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| PALMPOWER MAGAZINE - DECEMBER 2000 |
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Palm Desktop and Microsoft Outlook go head-to-head
It's a question nearly all of us have pondered at one point or another. Should I HotSync my Palm device with Palm Desktop or Microsoft Outlook? Bob Draper has taken a long, detailed look at both contenders and broken down the pros and cons of each. You can't afford to miss this exciting battle royal between two information management titans.
Build your own Palm powered robot
Robot mania is sweeping the nation this year, as robot toys like Aibo are finding their way onto every kid's wish list. For researchers at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, however, robots aren't mere child's play. A research team has designed a fascinating new robot with an off-the-shelf Palm device at its core. In this PalmPower exclusive, we reveal how you too can build and program a Palm powered robot of your very own.
Print straight from your Palm device with PrintBoy
Have you ever found yourself wanting to print something directly from your Palm device, without having to use the Palm Desktop? It's easier than you might think. Jen Edwards has a review of PrintBoy, an application that puts the information stored on your Palm device on paper.
Wacky PQAs that make you wonder
Kathy Burns has been looking at a lot of Palm Query Applications lately and has discovered that there's a good number of them that just don't make sense. In this article, she takes a comical look at some of the weirder PQAs available for you Palm VII series users.
PALMPOWER BOOK OF THE MONTH
Murder mysteries make great holiday reading
Here's a unique and inexpensive gift idea this holiday season: ebooks. Ben Brickman is on the case once again with reviews of several excellent short mystery stories by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
PALMPOWER SITE OF THE MONTH
The art of Palm computing
Steve Niles doesn't know art, but he knows what he likes. What he likes are funny cartoon people and squiggly renderings of food products drawn using a Palm OS application. Miraculously, he's found a site that provides just that, and he's made it December's PalmPower Site of the Month.
FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
The beauty and the beast
There is a battle taking place in the United States over who will win the presidency. Just under the surface of this conflict, another battle is raging over the perception of technology, as lawyers, pundits, and politicians argue about whether machines are really more accurate than humans at counting votes. In this month's editorial, Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz weighs in on both of these issues as he considers the beast of this nation's conflicting ideologies versus the beauty of America's particular brand of democracy.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
A question on emailing and feedback on vote mailing
In this month's edition of Letters to the Editor, a reader has a question about handheld email access, and we present a selection of responses to a November 6 mailing we sent encouraging everyone to vote. If that worries you, rest assured this article is guaranteed to be 100% free of chad references.
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