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Books : Computing & Internet : Hardware : Handheld Computers : Palm
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The authors of this guide take the approach that handheld computers based on the Palm operating system are so user-friendly and crash proof, that it's useless to spend a lot of time telling you how to get it to work. Rather, How to Do Everything with Your Palm Handheld is more of a task master, leading the reader through such productivity tips as tracking expenses, planning trips and using the Palm as a business productivity software suite.Though the book is weighted heavily toward the Palm Pilot, it is targeted toward users of all devices based on the Palm OS, such as the IBM WorkPad ,the Qualcomm pdQ and the Handspring Visor, to which the authors devote an entire chapter. What Dave Johnson and Rick Broida do best is explain how to get the most out of those features you probably gave only a cursory glance.
Most users probably create to-do lists on their Palm handhelds, but how many of them import those lists into other applications, such as Microsoft Word and Excel? Both programs build tables based on to-do list data. Palm handhelds also come with an applet called Sun Compass, which could come in handy when you're on the road.
Given that so many people use their Palm Pilots as glorified address books, the tips Johnson and Broida supply are highly useful. How to Do Everything with Your Palm Handheld will show you how to make these popular devices the ultimate productivity tools. --John Frederick Moore, amazon.com
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In Palm for Dummies, Bill Dyszel shows you how to use the operating system and the suite of applications that ship with it on 3Com and Handspring platforms. The Palm OS, the functional core of the Palm series of handheld computers from 3Com and the Visor series from Handspring, is easy to learn and fun to use. With its simple elegance and range of available software, it's great for people who need to keep track of details and don't want to use a big laptop computer all the time. Mostly, this book is straight documentation of the Palm OS environment, with explanations of what it can do and procedures that detail processes for you.It's an approach that's better suited to a ponderous productivity application or business-orientated operating system. The author should do more in this book to introduce the reader to the fun of Palm OS computing. He should share more opinions on favourite aftermarket software, too. Also, the forced casual tone of the Dummies series--this book includes a chapter called "Ten (Or So) Troubleshooting Tips"--is beginning to show its age. The tone that seemed friendly when it was a novelty now, more frequently than not, seems sloppy. Readers don't want to be bored, and dry presentations of unadorned facts certainly are no fun. But a book about a computing environment as vibrant as the Palm OS, with its colourful communities of users and developers, shouldn't have to rely on dumb jokes and cutesy lines to engage the reader. This isn't Dyszel's fault, as he wrote to the Dummies series' standard style. But David Pogue's PalmPilot: The Ultimate Guide is a better book, despite being somewhat dated. --David Wall
Topics covered: The Palm OS operating system for handheld computers, including Palms and Visors. Specifically, coverage touches on the Graffiti handwriting-recognition system, applications (those that come with the operating system) for managing appointments and contacts, and connectivity via the HotSync cradle and modem hardware. Wireless operations with the Palm VII get attention, and there's a directory of aftermarket software that's organised by profession. --Willam Steinmetz
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Handheld organisers are rapidly becoming more important than the PC as a computing device, due in large part to the popularity of the PalmPilot. True, the beauty of these devices--aside from their portability--is that they're easy to use. Nonetheless, you still could use a guide to show you how to get the most out of them and this one does the job.The book keeps its focus on organisers that run on the Palm operating system. Though this obviously includes the various PalmPilot models, it also covers the Handspring Visor, the IBM WorkPad and the TRGPro. Author Jeff Carlson could have done a better job of delineating the subtle differences between these devices, as How to Do Everything with Your Palm Handheld did. But he does do a good job of providing detailed usability and productivity tips, such as how to improve the accuracy of Palm OS's Graffiti handwriting recognition tool.
Given the ascendancy of wireless Internet access, Palm Organizers Visual Quickstart Guide devotes sufficient space to a discussion of the Palm VII's Internet features, including a brief rundown of the wireless modems currently available. And all PalmPilot users should read the chapter on security, given that most people store sensitive contact information in their organisers.
Just because you've mastered the basics of entering names and addresses into your Palm organiser doesn't mean you're getting the most out of it. Palm Organizers will help you maximise your productivity. --John Frederick Moore, Amazon.com
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The best general-interest book about that most-adored Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) clearly came about from a lot of thought and effort. With a book richer in facts and better focused than the original edition, PalmPilot: The Ultimate Guide shows David Pogue's thoughtful consideration of his dedicated audience.Of course, Pogue includes information on the Palm IIIx, Palm V and Palm VII. (And it's substantive information too, not the jive stuff--derived from press releases--that many books pass off as "coverage".) He also shows how to take advantage of recent advancements in Macintosh connectivity and brings in a Linux expert to show how to HotSync under that environment. He pays extra attention to the burgeoning universe of AportisDoc publications and helps untangle the confusion over getting your e-mail via your Palm.
In addition to how-to information--both basic stuff that everyone needs to know and cool tricks that will surprise more experienced Palm users--Pogue catalogs a lot of Palm add-on hardware and software. The CD-ROM contains more than 3,100 programs for PalmOS. True, they are all on the Web (possibly in newer form), but this disc earns its keep by making it a cinch to screen more Palm software than you'd ever care to download. --David Wall
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Palm Programming: The Authoritative Solution takes a comprehensive approach to the tools and techniques available to Palm OS programmers. Assuming only that you have familiarity with C or C++ in some capacity--an academic knowledge is fine--Glenn Bachmann explains forms, buttons, labels, fields, tables and event handlers at a level suitable for a programmer who has never programmed for the Palm before.Bachmann also provides lots of database information, including sample programs that browse and query databases, and shows how to save state in a Palm application. He pays attention to the special quirks of large programs, which most Palm OS programming books ignore entirely.
The tutorials and examples on communications programming--in so far as the infrared port and serial connection go--shine, but there is a lack of Palm VII coverage. There's a summary of the newest Palm's capabilities in this book, but no code samples or other practical programming information for those wanting to work with radio communication and Web clipping. But the special capabilities of the Palm VII are a small subset of Palm programming, and you'll find Palm Programming to be a useful hands-on introduction to the topic, particularly if you plan to work with large or database-centric applications. --David Wall
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The emphasis in Instant Palm OS Applications doesn't fall on instant--one suspects the publisher's marketing department had something to do with the title. Rather, the defining characteristic of this book is quality and comprehensiveness. If you want to know how to use the C programming language to perform some task under Palm OS (particularly if it's a readily described, commonly performed one, like parsing a Web page), this book has the code and explanation you need. This book is for everyone who's wished (with much hand-waving and hair-pulling) for a simple, straightforward explanation of some aspect of programming that they've seen done but haven't been able to duplicate themselves. Plus, because the book's sample code appears on the companion CD-ROM in a series of includable header files, it does speed development considerably.Kris Jamsa's code is tidy and efficient (if minimally commented); it's generally easy to learn from it even when the accompanying text doesn't provide too much illumination. In a section on databases, for example, Jamsa shows how to write appointment details to a database, extract them in a couple of ways, and how to write a time-tracking application that allocates time across several jobs. You can use the applications as they are, or, more likely, modify them for incorporation into a larger application you're creating. This book is all about learning by example. --David Wall
Topics covered: how to write software, in C, for the Palm OS operating system. All core capabilities of Palm OS software--including basic user interfaces, database queries, network connectivity, retrieving Web pages, and file manipulation--are covered by a profusion of examples.
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A startling number of Palm owners don't use their HotSync cradles for anything more than performing routine backups of their telephone lists. The awkwardly titled PalmPilot and Palm Organizers! I Didn't Know You Could Do That sets out to prove that the cradle has other uses and does a fine job of cataloging some of the best aftermarket software you can install on your hand-held pal. For the 82 programs he covers, author Neil J. Salkind explains where each comes from and how much it costs, if anything, to register the program. He then documents--rather tediously--each menu command and shortcut in each program. Salkind and his production team lose points for leaving "Palm OS Emulator" at the top of all their screen shots--creating a frame for the illustrations that was more Palm-like in appearance would not have been hard.The most valuable aspect of this book is its companion CD-ROM, which contains more than 100 Palm applications for easy installation. Though it's not mentioned by name here, the Visor--a newly released personal digital assistant from Handspring--runs the Palm OS, just like the Palm products this book describes. You might also consider David Pogue's PalmPilot: The Ultimate Guide, which contains much more extensive documentation of the PalmOS, a better CD-ROM, and more extensive coverage of the Palm VII. --David Wall, amazon.com
Topics covered: PalmOS applications of all kinds, including HackMaster, GoType!, BrainForest, Quicksheet, AportisDoc and various games.
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