> I have dofCalc on my Palm as well. I use the note
function to keep track of the locations, lens,
aperture, shutter speed, filters, and exposure
compensation. I also jotted notes from Skip Williams
excellent eBay price database so I could have this
when cruising camera stores and pawn shops.
Warren
And the advantage over a pencil and paper is...? Pencil & paper being
lighter, smaller, cheaper, easier, more fool proof etc., etc.
Mike
--
Latitude 48° 32' North, Longitude 123° 7' West
Lots of advantages.I keep lots of information on it that I could not
possibly keep organized with paper and pencil. Besides the address
book, and calendar it has a note function in which I have things
like photo reference material I don't use enough to remember
reliably, grocery lists for each store I usually shop in, packing
lists for travelling, a list of URLs to check out, books I have read
reviews of that I might want to check out at the library, CD lists. I
have Moby Dick, the entire novel, a couple of Shakespeare plays, and
some articles loaded which I am reading when stuck in a waiting room.
There are thousands of applications which can be loaded. I have one
for metric conversions and money conversion when traveling. I have an
interest in astronomy and have a couple of applications that give
planet, star and moon information and their movements. I can load
family photos into it. I also have a neat little application that
acts like a compass. You point an arrow on the screen at the sun and
based on the calendar and time of day it calculates and points to
north for you. Of course there are games, but they don't have much
appeal for me.
It is much lighter than the 3 pound paper organizer I used to use on
my job. It is much more flexible in rescheduling appointments. The
information is all in one place, not in two or three little notebooks
or a multitude of scraps of paper. Its little reminder alarm keeps me
on time. And it fits in my pocket. You don't use it just for taking
notes. That is just one of the functions. It is pretty much
foolproof because everything is backed up when you synch it with your
home or office computer. No one really believes how useful these
things are until they take the plunge and buy one.
--
Winsor Crosby
Long Beach, California
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