PalmPilot Tipsheet 1.0
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In this Issue:
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Notable Pilot Links
Software Review: Aportis BrainForest
Notable Pilot Links:
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**PalmPower, an interesting new magazine on the web, with a weekly tip (nice
design). This issue includes an interview with the inventor of the Pilot:
**Tapped Magazine. They mainly offer a paper magazine subscription with limited
articles online and files for download:
**HandJive Magazine:
**Interesting Tips & Tricks with Graffiti -- suggested alternate strokes for
better recognition:
**3Com's New Website. They seem to have a new design and also have a new menu
item related to news on the pilot, on the web.
**cnet's in-depth article about the PalmPilot -- with tips, tricks, suggested
applications and so on. I found a several handy tips within the article; such as
how to make a Calculator tape within the Pilot Calc application:
**PalmPilot World-- Featuring "History of the Pilot" and an app usage survey:
**Pilot Newspaper Daily -- Kind of a slick idea; this website will round up
selected news from Yahoo/Reuters (and others) and generate either a DOC
formatted text file with your news, ready to sync into your Pilot! Taking the
concept one step further, he's working on an email service that will take your
profile and email a .pdb DOC file to your mailbox each day! Interesting idea-- I
tried the web based version and it worked pretty well, besides the [image] texts
from converted html pages within the text.
**The PalmPilot Webring -- for those of you who just want a truckload of sites
to visit here's the place for you!! This is a listing of pages linked by
"webring" which on 1/10/98 was at 194!
**Tim Warner's PalmLife -- This site has been the one I've used most this month;
with a "Quicklist" of the latest applications for the pilot with a low graphic
overhead. He has a nice feature of allowing you to re-order the page by several
criteria, including category, date and name.
Software Review: Aportis' BrainForest
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by Mike Rohde
Well, this week I went ahead and bought the application BrainForest for my
Pilot, which I have been using for the past 2 months. I had found that this
application worked *very* well at project tracking-- in particular-- having
hierarchal lists of my work projects with checkmarks, due dates and so on. It
seems simple while still rich and offers many options to viewing your data.
I even use this app to keep other info on the Pilot like websites, shopping
lists and so on. I especially like the idea that one can grab 'trees' (that's
what each to-do list is called) and email them to other BF users-- potentially
useful for two people working on the same project.
The application was and I feel well worth the price; there is a Pro version
coming soon with desktop companion apps and conduits that will allow you to
build and edit Trees on a PC or Mac to sync with the app on your Pilot, for
another or for the Pro version (BrainForest and Desktop App).
At Aportis's website, they offer a trial version (60 days until the annoying
shareware message pops up) as well as documentation to help you learn how to use
the program. I found it very intuitive and never really looked at the
documentation (one day I might need to :).
BrainForest Trialware 1.1
*Note that this company also offers AportisDoc, a large text reader for the
Pilot-- another handy application for carrying larger text documents along with
you. Have a look while you are there peeking at BrainForest. :)
Tipsheet Wrapup
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And that's Tipsheet 1.0! I Hope that you have enjoyed it. If you have comments
about the tipsheet, feel free to email me at: mike@palmtipsheet.com and say hello--
I'd love to hear your feedback.
Thanks!
Mike
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