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Subject: Re: [OT][OM] Palm [was hyper focal scales, or lack there of
From: Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 15:01:13 -0800
 > I have dofCalc on my Palm as well. I use the note
 function to keep track of the locations, lens,
 aperture, shutter speed, filters, and exposure
 compensation. I also jotted notes from Skip Williams
 excellent eBay price database so I could have this
 when cruising camera stores and pawn shops.
 Warren

And the advantage over a pencil and paper is...? Pencil & paper being
lighter, smaller, cheaper, easier, more fool proof etc., etc.

Mike

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Latitude 48° 32' North, Longitude 123° 7' West


Lots of advantages.I keep lots of information on it that I could not possibly keep organized with paper and pencil. Besides the address book, and calendar it has a note function in which I have things like photo reference material I don't use enough to remember reliably, grocery lists for each store I usually shop in, packing lists for travelling, a list of URLs to check out, books I have read reviews of that I might want to check out at the library, CD lists. I have Moby Dick, the entire novel, a couple of Shakespeare plays, and some articles loaded which I am reading when stuck in a waiting room. There are thousands of applications which can be loaded. I have one for metric conversions and money conversion when traveling. I have an interest in astronomy and have a couple of applications that give planet, star and moon information and their movements. I can load family photos into it. I also have a neat little application that acts like a compass. You point an arrow on the screen at the sun and based on the calendar and time of day it calculates and points to north for you. Of course there are games, but they don't have much appeal for me.

It is much lighter than the 3 pound paper organizer I used to use on my job. It is much more flexible in rescheduling appointments. The information is all in one place, not in two or three little notebooks or a multitude of scraps of paper. Its little reminder alarm keeps me on time. And it fits in my pocket. You don't use it just for taking notes. That is just one of the functions. It is pretty much foolproof because everything is backed up when you synch it with your home or office computer. No one really believes how useful these things are until they take the plunge and buy one.
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Winsor Crosby
Long Beach, California

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