On Mar 29, 2006, at 6:32 PM, Shel Belinkoff wrote:
It might be nice to have needed info at my fingertips, although,
there's
really not much info I have to have at my fingertips - I check my
appointments on the PC in the morning, and then go about the day.
What
kind of Palm do you have? Is it like a PIM - Just learned what that
is
;-)) How do you sync the Palm and the PC?
I'm not Bruce, but I have a Palm TX, which is the fancy-ish new one
that has built-in wi-fi (for wireless internet browsing) and bluetooth
(for connecting wireless devices like headphones and keyboards). I got
it instead of repairing my laptop, because my laptop primarily fetched
my e-mail, surfed websites, reminded me to do stuff, stored a bunch of
books and played music and movies to entertain me when I was on the
train or stuck somewhere dull. The TX can do all these things and fit
into my pocket.
Now, I tell you all this because there's one other good reason to get a
Palm with a big-ish screen: you can pop the SD card out of your DS and
pop it into the Palm to view your photographs on a four and a bit inch
screen instead of a two inch screen.
Of course, the TX is like $399 US, I think. But Palms start at $99 for
the Z22, which does have a colour screen.
How it syncs to the PC -- it comes with a USB cable. You plug the Palm
into the cable and press the button on the cable, and ta-daa, it backs
up your data and updates calendar and address book changes you made on
the computer. If your computer has wireless and you get a TX or one of
the other wireless-capable Palms, you can also sync wirelessly by
tapping something on the Palm. I've never tried, because the cable is
also the charger, so I just sync when I drop the unit into the charger
for the night.
-Aaron
