Résumé
Contents
Introduction
About This Book
- Pilot, PalmPilot, Palm Whatever -- Make Up Your Mind
- How This Book Is Organized
- Part I: Getting to Know Your Palm Organizer
- Part II: Getting Down to Business
- Part III: Palm Organizers and the Outside World
- Part IV: Going Outside the Box with Your Palm Organizer
- Part V: The Part of Tens
- Conventions Used in This Book
- How much do you need to know?
- Some helpful terms
- Icons Used in This Book
Part I: Getting to Know Your Palm Organizer
- Chapter 1: What Can a Palm Device Do?
- What Is This Thing, Anyway?
- What's on the Outside of Your Palm Device?
- Application hard buttons
- Scroll buttons
- Power button
- Contrast wheel
- Reset button
- The Screen
- The display area
- Soft buttons
- The Graffiti area
- Which Palm Device Do I Want?
- What Do the Standard Applications Do?
- HotSyncing Is Definitely Hot Stuff
- Getting Charged with Your Palm
- When Batteries Are Included
- Chapter 2: Going in Stylus
- Graffiti
- The Graffiti tutorial
- Graffiti letters and numbers
- Moving the Graffiti cursor
- Making capital letters without a Shift key
- Punctuating your text
- Graffiti whiz secrets
- Getting your numbers
- The amazing Graffiti fish loop
- The Graffiti ShortCut symbol
- The On-Screen Keyboard
- Other Text-Entry Tricks
- Other writing systems
- Keyboards
- Chapter 3: Making Your Palm Device Your Own
- Setting General Preferences
- Setting the time
- Setting the date
- Setting the Auto-off interval
- Setting the sound volume
- Turning off beaming
- Setting Button Preferences
- Setting Format Preferences
- Using the Security Application
- Setting your password
- Deleting a forgotten password
- Hiding private items
- Setting Up ShortCuts
- Adding a new ShortCut
- Editing a ShortCut
- Deleting a ShortCut
- Hacking Up Your Palm Device
- Chapter 4: Tips for Saving Time with Your Palm Computer
- General Time-Savers
- Using ShortCuts
- Beaming a business card quickly
- Beaming anything else
- Using your finger rather than the stylus
- Enter the current time
- Reassigning a hard button to your favorite program
- Application Time-Savers
- Pressing hard buttons to change categories
- Viewing different dates by pressing buttons
- Un-cluttering the Date Book
- Cut, copy, and paste
- Adding multiple items to a category
- Graffiti Time-Savers
- Start writing to create new items
- Open Graffiti Help with a single stroke
Part II: Getting Down to Business
- Chapter 5: Names and Addresses in a Zip
- Accessing the Address Book
- Putting Names in Your Palm Device
- Adding a new name
- What's in a name? Editing an address record
- Attaching a note to an address record
- Marking your business card
- Using the Names That You Entered
- Finding Mr. Right (or whoever)
- Deleting a name
- Deleting a note from an address record
- Setting Address Book preferences
- Setting up custom fields
- Replacing Your Address Book
- Action Names
- Address Pro
- LinkPak
- Chapter 6: Doing It NOW with To-Dos
- Adding New To-Dos
- Creating a to-do item
- Entering details for a to-do item
- Attaching notes to items
- Viewing Items by Category
- Adding categories
- Deleting categories
- Renaming categories
- What to Do with the To-Dos You Do
- Have I got a job for you? Beaming to-dos!
- Changing to-dos
- Undoing a mistake
- Marking the to-dos that you've done
- Deleting a to-do
- Deleting a note
- Setting preferences for the To Do List
- Looking up an address and phone number
- Purging to-dos you've done
- Chapter 7: Thanks for the Memos
- Take a Memo
- Adding items
- Reading memos
- Changing items
- Categorizing items
- Making a memo private
- Using What You Have
- Deleting items
- Viewing memos by category
- Changing fonts
- Setting preferences to organize your memos
- Beaming your memos
- NotePad -- A Different Approach to Memos
- Other Memo-rable Options
- TakeNote!
- InfoSelect
- SuperNote
- Chapter 8: The Date Game
- Date Book Views
- Day view
- Week view
- Month view
- Making Dates
- Adding appointments the simple way
- Adding appointments the complete way
- Scheduling all-day events
- Setting alarms
- Adding notes to appointments
- Using Address Book lookup
- Setting up repeating appointments
- Marking items as Private
- Putting Appointments in the Past
- Deleting appointments
- Setting preferences
- Purging the Date Book
- Using DateBook+
- Making DateBook+ your date book
- Selecting DateBook+ views
- Adding new DateBook+ items
- Creating floating events
- Using the DateBook+ To Do List
- Using the Daily Journal feature
- Setting appointments
- Saving time with templates
- Undeleting items
- Duplicating items
- Putting Your Palm Calendar on the Web
- AnyDay.com
- Yahoo!
- Visto
- Excite
- WeSync
- Chapter 9: Beaming Data from Your Palm Device through the Air with Infrared
- The Beaming Thing
- Sending an item
- Receiving an item
- Sending a category
- Receiving a category
- Sending an application
- Receiving an application
- Beaming into the Future
- Chapter 10: Special Delivery: Using Palm Mail
- Making Sense of the Palm Postal System
- Working with Your Messages
- Creating a message
- Reading a message
- Replying to a message
- Forwarding a message
- Deleting a message
- Purging deleted messages
- Saving drafts
- Sending a blind copy
- Sorting messages
- Customizing Your Palm E-Mail
- Setting HotSync options
- Filtering messages
- Using signatures
- Setting truncating options
- Other E-Mail Programs
- MultiMail Professional
- One-Touch Mail
- AOL Mail
Part III: Palm Organizers and the Outside World
- Chapter 11: Installing and HotSyncing to the Desktop Program
- Installing Palm Desktop for Windows
- Connecting the cradle to your PC
- Now, you get to install Palm Desktop
- To HotSync or Not to HotSync . . . Just Do It
- Chapter 12: Operating the Palm Desktop Program
- Palm Desktop Basics
- Understanding the Palm Desktop interface
- Arranging appointments in your Date Book
- Arranging entries in your Address Book
- Setting up custom fields
- Doing stuff with your to-dos
- Working with memos
- What does that Expense button do?
- Working with the Drag To icons
- Furnishing Your Palm Device
- Checking memory
- Installing applications
- Deleting applications
- Protecting Your Turf
- Restoring Palm organizer data
- Taking one step forward with Backup Buddy
- Archiving Your Palm Computing Stuff
- Viewing archived items
- Returning an archived item to your Palm device
- Accommodating Multiple Users
- The Palm Device Name Game
Part IV: Going Outside the Box
with Your Palm Organizer
- Chapter 13: Wireless Wonderland
- The Ways of the Wireless Warrior
- Why Should I Get a Palm VII?
- Your Palm.Net Account
- Checking your Palm.Net account from a Palm VII
- Checking your Palm.Net account on the Web
- Sending and Receiving Wireless E-Mail with iMessenger
- Creating a message
- Reading a message
- Replying to a message
- Checking Signal Strength
- Using Query Applications
- Creating Your Own Palm Query Applications
- Why OmniSky?
- Wiring Your Palm to a Cell Phone
- Beaming to the Web
- Chapter 14: Using the PalmModem
- PalmModem Basics
- Setting up your modem
- Setting up your Palm device to use the modem
- Setting Up Your Palm Device for a Modem HotSync
- Entering your Modem HotSync phone number
- Disabling call waiting
- Setting up the Palm Desktop for a Modem HotSync
- Palm Computing on the Internet
- Setting up your Internet connection
- Sending and receiving REAL e-mail
- Setting up a Palm Internet e-mail program
- Sending and receiving Palm Internet e-mail
- Browsing the Web
- Sending a Fax with Your Palm Device
- Chapter 15: Springboarding to More Visor Features
- 8 MB Flash Module
- Backup Module
- OmniSky Modem
- Eyemodule Digital Camera
- Handspring Modem
- InnoPak/2V
- OmniRemote
- MiniJam MP3 Player
- InfoMitt Pager
- SixPack Combo Card
- Chapter 16: Palm Software by Profession
- Actor
- Architect/Building Professional
- Association Executive
- Athletic Coach
- Bartender
- Comedian
- Couch Potato
- Editor
- Electrical Engineer
- Environmentalist
- Help Desk Technician
- Insurance Agent
- Lawyer
- Mafia Boss
- Manager
- Meeting Planner
- Minister
- Molecular Biologist
- Musician
- New York City Taxi Driver
- Parent
- Physician
- Pilot
- Psychic
- Realtor
- Salesperson
- Stockbroker/Investor
- Supervisor
- Teacher
- Telemarketer
- Writer
Part V: The Part of Tens
- Chapter 17: Ten Things You Can't Do with a Palm Device -- Yet
- View Two Programs at the Same Time
- Rename Applications
- Install More Than One Springboard Module at a Time
- Define Expense Entries
- Link Items between Programs
- Search and Replace Text
- Create an Appointment That Spans Two or More Dates
- Use Superscripts and Subscripts
- Assign Multiple Categories to One Item
- Categorizing Dates
- Beam E-Mail
- Other Things a Palm Device Can't Do
- Chapter 18: Ten Nifty Palm Accessories
- Palm/Stowaway Folding Keyboard
- Canon BJC-50 Printer
- QuickLink Pen Personal Scanner
- Seiko SmartPad
- Extra Styluses
- Palm Travel/Recharger Kit
- Card Scanner
- TRG Memory Boards
- Minstrel Wireless Modem
- Cases
- Chapter 19: Ten Ultracool Commercial Software Programs for Palm Devices
- Quicksheet
- CardScan
- Synchronization Programs
- Documents To Go
- Pocket Quicken
- PocketJournal
- Info Select
- BackupBuddy
- InstallBuddy
- iSilo
- HanDBase
- Chapter 20: Ten (Or So) Troubleshooting Tips
- "My Palm Doesn't Connect to Microsoft Outlook"
- "HotSync Doesn't Work"
- "My Screen Taps Don't Work"
- "My Screen Is Blank"
- "The Menu Button Doesn't Work"
- "My Palm Device Won't Turn Off"
- "The Program Buttons Stick"
- "Graffiti Is Always Wrong"
- "My Screen Is Too Dark"
- "My Palm Device Won't Start"
- "Beaming Fails"
- "I Got a 'Fatal Exception' Error"
- Chapter 21: Ten Internet Resources for Palm Computing
- The PalmPilot Web Ring
- PalmPilotForDummies.com
- Palm Computing
- InSync Online
- Handspring
- Handango
- Palm Computing Newsgroups
- PalmPower Magazine
- Smaller.com
- Visorcentral.com
- Chapter 22: The First Ten Things You Should Do with Your Palm Organizer
- Connect Your Palm Device to Your Computer
- Set the Time and Date
- Fill Your Address Book with Names from Your Desktop Computer
- Check Out the Keyboard and Learn Graffiti
- Create Your Business Card
- Enter an Appointment
- Look Up Someone
- Issue a Command
- Install a Program
- Read a Book
Appendix
L'auteur - Bill Dyszel
Bill Dyszel writes frequently for leading magazines, including PC Magazine, Success Magazine, Chief Executive Magazine, and Computer Shopper, while also working as a consultant to many of New York's leading firms in the securities, advertising, and publishing industries. His list of current and former clients includes Salomon Brothers, First Boston, Goldman Sachs, Ogilvy & Mather, KMPG Peat Marwick, and many others. An award-winning public speaker, he enjoys entertaining audiences with talks about the pleasures and pitfalls of using modern technology. He is also the author of PalmPilot For Dummies.
Caractéristiques techniques
PAPIER | |
Éditeur(s) | IDG |
Auteur(s) | Bill Dyszel |
Parution | 01/11/2000 |
Nb. de pages | 336 |
Format | 18,7 x 23,3 |
Couverture | Broché |
Poids | 607g |
Intérieur | Noir et Blanc |
EAN13 | 9780764508028 |
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