• Pictures of family, babies, dog or cat. (This works well. Check to see if your photo developer will put your pictures on disk where they may be easily converted using Image Converter. Remember high contrast simple pictures translate best.
• Technical documentation or schematics. These types of documents will generally translate very well and allow you to take complex images or guides on the go.
• Piping or conduit layout maps. Imagine being stuck in a crawl space with your backlit PalmPilot and details of which pipe, wire, or vent you are trying to identify.

Once you are over the hurdle of setting up the Image Viewer and the Image Converter applications you will find that these applications in conjunction with the PalmPilot provide a very easy way to take useful graphic images on the go. Yet another in the long list of useful PalmPilot features that help make the PalmPilot the greatest gadget in the world.

Chris Guella is a management and strategy consultant for financial institutions with American Management Systems, Inc. He may be reached at cguella@usa.net.