Dave Johnson

How to Do Everything with Your Palm Handheld Dave Johnson

Jacket Description/Back: Maximize your Palm's potential by accessing essential and in-depth information on all of your handheld PC's features--including Palm accessories and third-party software. Written by a pair of savvy authors steeped in leading-edge handheld technology, "How To Do Everything with Your Palm Handheld, Third Edition will help you work smarter, play better, and do more with your Palm handheld than you ever thought possible. Learn to use the core applications more effectively, discover amazing business and entertainment software, and go online for e-mail and Web browsing. Plus, protect your data with robust security, and take advantage of new and exciting multimedia features. Manage addresses, appointments, expenses, tasks and memos Organize in the home or office with Palm Desktop and Microsoft Outlook Learn to install new software--including OS 5--and beam programs to other handheld users HotSync anywhere with infrared, modem, Bluetooth, or cable Use Graffiti more effectively with undocumented alternative gestures Customize Date Book with alarms, privacy features, repeating events, and more Create memos, task lists, electronic business cards, and much more Use third-party utilities to extend the capabilities of your Palm, Visor, Treo, Clie, or other handheld PC Supercharge your Palm into a complete laptop replacement with Word, Excel, and PowerPoint compatibility Optimize your PDA for the road with applications, charging solutions, and morePublisher Marketing: A guide to the Palm handheld and its accessories. The authors demonstrate how to use the Palm to the maximum, for work, checking email, surfing, playing games and more. This third edition includes coverage of the Palm OS 5.

Contributor Bio:  Johnson, Dave Dave Johnson Dave is the co-founder and CTO of Nitobi Software, a Vancouver-based AJAX component vendor and consulting firm. Dave spends most of his time on architecting and building high performance AJAX components for use in web-based applications. A core focus of Nitobi is building AJAX components and user interfaces that deliver real value to customers through increased productivity and higher efficiency. Dave has spoken around the world about AJAX and web development, including AJAXWorld 2006, XTech 2007, and JavaOne 2007. Dave has a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from the University of British Columbia and is completing his Ph. D. at Imperial College London. Alexei White Alexei is a developer, designer, and user-experience advocate. As product manager for component tools at Nitobi and a long-time developer of AJAX components and applications, he tries to find ways to build web applications that are faster, cheaper, and that users love. He is the primary architect of RobotReplay (www.robotreplay.com), a next generation web-analytics tool by Nitobi and SayZu (www.sayzu.com), an AJAX-driven, up-and-coming web survey service. At Nitobi, he has been involved in the design and development of many mission-critical and largescale web applications with an emphasis on rich, AJAX-driven interfaces. Alexei has a bachelor's degree in commerce from the University of British Columbia, and he lives in Vancouver. Andre CharlandAndre Charland co-founded Nitobi in 1998 after working for several other Internet startups. As president and CEO, he is directly involved in software development and has successfully executed more than 100 development projects. He was also an earlyproponent of the building blocks of AJAX. Andre has spoken widely on AJAX, blogging, and web usability. He has been quoted internationally in the media on blogging for business and maintains his own blog at http: //captainajax.com. Charland is on the board of BALLE BC and co-founder of the Social Tech Brewing Co. Contributor Bio:  Broida, Rick Dave Johnson (Colorado Springs, CO) is a mobile computing editor for CMP Media, and Rick Broida (Commerce Township, MI) is the founder and former editor of Handheld Computing, the first and only print magazine designed expressly for Palm OS users. They are the best-selling authors of How to Do Everything with Your Palm and How to Do Everything with Your Visor