And here it seems you can type closed and open quotes, both single and double, but they don't do it the "smart" way, i.e. I've blogged at length at how the lack of smart quotes is a killer in any application that has to kick out Word-format files. And the word processing through Documents to Go also works. Does it work on Yahoo? They seem to say yes, but I found no evidence of that on the Yahoo! Mail help site.īut I can get e-main in and out through DSL Extreme, making this a credible platform for mail-blogging to Blogger. The only problem with that: I have to sync at the office for the mail to go out, since there's no Outlook on the Mac.
However, I managed to get it to work with Outlook Express for the LADN e-mail. It wouldn't work with Gmail, and I got only one-way mail with the Daily News' POP service (receive only). So far it has worked seamlessly with the POP mail at DSL Extreme. It does e-mail, either as POP or IMAP, or in some kind of sinister "helper" mode, interacting with applications on the host PC. If the Palm dies/gets lost, you still have all your data and can sync it to another Palm in about a minute.
Basically, all data, both applications and documents, is stored on a main computer and is backed up every time you hit "sync." A good thing.
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The way it syncs with the main PC is ingenious and complicated. Of course this Palm has no Wi-Fi, and browsing on such a small device is probably more limited than what I can do with This Old Mac. No long waits for a PC (Mac or Windows) to boot, and then for an application to load. Then you find your application and launch it. The most impressive thing about the Palm is that you hit the "on" button and the thing turns right on. So I could work on things on the Palm and then bring them into Word (or in the case of the office, Open Office).
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What attracted me to the Palm was the promise of the Documents to Go software to read and write Microsoft Word-compatible files. It's surprisingly easy, except for special characters, and then you can bring up a miniature keyboard. I'm only using the Graffiti method of entering text with that little stylus. It's a Palm Tungsten E, and I decided to fire it up and see how it works for e-mail and word processing. Now that This Old Mac is pretty much as far along as it's going to get, I'm starting a new project, and if I stick with it past the weekend, probably will have a new blog to go with it.