3Com Palmone VII Organiser Instructions Manual

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So when you’re near a desktop computer and have some time, you can 
take advantage of the elaborate graphics, variety, and many choices 
offered by a web site —
But when you’re in a car or on the street and need information fast, a 
query application on your organizer makes it easy to find the specific 
information you need — 
Adding more query applications
When you set up your organizer, you find that several query 
applications have been preloaded onto your organizer. 

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When you install Palm Desktop software on your computer, you can 
select many more query applications. Use the Install Tool to transfer 
these to your organizer.
Still more query applications are available on the web site 
http://www.palm.net.
You add query applications to your organizer just as you would any 
other application. See “Installing add-on applications” in Chapter 3 
for details.
Wireless Internet messaging: 
the iMessenger...

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nCustomer Care. See the Getting Started guide for the support 
e-mail addresses and phone numbers.
nConvenient credit card billing.
The network
The Internet is often described as a “network of networks,” and the 
Palm.Net network is just another network tied into the Internet. 
The advantage of the Palm.Net network is that your organizer has a 
wireless, over-the-air connection to it. So long as one of the radio 
transmitter/receivers of the network can pick up the signal sent by 
your...

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It’s not unusual to experience a delay of a several seconds when a 
wireless transaction is being encrypted. 
In addition to the protection provided by the Palm.Net network, 
individual query applications may add another layer of protection to 
their transactions. For example, a query application may require you 
to create and use a password to access sensitive information (for 
example, your checking account).
See “Wireless preferences” in...

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new query applications, tips about your organizer, and news 
about Palm Computing platform compatible products. Use the 
links on this site to visit hundreds of other sites related to products 
for the Palm Computing platform.
The Palm.Net query application
The Palm.Net query application is a condensed version of the web 
site. If you have a question about the service or your use of it, the 
query application is the first place to go to find your answer.
To open the Palm.Net query...

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To monitor signal strength in the Diagnostics application:
nTap the Diagnostics icon  .
Both the bar graph and the number represent the signal strength:
nThe graph represents signal strength as a series of bars. The more 
bars displayed, the stronger the signal. 
nThe number represents signal strength as a percentage. The higher 
the number, the stronger the signal.
You can also monitor signal strength from within query applications 
and the...

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nYou open the query application that provides the information you 
want. For example, you open a query application that reports the 
weather.
nYou submit a query that requests specific information. For 
example, you ask what the weather forecast is for San Francisco.
nYou tap a button that sends your request to the Internet.
nThe query application sends your request to the Internet and 
returns, quickly, with a clipping that gives you only the specific 
piece of information that you...

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To open a query application:
1. Raise the antenna, located on the right side of your organizer.
Raising the antenna automatically opens the Applications 
Launcher to the Palm.Net category. When the transmitter suc-
cessfully connects to the network, your organizer beeps.
2. Tap the query application that queries the Internet for the kind of 
information you want.
Tip:You can set your organizer to open a specific application 
whenever you raise...

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nIn edit lines, you can select, cut, copy, and paste text as you do in 
other applications on your organizer. 
Sorted pick lists
In query applications, pick lists of words sorted alphabetically or 
numbers sorted in ascending order work in the same way that Phone 
Lookup works: if you write the first letter of a word, the list scrolls to 
the first entry that begins with that letter. If you write the first two 
letters, the list scrolls to the entry that starts with those two letters;...

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4. Tap the button or other object that displays the over-the-air icon to 
submit your query to the Internet.
The response — your clipping— typically appears onscreen within 
seconds. 
To stop a wireless transaction:
nTap the Stop icon.
Any data that is downloaded to your organizer before you tap the 
Stop icon appears onscreen.
Important:You incur a cost for any data that is downloaded to your 
organizer or sent to the Palm.Net server....