Handheld & Mobile Devices Books - Page 15

The Pocket PC

Steve Seroshek

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Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 5 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Great book for beginners!! 5 out of 5 stars.
10 of 10 people found this review helpful.

For being a new Pocket PC user this book has made the adjustment very easy. The book explains the functions from taking it out of the box, to the memory, to synchronizing it, to the application very well. The pictures of the screens are also a big help.

Absolutely worthless 1 out of 5 stars.
9 of 10 people found this review helpful.

I cannot believe anyone gave this book greater than 1 star. Are they confusing it with a different title? This book is nothing more than a re-hash of exactly the same information you get with the user's manual. It doesn't even give you any of the tips that one reviewer praises it for. Save your money and buy "How To Do Everything With Your iPAQ Pocket PC" instead. That book has LOTS of tips and tricks and is much better for your money.

Editorial Review:

Osborne Product Differentiation: How to Do Everything with Your iPAQ Pocket PC, Second Edition cover the best-selling line of iPAQs. It provides detailed information from well connected, insider authors, including how to use, customize and optimize the devices; how to run the software that comes with them; and how to get and use various peripherals, etc.

Pocket PC Clear & Simple (Clear & Simple (Digital))

Craig Peacock

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Total reviews: 4 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

The expert introduction to Microsoft's Pocket PC operating system that runs
on devices such as the Compaq ipaq, Casio E125, EM-500 and the HP Jornada
540 series.

Pocket PC Clear & Simple teaches readers how to use, customize and get the
most out of the built in applications included on the Pocket PC. The book is
packed with over 200 screen shots to illustrate the points being made. Pocket PC is bursting with powerful new capabilities, including direct internet connectivity, multimedia, and e-book reader functions, features that have led many industry experts to dub it the "Palm killer," referring to the competing Palm Pilot device.

Pocket PC Clear & Simple is written by Craig Peacock, a recipient of Microsoft's "Windows CE MVP" award and one of the few Windows CE gurus outside of Microsoft. Drawing on his extensive experience running "Craig Peacock's Windows CE Pages," one of the most heavily trafficked sites on the topic, the author offers extensive tips, workarounds, and innovative solutions that will help readers get the most of a Pocket PC device. Consistent with the "Clear & Simple" series, this book features a very visual and engaging style.

Teaches customization techniques and workarounds
Written by "one of the undisputed experts on Windows CE" (Microsoft)
Requires no technical or in-depth computer knowledge

PDA Security : Incorporating Handhelds into the Enterprise

David Melnick, Inc. Asynchrony Solutions, Mark Dinman, Alexander Muratov

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Total reviews: 6 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Great Resource For Securing PDA's and Mobile Devices 4 out of 5 stars.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful.

This book provides a wealth of information for network and security administrators struggling to address the security risks posed by PDA's within their networks. It stands out as pretty much the only book addressing the security concerns of these convenient and valuable tools.

The book opens with a fairly comprehensive overview of PDA technology and the security features available. It then moves on to talk about other ways to secure the PDA such as encryption. Most importantly though, the book provides a wide range strategies and advice to help managers deploy and manage PDA's in their networks securely.

As the subtitle "Incorporating Handhelds Into The Enterprise" implies, the book is aimed at network and security administrators and not at the actual PDA users per se. The book serves as a great tool to help administrators begin to tackle the new security issues created by PDA's and to develop and implement structured policies to control PDA security in the enterprise.

PDA's are pretty much here to stay. I recommend that any network or security administrator with users using PDA's take a look at this book to get a grip on securing them.

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Editorial Review:

Guide to PDA security, addressing the challenges presented by this emerging set of technologies. Shows how to assess the level of threat posed by PDAs in your organization, develop a measured and enforceable policy response to minimize the risk, and why solutions usually involve the operating system. For those deploying, managing, or using PDAs in the workplace. DLC: Computer security.

101 Killer Apps for Your Palm Handheld (101 Best¿Series)

Dave Johnson, Rick Broida

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Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 1.0 of 5

Apps? Not in this book. 1 out of 5 stars.
13 of 13 people found this review helpful.

This is pretty much a waste of print. It is a compilation of advertisments for available apps. The included disk has NO apps on it, only a list of links to go to the web page where the apps are located. Nearly all of the apps are for sale, not free. If you want apps do a Google search for the appps you need, most of which can be downloaded for free.

Disappointing 1 out of 5 stars.
0 of 0 people found this review helpful.

Junk programs, mostly trial offers. Many of these trial programs cannot be permanently installed because the programmers stopped supporting them by website. Get ready to pay, and no payment will be accepted. Then you only have the option to delete the program.

What a waste of time and money.

Editorial Review:

Explains how to install and use 101 fun and practical add-on applications for all Palm OS devices in a wide variety of categories, including business, finance, travel, lifestyle, games, and more. Softcover.

Palm & Pocket PC Programming

Vadim Kalinin, Vladimir Rafalovich

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Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

A guide to developing applications for the main types of modern mobile devices-the Palm OS and the Pocket PC, this book focuses on using the new MobileVB tool from AppForge to create PDA applications. The applications developed are specifically for Palm devices, pocket computers with the Pocket PC/Windows CE operating system, and for Kyocera and similar communicators. Descriptions are of a different, free development environment from Microsoft-eMbedded Visual Basic 3.0-that allows programmers to create applications for pocket computers with the Pocket PC OS and its previous version, Windows CE. Tasks that use databases including a compact version of the SQL server are emphasized. Described are the basic features of MobileVB and eVB and their limitations when compared to standard Visual Basic. A detailed description is given of the controls (ingots) of each of the languages, the library functions, and the accompanying utilities. Also covered are a wide range of possible programs including games, applications that use databases, and Internet technologies.

Teach Yourself iPods and iTunes (Teach Yourself: Arts And Crafts)

Peter Cope

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Editorial Review:

Rock your iPod and master iTunes

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Teach Yourself iPods and iTunes covers a wide range of subjects, enabling you to get the most out of your iPod. You'll learn how to import your music collection into your iPod and much more.

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NS Basic Programming for Palm OS

Michael J. Verive

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Total reviews: 6 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

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Palm OS powered devices have been a phenomenal success, with millions being sold each year. NS Basic for Palm is a development tool that lets people who use the world's most popular programming language easily create applications for these devices. It is one of the most popular development tools for the Palm Platform, being used to create applications for business large and small, education, government, as well as personal users who want to create a special application or game.

NS Basic Programming for Palm OS provides a complete guide to developing applications for the Palm Computing platform using Basic. The book shows beginning to intermediate programmers how to design and build a Palm application from the ground up. Palm objects, forms and databases are all explained in detail. User Interface issues are discussed, as well as sharing information with the desktop.

If you have never worked with forms and objects before, or if you come from an older version of Basic, NS Basic Programming for Palm OS will teach you about these powerful concepts and how to use them easily and effectively. Programmers coming from other languages will also find this book makes the transition easy.

Some of the major topics covered are
¥ Basic language features
¥ Projects, forms, objects and menus
¥ Screen Graphics
¥ Time, Date, String and numeric functions
¥ Database management
¥ Extra topics, such as Sorting, Encryption, User Interface and Soundex

NS Basic Programming for Palm OS includes full source code for all samples in the book, plus extras.

NS Basic Programming for Palm OS promises to be an indispensable asset for those learning and using NS Basic for Palm to produce effective, real world applications.

The Essential Palm Programming Guide: Quickly Customize or Create Your Own PDA Programs

Christian Immler

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Total reviews: 1 Average rating: 3.0 of 5

Good for simple programming 3 out of 5 stars.
12 of 12 people found this review helpful.

This book covers two programming tools for the Palm; one is HotPaw Basic the other CASL. These are OK; but if you want to write simple useful programs I would recommend PocketC and get the book "Palm Programming for the Absolute Beginner" by Andy Harris. With PocketC you can write programs of reasonable complexity.

If however you are wanting to write complex programs, you have to get "Palm OS Programming: The Developers' Guide 2nd ed" by Neil Rhodes and Julie McKeehan, it is excellent. And I suggest using GCC C/C++ or CodeWarrior if you can spare the dollars.

Editorial Review:

Quickly customize or create your own PDA programs

By now, you are familiar with the basic operation of the Palm operating system and have become proficient with many of the standard applications. But, in so doing, you have had to adapt your style and needs to the design and limitations of each program. Wouldn't it be great if you could design programs to meet your individual style? Well, now you can!

The Essential Palm Programming Guide will teach you how to modify popular programs or customize your own program for either business or personal use. No prior programming experience is required. You will learn how to program in 2 popular languages, HotPaw Basic and CASL, via step by step instructions and numerous examples. A Palm emulator is also included so you can test and run any program on your computer before downloading it to your PDA.

Handheld Computers in Schools and Media Centers

Ann Bell

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Educators learn how to teach students to use handheld computers in conjunction with studies 5 out of 5 stars.
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Handheld computers can increase student learning and collaboration and can be easily integrated into a library or curriculum setting to reduce budgets and increase literacy skills - and this resource, Handheld Computers in Schools and Media Centers, is the perfect way of making the introduction work smoothly. Educators learn how to teach students to use handheld computers in conjunction with studies, with chapters discussing hardware, plug-in options, and more.

Diane C. Donovan
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Editorial Review:

Unlock the mystery to using handheld computers to meet national standards!

·Give your students the technology expertise they crave and bring your library into the twenty-first century ·Use handheld computers to increase student learning, communication, and collaboration! ·Incorporate handheld computers into the curriculum to improve information literacy skills, increase portability, and reduce budget concerns

This resource guides educators through the process of selecting the hardware and software for students to use handheld computers necessary to listen to eBooks, to research Websites, and to use videos and audio books. The author’s purpose is to help educators teach students to use handheld computers to learn the curriculum and meet national standards. By using these portable technologies in the classroom, students will increase their achievement, deepen their learning, and enrich their educational environment.

Palm OS Programming Professional Projects

Vikram Bhatia

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Total reviews: 7 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

not worth much 1 out of 5 stars.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.

You can pick up this book cheap, but it's not worth much.

I thought it was funny that two previous users who haven't reviewed any other books both happened to use the same UK slang word "freshers". One of them is supposedly from Chicago. Yeah, right. Maybe they are friends of the author.

I didn't even know what they were talking about at first. A dictionary gives this definition:
noun [C] UK INFORMAL
a student who has recently started studying at a college or university

Anyway, don't know why this book would be good for students. I doubt there are many colleges which offer classes in Palm programming. Maybe it is good for students who want to pretend that they worked on real world projects and gives them something to talk about. Otherwise, I don't think the book is useful.

Editorial Review:

With more than 100,000 registered developers, the Palm OS is the standard for handheld computing. Palm OS Programming Professional Projects will guide you through various phases of developing a complete application with database support. This book includes real-life project situations and scenarios to help you relate the concepts to your work environment. It includes hands-on exercises and a companion Web site with downloadable sample code and evaluation questions.