Slide 6.4: Built-in applications for Palm OS
Slide 6.6: Built-in applications for Palm OS (cont.)
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Expense application allows a user to track common business expenses.
No totals are calculated on the Palm.
The user must sync with a host computer and view the expense data in a worksheet (templates for Microsoft Excel are supplied).
HotSync application provides integration with the user's PC.
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Usually activated by a press of the physical HotSync button on the Palm's cradle (a dock station), this application communicates with various conduits on the desktop PC to install software, backup databases, or merge changes made on the PC or the handheld to both devices.
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Backup conduit included with the HotSync software backs up (and restores, if necessary) most of the data on a Palm OS device.
This allows users to hard reset their Palm—thus, clearing all of the data—with few noticeable consequences.
This also allows users to migrate to new Palm devices of the same Palm OS version, a feature that is helpful to those who lose or damage their device.
Some models of Palm keep their data storage in volatile memory and require constant power to maintain their memory.
Some later Palms use NVRAM (Non-Volatile RAM) or microdrive for storage.
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The Memo Pad can hold notes of up to 4,000 characters, keyed to user-configurable categories.
Memos are ordered in two ways: alphabetically, and manually (which allows the user to choose the order of the memos).
Memo Pad is for text, not for drawings.
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Memo Pad must be entered using the Graffiti.