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An Independent Publication for Users of HP Palmtop Computers u.s. $7.95 Publisher's Message .................. 1 Letters to the Editor . .................. 4 HE New Third Party - M Products and Services . ................ 6 ' Q) HP Palmtop Users Groups .............. .0 6 E z~ - L() P Palmtop Q) E ~ Access the Internet o > with Your HP Palmtop PC ............. 12 Send and receive e-mail, surf the World Wide Web, visit Newsgroups, up- and download files, and log on to another computer half-way around the world - all from your HP Palmtop. Tapping the Treasures of CompuServe . ..................... 24 Many HP Palmtop Paper subscribers happily surf the CompuServe Information Service, getting quick answers to their Palmtop questions and downloading inexpensive or free Palmtop software. User to User ........................ 32 Learn more about your HP Palmtop and meet fellow users, developers, and vendors at the HP Handheld Conference in Anaheim, California; Best of The HP Palmtop Paperin the new book: PC In Your Pocket Add a Parallel Port to Your HP Palmtop PC ............... 34 Slip Quatech's SPP-100 PC card into your Palmtop's PC Card slot and connect directly to parallel port print ers, CD-ROM drives, network adapters, Zip drives, and more. Palmtop Wisdom . ................... 2·3 Reminder system helps care for special people; Prepare for disasters with your HP Palmtop; Ease into each season with helpful ToDo lists. User Profile: The "MUPs" File! The Most Unusual Places We've Used Our Palmtops . ...... 37 On "Ie Shuttle" under the English Channel or skiing down a glacier in the Canadian Rockies, the Palmtop is with you whenever you need it - in some very unusual places! Topcard and Buddy Help Lost Palmtops Find Their Way Home ........ 42 Your HP Palmtop is with you all the time, unless you acc~ dentally leave ~ on a store counter or in the airport lounge - then you're in trouble! Here are some ways to increase the chances that your lost Palmtop will find its way home. USing 1·2·3 Creating Database Spreadsheet, Part II ................. 47 This article discusses how to use 1-2-3 as a sophisticat ed database program that can produce reports with amounts calculated from database fields using criteria you specify. This article builds on the database techniques presented in the November/December 1995 issue. 06 Basic Tips ....................... 55·56 Quick Tips ....................... 57·59 Advertiser's Index . ................... 60 Files on May/June 96 ON DISK . ........ 60 o 7447083112 9 I The Only HP Palmtop Upgrade That Has It All. To get the most from your HP 1001200LX palmtop, you need 3 advanced upgrades on 1 convenient PCMCIA card. First, you need to send and receive both faxes and data at an exceptional 14, 400 bps speed. Second, you need fax/modem software that operates easily with the same HP function keys and commands you already use ... without the hassle of downloading software and without conSuming precious hard disk space. Third, you need Flash memory for fast, easy access to all your software applications and for efficiently storing data. Plus you need to fax from and receive faxes into your Flash memory for extra convenience. And, most of all, you need the flexibility to use all your upgrade features together or independently, without inserting and removing separate fax/modem and memory cards. Now you can have it all with ThinFax 1414LXM. AlL THE ADVANCED UPGRADE FEATURES YOU NEED ... ON 1 CONVENIENT PCMCIA CARD. EXP's award-winning MiniFax™ software. High-speed fax/modem. 2 or 4 MB Flash memory. They're all built into the ThinFax 1414LXM card. That's why ThinFax 1414LXM is the one upgrade that's a must for your HP palmtop. So call the toll-free number today for complete ThinFax 1414LXM specifications and the name of an EXP dealer near you. eRll: 714-453-1020 or FRX: 714-453-1319 http:\ \wwwexpnet.com e;rr:J MOBILE COMPUTING EXPERTISE IS BUILT INTO OUR NAME. Publisher's Message The HP Palmtop Paper The question we're most frequently asked is, "How can I access the Internet using the HP Palmtop?" Do we have an answer for you! The Volume five / Issue three short answer is use a shareware pro May/June 1996 gram called N et-Tamer. The long Executive Editor/Publisher answer is our ten-page cover story. Hal Goldstein Managing Editor Jesper Siig, an HP Palmtop Paper Ricnard Hall reader in Copenhagen who works Associate Editors as an Internet Consultant for Paul Merrill Digital Equipment Corporation, Carol de Giere volunteered to write the story. His Technical Editor task was to provide a complete, Tom Gibson Department Editors comprehensive answer to the Ed Keefe Palmtop and the Net question. As Carl Merkle Wayne Kneeskem HP Palmtop Paper editors Richard Contributing Writers Hall and Tom Gibson found out, Craig Payne providing an answer in a readable Victor Roberts Mark Scardina Hal Goldstein and useful format was not simple. Jesper E. Siig "Surfing the net" has evolved in Linda Worthington the past several years. Users with Administrative Assistant Windows' machines can use Netscape or a similar browser. Setup, Colleen Rodibaugh although not painless, is not difficult and there are many knowledgeable Advertising/Marketing Brian Thitzman people who can help. Unfortunately, you really have to understand more Margaret Martin of what is going on in the background to start browsing and using other Tiffany Lisk Internet services with the Palmtop. Circulation Sharon Dilmore The Palmtop and the Net article is organized around five common Theresa Handy Net functions: E-mail, browse, participate in discussion groups (news Jolene Phillips groups), download files (FIP), and log on to other computers (Telnet). If Executive Advisor Rita Goldstein you study the article, not only will you learn about palmtop tools, you The HP Palmtop Paper (ISSN 10656189) will gain a better understanding of what the Internet is and its benefits. is published by Thaddeus Computing In keeping with the theme of the issue Mark Scardina has completely Inc., at 57 East Broadway Avenue, Fairfield, IA 52556. Periodical postage revised and updated an article about CompuServe that ran several years paid at Fairfield, Iowa. Subscription ago. Using a CompuServe thread, Linda Worthington contributed an rates payable in U.S. dollars, cnecks drawn on a U.S. bank, or by credit card article and poem. Linda chronicles the most unusual places users have - one year: $39; two years: $69. Postage: U.S. and U.S. possessions free; Canada, used their Palmtop from the bathtub to the mountaintop. Mexico add $6 per year; other countries Spreadsheet users will appreciate Carl Merkle's advanced discussion add $18 per year. Published bi-monthly plus two bonus issues, one in April and of 1-2-3 database techniques. Victor Roberts describes how to increase one in November. Please allow four to the chances of recovery of a lost Palmtop. Finally, in my User to User col six weeks for receipt of first issue. Executive, Editorial, Circulation, umn you are encouraged to meet key HP people, fellow HP Palmtop Marketing and Advertising Offices: P.O. Box 869, Fairfield, IA 52556. Telephone: users, HP Palmtop Paper advertisers, and me, and attend the August (515) 472-6330, FAX: (515) 472-1879. Anaheim, California HP Handheld conference. I also mention our new Copyright 1996, Thaddeus Computin~, Inc., aIr rights reserved. No part of this book, PC in your Pocket, edited by Ed Keefe. The book overviews the HP publication may be reproduced without Palmtop drawing from the best of past pages of The HP Palmtop Paper. It written permission. Reasonable efforts are made to provide accurate and useful is intended for both Palmtop users and for your interested friends and information, but the reader must make his or her own investigations and deci colleagues. sions; the Publisher and Editorial Staff cannot assume any responsibility or lia bility for the use of information con tained herein. POSTMASTER: Please send any address changes to The HP Palmtop Paper, Attn: Thaddeus Computing, Inc., P.O. Box 869, Fairfield, IA 52556. THEHPPALMTOPPAPER MAY/JUNE 1996 1 By Carol de Giere. example above, you could put a Say, for example, that you are a reminder appointment days or Palmtop user with the RadioMail HUMAN RELATIONS weeks in advance to let you prepare Wireless Messaging service, or an for that special event. OmniGo 700LX user. If your car Reminder system helps You can keep information about breaks down in the middle of care for special people the special person in the Notes field nowhere, or if you have a medical of your PhoneBook. The kind of emergency while camping, you might " ... If I can ease one life the aching flowers she likes, the toys he's been be able to e-mail or fax a request for or cool one pain, asking about, favorite music or help to the appropriate organization. or help one lonely person food, things like that. You can note But this would only be possible if you into happiness again, down promises you made to the have the necessary information with I shall not live in vain." person in the past and review them you on your Palmtop. Emily Dickenson before you call. If you travel to a new part of the Can a computer increase someone's If out-of-sight out-of-mind is world, get the emergency numbers compassion? What does a machine your tendency, use your reminder in advance, and keep them with you know of anyone else's concerns? system to prompt you to call friends in your Palmtop. If you or a member Well, as a Palmtop computer user, and relatives. Or schedule an hour of your family has a medical condi you can find ways to expand your or more a week for community vol tion, keep the generic and specific caring time.