Description:
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
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