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by: David Pogue
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 004.165
EAN: 9781565924208
ISBN: 1565924207
Label: O'Reilly
Manufacturer: O'Reilly
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 520
Publication Date: 1998-07
Publisher: O'Reilly
Sales Rank: 1718982
Studio: O'Reilly
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Product Description:
3Com's PalmPilot is the world's bestselling hand-held PC. In two years, its incarnations as the Pilot, PalmPilot, Palm III, and IBM WorkPad have captured 70 percent of the palmtop market. About the size of a playing card, it's lightweight (5.7 ounces) with a touch-screen display. PalmPilot is elegantly designed and fast.
Dense with previously undocumented information, this bible for PalmPilot users contains hundreds of timesaving tips and surprising tricks, plus a CD-ROM containing over 900 PalmPilot programs. It covers the PalmPilot, PalmPilot Professional, and the new software and features of the 1998 PalmPilot model, the Palm III, as well as OEM models such as the IBM WorkPad.
This book is divided into five sections:
- Section One details every hardware and software aspect of PalmPilot as it comes out of the box: the stylus and the screen, the buttons, and the current line of Pilot models. A tutorial takes the reader through the palmtop's preferences and settings panels, teaches the Graffiti alphabet, and unearths surprising features of the Pilot's eight built-in programs.
- Section Two explains step-by-step how your PalmPilot can work with your PC: how data gets from your Pilot to your desktop computer and then back to Pilot (HotSyncing), as well as what happens to the data when it reaches your PC. Special coverage is given to Pilot Desktop, the Windows or Macintosh program that duplicates the functions of the Pilot (calendar, phone book, to-do list, memo pad, email, and expense tracking) on the PC.
- Section Three takes the reader beyond the built-in Pilot software to the best of the 900 add-on programs included with the book. They include such graphics programs as DinkyPad, PalmDraw, and the amazing ImageViewer (which unlocks the 'black-and-white' Pilot screen's grayscale features); electronic texts with the AportisDoc teleprompter/reader program; and music programs that use the Pilot's built-in speaker. A chapter on learning to write software for the Pilot includes a tutorial in using Metrowerks' Code Warrior Lite, a programming kit included exclusively with PalmPilot: The Ultimate Guide.
- Section Four takes the Pilot online, where it's ideal for reading and replying to email -- a great time-shifter for anyone who'd otherwise consider plane, train, or automobile time as downtime. Chapters cover the four Pilot Web browsers, paging, faxing, and (on the Palm III) infrared beaming features.
- Section Five explains simple ways to troubleshoot both software and hardware, including HotSync snafus and various software glitches. Special chapters cover Pilot fans' options for upgrading and accessorizing their palmtops.
PalmPilot: The Ultimate Guide is the most comprehensive Pilot book yet written. With the cooperation of Palm Computing, 3Com, and Metrowerks, bestselling computer-book author David Pogue succinctly answers every conceivable question, unlocks Pilot features most users never suspected, and radiates the fun, passion, and sense of community shared by Piloteers the world over. The enclosed CD-ROM (which runs in Windows 9x, NT, and the Macintosh includes over 900 programs -- the entire contents of ISO Productions' 'Everything PalmPilot' CD-ROM (a $25 value) -- plus Metrowerks' Code Warrior Lite programming kit. PalmPilot: The Ultimate Guide is the essential guide for the PalmPilot owner.
Amazon.com:
PalmPilots are like good video games: easy to get started with but sufficiently feature-rich that they continue to reward exploration and experimentation for a long time. Best of all, PalmPilots are easy to enhance with software, so there's a steady parade of cool code (most of it free) to play with.
In PalmPilot: The Ultimate Guide, David Pogue explores the full depth of the Pilot's hooky soul from a user's point of view. He documents the standard features of all the machines in the PalmPilot lineage (including the PalmPilots, the Palm III, and the IBM WorkPad), and then goes into great depth on lots of add-in software that's available.
If you're new to the Pilot cult, this book explains Graffiti and the other basic stuff. If your palm has held a Pilot for some time, Pogue will reveal many things you haven't yet discovered. Plus, there's a great CD-ROM with tons of Pilot software to try. --David Wall
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Too old now, but good when it was new
I like this book, or rather, I loved it when it was new, but now that I have a Tungsten T3 I have no use for this book. I agve it away for free with my old Palm Vx to a friend.
It was a great book, but if your Palm is anything newer than Palm Vx you don't want it.
Rating: - The Ultimate Guide...a brilliant start!
This book provided me with a great deal of insight into just how the Palm operates and how I can use it to do what I need it to do. I found it helpful in the areas of importing/exporting graphics; what models are expandable and which are not. I knew a lot of this info. from just have the Palm handheld, but there were many particulars I knew nothing of that the book helped me understand. I recommend it for those who just got their Palm handheld or those who desire a more intimate knowledge of. ... Read More
Rating:  - The CD maybe is it's best mate...and your great deal...
I bougth this book and when I started to explore the CD that comes with it...I really wondered my self as hell!!!!!!!. This CD has a lot of programs(3500) and many of 'em are a beauty. I love CD more than just the book . I love my palm and when my palm get broken I ?d buy another one, but is hard to loss your palm they are maden for long life.
Rating: - Great, But a Little Dated
This was great Palm when it was new. It's clear, complete the author knows the Palm and it's and not oversimplified. Even now I would recommend this as the place to start for those who are not technophobes. But the book is over two years old. There's lots of new software out like Wordsmith which gives you real fonts and the ability to save in .rtf, and peripherals like those folding keyboards.
Rating: - Pogue Covers the Width and Breadth...
David Pogue has long been a favorite source of mine for Mac books, and when I was planning to buy a PDA, his was the first and the best of the PalmPilot books I consulted. Not only is Pogue a strong writer, but also O'Reilly is a respected computer books publisher.
About the only downside to Pogue's book is its age -- it is definitely due for an overhaul, as it barely touches on newer Palm, Inc. handhelds and Palm OS clones. As a Handspring owner, I was a little disappointed to not ... Read More
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