2004 - PCCPUG Home

January 13
FIRST MEETING Dale Walker and Brian Oldham of Farwalker Consulting present iSilo for viewing HTML documents on a Palm, and the Dana by AlphaSmart device designed for educational use. Chuck Horner presents options for training in the PalmOS 12

February 10
Heather Davis, Palm Guru of HDCoaching.com, demonstrates her style of PalmOS training. 15

March 10
Rajith Algama, of Franklin Covey in Newpark Mall, presents their alternative to the standard PalmOS PIM software (Personal Information Management includes- calendar, address book, memos, to do lists, etc.) Murray Cooper wins a copy of their Basic PalmOS Training CD. 28

April  14
Michael Lunsford of Parascript Pen & Internet demonstrates their products. All who attend received a free copy of riteMail 7

May 12
The PalmSource Developers Seminar 2003 held in San Mateo was attended by Chuck Horner, Dale Walker, Brian Oldham and Mike Fortner who compared notes and shared with others. 7

June 9
Chad Mealey, CEO of MiniMusic, demonstrates the miniMusic Mobile Software Pack which contains everything you need to turn your Palm Handheld into a powerful and portable music toolkit. Included are leading NotePad and BeatPad applications, Theremini by Pete Moss, and a Palm-to-MIDI interface that let you connect your Palm to any electronic music instrument* (keyboards, samplers, synthesizers, drum machines, and more).

A SPECIAL THANK YOU goes to: Brian Manderson for donating the Linksys WiFi 802.11b hub, so we can all enjoy both wired and wireless internet access during our meetings.

Dale Walker and Brian Oldham of Farwalker Consulting donated an additional AirPort WiFi port. "BIG" Mike Fortner donated cat5 cable and labor to install the LAN throughout the facilities. 7

July 14
Andrea Butter will start our meeting "In 1993, she joined the then tiny startup company Palm Computing as marketing director... managed every Palm product launch, including that of the revolutionary Pilot organizer in 1996. In 1998, she was appointed acting Vice President of Marketing. She left Palm in July 1999 to write the definitive story of Palm. Piloting Palm." Read more... about Andrea Butter

Then, we will start our video training sessions. LARRY BECKER has been THE leading authority on Palm OS Training. He has authored The Palm Business Book and now has 5 videos for ongoing training using any Palm OS handheld (plus a 72 minute audio CD). This will be a good review for experienced users as we assist others through one of these videos. The plan is to show a part of these videos at each meeting.

August 11
Tys Sniffin, CEO of IdeaMountain has been working on better ways of doing things for a long time, including the use of PalmOS devices. As a public speaker and trainer for individuals and corporations, he strives to be called consultant, coach, teacher, leader, and friend. Click here for his notes and suggestions for multi-calendar syncronizing.

September 8 <<<THIS WILL SAVE YOU HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS!>>>
This is for BOTH PalmOS and Pocket PC users.
Robby Stanley, CEO of GetHighTech, Inc. PDAParts.com started the FIRST business to offer used parts for Palm OS devices AND OTHER PDAs. They have established excellent relationships with individuals and suppliers to provide a great supply of new or used parts and accessories for Palm OS and other PDA devices. They are the FIRST to offer a 3rd party repair solution for broken PDA screens. They are the FIRST company to offer FREE repair directions and videos. Click on their Contact Info > References > "Feedback from our customers on eBay." Surf through their website, ask questions through their email sales@gethightech.com, and tell your friends about them. Then, bring your friends with you to see Robby (and one of his techies) demonstrate how easy and inexpensive it is to do repairs yourself.

I left our September meeting with sore cheek muscles from smiling. Robby is a wonderful person. It is so much fun listening to him tell the exciting story of how his business began and grew. He demonstrated a screen replacement. He also extended a 10% discount to us and everyone we share the code with.

October 13
Saied Nesbat, Ph.D., of EXideas, will demonstrate their products. " MessagEaseST is a powerful text entry alternative... MessagEase Stamp not only provides full access to your PDA's screen, it empowers you to save and recall more than 180 snippets of text (each as long as the memory in your PDA permits it to be!) for easy text composition... MessagEaseKB (for Keyboard) is a Palm OS extension that can optionally replace your Palm OS QWERTY keyboard. By doing so, you can access MessagEase's keyboard from within any Palm application by simply tapping on the keyboard icon. MessagEase™ on a Motorola Phone ...the same intuitive and fast technology that makes entering text on Palm Pilots easy makes entering text on a cell phone much more intuitive than the current mutli-tap.

November 10
Larry Becker IN PERSON - Christmas is coming, so purchase training videos for yourself and those frustrated Palm users in your life. http://www.palmvideos.com/

December 8
Dan Dolgin of our Pocket PC SIG and Chuck Horner of our Palm OS SIG present a update on "Palm vs. PocketPC" followed by a Q&A session and video training for the Palm OS.

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