At 8:42 PM -0700 on 3/16/99, Steve Patt wrote:
> But I don't want any of these things - no connection to corporate
> servers, no need to "manipulate all the data on a connected Palm device",
> nothing like that. All I need is a way to install a PRC/PDB (presumably
> both as a pair) into a thousand unknown Palms of walk-up customers,
> without disturbing any of the other data on their handheld and without
> uploading a single thing to the desktop.
> Shin referred me to "Pyrite"
> but I don't know if that is relevant to my needs since he didn't explain
> it further. So I'll say the question is still open.
Have you looked at QuickBeam from Counterpoint?
<http://www.countersys.com/products/qbeamp.html>
Why not use IR and forget cradles -- just BEAM the data over IR!
I've been wondering if someone could get Counterpoint to make a
special version or QuickBeam ("AutoBeam"?) that would run in a sort
of "Kiosk" mode looking for devices to beam to... That is, just a
desktop system of some sort (could be a really tiny Windows box with
no display, keyboard, or mouse) with an IrDA transceiver. Walk up
and point your Palm at the kiosk, and it automagically beams some
pre-defined stuff to your device.
NOTE: QuickBeam does NOT work this way today (so far as I know).
The above is merely a suggestion for how it COULD work. It would be
really handy to be able to pick up a quick Doc file or a show
schedule or something like that...
Just a thought...
--Steve
