Palm z22

Learning a new language is a whole lot easier when you have a PDA and you download dictionaries onto it.

I came across this little gem while Googling for language software for my Palm z22. Six in one includes English, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Turkish and works exceptionally well for what it does.

As you can see from the screenshot SixinOne finds the translated word for every language and displays them on screen together. Please don't ask me why I found 'full moon', but if you're a hopeless romantic I suppose its a useful phrase to have.

Even though the number of words is limited to only 6620 words in every language, it still came in handy while we were out in the car. Practicing a foreign language when you don't have your language books handy can be frustrating, but with Sixinone and my Palm z22...

I've been a bit busy with the serendipity theme contest recently, which might not sound like much of a problem using my Palm z22, but it brought home to me how dependent I am on the memo function, and also why I desperately needed to do something about getting quick access to memo.

Because the z22 is a budget pda, Palm have only provided quick access with two keys, but if like me you use them both, then you're stuck if you also want quick access to other funcions. I like having my calendar and contacts as quick access keys, and would hate to change these.

Luckily I discovered a nifty little program that gives me quick access using the 5way keys. ButtonsEx from Freeware Palm has literally made a very positive difference to the way I'm able to use my z22. Budget pda - no way, not anymore, now I have the screenshot program, memo and clock all configured by pressing and holding down my 5way.

While playing around with my Palm z22 I installed the eReader software that comes on the CD-Rom. Once its installed clicking the icon shows the list of books installed, and I was a little disappointed to find only one book, the Miriam Webster dictionary. I realised fairly quickly that Palm probably makes other titles available from their own website, but most are not free. Googling for Palm ebooks brought me to the following free ebook sites, MemoWare and Manybooks. The rest of the search results seemed to simply link to each other and back to advertisers, or back to commercial bookstores who charge a couple of dollars to download some of the same books available for free on memoware and manybooks.

So this is a request to anyone who uses their Palm z22 for reading ebooks, do you know of any other free sites where I can download eReader books, or any other format, that will work on the Palm z22. I don't know whether these are still copyright or not, but I do remember as a boy reading EE Doc Smith's Lensman series and I would love to get hold of these if they're available.

The other day I received an email from a lady who works from home selling cosmetics and taking scrapbooking classes, and who also has a Palm z22.

Interestingly Patty uses her z22 to maintain a customer database using the contacts program, she tracks sales by using the expenses program, and organises her deliveries and meetings with the calendar program.

She wrote that she has her contacts grouped using categories, but is now using the custom fields to remember what level her downline members have reached.

Also, who would think of using the expenses program to track sales. It makes sense though, after all, apart from the name of the program what is the difference between an expense and income.

These are great ideas for anyone running a home-based business. No more diaries or loose pieces of paper cluttering up your product display cases or handbag.