Categories Of PDAs And How Useful They Are

joe — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 06:50:48 +0000

Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) came into being once the digital technology advancements started supplying their utilities for the business community. Over years office automation has come up from their typewriter age to calculators, electronic organizers, computers, and cell phones. Business users wanted a connecting source with their office whenever they were away from it, to get access to latest info as to what is happening there.
This necessitated synchronization of a hand-held and mobile device which has functions of a mini computer in it and also able to synchronize remotely with the parent computer in office. At the time of inception PDAs were introduced as paper-less day planner, just to organize the to-do lists for the day, information on contacts, addresses, phone numbers, keeping track of one’s calendar information etc.
PDAs performed the tasks of a pocket computer, as people used the first generation computers without Internet access. Then game all the upgraded technologies in PDA designs one by one to make them more useful with multiple functions and applications. Today the PDA manufacturing technology is trotting in gallops and you get announcement of a new function every other day from the PDA models and designs.
The PDAs available in the market are evaluated on their benchmark performances and out of the present generation PDAs here are the few for consideration:
Palm Z22: A basic PDA device with no wireless capabilities. This can be used as paper day planner, with a color screen of 160 x 160 pixels and 32 MB of space for storing your data.
Palm Tungsten E2: A budget performance PDA, without Wi-Fi, but an excellent organizer for official work, with 32 MB memory and capability for increasing the storage space with SD slot provided. Battery life is long and it can play MP3s, photos, videos etc. in 320 x 320 pixels.
Palm TX : Recommended as Best PDA. It has multi-media functions with Wi-Fi and access to wireless hotspots. With Palm Blazer web browser; Dataviz Documents To Go software; 3.7 inch screen ; 320 x 480 pixels; comes with 128MB non-volatile memory but can be increased by adding Secure Digital Card; compatible with Windows and Mac operating systems.

Pdacalc Classic (Palm Os) 1.67 Software Review

joe — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 06:49:52 +0000

The uses of hand-held PDA are so many, depending upon who has them – a Corporate executive, a Scientist, Teacher or Multi-media journalist and so on. As such there are innumerable software solutions made available for varied PDA users with Palm Operating System interface.
For the use of mathematical calculations, which are too complicated for ordinary persons to make and comprehend, here is PDAcalc Classic (Palm OS) 1.67 software made available in the market. This is a Palm OS based software which can be useful for utilities; calculations; Engineering education and Mathematical education.
PDAcalc Classic (Palm OS) is a general purpose programmable graphing calculator. Any one can make use of this software solution where no programming is needed for the basic calculations, including plotting functions, solving equations for unknown variables etc. Without any programming experience you can write your own scripts. What is more, by following the simple examples published in the users manual (which is easy to read) you can start writing your own programs within no time.
There is a long list of features designed in this software and to quote a few –
3D graphics; Linear regression; financial functions; statistical functions; root finding functions; Fourier transforms (FFT); debug screen is color coded; graphs can be auto-scaled; equation solver worksheet; equations for variables can be solved; keyboard can be re-configured fully; complex numbers and functions; enable 3D functions such as drawing lines, rotate objects in 3D space etc.; calculus functions, integral, derivates etc.; plot functions can be used without programming; and user scripts are made available in the manufacturers’ website which can be loaded and run directly from their website.

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Categories Of PDAs And How Useful They Are

Pdacalc Classic (Palm Os) 1.67 Software Review