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PRODUCT REVIEW
It's Teal-lightful: TealPoint products reviewed
By Claire Pieterek

TealPoint Software offers a number of highly customizable, useful products to enhance any Palm device user's productivity. I decided, instead of looking at them one-by-one, to take them all on at once. It's quite a collection. I found all of the TealPoint products to be stable, easy to use, and clearly documented. The TealPoint products can be divided into two primary categories, applications and hacks. Figure A shows the icons for the various TealPoint applications.

FIGURE A

These are some of the players in TealPoint's winning lineup.

One bonus: All of the documentation is available in Doc format, so you can load it and read it on your Palm when you need it.

Handy Hacks: TealMagnify, TealEcho, TealGlance
TealMagnify, TealEcho, and TealGlance, shown in Figure B, are a trio of handy hacks, all of which require Edward Keyes' HackMaster to run. (For more information about HackMaster, see Calvin Parker's article in the April 1998 issue of PalmPower.)

FIGURE B

The HackMaster control panel, displaying TealPoint's three handy hacks (and a bunch of my other favorites).

TealMagnify, shown in Figure C, is a boon to Palm users with bifocals or impaired vision. It magnifies a movable window that overlays the screen, or displays the entire screen larger-than-life, toggled simply by the Mode button. Although TealMagnify is invoked by tapping the Find button, it does not impair use of either the built-in Find function or FindHack. You can either double-tap the silk screen Find button, or use the Find button provided on the TealMagnify display.

FIGURE C

Here's the TealMagnify screen with the "larger-than-life" display. Tap the Mode button to toggle the two views.

Ever wonder why you're having problems with certain Graffiti characters? Use TealEcho to display your Graffiti strokes on-screen and find out how your Palm is interpreting that problem character. I found TealEcho a little distracting at first, but quickly got accustomed to seeing the trails. Even for the short time I've been using it, TealEcho has helped me use Graffiti with more precision and fewer errors.

For a quick overview of your daily agenda every time you power on your Palm, try TealGlance. TealGlance shows your DateBook and/or To Do List items in a highly customizable format. You can see some of the customization options in Figure D. TealGlance is especially useful for those of us who juggle full personal and professional lives. No more excuses for missing a meeting or forgetting a form!





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