Article archive for 1998 – Page 6

Wednesday, July 1, 1998

Using a keyboard with your PalmPilot

Graffiti is swell, but wouldn’t it be cool to have a keyboard for your PalmPilot? Well you can and in this helpful article, Fredlet tells you how. Now you can be on the go and still answer your email and write notes that are longer than a sentence. Want proof? Fredlet’s entire article was written using a keyboard on a PalmPilot.

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Wednesday, July 1, 1998

Importing JFile databases

Did you know you could set up your own custom databases on your PalmPilot? Well, you can and JFile is one program that makes it possible. In this hands-on article, Jason Perlow takes you through an important part of the process — importing information from your PC into the database. This one’s too handy to pass up!

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Wednesday, July 1, 1998

An introduction to PalmPilot email

Do you go through Internet or email withdrawal whenever you’re not tethered to your computer’s monitor? Do you pine away for your email messages whenever you’re on the road? Are you a super-connected Internet email jock who needs to be connected even when you can’t plug in and jack on? If so, PalmPilot email is the way to go. In this extremely valuable article, PowerBoard Hostess Claire Pieterek tells us how PalmPilot email works and reviews a number of powerful software email clients that run on the Palm device. Now you can get your email no matter where you go. That’s a good idea, right? Hmmm…

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Wednesday, July 1, 1998

Getting the most out of PalmPilot graphics functionality

There may only be 160 dots across and down a Palm device’s screen, but you can display a lot of information in that small space. In fact, you can display maps, diagrams, charts, and other helpful reference information right on your PalmPilot, and Chris tells you how. He also helps you understand which pictures will display well and which won’t — a great time-saving tip.

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Wednesday, July 1, 1998

A more perfect Palm Desktop

Do you like the Palm Desktop application? Do you think it could be better? So does PalmPower Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz. In this trend-setting article, he outlines PalmPower’s recommendations for a new and improved desktop design. It’s the Palm Desktop we all wish we had. Also, David bids a fond farewell to one overworked columnist and welcomes another. Plus, there’s a great way to win a leather PalmPilot jacket, but you’ll have to read this article before July 5th to find out how.

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Monday, June 1, 1998

Keeping track of car dealer inventory

Geoffrey Bonser takes you inside the secret world of the car dealer in this exclusive report. If you’ve ever been interested in sales automation tools, or ever wanted to get a leg up on your local car dealer, this article will give you some interesting insights. Maybe you’ll start thinking about custom solutions for your own sales department!

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Monday, June 1, 1998

Resources, forms and controls

Alan Jay Weiner continues his course in PalmPilot programming in this latest installment of Programming Power. All the user interface items you use on your PalmPilot, like menus and buttons, are called "resources". In this article, Alan shows you how you can implement resources in your programs.

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Monday, June 1, 1998

Outliners for the PalmPilot

There are some things you just love, or you don’t. Outliners fall into that category. There are some people who couldn’t be forced to use an outliner and there are those of us who literally couldn’t make it through the day without an outliner’s help. In this ruthless product shootout, Contributing Editor Bob Freud sifts through the latest versions of four outliners. You’ll have to read the article to see which product was left standing at the end of the day.

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Monday, June 1, 1998

Update your PalmOS for free

When support guru Chris Brown writes, you gotta listen. Each article Chris writes is a "must-read" because the information he provides is so immediately valuable. In this month’s column, Chris clearly decyphers the latest versions of the Palm OS that are available for each PalmPilot model, tells you how to get upgrades for free, and explains in-depth why each upgrade could be important to you.

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Monday, June 1, 1998

Palm III flash, it’s a gas, gas, gas

The Palm III is the hottest new member of the PalmPilot family. Right out of the box, it’s got 2MB of onboard memory, double that of the PalmPilot Professional. But the Palm III also includes 2MB of flash memory, used to hold the operating system. In this article, PowerBoard Hostess Claire Pieterek reviews a software product that allows you to gain access to an additional 800K of flash memory to hold applications. You can move up to almost 3MB for fifty bucks!

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