Macintosh Edition
Table Of Contents
- Visor™ Handheld User Guide
- Macintosh Edition
- Contents
- About This Guide
- Introduction to Your Visor™ Handheld
- Getting to know your handheld
- Installing the batteries
- Tapping and typing
- Customizing your handheld
- Entering Data in Your Handheld
- Using Graffiti writing to enter data
- Using the onscreen keyboard
- Using your computer keyboard
- Importing data
- Using an external keyboard
- Managing Your Applications
- Overview of Basic Applications
- Common Tasks
- Application Specific Tasks
- Date Book
- Date Book Plus
- Address
- To Do List
- Memo Pad
- Calculator
- CityTime
- Expense
- Communicating Using Your Handheld
- Managing desktop E-Mail away from your desk
- In Mail, you can do the following:
- Setting up Mail on the desktop
- Synchronizing Mail with your E-Mail application
- Opening the Mail application on your handheld
- Viewing e-mail items
- Creating e-mail items
- Looking up an address
- Adding details to e-mail items
- Storing e-mail to be sent later
- Editing unsent e-mail
- Draft e-mail
- Filing e-mail
- Deleting e-mail
- Removing e-mail from the Deleted folder
- Purging deleted e-mail
- Message list options
- HotSync options
- Creating special filters
- Truncating e-mail items
- Mail menus
- Beaming information
- Managing desktop E-Mail away from your desk
- Advanced HotSync® Operations
- Selecting HotSync setup options
- Customizing HotSync application settings
- IR HotSync operations
- Conducting a HotSync operation via modem
- Creating a user profile
- Setting Preferences for Your Handheld
- In the Preferences screens, you can do the following:
- Viewing preferences
- Buttons preferences
- Connection preferences
- Digitizer preferences
- Formats preferences
- General preferences
- Network preferences and TCP/IP software
- Selecting a service
- Entering a user name
- Entering a password
- Selecting a connection
- Adding telephone settings
- Connecting to your service
- Creating additional service templates
- Adding detailed information to a service template
- Creating a login script
- Deleting a service template
- Network preferences menu commands
- TCP/IP troubleshooting
- Owner preferences
- ShortCuts preferences
- Maintaining Your Handheld
- Troubleshooting Tips
- Non-ASCII Characters for Login Scripts
- Other Product Information
- Index
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5. Close the HotSync Software Setup dialog box.
Check for a
connection
using
Determines the method used to synchronize your
handheld and your desktop applications:
■ Local Setup
. Synchronizes while your handheld is
in the cradle connected to your computer.
Indicate which serial port the cradle is
connected to and the speed of the data transfer
in the Local Setup options in this dialog box.
■ Modem Setup.
Synchronizes while the handheld
communicates to your computer across a
telephone line. Indicate which modem this
computer uses and which serial port the modem
is connected to in the Modem Setup options in
this dialog box.
■ Both Setups
. Synchronizes using the cradle or the
modem. Indicate the connection details in both
Local Setup and Modem Setup options in this
dialog box.
Note:
Choosing Both Setups prevents you from
using either port for other operations such
as printing, faxing, or AppleTalk
networking.
Local
Setup
Specifies how the cradle connects to your computer:
■ Speed.
Determines the speed at which data
transfers between your handheld and Palm
Desktop software. Try the As Fast As Possible
rate first, and adjust downward if you
experience problems. This setting allows Palm
Desktop software and your handheld to find
and use the fastest speed.
■ Port.
Identifies the modem or printer port where
you connected the handheld cradle. To connect
using a USB cradle, select Handspring USB port.
Modem
Setup
Specifies how your handheld communicates with
your computer modem. See “Conducting a HotSync
operation via modem” later in this chapter for more
information.