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from my m515, through zire 72 (blue and silver edition), to my TX.... Palm saved my life from boring, from getting late to somewhere, from forget everthing....

E. Schosinsky E.

Gary
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Palm Vx, Toshiba e330, Nokia 6600, Dell Axim X30, O2 XDA Exec, Palm Tungsten T, Palm T|X

Use my Palm for everything meetings, finances, you name it. Battery died not long ago, i stared at the black screen for a while and tried not to panic. To cut a long story short got the battery replaced that day....What the hell did I do before i got my palm......

Saves my life everyday.

1. From dying of boredom by giving me access to games, music and videos while waiting at the doctor or in line for countless events.

2. From dying of embarrassment by giving me quick access to people's name and information so I can talk knowledgably to them without having to 'fake it'

3. (Most importantly) From being killed by my wife for forgetting our anniversary.

Ken Carlson

(The nephrologist finally called back a few hours later, after my husband was in the ICU, confirming the resident's choice of antibiotic.)

My husband Rory was my life, my soulmate. He passed away in 2004, but in helping to save his life, my Palm handheld saved mine at the time.

2) Helping me remember a job meeting i had completely forgot due to finals in college.

3) Making me go back home to get it. The moment i stopped to go back there was a big car crash right in front of me. o_O

Les
lesedmond@aol.com

I use my Palm for everything: Medical textbooks, Medications info. medical Calculators, Word and Excel documents, Music, Pictures etc..

during my training at the hopsital my palm was my best friend, I could check any medical issue in a heart beat.

and now I have a Treo 650 so my palm is my phone as well.

Thank you palm for making my life easier.

I was out shopping for furntiture one evening when I was alerted via text message that I had a voice mail waiting on my work voice mail system in the support mailbox.

I quickly downloaded my email which included the vmail as an attached WAV file, which I am able to play on Pocket Tunes while taking down the pertinent information in a memo. Basically a user (who was very important to the project) was unable to access their account on the server.

I quickly accessed the spreadsheet which I had using Data Viz Sheet To Go to see if I had his current login information so I could help him login. Luckily he was on the current spreadsheet, but as usual I like to make sure I had the current info, so I browsed to the web application and tried to login using the information I had on hand. No luck. He had been in and reset his password recently, so my information was out of date.

I had to bring out the big guns and terminal to the windows server using Mobile TS and then access the SQL server to access the actual table containing his current password.

While in there I noticed a few delays in the way the server was responding, so after getting the data I needed, I rebooted the server on my way out.

I then proceeded to email the client and then call him to walk him through the login process using the correct data.

Now this would not seem like anything amazing if I was sitting at work, but keep in mind I was sitting on a couch with my wife at a furniture store. So, I thank the Treo, my wife thanks the Treo and the sales person at the furniture store thanks the Treo, oh yeah and the client who needed support thanks the Treo. I guess that is 4 lives for the price of one.

Now that is integration!

Well, it's never stopped a bullet or performed the Heimlich, it's never pushed someone out of the path of an oncoming bus or ran into a burning building to save orphans and kittens...

...but it has made life easier.

I've a TX. Using it at work helps me schedule the meeting I might have with my boss, so he doesn't kick my butt (so it's a lifesaver in that way).

Having the WiFi on our network really helps. I can use it to check out the online database to see where a system's supposed to be, ping it and see if it's online, use it's database and spreadsheets to keep track of where the equipment is.

I don't miss flights because of the calendar. I've got the important numbers right at my fingertips. And I can send a quick e-mail to my lady, letting me know I'm thinking about her.

Hmm...maybe that can be a lifesaver. ;)

One by one, the penguins are stealing my sanity.

May You Live in Interesting Times

It saves me paper and it saves me *time*, which saves my life from one of much stress and lack of preparedness!

PowerPlay Vs >> palmOne Zire 31 >> palm Tungsten|T3/palmOne Zire 72s

Oh PDAs, whatever shall I do without them?

T3 fits in my life...saved again (grin)

If it wasn't for my little palm, I'd forget those important dates & my wife would not be too happy.

So, I suppose it hasn't really saved my life, but it's saved my marriage, which is just as important to me.

David L. Ellis

Well thats it for now...maybe one day my T|X will learn CPR and save a life...but I haven't seen that yet.

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- It keeps my budget via UltraSoft Money, keeping me from overspending or overdrawing my bank account.

- It provides me with spiritual focus and direction each day using Laridian's great MyBible program, along with some assorted devotional books in Daily Reader.

- It has helped to improve my mind by being able to read books wherever I am - many classics are available for free, other books for reasonable prices and/or discounts at Palm Digital Media.

- Voice memos have done each of the following for me:
- recorded musical ideas when they hit, as I could record the basic idea at that very moment.
- recorded critical conversations, so I could verify what was said at a later time, also proved my case in one particulary political situation at the place I was working at the time. Saved my bacon.

- Has kept me on time to countless meetings, and the occasional job interview.

- Has made me look outstading in my field, because I am always able to keep pertinent information at my fingertips, with the ability to quickly find/look it up.

- Has kept me organized on countless projects, assignments, etc. through use of the todo list and Shadow Plan (you rock Skeezix).

- Makes my home life much happier, because I am more organized and not always stressed out or worrying if I've forgotten something important.

So, my Palm hasn't kept my heart beating or anything, but it has made impacted my life by allowing it to be a life much more worth living.

_________________
Sean

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

Z.

Thanks Palm!

Had I ignored the call and kept driving, my car would have looked like a nice little tinfoil sandwich.

So, if you consider "saved my life" to mean "saved me lots of bucks in smash repairs or a new car", then sure, it saved my life!

Tim
I apologise for any and all emoticons that appear in my posts. You may shoot them on sight.
Treo 270 ---> Treo 650

On it I keep a list of medicines I'm allergic to.

I keep notes on my symptoms and what I want to ask my doctor.

It's helped numerous times, so I don't have to make a special trip back to the office. Telnet(really ssh) to office machines to do SysAdmin duties. At a banquet my wife looked over and said what are you doing. :-)

I keeps me from missing important appointments. So my wife does not kill me. :-)

It reminds me when to get anniversary gift, again so I don't suffer at home.

I'm certain it's helped me more than this, but it's late and my brain is tired so I cannot think of more...

Without my palm I would not have been as successful in my career.

Where does my palm fit in..... #1 - I can now "remember" anniversary, special dates, birthdays, to-do's, password afer password after password after password....... meetings, special dates, etc. etc., etc..... all in teh "Palm" of my hand.

To be honest, I don;t know how I'd live without it. My wife agrees 100%.

Nah, that never happened. Though it does remind me of my girlfriend's birthday, so you might say it saves my life every year.

On my way to the office one morning back in 2001 my car was hit on the driver side by another vehicle running a red light at high speed. It was probably the car I was driving that most literally saved my life by distributing the force of the oncoming car through the frame and keeping it from crushing me in my seat. I was mostly uninjured as a result. But the other valiant machine in this story was the Visor, which was sitting on the passenger seat at the time of the collision. After the emergency crews arrived and the vehicles were pulled apart we found the Visor in a pool of oil and antifreeze underneath the impact zone. It had apparently flown through the air in front of my face during the impact, passed through the shattered driver's-side window, landed on the hood of the other vehicle and then fallen to the street.

The Visor was banged up, but intact--even the screen was unbroken. The only real sign of damage was that the antenna on the attached Visorphone module was broken off. My laptop, still in a case in the back seat, hadn't fared so well and would not boot. But the aerobatic Visor turned on and I still had wireless reception to call my wife. While I waited for the police to finish taking information from the occupants of the other car and a witness on the street I VPNed into the office network, browsed to a design document I had been working on the previous night and sent it as an email attachment to a team member who wasn't so fortunate to have VPN access at the time.

It was a long time before I could convince myself to buy a replacement for that old Visor, and I still pull it out, sync up, and use it from time to time out of nostalgia. It has a beautiful gold anodized aircraft aluminum enclosure now, milled by Dave Design to replace the scratched up plastic one, and it's still the most beautiful looking--and reliable--PDA I own.

David Beers
Pikesoft Mobile Computing
Software Everywhere blog
www.pikesoft.com/blog

As far as I am concerned Palm is simply the only choice.

Plainly, My Palm (III, Vx and currently T|T) has saved my business life at many ocations!

So yeah, I downloaded that, and used Palm reader to read. Kinda odd at first, cause back then, I was like the only Palm/PDA user in our class. So yeah, my mates were all like looking at me and thought I was playing a game or something. Even the teacher approached me, tried confiscating my Palm, which he thought was a gameboy.

But yeah, told him about the issue of running out of books, showed him my palm and allowed me to read with the rest of the class using my Palm. At the end of the lecture.. my teacher was fascinated about my Palm Tungsten T and its capabilities to read ebooks... well yeah, that adds up, english teachers loves to read. So yeah, eventually he got a Palm of his own,which I believe was the Zire 71, which was the latest model that time.

This is one of the times that Palm saved me for real, I mean yeah, I could have downloaded the ebook and read it in my PC. But we have to read with the rest of the class as well, cause we do chapter summaries, read them loud *practice pronounciation* and even do role plays *my hatest!*.

A drunk driver had crashed into my parked car at 40 mph. My car was completely wrecked. Had I been inside my vehicle, who knows what would have happened to me?

My palm held me back, and saved me.

Ever seen the picture Palm has of it's LifeDrive contents capabilities (http://www.palm.com/ca/products/mobilemanagers/lifedrive/)? That's me & mine.

I hope they keep making PDA's and phones forever.

I've been around the block once or twice - Pilot 1000, PalmPilot Personal, 2Mb OS3 Upgrade, IIIc, m505, Tungsten T, Tungsten T3, Tungsten T5, Tapwave Zodiac 2, LifeDrive.

At home because a can use the traveltime to read emails and so have more time for my famely.

Now i can use the relaxtime more as it should be.

Great PDA.

Peter Beset

Like to meet people from all over the world.

For each trip, I used my Tungsten (various models) or Treo with TomTom GPS and TomTom software. I never had to stop and ask for directions, thus avoiding potentially dangerous sitations.

In addition, if I had to rent a car with GPS, the government would have had to pay extra for each rental for that feature. (My Tungsten/Treo/TomTom items were personally purchased by me, and not the government.) I never had to do this, thus saving the taxpayers this expense.

I listen to mp3's, play Freecell, and read AvantGo channels while commuting.

I am reminded of anniversaries and birthdays! (lol, a common theme in this thread)

Keep on top of my schedule and honey-do list(more or less).

For the most part, my Palm has saved my career. I monitor my online class web site through the Treo when I'm on the road, I keep my schedule book on my Treo and avoid missing important meetings, and return important emails.

And, if you count "boredom" as a cause of death, Solitare on the Treo has saved my life many times ;)

I'm hoping it will soon... ;)

Au revoir,

Bill

Initially, I was given the standard eat a minimum of "300 carbohydrates a day diet", and no fat or protein. This is ok for some, but my blood sugar reading were hitting 300 after a meal. Insulin shots were on the horizon (for what good it would have done). I had a team of people treating me then (educator, doctor, dietitan), and my condition was worse than it was when I started seeing my "diabetes care team"

Then I met a doctor (palm user) who turns things around. Two facts that he got across to me: 1. Only carbohydrates (to a lesser extent protein) cause increase in blood sugar 2. Only calories cause weight gain. He recommended CalorieKing software. He recommended 50 carbs a day, and 2200 calories, and same medication.

I already had a Palm from work, so I installed CalorieKing PDA edition. I set the thresholds that the doctor recommended, and believe me it was not easy. Changing the way you eat and the quantity is never easy, but the Palm with CalorieKing kept me honest.

Six weeks later, blood sugar was down to maximum of 120 (HBA1c was 5.8) during the day, my vision had improved so much that I no longer needed glasses (a condition known as Diabetic Cataracts was gone), kidney function had normalized, cholesterol, blood pressure, and triglycerides all with-in non-diabetic ranges and 12 pounds had left my body. The doctor discontinued one of my medications.

That was in the number of years ago, today I'm Director of Operations for a Defense Contractor, see the doctor regularly, and have a Treo 650 and a Tungsten E (E is for backup, it is that critical) both loaded with CalorieKing and now the Diabetes Log also from CalorieKing. You will never see me without one of my PDAs.

Its easy to say why I could use a treo 650...

Although I am a bit spoiled with a tungsten C, I still have to carry my mobile phone (nokia 1100) with me all day long... and at the other end of my belt there is hanging a digital camera most time of the day.... also in the car it would be more easier to call (handsfree) wireless.... and so on and on and on...

....still dreaming of a treo 650.....

I am tired of wearing three things at my belt.... I look like a commando navy seal!!!

Hope to hear from you soon,

Palm greetz,

Herman.

Ive had great experiences with my palm. Its always by my side when im alone, and bored.
My palm is more dedicated for study, where i use my KK12c, and doc to go. When the lesson is boring im always on the net. One time at university, i had a very important work to present which made me dedicate lot of time, and held me awake till morning preparing the final presentation speach. Fortunately I managed to finish at time, but i had to rush to make the presentation. Saddly i forgot all my notes at home, its amasing how things always go wrong at these momments. Fortunately I managed to access internet from my palm and used VNC to access my computer, where I copied all my notes and managed to preset my work. Thanks palm...

Marcos Penido

Palm Ltd... Thanks for a great product!

My brain was not so good. Since I got my palm, I have a new advanced brain, whit internet acess!!

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Questions answered, answers questioned...

10. While in useless meeting or on useless date, audible alert tones from calendar signal a life or death "emergency" which requires my swift departure.

9. While being mugged, snapped and emailed quick photo, then told assailant his picture would be on the news if anything happened to me.

8. Time saved using "hot keys" to go directly to applications will save, by quick estimate, 2 years off end of my life (which I'll happily use to taunt pigeons from park bench).

7. Blazer browser + online maps = knowing where I'm going in life and not accidentally wondering into the Neutral Zone.

6. Bundled games kills time in long lines, including preventing recent frustration at DOT from boiling over into murderous ramage, which would have likely resulted in death penalty.

5. Streaming online financial news keeps me abreast of the market, leading to untold wealth which will save my life when I need to buy that black market liver in a few years. Heh, heh. I said "abreast."

4. Email traffic alerts prevent 10-car pileup from becoming an 11-car pileup.

3. Lost Treo made me realize I could not live without it. Me: Where's my Treo, where's my TREO? Girl: Maybe the dingo got your Treo.

2. MP3 Player to repeat life-saving personal mantra, "Nobody's following me."

AND:

1. Conference calling two ex-girlfriends allows me to truthfully tell their friends we had a "three-way."

That, and it saved me from dying of increasingly intense boredom through SNES/NES/Genesis emulation. There's nothing better than a nice game of Super Mario World on the go.

Here is the story of how Palm saved my life. Palm has saved my life because for several years I have predicted their marketshare would plummet against Window Mobile. Palm's stagnation saw to it that my prediction come to pass, which is good, because otherwise I would have *just* died!

the end.

It does so many things well and it packs so much of what I need in one little package that I cannot do without it. It resets a little too much, but other than that, I love it.

I can't wait until my contract is up so I can get the 700P.

Too late now, all I can do is type, and hope I can get the sequence right (what was it I overheard... something complex, sinister in its deviousness... I remember it started with a 1, then a 2, then perhaps a 3 but I cannot work out what comes next).

I reach down to pull my Palm from my pocket to help me with this insane conundrum only to realise once more that it is not there - how could I have been so stupid to lend it to 007 for one of his jaunts!

It's not fair really, he gets all the cool gadgets, and now my Palm as well.

-Agent Colin 008, located somewhere where you are not authorised to know.

PS: Anyone know the escape sequence for the thermonuclear doomsday device that's in the room with me?

PPS: If you see Q please tell him that a small bomb hidden inside an olive is not the best way to make an impression at social gatherings at the embassy..!

2. grabbing an email in europe that helped our company avoid having all of our sales samples stuck in customs.

3. having a .pdf of my passport in my phone just in case i lose it. this hasn't happened yet, but i'm sure one day it will.

-alex.

It saved my life by freeing me from the added weight of a PDA, wireless phone and pager. Had I continued to carry all of these devices on my belt I would surely have perished before my time.

Thank you.

Thanks

From backuping my contacts when my phone dies or when i change phones..

From buying DVD's (i have a huge collection)..i consult my Palm first before i buy one thru Videohound...

From budgeting my monthly income thru Adarian money...

From scheduling my daily routines...

But the most i could say is when my then trusted Tungsten|E alerted me a week before my daughter's needed shot of influenza vaccine..because during those days...there has been report of influenza outbreak in one of the nearby city in our place...

Thanks to my palm..i had my daughter vaccinated at the right time. If not for my palm...my daughter could have been a victim of this dreadful disease.

You could ask: "Why don't you use any alarm clock like all other people do?". Unfortunately I am the only person who can convince myself at 6 am it's really high time to get up. So Palm saves my life every working day in the morning and during the day when it keeps me on track at work and home.

This little devices are really useful. Most of my friends do not have one, and they ask me what things can Palms do.
Of course, after listening the never-ending list of applications / utilities / games&emulators, some of them have bought one!

Palm forever!

Regards, SjaakO.

~neverbeensavedbyapalmdevice~

I don't need telling you what benefits and joys the Palm PDA brings into your life.

But why my soulmate? Well, I'm getting quite nervous when it's malfunctioning, upset when the battery is almost empty (as I have not charged it on time) and feeling uncomfortably naked when I don't have my Palm PDA with me.

Therefore my Palm PDA hasn't just saved my life, but it's keeping me performing strong all the time.

Cheers,
Lyndon

Henry Taylor

Needless to say, I was stuck. Being a resourcful person, I did not immediately look for help. I started to evaluate my situation; I was not hurt in the least nor was my car as far as I could tell. I had no desire to walk the aproximate twelve miles home in the rain nor did I feel a call to 911 was needed.

I knew from the calendar on my Treo that my wife was unreachable via wireless communications due to her location at her parents farm. So I tried to call my inlaws land line. That's when I discovered where I was located there was almoast no signal level. My wife's wireless plan does not support text messaging so I decided to at least try to text message my son and though it took awhile, the message did get through. My oldest son eventually did respond with some friends who came and rescued me. We later came back and retrieved the car.

All the information and capability was in my Treo to aid in my situation and get me out of this life threatening situation. It's great to have an all-in-one tool like the Palm Treo!

Dave Ellis

I have had one since the Palm Personal days and I use it to store all kinds of contacts, notes and other information. I was able to use the information on my palm to recover contact information that I wasn't able to find anywhere else, because I had either lost the papers, or my computer had crashed. I found this very helpful when writing my resume a few years back.

Anyway, this is just one of the ways that my Palm device has seemed like a life saver to me.

Pen and Paper -> Palm Personal -> Palm Personal -> Palm III -> Palm -IIIx -> M120 -> Handera 330 -> M120 -> Zire71 -> ?

But to my great delight, my professor allowed calculators (we had some supply/demand equations to resolve) to be used during the test! You see, in the small Philippine city I was studying in, hardly anyone heard of, much less saw, a PDA during that time. So even while I spent the whole sem writing down notes on my Visor, it never occurred to my professor that allowing me to use the handheld as a calculator guaranteed my passing.

I made full use of the opportunity, looking for the answers in my notes, switching to the Calculator app to do the math or whenever my professor walked nearby. Of course, I made sure to get some questions wrong, to avoid the suspicion a perfect grade would bring.

So there you have it, in a situation where the chips were down, my Visor Deluxe came through for me.

Truly, my Tungsten C has been my brain for about four years now. Since I bought it at full price directly from Palm the week it was released, I have never regretted it. When my organic brain fails me (often), the T|C is there to remind me what I need to do.

Palm, why no T|C2?

Here's how:

On occasion a boss or a colleague truly pisses me off, and occassionally I am pissed off to the point of considering doing bodily harm to the source of my "pissed-tivity" (my word, copyright pending :)). On these occasions, I take a moment to look at a current picture of my wife and child, which is always readily available thanks to my nearby Palm, and I am reminded that I have a great deal to be happy about and too much to lose because I hit some jerk upside the head no matter how much it might be deserved. I figure that a jail stay for assault and battery or the lose of my license would be the end of my life as I know it, thus this qualifies as a Palm "saving my life"!

In the Spirit of Umoja,
Ronin

I'm a kind of guy who is late from everywhere. So reminders has saved my life several times. I wouldn't remember anythin without my palm.

Class lectures, 2hr bus rides home, waiting in the theatre before the movie starts, falling asleep, waking up, shopping with the GF, eating lunch, going on the pooper, etc...

My palm has saved me countless times!

Instead I'll tell you about the poor loser who never made it to an appointment on time, always forgot his homework, and couldn't remember a phone number. Then along came palm and "Blammo" now I am a sheik, on time, homework done, phone number remembering palm adict. Gotta love it!

I'd sure still like to win a Treo, though!

Mike

1. It allows me convenient access to my Bible and notes for personal spiritual health and verse memorization (Memorize!). As such, it has helped me get back on track at times. Other programs with spiritual content have also helped me understand more about the world: including AvantGo (certain channels) and various eBooks.
2. As a physician, I have used ePocrates to keep me from making mistakes in prescribing--saving me from possible medical errors and saving others from the consequences of those errors.
3. Medical e-texts have helped me care for patients better. Although I can't remember a specific instance, these may have saved someone's life.
4. It has saved my children from boredom--sometimes a potentially devastating problem--with multimedia files (MMPlayer, music player, etc.)
5. Having my personal and contact information on hand has saved me several times while travelling (I currently live by a desert in a developing country). A cell phone would complement that perfectly!

Palm Pilot Pro --> Handspring Visor Deluxe x 2 --> Sony Clié 415 --> Sony Clié 615 --> Tungsten T2 & T --> Tapwave Zodiac2

Then ThinkDB allowed me to create a database in Access and sync it with the Palm. I'd check the articles off as I went, and they'd filter out of the list on the handheld. I only saw those articles I still needed to copy.

Made library research one heck of a lot easier.

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PalmPilot Pro (1997) -> III (1998) -> Vx (1999) -> m500 (2001) -> m515 (2002) -> ???

Numerous times daily I can refer to the PDA and quickly gather the data needed. It is a plan before the event and a record of what happened after the event. I often get asked details about what or when something happened and I am able to give the person an answer.

I have also pared it with a bluetooth GPS unit and gotten myself out of area that were not the friendliest.

MD

Then, someone told me about getting an assistant to help me get into shape, become better organized, and kick-start my professional life. Well, I couldn't afford a real assistant, so I decided to get a digital one...a Handspring.

When I got it, I used it to schedule workout times, track workout schedule, track my finances, organize my professional life, and impress the chicks (OK, that didn't work all that well).

I lost a ton of weight, started running marathons, had enough energy to stay up late, started making more money, and became more organized. All this impressed the chicks! I started dating 2-3 per week. I also had guy-friends that wanted to hang with me more because I was hanging out with the women, etc (men are shallow, I know...and we like it that way!).

Since then, I've upgraded through 3 different palm handhelds (I now have a T3), got married, and still have time to run and hang out with my friends....all thanks to my Palm PDA!

thanks God for Palm!

love the PDA/phone mix - saves my life

palm saved my life at a quicker pace!

It always serves to keep me calm.

With books, video, and .mp3,

It goes almost everywhere with me.

Whether on the road, or on a train,

It keeps my commute from becoming a pain.

Checking movie times or finding stores,

WiFi helps those from being chores.

Goodbye wires, no more tangled mess,

Bluetooth headphones, now they’re the best!

When the day is done and turned into night,

I crawl into bed and I turn out the light.

While reading a book on my Palm with glee,

My wife rolls over and says, “You love her more than me!”

I then awakened to the sound of my LifeDrive alarm waking me up to catch my plane.

What a dream! What a life saver.

Thanx.

My wife has a Palm Tungsten E (but I can't count that ... it's hers).

I can't say my Palm has ever actually saved my life, but back in college, I helped found the school's first LUG and was a major organizer for years. We had frequent events, and of course the school always screwed up our reservations and forgot stuff. That meant lots of last minute calls to Facility Operations and other offices to figure out where our projector went, why a room wasn't open, why the overhead was smoking, etc. Of course, there was only one person in the room who had the number for every office in the school immediately on hand; the guy with the Palm, me. :-)

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My favorite time my Treo saved my life is when I needed to write an email to a client. Unfortunatly my internet went out but however I saved the email in Word format. The problem was that my internet had been going out all week and when I waited till the last moment, it went out.

My Treo 650 saved my life because I was able to load the Word file onto my 2GB SD card and use Docs to Go and VersaMail to email it. Of cource all my contacts were already on my Treo, as usual, so it didn't take long.

So that is my favorite time my Treo has saved my life. Of cource with my luck my internet went back on 30 minutes past the deadline. Good thing I own a Treo!

Andy Machead
CEO of McMACSite.com
www.McMACSite.com

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So, Palm saved my life by keeping it organized through impressive devices. You and Palm would save my life again by reuniting me with a sleek and functional device that will end my frustration with my current "PDA."

Incident #1 - The Treo 650 Saved My Professional Life. In preparation for a major air show, I was assigned the task of scheduling all of our executives' appointments and customer engagements. The Treo allowed me to maintain 24/7 access to my E-mail, balance my own personal life through keeping appointments, and most of all keeping track of the mirad number of air show project management information (lists), ex. Chalet operating hours, phone numbers, transporation arrangements, evening engagements, on-site transportation, security arrangements, catering schedules, etc. - all while having a integrated phone to stay in contact with the principles. The world clock help me to contact customers in their best time frames. And finally, the alarm woke me up in Paris at the scheduled time to allow kick-off of the opening day when the hotel wake-up call system failed.

Incident #2 - The Treo 650 Saved My Marriage Life. My wife doesn't understand the demands of my professional life. She comes from the banking industry, and can not understand why I work on E-mail after I've put our 3 young children to bed. She has classified me as a work-aholic. One morning before work, we were having a "discussion" about our family finances. I purposely chose to stay engaged in the "discussion" since I knew this was a priority for her. She heard my Treo 650 appointment alarms go off, and was amazed that I threw the Treo 650 on the couch (to ensure a soft landing), and continued our "discussion". She knew that I had appointments to keep - the Treo indicated the sense of urgency. However, she also knew that I made it a priority to finish my "discussion" with her, and not let work outprioritize her for that moment. We reconciled later, and she later thanked me for making her feel like she was more important than work. The Treo is great for keeping track of work, but also a way of letting your family know that you are off work by putting it down and concentrating on them.

I was very thrilled when the Palm IIIc came out because finally I could use a Palm device and not just Palm Desktop. Since then I've owned Palm IIc, Tungsten T (good display), Tungsten T3 (even better) and now a TX.

I love the design of the OS so much that I started developing apps even before I had my own device. I solved the problem by giving my wife a Palm III for christmas 1998!
The apps I've created has saved a lot of work for my father in his profession and he always tells me that "it's a life-saver".

If I write something down on a piece of paper it's impossible for me to read it again, but with the large colour-screen and large font I'm back on track!

I hope that ACCESS does something soon so that we don't have to use Windows-devices in the future.

"Live long and prosper."

PMT is one of popular sofewares in my palm. I use it to record daily expenditure: buy some bread, buy a book, gas up may car, or invest in fund, etc. Especially in credit card managerment, PMT help me to be aware of how many I should pay in next month before bank notify me the bill of this month. This help me not to be a card slave, but card master.

CD

Within each of our Palms, her T3 and my LD, we have our whole life. Since space is at a minimum in a hospital room, it wasn't practical to take books, pictures, a CD player, movies and so on, not to mention the bookwork and scheduling for our family business. So I crammed everything into our Palms and we had it right there when we needed it.

I have been using Palms since nearly the beginning of their development and don't know how someone does it without one.

Kevin

Addicted to Palm

So thankyou Palm, you saved my ass on that occassion and have done on many more occasions since!

Scheduling practices and tournaments for 5 volleyball teams, parents meetings, tracking contacts and staying organized with my classes are just a few of the standard PIM apps I use everyday.

Additionally, I track my carbs and insulin intake for my diabetes management, use my palm to take volleyball match stats and upload directly to the web.

The games and entertainment possibilities are nice, but let's face it: without my other apps I wouldn't have time for the fun stuff on my Palm.

He ran very fast, and I only caught up to him after about 2-3 minutes, when we both got deep into the park. He fell onto a rock when he ran up on a rock hill, and then he rolled down the hill. His body hit me when he rolled down the hill, and we both got some serious leg injuries. My cellphone was broken when it slided out of my pocket when we fell. The only thing I had in my hands was my Tungsten TX.

We yelled for help for about 5 minutes, but no one responded. I didn't have any idea by then, but once I took a look at what I had in my bad, the idea of using the Wi-Fi on my Tungsten TX poped up. I quicky did a search for a wireless network, and very foruntely, I found one that has poor signal for me. I tried to connect to it for another 5 minutes or so, and at last, I successfully got connection. I quickly sent a email to my supervisor about my situation, and I also used the program Toccer to go on AIM to see if anyone on my list can help. After about half an hour, the police found us, and it was because my supervisor got my email and reported it to the emergency department.

If it wasn't my Palm Tungsten TX, we could have bled enough, and it would have became a fatal situation. It was luck that I was able to get internet access, but nonetheless, I still treasure my TX even now it is retired.

Peter

But ten years have passed,
With growth & success,
Due to the marvels,
Of Palm's trusty OS,
My life is now planned,
My tasklist's all dandy,
With a Palm PDA,
All you need is real handy!

In high school, my m100 reminded me of tests, papers, AND gave me the opportunity to write an essay from anywhere. In fact, I started writing one of my college essays on my m100 while taking my lunch break at work.

In college, my TX lets me surf the campus wireless network. It plays my music on the go. I can get and respond to email anywhere... I still write papers on it, and it still tells me where my classes are. Finally, I can just leave my laptop at home, which means I don't look like a pack mule hiking across campus...how refreshing!!

I never thought that such a little device would change my life in such a big way! Goodbye paper planner, hello Palm!

btw., this lifeguarding works with a Palm Professional and the Palm TX at the same quality !!!

Gr33tz 2XS

Palm Professional -> Palm III -> Palm Vx -> Palm m505 -> Palm TT2 -> Palm TT3 -> Palm TX

A world without Palm would have forced me to adapt to the harsh realities of adult life in the modern western postindustrial society, quite probably with horrid consequences. Only relying on my feeble organic brain cells would have undoubtedly killed me, and made me insane to boot. No doubt about that.

1. It saved me from making excuses on not reading the Bible.
2. Saved me from countless boring times by playing games on it.
3. It allows me to connect to my email account and chat to online anywhere. ummm well as long as there's Wi-Fi.
4. Helps me on my work by designing excel reports, and it can even handle heavy formulas i use.
5. and a lot more....

Overall, my Palm is the total extension of me. You can tell who i am by looking into it. I cant imagine my day without my Palm.

My Zire 72 saved my life. :)

My Zire 72 saved my life. :)

Without it I surely would not have made it through some days.

Palm Rocks!

I live in the city of Haifa, currently undergoing massive missile attacks from Hezbollah (located in Lebanon).
It's also the end of my semester (studying physics) and the exams are coming soon. so i went to a my girlfriends house to study with her to the next exam, and I was almost half way there when i realized i forgot my palm at home!! i was about to just leave it back there and go, but i have a lot of studying material on my palm
some of it i use as a reference directly from palm and some of it just to carry with me as a "Disk-on-Key".
so i decided to go back home a bring my palm! five or so minutes after that, i heard the sirens go off, and 10 seconds later i heard a big blast, so big it hurt my ears. the missile dropped exactly in the place i would have been if i hadn't had a palm to forget at home.

Did it save my life? Not exactly, but it sure saved my sanity on long commutes and times when I really, really needed some music or diversion to chill out. Interestingly, when I lost it, I found that I could get by just fine organizationally with my laptop. It's the games, music, and instant phone numbers and notes that I miss the most. Will I replace it? Probably not with another handheld, despite the investment in software. I'll more likely end up another hostage to the Treo, unless something really groundbreaking comes along.

What the old T/E did was make me appreciate features like instant on, quick, easy-to-use apps, and portability in a new way, so that I'll now focus on those when buying any new computer: laptop, handheld, or UMPC (when MS gets it right on price and features a couple of years from now!).

YojimboE

Professional Amateur

(6:30am) I synchronized the Palm to read the latest news and weather forecast to know what to wear for the day. Palm advised me the status of my financial portfolio to plan for any strategic investments. To save my time, Palm updated my email messages for my review during the breakfast.

(7:00am) I always watched TV during breakfast but I had long lost my remote. Somehow I was able to install software on my Palm to make it a handy remote for my TV and it worked perfectly, saving me from buying an expensive replacement.

(8:00am) I double-checked my first client’s information. Palm displayed his photo along his name and order history to prepare me for the meeting; and I could also replay an audio recording of the proper pronunciation of his name to memorize to avoid any embarrassment. Palm also reminded me of the meeting agenda and what to bring to the meeting.

(9:00am) Inside the elevator in my client's commercial building, I displayed a blank page with a black background on my Palm as a mirror to check my hair and face before the meeting.

(10:00am) The meeting went well. I could readily show my client the product pictures; quickly check all prices, and confidently suggested delivery schedules. The client was interested in designs from different cultures. Occasionally, whenever I needed to explain anything in my own culture that I could not easily interpret into English, the bi-directional dictionary on my Palm always came to the rescue.

(11:00am) My client proposed to have a luncheon together but wasn't sure where to go. My Palm listed some good restaurants nearby and showed me the contact number of the best one.

(12:00am) It’s a Japanese restaurant and I had no difficulty ordering the sushi and sashimi. My client was surprised to see how I knew all those Edamame, Inari, Chirashidon, and etc. with a touch on the Palm.

(1:30pm) Palm reminded me of the next meeting’s details with time, phone numbers and address. Having some spare time before the meeting, I went into a music shop to browse the music CD’s. I found a CD of my favorite singer but I was not sure if the CD was worth buying, fearing that I might have most of the tracks. So I consulted my Palm for what I already had in my music collection. Seeing that I already had 10 out of those 12 tracks on the CD, I decided to go for the online download of those two new tracks instead which would save me over 10 dollars.

(2:30pm) My client was out of the office and he would be about an hour late for the meeting. While waiting and feeling bored, I read some comics on my Palm to ease my tension for the meeting. Hence I made a sketch drawing of the receptionist on my Palm just for fun.

(3:30pm) My client finally showed up while I was tempted to start a game or two on my Palm. However, my client was too busy and he had to cancel the meeting, which I didn’t feel good about that. Somehow I was comforted by a Bible verse on my Palm. Ever since I had my Palm, whenever I found myself down and out or simply needed some inspiration, I relied on my Palm to fetch me a verse from the Bible that saved my spiritual life.

(4:00pm) I needed a coffee. The café was noisy. I turned on some MP3 music on my Palm so I could enjoy my coffee better. The café was an Internet hot-spot where I could check the status of my friend’s flight-schedule with my Palm via the wi-fi connection. The flight was delayed, so I could go to the airport at a later time and save some parking fee. I was also able to check and reply my email messages on my Palm while having my coffee there.

(7:00pm) On my way back from the airport, the traffic was terrible. My Palm suggested an alternate route to avoid the traffic jam.

(10:00pm) I returned home finding myself in the dark and there's no streetlight. I dropped my keys. So I turned on my Palm and displayed a blank page with a white background as a flashlight to help me find my keys.

(10:30pm) That was a long day and I was too eager to sleep. I plugged in my Palm to recharge itself and let it do the rest for me --- for tomorrow and the rest of my life.

--Edward (the ever-forgetful)

Along the way, I have that I used it to schedule my life with the calender and to-do lists. I never thought I would say this but, this being my first pda, I've really gotten use out of my palm and a pda in general, because I thought I wouldn't use it as much for organizing my life as much as keeping my business records in check.

Palm has made me a customer and loyal fan. I don't think too many products I buy are as a necessity in my life as my life saving Palm. When that slim Palm Treo comes out, I hope to be the first to have dibs but only if it has Palm OS.

There have been countless times that I have referred to information that I have stored in my Palm, like directions, store hours, phone numbers for businesses, etc. Also I use programs like HandyShopper and CostComp to keep track of prices so I know what are good values.

When I was working in downtown Boston, I always had current MBTA bus and subway schedules in my Palm PDA (which on more than one occasion kept me from missing the last train.) Of course, I would make use of the commute time by reading MyBible, or articles I had saved with AvantGo or Plucker... More recently I travelled to London for a new job, and got around the very complex "Underground" thanks to the wonderful Metro program. (Not to mention having my flight information handy when needed).

So, it may not have saved my life, but it sure is an integral part of my day to day life.

Oh, and did I mention that I need a new cellphone? Boy could I use a new Treo to replace my phone and my trusty OLD Visor (yes, it's PalmOS 3.x!)

It's all good...

... and maybe saved my back by allowing me to left the laptop at home...

Solo

When I'm travel or working across time zone, my Palm help to find the right time slot to have meeting with peers around the world. Also, never missed any expense clim for the biz trip.

When I'm away from my desk or laptop, I love to preload all my email and refresh the contents of Avantgo. I knew all my time well spend. In case, I still have times to spare, plat some games or music where so great.

Preload some work related documents also saved me from looking bad during the Q&A session with customers. Write down notes with my foled keyboard.

I've the GPS plug-in for my Vx, very great and save a lot of gas too for being always on the right path to drive around in a new city.

Last but not least, I would like to thank my friend, Philip Yue who should me his PalmV and got me hooked with Palm until today. And those Palm developers who make Palm a jewel of my life.

I started using six years ago when I went home for the Christmas holidays. I was in grad school at the time. The courseload was grueling and much more difficult than I had expected. I was constantly tired, overworked, and frazzled. During the break my family could see the strain.

My OWN brother gave me my first hit. He had just started using himself and said it would help; it would take the edge off, help me relax and clear my mind. He called it my Christmas present!
At first I resisted. I told myself, "I smarter than this. I don't need it." But I took it from him as we sat in his attic, and almost as if trying to prove to him I didn't need it, tried it. Whoa!! S#*T!! It worked fast. I could feel my brain tingle. Could this be for real? We passed it back and forth for at least an hour. I never had a stimulant like this before. It was better than cigarettes and caffeine combined.

Back at school, I swore I would only use it at my apartment. But then I found that the classday was too long. My heart would pound, my mouth would become dry and my hands would start to fidget. My mind would wander to when I could next use. I started to bring it to school, sneaking a hit between classes. I became hooked. As long as I was using it I could get through my day. My head wouldn't seem so foggy, I could focus, and stay organized.

I could actually feel myself become happier when I had it in my hand. What a rush! I felt sharper, powerful, and unstoppable. Nothing could get me down while I was on it. It just felt...right. Like all addicts, I now tried to get others hooked. I might even let them try getting juiced off of my works. Just to give them a taste. See if they wanted more. Some did.

Then I started seeking out more powerful stimulants on the web. I was amazed by the amount of info out there. I would surf for hours, hiding my activity from both family and friends. I knew that a lot of them were casual users. They would dabble with it. But they wouldn't understand my compulsion. They wouldn't understand the freedom I felt while using it. But I had become a hardcore junkie. I found websites with other junkies like me. One site, PA, embraced the addiction and members would write articles on their favorites. They would adapt and augment the stimulants to make them more powerful, work faster and last longer. I bought one kind that made me see vivid colors and hear the sweetest music. It worked lightning quick but unfortunately it didn't last very long. I liked it! I liked ALOT!!!

I use almost constantly now; at home, at work, in the bedroom and the bathroom. I even tried using in the car while driving but nearly got me killed when I didn't notice the car ahead of me had stopped. I no longer get my fix there but I do nearly everywhere else.

My brother who got me hooked, John, is on one where he can remember beautiful picures and see them where ever he goes. It will even help you talk to others.

My Palms haven't ended my addiction. They are my addiction! My gateway drug was my trusty Handspring Visor Platinum (I still have it.) It has never failed me. I can count on it whenever I need a reliable performer. But my tolerance and workload has built up and I needed more to get through my day. I moved up to an eye-popping, power-hungry Palm Tungsten T3. It brings me to tremendous highs, soaring and speeding to wonderful places but occasionally I come crashing down.

John, who started me off with the Visor as a Christmas gift, has a Treo 650 and loves the thing. When he came to visit me and my newborn daughter last summer the first thing he did was whip out his Treo and snap a dozen pictures of his first niece.

So if it isn't a drug to you, your not using it right.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
-Albert Einstein

I have a PalmOS Garmin GPS which I've relied on for nearly a year and a half. Honestly, I have to be thankful that my work schedule isn't as busy as others, so I haven't had to rely on the calendar/to do/contact applications all that much. I do admit to passing A LOT of time during my flights by reading ebooks that I've purchased and installed on the Garmin. I'll also admit to the occasional game. Heck, I'll even admit that I've on occasion used it to entertain members of the fairer sex (pictures of my dog -- go figure?).

But for its primary use, the Garmin PDA has been indispensable to me as a contract field engineer for the federal government.

One of the tradeoffs involved with not having to put up with office affairs is constant travel each month to remote communication sites. When I say remote, I really mean remote. These sites are often located out in the middle of nowhere, no people, no towns, and sometimes, no roads. I've found that typical mapping software don't work very well in getting to these sites and back. Not that they're to blame when some sites have no roads leading to them. Not to fear, however, the Garmin has allowed me to use its GPS function to navigate exactly to the specified locations. Sure, I could have purchased one of those fancy car GPS units, but how many also allows me to record data while at these communication sites? As an engineer, data manipulation (calculation, graphing, etc.) is critical, and with the Garmin, I no longer have to wait to return to the office to do it. (Oh yeah, I have a bunch of PDF references loaded on SD cards, so a big chunk of my office is always with me.)

I guess I'm a bit disappointed that I haven't had the need to use my Garmin to save my life Robinson Crusoe style. I haven't had to use its screen as a signal light to catch passing planes or ships. I can't imagine it would be of any use in driving stakes or nails. Nor would it be of any use as a defibrillator during CPR rescues. (Not enough battery juice! Darn you, Garmin! I need longer lasting batteries!) But hey, it's done what it's supposed to, and that means it's helped me tremendously in keeping a part of our nation's communication sites up. Who knows if any lives have been saved from that?

Oh, and on the other day as I was traveling cross contry I started to get into some wicked looking weather. With my palm I was able to go online, get some radar and see that we were about to drive into the middle of a nasty storm. We pulled over and stopped at a gas station and watched the storm blow by on my 650. Thanks Palm!

frankos72

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one of my prospects called me and after a year and requested a proposal. this was totally shocking. they told me if i could'nt give them that day i would not get their account.

i typed and faxed that proposal from a vessel in the Philippines to my prospect. I got the contract. the palm treo is the most usefull pda & cell i have ever used or will continue to use.

michael cain

great forum

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