1. About Palm Pilot
This is my latest Toy. Like many tech-heads, I succumbed to Palm Pilot Personal Digital Assistant.
After doing research on Palm Pilot for about 1 month.
I purchased the PalmPilot Professional on 12/24/97. I am happy I bought it.
Now I have upgraded to 2MB RAM and InfraRed link.
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The good thing about this is it fits into your pocket and is programmable.
2. Development Tools
PILA Assembler
GNU C
Pocket C
Chipmunk Tiny Basic
Palm forth
3. Programs you should not be without
Palmscape for WWW browsing.
Aportis Doc - It expands the compressed data while you reading thus
saving lot of memory. There are many books
formatted for Aportis Doc which you can read while your wife is busy shopping in the mall.
HandyShopper - Shopping List Tool. You can categorize the shopping list
according to the stores!. You can even create a category to handle your daughter's
birthday shopping list.
News Pad - NNTP client, to read USENET.
T G Postman - POP3/APOP3 & SMTP client, to send and receive Email.
GlucoPilot - If you have diabetes & monitoring your blood
glucose level. It allows you to log your reading under different categories. It can chart the readings in line, pie chart, & histogram.
It can export the recorded data to your computer, where you can use the data in your favourite spreadsheet program
to analyse. I have written glucopilot2gnuplot a perl script which will extract the required data
according to the category,or time period.The converted data can be fed to Gnuplot to plot in Linux or DOS.
4. How to connect your palmpilot to EROLS
It amazing how easy it is to setup palm pilot to dial EROLS or other ISP
than a WIN95 machine.
Things you need
1. Palmpilot, at least Professional version.
2. External Modem.
3. Special cable, you can buy or you can make your own cable.
How to configure Palm Pilot
1. Select Prefs
2. Select Modem from the right hand pull down menu.
3. Select your Modem type , if not in the list select Custom.
4. Select your Modem Speed
5. Select your Modem Speaker preference.
6. Select Flow Ctl as Automatic.
7. Enter your modem Initialization String.
8. Select TouchTone(tm) or Rotary dialing.
9. Select Network from the right hand pull down menu.
10. Select from the list of Service you do not use and edit the name as
say erols-home.
11. Enter your User Name.
12. Enter your User Name, the name which you log when you dial Erols.
13. Enter your Password, the password you use to log on when you dial Erols.
14. Enter Erols Phone number which you use to dial.
15. Tap Details... button at the bottom left corner.
16. Select PPP from Connection type.
17. Select Power Off from Idle timeout.
18. UnSelect Tick on Query DNS.
19. Enter 205 252 116 10 as Primary DNS.
20. Enter 205 252 116 19 as Secondary DNS.
21. Tick IP Address: Automatic.
22. Tap Script... button at the bottom right corner.
23. Select End from list.
24. Tap OKand OK button to return to main Network Menu.
24. To dial EROLS, select Connect button at the bottom right corner.
After signing on, you can use all the PalmPilot TCP/IP client software like PalmScape, NewsPad , T G Postman etc.
Last update: Wed Feb 13 13:42:23 EST 2002
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Mail me if you have any suggestions.
