| Palm OS licensees decide which applications | | | | The Memo Pad can hold notes of up to 4,000 |
| are included on their Palm OS devices. | | | | characters, keyed to user-configurable |
| Licensees can also customize the | | | | categories. Memos are ordered in two ways: |
| applications. Below are some of the most | | | | alphabetically, and manually (which allows |
| common PalmSource applications included with | | | | the user to choose the order of the memos). |
| the Palm OS: | | | | Memo Pad is for text, not for drawings. For |
| | | | this reason, text in Memo Pad must be entered |
| Address book - contacts | | | | using the Graffiti alphabet. |
| | | | |
| The Palm's Address program stores contact | | | | Starting with the OS version 5.2.1 on |
| information, keyed by any of several | | | | Tungsten T3 and Tungsten E, PalmOne, Inc. |
| user-definable categories. Entries are | | | | released their own version of this |
| displayed and sorted in last name, first name | | | | application, called Memos, and the limit has |
| order (this can be changed only to Company, | | | | been increased to 32Kb. |
| Last Name order). There are five slots for | | | | |
| phone or e-mail, each of which may be | | | | Note pad |
| designated Work, Home, Fax, Other, E-mail, | | | | |
| Main, Pager or Mobile (the slot designations | | | | Drawings go in Note Pad. With neat |
| cannot be changed). | | | | handwriting, about 10 words will fit on one |
| | | | page; for more text, Memo Pad is the better |
| Starting with the OS version 5.2.1 on | | | | choice. There are three sizes of pen width, |
| Tungsten T3 and Tungsten E a customized | | | | plus an eraser and a background color change |
| version of this application was released, not | | | | feature in some models. It is possible to |
| developed by PalmSource, but by PalmOne, | | | | draw a very simple map. |
| called Contacts. | | | | |
| | | | Note Pad appeared on most Palm PDAs starting |
| Blazer | | | | with Palm OS 4.0; certain PDAs with previous |
| | | | versions of Palm OS did not include this |
| Blazer is a web browser for Palm handhelds. | | | | application, except Palm m100 with OS 3.51. |
| The versions 1.0 and 2.0 run on Palm OS 3.1 | | | | |
| or higher handhelds, but they needed a proxy | | | | To do list/tasks |
| server which has been shut down, so they can | | | | |
| no longer be used. Version 3.0 is used on the | | | | Also referred to as Task list. |
| Treo 600 smartphone. The current version of | | | | |
| Blazer is Blazer 4.5, which is compliant with | | | | This is a convenient place to create personal |
| most major standards. It is generally bundled | | | | reminders and prioritize the things you have |
| with newer smartphones and newer Palm devices | | | | to do. |
| capable of accessing the Internet. | | | | |
| | | | Each To Do List item may also have: a |
| Calculator | | | | priority, categories (to organize and view |
| | | | items in logical groups), attached Note (to |
| Calc turns the Palm into a standard | | | | add more description and clarification of the |
| 4-function pocket calculator with three | | | | task). |
| shades of purple and blue buttons contrasting | | | | |
| with the two red clear buttons. It supports | | | | To Do List item can be sorted by: due date, |
| square root and percent keys and has one | | | | priority or category. |
| memory. | | | | |
| | | | Starting with the OS version 5.2.1 on |
| It also has an option to display a running | | | | Tungsten T3 and Tungsten E PalmOne, Inc. |
| history of the calculations, much like the | | | | released their own version of this |
| paper-tape calculators that were once common. | | | | application, called Tasks, in which alarms |
| | | | may be assigned to tasks, and can be made to |
| Starting in Palm OS v. 5.4 Garnet, the | | | | repeat. |
| calculator has a menu option to switch to an | | | | |
| advanced mode, which features several button | | | | Palm photos |
| layouts that pertain to specific jobs. These | | | | |
| modes include: Math, Trig, Finance, Logic, | | | | The original PalmPilots did not include a |
| Statistics, Weight/Tmp, Length, Area, and | | | | photo viewer. To fill this gap, in 1997 Art |
| Volume. | | | | Dahm created Image Viewer III, one of the |
| | | | first and most popular independent consumer |
| Date book - calendar | | | | applications for Palm. Since then, at least a |
| | | | dozen photo programs have been released for |
| Date Book shows a daily or weekly schedule, | | | | Palm. |
| or a simple monthly view. The daily schedule | | | | |
| has one line per hour, between user-selected | | | | As of 2006, most new Palm handhelds include |
| begin and end times. Clicking on an empty | | | | Palm Photos, which creates a digital photo |
| line creates a new appointment. Empty lines | | | | album used to view pictures on a Palm OS |
| are crowded out by actual appointments, whose | | | | device. As with all the other photo programs, |
| start and stop times are shown by default | | | | photos can be beamed to other mobile devices. |
| bracketed in the left margin. | | | | Each photo can be labeled and organized into |
| | | | separate photo albums. A slideshow can also |
| An appointment can be heralded by an alarm, | | | | be shown for a specific album, and each photo |
| any number of minutes, hours or days before | | | | in the album will be shown full screen. |
| it begins. These alarms sound even when the | | | | |
| unit is switched off. | | | | Photos can be edited with the Palm Photos PC |
| | | | software (Windows only), and when the photos |
| Appointments can recur in a specified number | | | | are transferred to the handheld they will |
| of days, weeks, months or years -- and can | | | | contain all changes made to the photo. |
| contain notes. | | | | |
| | | | The Palm Photos software is available in the |
| Starting with the OS version 5.2.1 on | | | | Zire 71, Tungsten C, Tungsten E, Tungsten T2, |
| Tungsten T3, Tungsten E, Palm Inc. released | | | | Tungsten T3 and several others. Palm Z22 uses |
| their own version of this application, called | | | | a lite version of SplashPhoto. |
| Calendar. It allows categorisation of events, | | | | |
| as well as coloured categories and featuring | | | | With Palm OS 5.28 (Zire 72), Palm Photos has |
| a summary screen similar to that found on | | | | been replaced by the Media application, which |
| Windows Mobile devices. | | | | also manages and displays video files and |
| | | | edits photos. |
| It is possible to export the Palm datebook to | | | | |
| the iCalendar format thanks to the KDE | | | | Voice recording |
| program named KPilot, under Linux. | | | | |
| | | | Some models feature the ability to make voice |
| Expense | | | | recordings which are synced using the Voice |
| | | | conduit and can be viewed under Mac OS with |
| The Expense application allows a user to | | | | the Voice Memo application which is part of |
| track common business expenses. No totals are | | | | the Palm Desktop Suite. |
| calculated on the Palm. The user must sync | | | | |
| with a host computer and view the expense | | | | At present, most models do not have Voice |
| data in a worksheet (templates for Microsoft | | | | Memo capability. This list of Palm products |
| Excel are supplied). NOTE: Not included on | | | | shows which current models have Voice Memo: |
| all Palm OS devices. | | | | The Treo 700p, LifeDrive, Tungsten "T"(T2, |
| | | | T3, but not the T5, etc.), and Zire 72 |
| HotSync | | | | models. Palm's Treo 700w also includes voice |
| | | | recording, but this device runs Windows |
| The HotSync application provides integration | | | | Mobile. |
| with the user's PC. Usually activated by a | | | | |
| press of the physical HotSync button on the | | | | Preferences |
| Palm's cradle (a dock station), this | | | | |
| application communicates with various | | | | Also referred to as Prefs. Preferences works |
| conduits on the desktop PC to install | | | | as a second launcher allowing the user to |
| software, backup databases, or merge changes | | | | launch program files with the 'panl' type. |
| made on the PC or the handheld to both | | | | Palm OS contains approximately 15 preference |
| devices. | | | | panels by default and new preference panels |
| | | | can be added just like any other application. |
| In addition to the conduits provided by the | | | | |
| licensee, developers can create their own | | | | Preference panels allow users to manage a |
| conduits for integration with other Palm OS | | | | number of setting including Graffiti |
| applications and desktop products. For | | | | settings, sound settings, text shortcuts, |
| example, a time tracking package could | | | | network settings and the system time. |
| provide a conduit to communicate information | | | | |
| between Palm OS and Windows executables. | | | | Security |
| | | | |
| A Backup conduit included with the HotSync | | | | The Security application (which is a panel on |
| software backs up (and restores, if | | | | newer Palm OS devices) allows users to |
| necessary) most of the data on a Palm OS | | | | specify a password needed to display hidden |
| device. This allows users to hard reset their | | | | records and unlock the device when locked, as |
| Palm -- thus, clearing all of the data -- | | | | well as setup an automatic lock down time or |
| with few noticeable consequences. This also | | | | inactivity threshold. On the PC, only Palm |
| allows users to migrate to new Palm devices | | | | Desktop honors this password but other PC |
| of the same Palm OS version, a feature that | | | | programs can view everything--in other words, |
| is helpful to those who lose or damage their | | | | all the data protected by this password can |
| device. | | | | be seen by anyone opening the .dat files |
| | | | using a text editor or word processor. While |
| Some models of Palm keep their data storage | | | | it may be tempting to use this as an excuse |
| in volatile memory and require constant power | | | | to switch to Microsoft Outlook, some people |
| to maintain their memory. Although these | | | | say "password recovery" programs can analzye |
| handhelds attempt to save the contents of | | | | Outlook .PST files to reveal the password |
| memory in low battery situations by not | | | | instantly; this is unproven however, and not |
| "turning on," leaving a "dead" handheld for | | | | in everyone's experience. |
| an extended period of time can cause this | | | | |
| reserve power to be used up and the contents | | | | When using Palm devices in secure |
| of storage memory to be lost. Some later | | | | environments there are two primary concerns: |
| Palms use NVRAM or microdrive for storage. | | | | |
| | | | Data on the Palm can be retrieved if the Palm |
| Memo pad - memos | | | | is lost or stolen. |
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