June 16, 1998
Take Your PalmPilot Where No Man Has Gone Before
SEBASTOPOL, CA--O'Reilly's newest release, PalmPilot: The Ultimate Guide, is packed with
hundreds of time-saving tips and tricks for PalmPilot power users.
Best-selling author David Pogue covers ways that people are using the
PalmPilot and Palm III to "push the envelope"--everything from graffiti
shortcuts to hackmaster to web browsing. He also covers surprising
add-ons for this cassette-sized gadget; things like phone dialers,
TV remote controls, flashlights, global-positioning satellite units, and pagers.
PalmPilot: The
Ultimate Guide, the bible of PalmPilot, covers the PalmPilot,
PalmPilot Professsional, OEM models such as the IBM Workpad, and is
the only book to cover the new software and features of the 1998 PalmPilot
model, Palm III.
Pogue's entertaining guide is the most comprehensive Pilot book yet
written. With the cooperation of Palm Computing, 3Com, and MetroWerks,
Pogue succinctly answers every conceivable question, unlocks Pilot features
most users never suspected, and radiates the fun, passion, and sense of
community shared by Piloteers the world over.
Some of the unique features of PalmPilot: The Ultimate Guide:
- An included CD-ROM with 900 ready-to-install programs, illustrated
and organized in an interactive, searchable database
- MetroWerks' Code Warrior Lite programming kit, a
kit for people who want to join the ranks of
3,000 PalmPilot programmers (a chapter in the book walks you through creating
a simple program with this kit)
- 50 secret alternate Graffiti penstrokes for
better handwriting-recognition accuracy
- Power-user tips such as: how to
reprogram the PalmPilot buttons, how to use your
PalmPilot to read and send email, how to use it as a web browser, or how
to use a PalmPilot to store online books.
About the Author
David Pogue is the back-page columnist for Macworld magazine. His 15
books include the million-selling Macs for Dummies, Opera for Dummies, Magic for Dummies, The Microsloth Joke Book, and Tales
from the Tech Line, and his novel, Hard Drive, was a New York Times "notable book of the year." Pogue is a regular panelist at computer
shows and has appeared in USA Today, the New York Times, on CBS' "48
Hours," on MSNBC's "The Site," and NBC's "Today in New York." In his other
life, David is a personal computer teacher to Mia Farrow, Carly Simon,
Harry Connick Jr., Stephen Sondheim, Vanessa Redgrave, and others, and a
musical-theater conductor, having conducted several Broadway shows.
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PalmPilot: The Ultimate Guide
By David Pogue
1st Edition June 1998 (US)
450 pages, 1-56592-420-7, $29.95 (US$), Includes CD-ROM
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