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To: LLCF who wrote (103118)	5/18/2001 3:38:04 AM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 436258

Very easy, but you have to start from scratch, as far as I can tell. The software you install on the PC looks kind of like a DayRunner. I think anyone can download the software from the Palm website, and install it on their PCs even if you don't have a Palm machine. palm.com You can enter data on the Palm, or on the PC, and when you synch, it transfers from one to the other. The USB makes it fast. I should have done this years ago but I have a hard time reading the old screens. My kids bought a couple of Palms on eBay, and they seemed kind of junky to me, but this one is nice. Color display is easy to read. The Pocket PC style PDAs are even easier to read, but they are Windows based, so they crash, and they burn up the batteries, at least that's what I've read. The Compaq iPaq and the HP Jornada are very hot now among the gadget users. Did a lot of comparison shopping. Palm OS PDAs have much more 3rd party software, which is the big selling point. I am now comparison testing demos of time management software that will keep track of my billable hours and link it to Quickbooks. Actually I am sort of surprised that Quickbooks doesn't have a version that will work with a PDA. I've already downloaded a freeware version of the Federal Rules of Evidence and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Just amazing. The other new thing that is way cool - you guys probably all know this already - is storing everything on the web so you can access it anywhere. I am soooo tired of what I need when I am home being at the office, or when I am at the office it's home. Whereever I am, what I need is someplace else, seems like. Instead of storing your work on your hard drive, you store it on a secure server. (And hope the server doesn't get hacked, or the service provider go belly-up. Yikes!) Also if more than one person is working on a project, you can all access it without having a physical network. Some setups allow you to give clients a password to access just one area so they can see what's going on with their job and give input. I guess people who work for big companies do this already, but it's new to me.