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Old 07-25-2003, 10:48 AM
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Default What do you use your PPC for?

What do you use your PPC for, anyway?

Like an organizer? MP3 player? E-book reader?

What is your daily use of it?
 
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Old 07-25-2003, 12:20 PM
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This question comes up every once in a while, but thats nice, because we can see if people change their use

At the moment I mainly use it for:
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Calendar
Tasks (more and more actually, never used it before I got a PPC)
Mail - espesially on holidays, business trips, etc... using my Pocketop Keyboard
MSN Messenger
WiFi surfing at home (PPCT mobile forum is great :werenotworthy: )
Reading eBooks (mostly SciFi)
Remotely controlling my Siemens S55 with Running Voice GSM (espesially in my car with a Arkon mount)
And of course playing games
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Old 07-25-2003, 01:22 PM
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I tried surfing but it's Oh so frustrating... Lot's of srolling up and down and left and right...

Am I missing something?
 
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Old 07-25-2003, 01:39 PM
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Daily use?

I use ClearVue and a Voyager CF VGA out card in the classroom as a teaching aid,
Pocket Informant to keep me up-to-date with what I am supposed to be doing where and when,
Media Player and various games keep me entertained on the way to and from work,
Reader and AvantGo give me daily fixes of reading material,
Pocket IE and Inbox help me keep track of stuff, update my website etc during the day and in bed at night - plus occasional research,
Roll Call comes out at the beginning of every lesson, and during free periods, to keep track of and mark students,
Worksheets and lesson plans are developed daily in TextMaker,
Twice a day (when I'm being good!) PocketBible and DailyReader come out to play,
Conversions in Hand and the calculator get frequent outings for everyday working out of stuff,
TomeRaider/Wikipedia and Lextionary get a lot of use for general research (and speedy answers to smartarse questions from some kids...!),
When out and about PQV (and other photo programs) help me select which photos to keep or junk on my digicam,
TomTom Navigator and Tube get me from A to B so effectively I can't remember the last time I had to look at a paper map...

That is, of course, only the things that come to mind right now - (BTW - I'm writing this while leaning against a corridor wall waiting for my form group to leave the last assembly of term...!)

Yet some people, despite all the evidence to the contrary, insist that Pocket PCs are just toys (or: that they can't replace a laptop!).... :roll:
 
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Old 07-25-2003, 01:41 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bruno Figueiredo
I tried surfing but it's Oh so frustrating... Lot's of srolling up and down and left and right...

Am I missing something?
Yes - hundreds of PPC formatted sites (and a few that PIE reformats quite well - PIE 2003 handles a lot of sites with no need for scrolling).
 
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Old 07-25-2003, 02:43 PM
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TomeRaider/Wikipedia (...) get a lot of use for general research
Interesting... How can I have wikipedia on my pocket pc? I thought the instructions were quite complicated on the wikipedia site. Is there any site i can download it from?
 
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Old 07-25-2003, 03:05 PM
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Dowload it as a TomeRaider file from http://pliny.wikipedia.org/tarballs/tomeraider/current/ - you need the one called WP_EN_(P)PC.zip
 
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Old 07-25-2003, 03:33 PM
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8O 120 MB!!!

There goes nearly half of my CF card...
 
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Old 07-25-2003, 05:56 PM
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Default hmm...now let's see

daily...i probably use the following:

pocketbible
daily reader
pocket informant
(basically tweaking the interface, templates, icons, etc. and writing quick alarm notes. i don' t have a real busy schedule)
resco file explorer (i'm always deleting old notes and compressing files and stuff)
Flex Wallet
PIE (avant go rocks!)
winamPAQ
 
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Old 07-25-2003, 06:08 PM
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:angel: So many of you reading PocketBible...

To me its completely surprising. In Portugal, where i'm from,
only church ladies read the bible every day.

Almost all of you are about the same age as me. Well, none of
the people I know, and I know a lot, reads the bible daily.

Eck... Different cultures, I suppose...
 
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