Palmone VII Wireless Handheld Instructions Manual

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Example of web clipping
This example takes you through the process of finding someone’s 
phone number and address using the Yahoo!
® People Search web 
clipping application. This web clipping application is preloaded on 
your handheld.
To find a phone number and an address:
1. Raise the antenna.
Raising the antenna automatically opens the Applications 
Launcher to the Palm.Net category. If you moved the Yahoo! 
People Search web clipping application, go to that category. 
2. Tap the...

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Within seconds, your clipping appears. In this case, the web 
clipping application found two items that satisfy your query.
How big was that clipping?
After you receive a clipping, you can find out the size of the clipping. 
If you see two exclamation points (!!) in the title area, the clipping is 
larger than 1,000 bytes.
To see the size of a clipping:
1. Tap the Menu icon  .
2. Tap Options, and then tap Info. The Info dialog box shows...

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To review the History list:
1. Open the web clipping application that has clippings you want to 
review.
2. Tap the History pick list.
3. Select the clipping you want to review.
Saving information from a web clipping application
You can copy the text in a clipping or a page of a web clipping 
application and paste it into another application. For example, you can 
copy an address you receive as a clipping from Yahoo! People Search 
and paste the address into Address Book.
To save the...

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data, your handheld appends the word “truncated” to the end of 
the pasted text.
nThe Copy Page command does not copy images or icons; table 
structures; or text formatting such as bold, italics, and so on.
Sending e-mail from a page
If a web clipping application or clipping gives you the opportunity to 
reply to an e-mail address, you can do so. 
To send e-mail from a page: 
1. Tap the address displayed in the page.
The iMessenger...

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Using the iMessenger application
In addition to the Mail application and infrared (IR) beaming, 
which are explained in Chapter 6, your handheld offers you 
another way to stay in communication with others: wireless 
Internet messaging.
By activating the Palm.Net wireless communication service, you 
acquire an address and mailbox on the Palm.Net network. You can 
then use the iMessenger application to send and receive short text 
messages. Whenever you’re within coverage of the...

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Mail depends on your computer
You use Mail to manage the e-mail that you receive in your desktop 
computer’s E-Mail application. When you create e-mail items in Mail, 
you cannot send them out directly from your handheld; rather, you 
must first synchronize your handheld with your computer. At that 
time, e-mail items you created in Mail are transferred to your desktop 
E-Mail application and sent out through that application. Mail does...

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Checking for and viewing messages
The iMessenger list screen of the Inbox lists your downloaded 
messages, who sent them, and optionally, the date they were received. 
(See “Date column” later in this chapter.)
nUnread messages have a dash ( — ) next to them.
nMessages you’ve already read have a check mark ( 4
 ) next to 
them.
nMessages you create have a diamond (u
) next to them.
You can tap these symbols to open a menu of commands that you can 
use in the current context.
To check...

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To cancel a wireless transaction:
nIn the Transaction Progress message box, tap Cancel.
Any messages that were downloaded to your handheld before you 
tapped Cancel appear in the Inbox.
Important:You incur a cost for the number of kilobytes you sent to 
the server or downloaded before you tapped Cancel. 
To view a log of the most recent wireless transaction:
1. Tap the Menu icon  .
2. Tap Options, and then tap Show Log.
To open a...

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Short messages and long messages
The following table outlines how incoming messages of various 
lengths are treated:
If a message has 
x 
readable characters Then this happens:
500 or fewer characters The entire message is downloaded. 
 appears at the 
end of the message.
500 - 50,000 characters The first 500 characters are 
downloaded. A message at the end tells 
you how many readable characters are 
left to be retrieved. You can download 
as much of the rest of the message as 
you...

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Downloading the remainder of a long message
You download long messages in separate segments so that you can 
choose how much of the message you want to read (and pay for).
To download more of a long message:
1. At the bottom of the screen, tap More.
The Retrieve More dialog box appears.
2. Do one of the following:
For a message with fewer than 500 characters left, tap Get Rest.
For a message with more than 500 characters left, a...