Martin Reid
mwp.reid at qub.ac.uk
Thu Aug 24 10:18:35 CDT 2006
We started to use HP 4750 PDA.s Very impressive. Martin Martin WP Reid Training and Assessment Unit Riddle Hall Belfast tel: 02890 974477 ________________________________ From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com on behalf of Gary Kjos Sent: Thu 24/08/2006 16:11 To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] [dba-OT] Now It's Firefox I don't use the Palm for e-mail. My current one does do WIFI and bluetooth communications but I haven't actually tried it at either. For me it's being able to take my calendar with me to meetings and my contacts with me when I want to. Like a traveling rolodex. And it has the very same data as is on the computer files. And if I change it on the compute rit's cahnged on the palm and if I change it on the Palm it's changed on the computer. With my previous two Palm devices I had keyboards that i could connect and it was essentially a very small laptop that could be used for notetaking although to tell the truth I really hardly ever used that feature. I carry my phone with me most of the time but I seldom get any calls on it as I don't really give out the number too much. It's a small one so it fits in my pocket. I also have a seperate camera in the same pocket. Don't like the cameras in the phones so I passed on that when I got my last phone. I like a REAL camera. The one I carry with me at all times is the size of an Altoids box. So I'm used to having things in my pocket. In my other pocket I have my keys, a foldup pair of reading glasses and a swiss army knife. I like having pockets and I USE my pockets. I used to use a Daytimer paper calendar. And I carried it with me everywhere. I used a small sized one and it was a big change for me to go electronic. The big kicker for me was the CONTACTS part of the Daytimer. Once a year or so I had to recopy all the contacts into a new paper book and that drove me crazy. I had crossed out numbers and names and smudged ink and at one point I vowed I would never go through recopying that address book again. And that was what got me to look at my first Palm device. And Using the Outlook Calendar has gotten me quite a lot of acclaim for remembering peoples birthdays and anniversaries because you set them up once and tell it it recurs every year and WALLA, you get a reminder that it's so and so's birthday coming up on August 30th. Right Donna? <grin> And my Palm also allows me to sync to multiple computers and that propegates all that stuff into the Outlook that lives on those other computers. Like my office computer and my home computer and my laptop computer. The Palm is the bridge between all those systems. And it plays a nice game of solitare if I am waiting for someone in a meeting room. Or Yahtzee. Or Monopoly. Or Chess. And it stays in my backpack when I don't need it. Just fine. As does my phone if I don't want it with me - pretty seldom as I view the cell phone as something I CALL OUT ON and not something that other people call me on. But whatever works for you works for you. What I have works for me. GK On 8/24/06, Rocky Smolin - Beach Access Software <bchacc at san.rr.com> wrote: > Oh, BTW I don't use a Palm. God willing I never will. I don't like to > carry my cell phone and when I don't 'accidentally' forget to take it > with me, about half the time I 'forget' to turn it on. > > I hope to never have a blackberry. I don't WANT to get my email > anywhere I go. I don't care about sports scores. I don't care about > the stock market from hour to hour. > > Guess I'm just a low tech guy. > > > Rocky > > Gary Kjos wrote: > > Ah the joys of not using Microsoft software. Curious as to why you > > would use OE instead of regular Outlook? You have Office licenses > > right? I use the calendar, the task lists, the contacts of course - > > even for non-email contacts, the Notes have logs of all my golf scores > > on them, in addition to the email functionality..... and it all > > syncronizes with my Palm device so I can carry all that with me > > wherever I go if I want to. > > > > GK > > > > On 8/24/06, Rocky Smolin - Beach Access Software <bchacc at san.rr.com> wrote: > > > >> First it was Thunderbird - can't send emails with attachments - times > >> out. Now it's Firefox - when I print something it comes out in a real > >> tiny font. Printed some boarding passes and they wouldn't scan at the > >> gate because the bar code was too small. > >> > >> Hate to go back to OE and IE but that might be what has to happen. > >> > >> Anybody know why Firefox might print something real small? > >> > >> TIA > >> > >> Rocky > >> > >> -- > >> Rocky Smolin > >> Beach Access Software > >> 858-259-4334 > >> www.e-z-mrp.com > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> dba-OT mailing list > >> dba-OT at databaseadvisors.com > >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-ot > >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com <http://www.databaseadvisors.com/> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > -- > Rocky Smolin > Beach Access Software > 858-259-4334 > www.e-z-mrp.com > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com <http://www.databaseadvisors.com/> > -- Gary Kjos garykjos at gmail.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com <http://www.databaseadvisors.com/>