(Last edited Feb 27, 2008)

Before I continue with this posting, I just wanted to spend a moment to thank, Sam McLoughlin, owner of the very popular Palm blog, Palm Addicts, for mentioning my blog. Here’s a link to the article. As well, I have already put a link to Palm Addicts in the Links section of the side bar. Thanks again, Sammy!

I will now continue with the topic of the Palm Desktop going down the list to Note Pad.

Alternative Flash links: MyFileStash (disable pop ups first)

This simulation shows the Note Pad Application in the Palm Desktop.

The simulation will play through to the end unless I’ve inserted a pop up note to explain specific points.

To continue playing the simulation, press the button.
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To scroll forwards or backwards in the simulation, click anywhere on the left (to go back earlier in the simulation), or right (to go forward in the simulation) on the progress bar.

Alternative Flash links: MyFileStash (disable pop ups first)

The Photos Application on the Palm Desktop is shown in this simulation.

Alternative Flash links: MyFileStash (disable pop ups first)

The Quick Install Application on the Palm Desktop is shown in this simulation.

With the Palm Desktop application, you can easily enter information in it and have it synchronized and entered in the corresponding Palm application. Various file formats are supported in Palm Desktop as well as printing capabilities.

The supported import and export file formats in the Palm Desktop include:

Date Book

Date Book Archive (*.dba)

vCal File (*.vcs)

Address Book

Address Book Archive (*.aba)

Comma Delimited (*.csv, *.txt)

Tab Separated Values (*.tab, *.tsv, *.txt)

vCard File (*.vcf)

CSV (Lotus Organizer 2.x/97 mapping)

To Do list

To Do archive (*.tda)

Memo Pad

Memo Pad Archive (*.mpa)

Comma Separated (*.csv, *.txt)

Tab Separeted Values (*.tab, *.tsv, *.txt)

Text (*.txt)

That can be easily done simply by running your Palm Desktop program. Select the “File” menu located at the top left corner of the window. Then select either “Import” or “Export” depending on whether you want to load a file into Palm Desktop or save the database into a file. You will then need to specify where the file is located (if Importing), or where to save the file (if Exporting) as well as the file extension you wish to open or save as.

When you initially run the install programs on the supplied CD, it will prompt you for a choice of synchronizing with either the Palm Desktop or Microsoft Outlook. If you choose Outlook, then all your address book entries, calendar, tasks and notes will be synchronized with that instead of Palm Desktop. Unfortunately, the Palm Desktop software obtained via download from the internet will NOT have that extra software (Chapura’s Pocket Mirror which costs $29.95) so you will need to refer back to your install CD in the Palm package. If you don’t have the install CD, you could try contacting Palm and see if they can supply you with it for a replacement cost of $15. For more info on synchronizing Outlook with the Palm, check out Palm’s support page regarding this here

The ability to synchronize between the Palm Desktop’s components and their respective applications on the Palm make this often overlooked application another important application that many Palm users are not aware of. I hope that I’ve provided some information to help uncover some information on this otherwise overlooked application.

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