Palm M105

So, in 16?? (fill in the blanks if you know) Samuel Pepys wrote a huge diary that stands still as a historical document of the time. In the same century, Daniel Defoe toured around the whole of England and Wales and his account of his journey in similar style stands as a historical record of the country. (Daniel Defoe makes for a great read - buy it and spot you home town.) In four hundred years what will they find to reconstruct the history of our time? Not much really ... paper and pen are giving way to digital systems of recording that whilst offering greater capacity in a smaller space ... more

Remember the old Address Book that sat next to the telephone in the sitting room? Remember your personal Diary? Remember the Filofax that you could not be without? Remember all the Business Cards filling your Wallet or Purse? Remember all those forgotten appointments! These days we all have mountainous amounts of information to cope with: Addresses, phone numbers of all descriptions, Computer Passwords, Children’s names, appointments. Email…………… I n the past we used a variety of books, bits of paper, folders, address books, diaries etc. We then were able to ... more

If you are anything like me, you will have found that as you have got older - I know I am still only in my 30s - but I have got three children!!, you will have found that your memory will have gone. I find that I now have to keep a note of everything to ensure that I do not forget anything. Usually in my small handbag I carry the following. An address book which is now tatty and many of the friends have subsequently married or just moved since I started to fill it in as a teenager and each year you have to make a change in it. A Diary - so busy with events in the childrens lives that pages are ... more

The recent introduction on the Palm m105 will have a lot of people wondering if now is the time to ditch the old diary and switch to a handheld. OK, £140 is a lot more than you would pay for a Filofax, but it is a real bargain, and a really useful bit of kit. For anyone who already uses MS Outlook for his or her diary, to do list and address book the answer is a definite “Yes”. SLIPS IN YOUR POCKET The Palm m105 is an new handheld (an upgraded version of the popular m100) that easily slips into a shirt pocket and boasts the power and the memory of far more expensive machines. There ... more

Originally, when the first PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants) appeared on the shelves, I regarded them in the same light as their papery Filofax predecessors – useful for some but basically a fad. I was wrong. I purchased my Palm M105 with one purpose in mind and that was to use it as a portable file reader - specifically for Project Gutenberg etexts and error-checking program code. This was to avoid sitting bolt upright in front of a computer monitor, and not suffer all the discomfort and headaches that such inactivity often produces. The Package: After some online research to check that the ... more