[NPInfo] Re: PDAs

[Dena]

I'm so glad I'm not going through this all by myself. Misery does so love
company!! LOL
I just, apparently, successfully downloaded the free epocrates Rx so am
feeling pretty good about myself right now. So, in using your rational and
mature attitude of one step each day, I need to pat myself on the back for
accomplishing something. I might not have mastered the whole thing in one
one-hour session (damn this Quadruple Type A personality!!), but I have got
my contact list and epocrates in place. Don't know what happened to all the
stuff I put on my calendar...seem to not have made the synch. Guess I need
to try that again....

-----Original Message-----
From: npinfo-bounces at nurse.net [mailto:npinfo-bounces at nurse.net] On Behalf
Of Rose Moran-Kelly
Sent: Monday, January 01, 2007 6:58 PM
To: NP Info
Subject: Re: [NPInfo] Re: PDAs

Dena,
   I just started to work with my Palm Z22 and have had the same
frustration.  I also wanted to print my manual and decided that was
not possible with 600+ pages.  I settled for learning how to sync my
calendar and practice graffiti.  I also decided that I would tackle
one area at a time.  I am going to learn how to enter addresses into
the program on my computer at home and then hot sync it.
    The real reason I wanted this little baby was for epocrates...and
thought that my 3rd step would be to go back over my emails from this
wonderful group and figure out the pluses/minuses of the particular
programs.    So..I will be sharing your pain for a while...but it is a
new year with lots of possibilities and we know we will learn at least
some new things this year.

Rose

On 1/1/07, Dena <galdena at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> I tried palm.com and that's where I found the 600+ page owner's manual to
> download. I tried getting ahold of someone to mail me an owner's manual
but
> was on hold for over 20 minutes. I will just have to set aside some time
to
> sit down and play with it to figure it out. My boyfriend has a degree in
> computer engineering and is in management at Silicon Valley tech company
> but, being in management for so many years, he's the first to admit that
> technology has passed him by... he's absolutely useless when it comes to
> belong with these problems <sigh>. I wish I had a computer geek in the
> family somewhere!! Thank goodness for my son, Andy!!  LOL
> Dena
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: npinfo-bounces at nurse.net [mailto:npinfo-bounces at nurse.net] On Behalf
> Of Priscilla Merrill
> Sent: Monday, January 01, 2007 3:54 PM
> To: 'NP Info'
> Subject: RE: [NPInfo] Re: PDAs
>
> Have you tried the website?  www.palm.com?  Sounds like you're not a palm
> reader -- sorry, know that was a low blow of a pun.  Hope you're back in
> "synch" in no time.  I have found them very helpful in the past when I've
> run into glitches.  You'll be savvy in no time.  Took me about 3 days and
> had a similar experience of being in tears over it and feeling like a
> PDA-losah but you'll get the hang of it.  I'm so fortunate to have a
teenage
> geek son and hubby that get me out of my messes but you have Andy- - not
too
> shabby!!!
>
> Priscilla
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: npinfo-bounces at nurse.net [mailto:npinfo-bounces at nurse.net] On Behalf
> Of Dena
> Sent: Monday, January 01, 2007 5:20 PM
> To: 'NP Info'
> Subject: RE: [NPInfo] Re: PDAs
>
> Eric--
> The very first question it asked me was what I wanted to name my Email
> program... I didn't know... did it need a name??? And I didn't know how to
> get the name in their anyway even if I knew what to name it (as usual,
being
> totally self-absorbed, I was going to name it after me... would that have
> been appropriate? What was the correct answer?). There was no keyboard, no
> little alphabet anywhere... how was I supposed to type in my answer?
That's
> when I started crying <G>.  See, it was little, basic, stupid things that
> had me totally stumped and I couldn't get past them. This information
isn't
> in a manual somewhere? Someplace is there info on how to download programs
> into the little thing. I mean, it's a cute little unit (and it looks real
> sharp in the case I bought <G>) and I'm sure it would be real beneficial
to
> me, but it's not real user friendly for novices. Is there a "How to for
> Dummies" book available for PDAs? Maybe I'll look around for one of those.
I
> need to know all the basics plus everything this particular unit can do...
> ie. How do I go from one page to another without having to go to Home and
> starting over each time? How do I use the wireless, Bluetooth or HiFi
> features? Do I need additional accessories for those? Do I pay extra for
the
> service? How do I set up the program to get my Email? How do I get
on-line?
> I keep getting messages that I need to set these preferences but it
doesn't
> show me where to do these things. And what's the darn secret to putting on
> the screen protector without all those little airbubbles and lines
> underneath? I'm sure the answers to everything I need to know are on the
> tutorial.... I would just rather be able to sit with a manual in one hand
> while I go through the actual steps on the PDA with the other. Guess these
> days you can't do that any more <sigh>.  There... since starting this
Email,
> I've found how to access the keyboard (hit a button by mistake and it
popped
> out) and I've found my contact list. There's hope for me yet but there has
> to be an easier and faster way of learning all this.
> Dena Galler
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: npinfo-bounces at nurse.net [mailto:npinfo-bounces at nurse.net] On Behalf
> Of Eric Doerfler
> Sent: Monday, January 01, 2007 1:43 PM
> To: 'NP Info'
> Subject: RE: [NPInfo] Re: PDAs
>
> Dena
>
> The manual wouldn't have helped. What kind of questions?
>
> Eric D
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: npinfo-bounces at nurse.net [mailto:npinfo-bounces at nurse.net] On Behalf
> Of Dena
> Sent: Monday, January 01, 2007 3:35 PM
> To: 'NP Info'
> Subject: RE: [NPInfo] Re: PDAs
>
> I received my Palm on Friday. I paid $230 (which included S&H) on Ebay and
> then, of course, spent a lot more money on accessories for it <G>. I
charged
> the unit, set it, and now don't have a clue what to do with it... the darn
> thing doesn't come with any instruction manual, although it does come with
a
> one-page set-up instruction sheet with big print and easy to understand
> diagrams. You can the owner manual from the website-- all 600+ pages!!!
> Friday night the thing started asking me questions and I didn't have a
clue
> what to do with it-- I not only didn't know the answers to the questions
it
> was asking me, I didn't know how to go about answering them in the first
> place-- and there was no manual to refer to. I burst out in frustrated
tears
> and put the damn thing on the floor where it has been ever since. There is
> an on-screen tutorial but I haven't the courage to go through it. I'm
afraid
> I'm old fashioned in that I want an instruction manual by my side when I'm
> trying to figure something out. This might be a neat thing when someone
> knows what they're doing with it but, right now, I'm pretty intimated by
> it(actually, make that "scared stiff"). <sigh>  Good luck-- and when you
> figure out what to do with it, please let me know!
> Dena
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: npinfo-bounces at nurse.net [mailto:npinfo-bounces at nurse.net] On Behalf
> Of debcfnp at aol.com
> Sent: Monday, January 01, 2007 12:13 PM
> To: npinfo at nurse.net
> Subject: [NPInfo] Re: PDAs
>
>  Hey Dena, and others
> Did anyone purchase/receive a PDA for Xmas?
> |I just found the Palm TX on buydig.com for $254.00  free shipping, 3
> |year
> warranty for 39.99.  I think that is the site Andy Recommended.  I haven't
> gone the next step though and added it to my cart, but I am soooo tempted.
> What have others chosen and from where???
> Deb
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