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The First Week with My New Digital Organizer: A Very Basic Guide to Palm OS PDAs (Capital First Week)

Pamela R. Lessing

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Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 3.0 of 5

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Throw out those worn out address books, multiple calendars, yellow stickies, and notes on envelopes to move into the digital age! Today, the newest technology for all of us is the Personal Digital Assistant. Get started now with this easy-to-read and use book, by the master of nonpatronizing instruction, as she makes clear all the wonders of the PDA screen, buttons, programs, menus, chargers and strange writing instruments and systems master this latest technology.

The First Week With My New Digital Organizer takes the mystery out of all this "tapping and beaming." In basic terms and in a logical sequence, the reader learns the parts and pieces of a variety of PDAs that use the Palm Operating System®. Learn how to perform all those tasks you bought a PDA for: organizing an Address Book, keeping a Calendar, making Notes, recording Expenses, and remembering your "To Do" list. In addition learn the tricks of the special written language called Grafitti and all the easy ways to synchronize information. Included is a section explaining the use of several attachments such as modems, digital cameras, and the GPS mapping system that is available on some of the advanced models. Finally, the book concludes with the hallmark of The First Week series, a clear and concise step-by-step guide for performing each of the basic tasks of the PDA.

How to Do Everything with Your Camera Phone

John Frederick Moore

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Total reviews: 7 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Editorial Review:

Transform unexpected moments into recorded history with the convenience of your camera phone and help from this hands-on guide. Loaded with easy-to-follow instructions and plenty of illustrations, this book will help you take better pictures, edit and enhance images, and transmit photos to your PC, the Web, other mobile phones, and email buddies. Improve your photography techniques with great advice on framing, lighting, depth of field, self portraits, action shots, and more. Print your favorites easily, and even set up a free Website where you can share your images and thoughts with the world.

• Unlock the power of your camera phone and take full advantage of all its features--basic and advanced
• Transmit your photos anywhere easily--to your PC, email buddies, other phones, and Web sites
• Adjust color and lighting like a pro, crop images, and fix flaws with low-cost and easy-to-use image editing software
• Take well-composed pictures--including better self-portraits
• Get easy-to-follow tips on storing, editing, and printing your photos
• Compare various camera phone brands and mobile phone carriers
• Capture high-quality camera phone video
• Send instant greeting cards and caller ID photos, create your own camera phone Weblog, and more
• Understand privacy, security, and copyright issues

The Pocket Idiot's Guide to the iPhone (Pocket Idiot's Guides)

Damon Brown

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Total reviews: 1 Average rating: 2.0 of 5

Use the manual and the internet instead 2 out of 5 stars.
6 of 6 people found this review helpful.

A book such as Damon Brown's The Pocket Idiot's Guide to the iPhone can really only have two possible purposes: to give a potential user information to help them decide whether and what to buy, and/or to provide information to a user that goes beyond the manual in helping them to make the most of a gadget. Unfortunately, this book succeeds in neither of these goals.

The closest Mr. Brown comes to discussing whether one should buy the iPhone is a small suggestion that it might not hurt to wait to buy it until some of the inevitable first-round kinks are worked out. Other than that, he mostly spends his words raving about how utterly cool the iPhone is and how no one could possibly not want it. He ignores such basic and essential information as the fact that you must send your iPhone in for servicing in order to replace the battery, something that users might want to know before deciding whether to plunk down their money.

As for providing additional information to users, well, let's just say I did a quick comparison of this book to the actual iPhone manual from Apple. The manual does a far better job of exploring the programs available on the iPhone and how to use them in depth. For example, Brown's information on using the iPhone to check your email is limited to a brief paragraph or two saying you can use it with such services as Yahoo! and Gmail, while the manual explains in-depth how to access your mail. In fact, the only thing I saw better information on in the book was the use of iTunes in creating playlists and buying music. This hardly seems like the best use of space given that iTunes is one part of iPhone's package that most users are likely to already be familiar with.

In short, you can do better with the manual and a quick Google search than you can with this book.

Pocket PC Handbook

Dan Hanttula

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Total reviews: 10 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Well Written and Clear 4 out of 5 stars.
10 of 11 people found this review helpful.

This is a useful book for any first time pocket pc user, like me. The level is just right, neither too technical nor too simple, and after going through it I feel like an expert user. What more could you ask? If you are thinking of buying this book, you should know that the illustrations and examples mainly reference the HP Jornada, there is definately an HP focus. However, even though I'm an iPAQ user, the HP focus took very little away from my experience with this book. The author is very careful to point out differences between HP and other platforms.

Editorial Review:

Pocket PCs are the hottest tool for people on the go, and "Pocket PC Handbook" will help you get up and running faster with its many illustrated tips and tricks. This book will guides you through the many functions and features of the most popular brands of pocket PC's (Hewlett-Packard, Compaq, Casio, and Microsoft's Pocket PC). Palm is not the only manufacturer of handheld devices! Pocket PCs are not just for keeping track of your contacts anymore. "Pocket PC Handbook" shows you how to track meetings and e-mail, create and edit standard Word documents, listen to MP3 files, download electronic books, expand the PC's capabilities with add-ons, and explore the other productive and entertaining features. Pocket PCs are also on the cutting edge of wireless technology, and this book keep you current and in touch with this fast-paced industry.

iSpeak Korean Phrasebook (MP3 Disc): See + Hear 1,200 Travel Phrases on Your iPod (iSpeak Audio Series)

Alex Chapin, Young Pahk

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See it. Hear it. Speak it.

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Put 1,400 Korean phrases in your pocket, and enjoy your travel experience without getting lost in translation.

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1. Go to �Artist�--Choose the theme you want. .
2. Go to �Album�--Select your topic within the theme. .
3. Select the phrase you want to hear--You will hear the phrase and see it on your iPod screen!

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Missed it? Just click and repeat the track as many times as you need! Or create your own playlist to keep favorite phrases handy.

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With iSpeak, you're in control!

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For use on your: iPod � iPod nano � iPhone � Zune

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Screen images will vary among iPod models.
. Contains one MP3 audio disc and 16-page booklet.
. Requires 300MB of free space.
. iPod is a trademark of Apple, Inc., registered in the United States and other countries.
. Zune is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation, Inc., in the United States and other countries.

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Handspring Visor (Visual QuickStart Guide)

Jeff Carlson

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Total reviews: 3 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

An excellent addition to your VQSG Library 5 out of 5 stars.
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Jeff Carlson's latest, "Handspring Visor: Visual QuickStart Guide", has proven to be an invaluable resource in my growing VQSG library. I am a convert - no more "dummies" or "morons" for me. The Visual QuickStart series as a whole presents technical material in clear, concise and intelligent fashion, without compromising the integrity of it's material with cartoons or remedial presentation.

Carlson does not fall short of the other respected titles in the Visual QuickStart series. For starters, "Handspring Visor: Visual QuickStart Guide" is very well-organized, making it appealing to those peck and hunt readers, or for those that may use the title as a reference book.

Carlson provides sufficient detail of the Palm OS, but unlike "Palm Organizers: VQSG", the author is able to delve into the idiosynchcrasies of only the Handspring Visor Family. Detailed tips and tricks are far beyond that which is contained in the user guide that comes with your new Visor handheld.

While no reference material can possibly tell you all of the things you can accomplish with your Handspring Visor, Carlson does a superb job of opening your eyes to the path of enlightenment that there's more out there besides your date book, address book, and memo pad. Heck - I'm still reeling that my stylus also has a screw driver and a hidden "tip" to help reset my Visor Deluxe.

Editorial Review:

The popularity of "palmtop" computing devices is soaring thanks in part to the popularity of the Handspring Visor line of expandable handhelds. Sales of new products such as the Visor Prism, Visor Platinum, and Visor Deluxe outstrip those of cell phones and personal computers in some corners of the country. Handspring Visor: Visual QuickStart Guide introduces the complete Visor line, showing readers how to use the operating system, basic modules (address book, date book, memo pad, to-do list), and advanced features.The book covers every feature and facet of Handspring's devices from entering text and sketches, to managing schedules, using databases, spreadsheets, personal finance programs and games. It also addresses the Springboard modules that convert Visors into cell phones, GPS systems, pagers, and MP3 audio players.

Palmpilot: The Ultimate Guide, 2nd Edition

David Pogue

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Total reviews: 50 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

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PalmPilot: The Ultimate Guide was an instant classic when it debuted in 1998, becoming, and remaining, the number one bestselling Palm book. Dense with previously undocumented information, this newly updated bible for Palm users delivers hundreds of timesaving tips and surprising tricks, plus a CD-ROM containing over 3,100 Palm programs. The second edition offers exclusive insider coverage of all models, including 1999's Palm IIIx, Palm V, laser-equipped Symbol 1500, and the revolutionary, wireless Palm VII. The book is divided into five sections:

Section One details every hardware and software aspect of PalmPilot.Section Two explains step-by-step how your PalmPilot can work with Windows and Macintosh.Section Three takes the reader beyond the built-in Palm software to the best of the add-on programs included with the book. Section Four covers the new Palm VII, the first one-piece, pocket-sized, wireless Internet device ever marketed. Section Five explains ways to troubleshoot software and hardware.

PalmPilot: The Ultimate Guide, 2nd Edition is the most comprehensive Palm-platform book yet written. With the cooperation of Palm Computing, and 3Com, bestselling computer-book author David Pogue succinctly answers every conceivable question, unlocks Palm features most users never suspected, and radiates the fun, passion, and sense of community shared by Piloteers the world over.

Advances in Security and Payment Methods for Mobile Commerce

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Total reviews: 1 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

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Recently, the emergence of wireless and mobile networks has made possible the admission of electronic commerce to a new application and research subject: mobile commerce, defined as the exchange or buying and selling of commodities, services, or information on the Internet through the use of mobile handheld devices. In just a few years, mobile commerce has emerged from nowhere to become the hottest new trend in business transactions. However, the prosperity and popularity of mobile commerce will be brought to a higher level only if information is securely and safely exchanged among end systems (mobile users and content providers). Advances in Security and Payment Methods for Mobile Commerce includes high-quality research papers and industrial and practice articles in the areas of mobile commerce security and payment from academics and industrialists. It covers research and development results of lasting significance in the theory, design, implementation, analysis, and application of mobile commerce security and payment.

Palm OS Cobalt Programming From the Ground Up, Second Edition (From the Ground Up)

Robert Mykland, James Keogh, Matthew Graham

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Total reviews: 4 Average rating: 2.0 of 5

Quick start but lots of errors in examples 2 out of 5 stars.
15 of 15 people found this review helpful.

As an experienced programmer, I wanted a book that wouldn't waste my time teaching me C/C++ or explaining event loops in lots of detail. I also wanted comparison between Garnet and Cobalt versions of the Palm OS.

This book does provide some of that information.

It does not provide valid examples. The first code examples are in chapter 3. They claim to build on the Draw application from chapter 2, and assume the reader has details about the event loop from chapter 2. Chapter 2, however, contains neither code nor a description of the event loop used in Palm software. There is no reference to the Draw application in the index, either.

After studying sample code from Palm's web site and trying lots of things in the development environment, I was able to get something that worked.

Other examples mix Garnet and Cobalt veriable types so they wouldn't compile on either system or contain other errors that prevent them from compiling.

A less-experienced programmer would probably give up on page 25 where the text tells the reader to modify a resource file that does not exist. Such a programmer would probably rate the book with one star.

I have not completed the book yet although I intend to do so. I felt compelled to warn other readers about its inaccuracies.

A CD or web site (with working examples!) would be useful to copy and paste tutorial information instead of requiring lots of typing.

Editorial Review:

Write custom Palm OS Cobalt applications for business, communications, entertainment, and other uses with help from the step-by-step guide. Following a start-to-finish sample application, you’ll learn to work in the Palm OS Developer Suite to build programs that run on all Palm OS devices, including the palmOne Treo, Tungsten, and Zire models, Sony CLIÉs, the Fossil Wrist PDA, and many others. Create user interface elements such as buttons and scroll bars, develop databases, and much more. Plus, you’ll learn to test your applications and apply the tricks and techniques used by professional programmers.

Pocket PC, Handheld PC Developer's Guide with Microsoft Embedded Visual Basic (Prentice Hall Series on Microsoft Technologies)

Nick Grattan

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Total reviews: 6 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

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The Windows Pocket PC and Handheld PC are the most robust handheld development platforms ever created. Now, there's a start-to-finish guide to VB handheld development for every Windows programmer. Best-selling Win32 expert Nick Grattan focuses on today's most exciting opportunities for handheld development: integration with existing enterprise and Web applications. Grattan begins with a thorough introduction to the Embedded Visual Basic (EVB) environment used to create Pocket PC/Handheld PC applications, and the key differences between EVB and desktop VB. He shows how to develop database applications using SQL Server for Windows CE, presenting detailed techniques for managing remote data access and replication. The book includes detailed coverage of sending and receiving data from IIS using ASP pages and Pocket Internet Explorer; receiving and parsing XML documents; and the role of .NET Services and SOAP in handheld development. Coverage also includes: managing remote access connections; interacting with data stored in Pocket Office; the Registry; file and serial I/O; and finally, architecting mobile solutions for maximum performance and reliability. For all developers interested in creating applications for Microsoft Pocket PCs and Handheld PCs, and for developers migrating from earlier versions of Windows CE.