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Table of Contents:
I. GET READY TO TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE: GETTING STARTED WITH YOUR PALMPILOT. 1. So What Did You Buy a PalmPilot for, Anyway? What Do You Need a PalmPilot For? A Whole Lot of Pilots, PalmPilots, and Palms. What Are the Pilot 1000 and Pilot 5000? What Is the PalmPilot Personal? What Is the PalmPilot Professional? What Is the Palm III? The Palm VII and Beyond. The Least You Need to Know. 2. Prepare to Get Organized: A Guided Tour of the PalmPilot. Are You Really Sure This Thing Is a Computer? Checking Out the Front Panel and Controls. Using the Back Panel Doors, Buttons, Ports, and Gizmos. The Least You Need to Know. 3. Time for Takeoff: Starting Your PalmPilot for the First Time. Lets Start at the Beginning: Take It Out of the Box. Add the Juice: Installing the Batteries. Switching On Your PalmPilot. Calibrating the Screen. Can We Have Some Light Here? Adjusting the Contrast. Bend the PalmPilot to Your Will: Setting the Preferences. Time to Get Started. The Least You Need to Know. 4. Organization 101: Touring the PalmPilots Main Screen. The First Stop on the Guided Tour. Prepare for Takeoff: Using the Application Launcher to Run Programs. Tracking Names and Addresses with the Address Book. A Calculating Mind: Using the Calculator. Keeping Your Schedule with the Date Book. Tracking Expenses with Expense. Syncing Up Your Life with HotSync. Staying in Touch with Mail. Jotting Notes with the Memo Pad. Customizing Your PalmPilot with Preferences. Keeping Safe with Security. Keeping Track of Important Tasks with the To-Do List. The Least You Need to Know. 5. Keeping Your Life in Sync: HotSyncing Your PC and PalmPilot. Understanding HotSync. First, Connect the HotSync Cradle to Your PC. Im Glad Thats Over. Now Can We Start Installing the Software? Hold On a Minute Here. I Use a Mac! Using HotSync for the First Time. Customizing HotSync for the Way You Work. Customizing HotSync for Personal Information Managers. The Least You Need to Know. 6. Oh, Yeah...You Have a Computer, Too. Using the Palm Desktop. My PalmPilot Is Perfect. Why Should I Use the Palm Desktop? When Should I Use the PalmPilot and When Should I Use the Palm Desktop? Touring the Palm Desktop. Keeping Your Schedule with the Date Book. Keeping Track of Contacts with the Address Book. What to Do with the To-Do List. Creating Memos with Memo Pad. What About Expense and Install? Working in Drag: The Virtues of Dragging in the Palm Desktop. Printing from the Palm Desktop. Old Records Never Die...They Just Get Archived. The Least You Need to Know. II. ORGANIZING YOUR LIFE WITH YOUR PALMPILOT. 7. Digital Magic: Taking Notes with Graffiti. Understanding Graffiti Basics. Using the Graffiti Writing Area. Learning How to Write Graffiti Letters and Numbers. Thats Very Nice, But How About Drawing Capital Letters? Dont Curse at the Cursor. Entering Special Characters with the Extended Shift. Using the Command Stroke to Master Your PalmPilot. Using Punctuation. Taking ShortCuts with Your PalmPilot. Getting Help by Using the Built-In Graffiti Cheat Sheet. Different Strokes: Shortcuts to Better Graffiti Writing. The Least You Need to Know. 8. Taking Control of the PalmPilots Applications, Menus, and Records. Up and Running: Starting a PalmPilot Application. Taking Control of the Application Controls. Attaching Notes to Records and Making Records Private. Pick One from Column A: Using Menus. Psssst! Using the PalmPilots Built-In Tips. The Least You Need to Know. 9. Using PalmPilot Categories to Organize Your Life. Start with the Basics: How to Assign Records to Categories. How to View Records in Categories. How You Can Create New Categories. Yes, You Can Change Your Mind: Editing and Deleting Categories. How to Use Categories to Group Your Applications. Smart Strategies for Using Categories to Manage Your Life. The Least You Need to Know. 10. Write On! Taking Notes with the Memo Pad. Writing a Memo with the Memo Pad. Font Madness: Changing the Fonts in Your Memo. Scrolling Through a Memo. Sorting and Categorizing Your Memos. Secret Agent: How to Keep Your Memos Private. Farewell and Good-bye: How to Delete Memos. How to Beam Memos to Others. Whats on the Menu? Using the Memo Pads Menus and Shortcuts. Smart Strategies for Using the Memo Pad to Make Your Life More. Productive. The Least You Need to Know. 11. Juggling Your Busy Schedule with the Date Book. How to Schedule a New Event. Scheduling an Event on a Different Day Than the Current One. Its Dij` Vu All Over Again: Scheduling Repeating Events. I Want My Privacy: How to Keep Events Private. Adding Notes to Events. Cause for Alarm: Setting Alarms in the Date Book. Editing and Deleting Appointments and Events. Using the Day View, the Week View, and the Month View. Smart Strategies for Using the Date Book. The Least You Need to Know. 12. Keeping Track of Contacts with the Address Book. Getting Started with the Address Book. How to Add a New Name to the Address Book. How to Edit Contacts in the Address Book. Keep Your Names to Yourself: How to Keep Contacts Private. Adding Notes to the Address Book. Categorizing Your Contacts. Customizing What Information Shows Up in Your Lists. Deleting Records from the Address Book. Where Did I Put That Name? Finding Names in the Address Book. How to Use Custom Fields in the Address Book. Beam Yourself to Another PalmPilot. Smart Strategies for Using the Address Book. The Least You Need to Know. 13. Take Control of Your Life with the To-Do List. How to Do Those Things You Do with To-Do. Creating a New To-Do Item. Cross It Off the List: Marking Your To-Do Tasks as Done. To-Dos with a View: Changing the Way To-Dos Are Sorted and Displayed. Smart Strategies for Using the To-Do List to Manage Your Life. The Least You Need to Know. 14. Time Is Money: Tracking Your Expenses with the PalmPilot. A Look at How Expense Works. How to Record Your Expenses. Take the Express Lane: How to Enter Your Expenses Fast. Details, Details, Details...Recording the Details About Your Expenses. Creating Expense Reports with Excel and Printing Them. The Least You Need to Know. 15. Where Did I Put That Note? Finding Information on Your PalmPilot. Finders, Keepers: How Find Works on the PalmPilot. Discovering the Needle in the Haystack: Using Find on Your PalmPilot. Using the Phone Lookup Command. Smart Strategies and Tips for Finding Information in Your PalmPilot. The Least You Need to Know. III. USING EMAIL, INTERNET, AND INFRARED COMMUNICATIONS TO KEEP YOU IN TOUCH. 16. How to Stay in Touch with Email. How the PalmPilots Mail System Works. First, Set Up the PalmPilot for Email. Okay, Im All Set Up. Now Lets Start Mail. How to Create an Email Message. Reply to Sender: How to Read and Answer Your Email. Customizing Your Email Messages. Managing Your Email with Mail Folders. A Lean, Mean Mail Machine: Smart Strategies for Managing Your Email. The Least You Need to Know. 17. How to Use a Modem with Your PalmPilot. What Kind of Modem Can You Use with a PalmPilot? How to Set Up Your PalmPilot Modem. Setting Up a Regular Modem to Work with Your PalmPilot. Far, Far Away: Using a Modem to Do a HotSync. Now Do a HotSync via Modem. The Least You Need to Know. 18. Connecting to the World: Getting onto the Internet with Your PalmPilot. How Can the PalmPilot Get Me onto the Internet? First, Set Up Your Internet Connection. How to Send and Receive Email Using the Internet. How to Configure Email Software. Get the World Wide Web in the Palm of Your Hand. You Can Do Other Stuff on the Internet as Well. Best PalmPilot Sites on the Internet. Paging and Faxing Using Your PalmPilot. The Least You Need to Know. 19. Beam Me Up, Scotty! Using the Palm IIIs Infrared Port. Whats an Infrared Beam, Anyway? What Kind of Stuff Can You Beam? So Lets Get Beaming Already: How to Beam Stuff to Others. How to Beam a Program to Another Palm III. Beaming Your Business Card to Another Palm III. Receiving Information on Your Palm III via the Infrared Beam. How Beaming Can Make Your Life More Productive. The Least You Need to Know. IV. SUPERCHARGING YOUR LIFE WITH THE PALMPILOT. 20. Installing New Software on Your PalmPilot. How to Install Software on Your PalmPilot. Get Outta Here! How to Delete Programs from Your PalmPilot. Where to Find Programs on the Internet. How to Download and Install Programs from the World Wide Web. A Bakers Dozen of the Best PalmPilot Software. The Least You Need to Know. 21. Customizing Your PalmPilot for the Way You Live and Work. Cute as a Button: Remapping Your PalmPilots Buttons. Use the Power of the Pen: Customizing the Full-Screen Pen Stroke. Take the Express Lane: Using PalmPilot ShortCuts. Put Your Stamp on Your PalmPilot: Putting in Your Name. Setting Up Your PC for Multiple Users. The Least You Need to Know. 22. Using Reference Files with Your PalmPilot. What Reference Files Are Available for the PalmPilot? So How Do You Get and Use the Reference Files? Whats Up, Doc? What Doc Readers Can You Use? How to Use Doc Readers. Using Database Readers. Where to Get Reference Files on the Internet. The Least You Need to Know. 23. Traveling with Your PalmPilot. Preparing for Your Trip with Your PalmPilot. Software to Help Make Your Trip Easier and More Productive. Using a Web-Based Calendar with Your Date Book. Using Downloadable Software to Sync with Yahoos Web-Based Calendar. Tips and Strategies for Traveling with Your PalmPilot. The Least You Need to Know. V. TROUBLESHOOTING AND MAINTENANCE FOR YOUR DIGITAL COMPANION. 24. Cures for the PalmPilots Most Common Problems. How to Recover from a Frozen PalmPilot by Doing a Reset. Fixes for Other PalmPilot Problems. The Least You Need to Know. 25. Care and Maintenance of Your Digital Companion. Battery Watch: Advice for Using Batteries in Your PalmPilot. Screen Scenes: Taking Care of Your Pilot Screen. General Tips on Caring for Your PalmPilot. Getting Better All the Time: Upgrading Your PalmPilot. The Least You Need to Know. Easter Eggs and Stupid Digital Tricks. The Waving Palm Tree Easter Egg. The DOS Error Message Easter Egg. The Two Fancy Guys Easter Egg. The Easter Egg Easter Egg. The Taxi Easter Egg. The Developer Team Credits Easter Egg. Other Undocumented Secrets of the PalmPilot. Glossary: Speak Like a Geek. Whats on the CD? Communications and Internet. Documents and Readers. Games. Organizing Your Life. Personal Finance. Travel. Miscellaneous. How to Use the CD. Index.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780789719676
  • Publisher: Macmillan Computer Publishing (a Pearson Education company)
  • Publisher Imprint: Que
  • Edition: Illustrated edition
  • Series Title: The complete idiot's guide
  • Weight: 631 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0789719673
  • Publisher Date: 15 Mar 1999
  • Binding: Counterpack – filled
  • Height: 232 mm
  • Spine Width: 22 mm
  • Width: 187 mm


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