Session 1: Basic PDA Usage

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Palm Telemedicine Seminar Series

• Session 1 Basic PDA Usage
• Thursday June 15, 2006

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Session 1 Agenda

• TX Orientation Introducing Your Hardware
• Basic Operations
• Navigating with the Stylus
• Using the 5-Way Navigator
• Introducing the Palm Interface Menus and Input
  Options
• Applications Favorites, Home and All
  Applications
• Setting Preferences
• Digitizing for Better Input
• Changing Button Launch Programs
• Power Tool Using the Find Function
• Troubleshooting Soft Reset

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Introduction

• Diane Cunningham
• Palm user since 1996
• Designed and developed "Computer Training for
  Physicians" course taught since 1995 and the
  "Physicians Palm Workshop" series

• Present Seminars, Presentation and Technology
  Workshops for
• The American College of Surgeons (ACS)
• CME Inc.
• Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS)
• Sierra Health Group Las Vegas
• UCSD Topics and Advances in Internal Medicine
  Conference
• California Society of Addiction Medicine (CSAM)
• Kaiser Permanente
• St. Joseph Heritage Health Foundation

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TX Orientation

• Introducing Your Hardware
• Front, Back Top and Bottom

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Front
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Status Bar 9 Options
http//www.palm.com/us/support/handbooks/tx/en/bas
ics.pdf
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Input Area
Classic
Wide
Soft Keyboard
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Back
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Reset Button

• Resets your handheld if it stops responding
• To do a soft reset, use the tip of the stylus to
  gently press the reset button inside the hole on
  the back panel of your handheld (more later!)

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Top
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Bottom
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Basic Operations

• Navigation using the Stylus and 5-Way Navigator
• Introducing the Palm Interface

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Basic Operations

• You can operate your Palm handheld using the
• Stylus and
• 5-Way Navigator

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Where Is the Stylus Located?

• The stylus is stored on the right hand side of
  your Palm handheld
• NOTE To avoid losing the stylus, always put it
  back in the holder of your Palm handheld after
  use

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Using the Stylus
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Using the Stylus
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Using the navigator / 5-way navigator / the 5-way

• The navigator consists of the two large,
  concentric buttons in the middle of the lower
  part of your Palm
• Press the edges to move up, down, right, or left,
  and the center button to select items
• The navigator works differently in different
  applications, but it's usually an easy way to
  operate your Palm with one hand

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Introducing the Palm Interface

• Menus and Input Options

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Palm Interface

• Tapping a dotted box opens a dialog box

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Palm Controls and Selectors
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Palm Interface

• Tapping the triangle to the left of a word
  displays a pop-up menu

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Palm Applications

• Favorites, Home and All Applications

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About Applications

• An application is a software program you use for
  a specific purpose
• Some applications (apps) are built into your palm
  device, such as Calendar and Tasks.
• Other applications are included on the Palm
  installation CD
• Still other applications are available for
  purchase and/or download
• Some excellent sources of Palm applications
  include http//www.pdamd.com http//www.collecti
  vemed.com http//www.healthypalmpilot.com
  http//www.palmgear.com http//www.handango.com
  http//software.palm.com/us/html/

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Favorites/Home Button

• Press once to open Favorites View, which lets you
  create a list of the items you want to quickly
  access
• Favorites View can include applications and links
  to the web
• Press twice to open Applications View (Home),
  where you can see all of the applications
  installed on your handheld

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Favorites View

• Press the Home Icon again to open the
  Applications View

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All Applications View

• Home!
• From here, in the All Category, you can access
  all of your installed Palm Applications!

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Setting Preferences
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Application Categories

• Other Categories are available

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Scroll Down, Click Prefs then Click Touchscreen
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Calibrate the Touchscreen

• Hold the Palm as you would normally, then tap
  exactly in the center of each target
• This aligns the position of your stylus to the
  screens electronic touch sensors, personalizing
  it!

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Success!

• Click Done
• Now Click on Buttons

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Redefining the Web Button

• Click on the Drop down button next to Web

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Redefining the Web Button

• Click Epocrates
• Then click Done

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Launch Epocrates

• Click what was the Web hardware button
• It should now launch Epocrates

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Success!
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Power Tips

• Using the Find Function
• Beaming Deleting Applications
• Performing a Soft Reset

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Using the Find Function

• You can find information by entering text with
  the Find function or searching for a phone number
  using the Phone Lookup function
• These two functions are available for all the
  basic Palm handheld applications

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Using the Find Function

• You can find records on your Palm handheld by
  entering the whole word or the first few letters
• The search results are displayed by application
• NOTE Start the application that contains the
  data you are looking for for a faster search
  result!
• This Find feature is also useful if you do not
  remember which application you used to create a
  record you are searching for

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Using the Find Function

• Click on the Find Icon on the Status Bar

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Using the Find Function

• Enter the text you want to find, in this case
• palm
• Then tap OK

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Using the Find Function

• The Find function starts to search and displays
  the list of search results
• The find feature that makes it easy to locate
  occurrences of a specific group of text
  characters in various applications on your palm
• If you have a match, click on the title

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Using the Find Function

• To stop searching
• Tap Cancel
• To resume the search
• Tap Find More
• NOTE The Find function is not case sensitive
  searching for palm" also finds Palm"
• TIP Select text in an application prior to
  tapping the Find icon to automatically place that
  text in the Find dialog box

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Using the Find Function

• The Find application automatically launches the
  application, opens the matching record and
  highlights the word you searched

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Troubleshooting

• Performing a Soft Reset

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Troubleshooting Soft Reset

• Restarting (resetting) your Palm handheld
• NOTE You do not usually need to reset your Palm!
• However, your Palm may no longer turn on, accept
  a beam, or respond to your operations for some
  reason
• In these cases, you may be able to solve your
  problem by resetting your palm to restart it

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Reset Button

• To do a soft reset, use the tip of the stylus to
  gently press the reset button inside the hole on
  the back panel of your handheld

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Any Questions?