Despite my personal disillusionment, I see a lot of potential for this feature, both for Palm in terms of revenue (featured events generating advertising revenue and the like) and for adding additional events, including additional music such as rock concerts, band tours, and other kinds of events. There's a lot more time-based information that could be slid into this category. Conceptually, it's quite useful.

Preferences
Next, Palm includes a small preferences screen. You can change your password, the default view for the calendar, and a few other basic preferences. By and large, MyPalm's default settings are simple enough that I've never changed anything, and frankly, I'd suggest they stick in a change password button and do away with the notion of preferences altogether. To me, it suggests something exciting where I can go in and really tweak around with colors and layouts and backgrounds and such (as you can on other portals), and it's rather anticlimactic to see four small forms, each with a couple of pull-down menus and checkboxes.

More to come
In my next article about the MyPalm portal, I'll go into synchronization, sharing amongst groups, the RSVP function, and the Calendar Publish feature. I'll also discuss using the MyPalm portal on the road. Stay tuned.

Jim DeLaHunt is an independent PalmPilot software developer. In his spare time, is an engineering manager with a multi-national software company and a tenor with local opera companies. He can be reached via E-mail at jdlh@jdlh.palo-alto.ca.us.