The world in your palm

I actually feel guilty about this - it's going to sound as if I'm being paid to advertise.

But - I absolutely love my Palm :)

I've had one before - I had a quite basic Palm III (in the case of an older model due to an upgrade of sorts) until it went belly-up. I did use it quite a lot - many a times did the alarm save me from embarrassing delays and programs like CityTime and TravelTracker (the latter of which I haven't got around to getting again but must) helped me a lot with keeping up with international work.

But I'm using my new one much more. Well, maybe not more if you measure in minutes of on-screen time. But qualitatively more, for sure. The NotePad application, for instance - I jotted down a rough copy of a diagram from a meeting the other day. It's actually barely readable, even to me, but I have just pulled it via the Palm Desktop on to a PowerPoint slide and can now quietly make a diagram on top of it before ditching it. "Voila toût", as the man said in French as his cot had stood near the river Seine. (Pardon that last one. It's an old saying of my father's, translated as directly as possible from the original Danish into English)

And it also does more and more magic for my - intended - writing. It simply beats having notes strewn all over the place or, even worse, thoughts about writing projects quickly being lost into the dark holes of my memory.

And then there's the PalmReader. I'd still prefer a real book - but for reading on the road, having 9 books stored on the Palm means travelling a lot lighter than when you're having them in your hand luggage.

I must say that the high-resolution colour creen of my Tungsten E also is a lot better than the screen I had on my previous model. This has meant that I could download a map of the local area in Paris around the hotel I was going to stay in back in May. And then it was just a question of popping up from the RER station, fishing the Palm out of my pocket and quickly finding my way there.

By the way, if anyone wants to pay me for this advertising - I could be all ears ;)

[Listening to: Eurythmics - I Need A Man (4:23)]