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derekweb · 11-14-2005, 01:29 AM

Before my T3 died, and now with my ipaq (yes, they can actually DO THE SAME THING!):
1) PIM (Calender / Address Book / To Do lists)
2) Web Browsing when away from home.
3) Watching movies and DVDs (converted of course from my OWN DVDs)
4) Listening to Music
5) Games, including Mahjongg, Space Invaders, Yatzee, Solitaire, Euchre, and Bejeweled
6) Astronomy (I still use my wife's Zodiac 2 for this, since she's got the astronomy software paid and loaded)
7) Geneology (I use MYROOTS for this, pretty good when away from home. Though, the Palm Platform is WAY better developed than ANY of the PPC software)
8) Mobile Calculator (scientific and Body Fat since it matters to the Army).
9) Image viewing (portable picture wallet of my wife, family and friends).
10) Productivity (Word Processing, Spreadsheet, Mortgage Calculator, etc)
11) Password Security Vault (Egads, having over 60+ passwords?! Can't keep it all straight in my own head. Encrypt the database and use one master password to gather them all together, and in the darkness, bind th... ... *cough* excuse me, wrong movie).
12) ebook reading (iSilo is primary reader, with eReader as secondary)
13) Cant remember this last thing. Might get back if I can recall it specifically. I use my device just too much for everything nowadays. That is why switching over from Palm to PPC was so traumatic and painful. And very, very expensive.

11-14-2005, 01:29 AM	#15
derekweb Groupie Posts: 160 Karma: 3134 Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: United States Device: Palm Treo 700p & iPaq hx2755	Before my T3 died, and now with my ipaq (yes, they can actually DO THE SAME THING!): 1) PIM (Calender / Address Book / To Do lists) 2) Web Browsing when away from home. 3) Watching movies and DVDs (converted of course from my OWN DVDs) 4) Listening to Music 5) Games, including Mahjongg, Space Invaders, Yatzee, Solitaire, Euchre, and Bejeweled 6) Astronomy (I still use my wife's Zodiac 2 for this, since she's got the astronomy software paid and loaded) 7) Geneology (I use MYROOTS for this, pretty good when away from home. Though, the Palm Platform is WAY better developed than ANY of the PPC software) 8) Mobile Calculator (scientific and Body Fat since it matters to the Army). 9) Image viewing (portable picture wallet of my wife, family and friends). 10) Productivity (Word Processing, Spreadsheet, Mortgage Calculator, etc) 11) Password Security Vault (Egads, having over 60+ passwords?! Can't keep it all straight in my own head. Encrypt the database and use one master password to gather them all together, and in the darkness, bind th... ... cough excuse me, wrong movie). 12) ebook reading (iSilo is primary reader, with eReader as secondary) 13) Cant remember this last thing. Might get back if I can recall it specifically. I use my device just too much for everything nowadays. That is why switching over from Palm to PPC was so traumatic and painful. And very, very expensive. Last edited by derekweb; 11-14-2005 at 01:31 AM.