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How to Do Everything

By: Rick Broida, Dave Johnson

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Paperback | 10 March 2003

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This friendly, solutions-oriented guide is filled with step-by-step examples that illustrate how to set up and navigate your Zire, and make the most of the hardware, built-in applications, and third-party tools. Each chapter begins with the specific how-to topics that will be covered. Within the chapter, each topic is accompanied by a solid, easy-to-follow walkthrough of the process.

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Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. vii
Welcome to Zire	p. 1
A Brief History of Handhelds	p. 2
What Makes Handheld PCs So Great?	p. 3
Zire 101: The Basics	p. 5
Get to Know Your Zire	p. 7
A Guided Tour of the Hardware	p. 8
Using Your Zire for the First Time	p. 14
Getting to Know the Operating System	p. 16
Setting Zire Preferences	p. 20
An Introduction to Palm Desktop	p. 24
Getting Set Up with Your Computer	p. 27
Plugging It All In	p. 28
Installing the Desktop Software	p. 29
Your First HotSync	p. 31
HotSync as a Way of Life	p. 35
Getting Information In and Out of Your Zire	p. 39
The Three Ways to Enter Data	p. 40
Getting to Know Graffiti	p. 44
Beaming Data Between PDAs	p. 49
Installing New Software on Your Zire	p. 55
The Date Book	p. 57
View Your Appointments	p. 58
Manage Your Day from the Agenda View	p. 63
Create New Appointments	p. 65
Work with Alarms	p. 70
Work with the Palm Desktop	p. 73
The Windows Date Book	p. 73
Using Outlook	p. 75
The Address Book	p. 77
View Your Addresses	p. 78
Create New Entries	p. 80
Assign Categories	p. 84
Edit and Delete Addresses	p. 85
Create and Beam Your Business Card	p. 86
Work with the Palm Desktop	p. 86
Using Outlook	p. 90
The To Do List	p. 93
View the To Do List	p. 94
Create a To Do	p. 95
Work with the List View	p. 97
Delete Old To Dos	p. 101
Share Your To Dos	p. 102
Work with the Palm Desktop	p. 102
Using Outlook	p. 103
The Memo Pad and Note Pad	p. 107
Where's the Memo Pad Button?	p. 108
Viewing the Memo Pad	p. 108
Creating New Memos	p. 110
Arranging Memos in the Memo List	p. 111
Working with Your Memos	p. 113
Working with Notes	p. 115
Working in the Palm Desktop	p. 116
The Windows Note Pad	p. 119
Using Outlook with the Zire	p. 120
The Rest of the Palm OS Team	p. 123
Zire Security	p. 124
The Find Feature	p. 132
The Calculator	p. 134
All About Expense	p. 135
Alternatives to Expense	p. 139
The Internet in Your Zire	p. 141
Channel Surf with AvantGo	p. 142
Vindigo: A Concierge in Your Pocket	p. 147
Throw Away Your PC!	p. 149
Building the Perfect Beast	p. 150
The Wonderful World of E-Books	p. 151
Creating and Editing Documents	p. 155
Printing from Your Zire	p. 161
Games and Music	p. 163
Turn Your Zire into a Game Machine	p. 164
Sketch and Draw on Your Zire	p. 170
Collaborate on a Sketch	p. 171
Make Music on Your Zire	p. 172
Graffiti Enhancements and Other Utilities	p. 179
X-Master and the Wonderful World of "Hacks"	p. 180
Other Utilities	p. 185
Organize Icons with a Launcher	p. 187
Graffiti Enhancements and Alternatives	p. 189
Problems and Solutions	p. 197
Cure Zire Problems with a Reset	p. 198
Avoid Battery Problems	p. 200
Fix Scratched Screens	p. 200
Fix a Screen That No Longer Responds Properly	p. 201
Reclaim Memory for Software and Data	p. 201
Resolve Hack Conflicts	p. 203
Fix a Zire that Won't "Wake Up" for Alarms	p. 203
Beaming Problems	p. 204
Deal with a Zire that Will No Longer HotSync	p. 205
Manage Multiple Zires or PCs	p. 207
Where to Find Help	p. 208
Index	p. 209
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