Palm Organizers: Visual QuickStart Guide - Softcover

Carlson, Jeff

Softcover

ISBN 10: 020174578X ISBN 13: 9780201745788

Publisher: Peachpit Press, 2001

Synopsis

In an effort to streamline your life, you’ve ditched your paper-bound agenda and sticky notes for a sleek Palm handheld. The latest versions are chockablock with new features and possibilities, and it would be a shame to let all that power and convenience go to waste. Palm Organizers: Visual QuickStart Guide is the quickest way to learn what your Palm OS device can do for you and how to best use it.

Palm Organizers: Visual QuickStart Guide explains the Palm basics and applications using concise, step-by-step instructions and plenty of illustrations. But author Jeff Carlson takes it one step further, providing detailed strategies for integrating your Palm into your daily life. This edition of the guide has been thoroughly updated to cover the latest in Palm technology, including Palm OS 4.0 and expansion cards, plus sections on wireless Internet access, the new Palm desktop for Windows, collaborative computing, and new devices from Sony, HandEra, Kyocera, Handspring, and more.

About this title

About the Author

Jeff Carlson divides his time between Web design--through his Seattle company Never Enough Coffee Creations--and writing and editing, as a freelance author and as Managing Editor of the weekly electronic newsletter TidBITS. Jeff is also the founder of eSCENE, the annual anthology of the best short fiction on the Web. His pioneering use of the Palm organizer is causing an epidemic of PalmPilot purchases at his office, where he rushes around, PalmPilot in hand, asking, "Wanna see something cool?"

From the Back Cover

As the size of handhelds decreases, their power and applications increase. With an estimated 4 million devices on the market, users are hungry for information on how to use the latesttechnologies to manage their schedules and workloads. Jeff Carlson fills this need with Palm Organizers: Visual QuickStart Guide, 2nd Edition.

This concise reference to Palm OS-based organizers covers not only the basics of the main applications (Address Book, Date Book, Expense, Mail, Memo Pad, To Do List), but also detailsstrategies for their optimal use in users' daily lives. For example, Carlson explains the fundamentals of working with Date Book, then provides strategies for actually improving your time management skills.

More than 40% of the previous edition's information has been updated. Coverage includes:

• Synchronization of data
• Wireless Internet access
• Palm's Mobile Internet Kit
• Changes incorporated into the new Palm OS 4.0
• The new Palm desktop for Windows
• First look at Palm's forthcoming expansion card
• First look at Palm devices releasing this spring or summer
• Collaborative computing on the Palm
• Palm pager, cell phone, and MP3 applications

Edition details

• Publisher: Peachpit Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 020174578X
• ISBN 13: 9780201745788
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 336