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Personal Digital Assistant Digital–Analog Design Punch Cards 11 pda personal digital assistant Introduction Paper-and-binder personal organizers are increasingly being supplanted by electronic personal information manager software; some personal organizers switch attempt to bridge the gap by featuring holders for PDAs. Calendar 7:00 AM Definition Sept 20, 2006 SMT W TFS Personal digital assistant, also known Appointment: as PDA, is an electronic device which Meeting 8:00 AM – 11:00 AM can include some of the functionality screen of a computer, a cellphone, a camera, September 2006 a video recorder, and a music player. S M T W T F S 1 2 History of PDA 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 For many years, organizers have been a great tool to record personal notes and 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 keep track on date. With the creation 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 of PDA, the traditional way has been substituted. The term “personal digital assistant” was coined on January 7, 1992 New Tools by Apple computer CEO John Sculley at the consumer electronics show in Las Vegas, Nevada, referring to the Apple Newton. In 1989, the Atari Portfolio, control although technically classed as a palmtop, was an early harbinger imitating the form of some of the more modern pocket devices. Earlier devices like the psion and sharp wizard already had the functionality to be considered as PDA. Pocket PC by Dell Calendar SM T WTFS January 7, 1992 Functions Electronic Organizer Personal digital assistants, usually With the help of technology, many PDAs abbreviated as PDA, are handheld come with variety of functions, sizes, devices that were originally designed and styles. There are many functions as personal organizers, but they in a PDA that the traditional organizers became much more versatile over the do not have. One of the advantages years. The many uses and tasks of of a PDA is its storage. Although the a basic PDA include many features: size of a PDA seems small, it has calculator, clock, calendar, computer an enormous memory to store notes, games, Internet access, sending and images, music, and video. One can tomlee photo c receiving e-mails, video recording, also have Internet access with a PDA. address book, and spreadsheet. The price may be less affordable, but the power of a PDA cannot be denied. Pocket PC by HP Many original PDA, such as the Palm Pilot, featured touch screens for user Traditional Organizer interaction, having only a few buttons usually reserved for shortcuts to often A personal organizer, day planner, or used programs. Touch screen PDA personal planner is a small book usually usually have a detachable stylus that containing a calendar, address book, can be used on the touch screen. and ruled pages in which one may Interaction is then done by tapping the record notes. One of the advantages screen to activate buttons or menu of a traditional organizer is having the photo choices, and dragging the stylus to, availability to access the information 9599 for example, highlight text. without electricity. The average price of an organizer is way lower than a high jesse Another important functionality for PDA c tech palm. However, an organizer needs is the possibility of synchronizing data to be replaced every year with with a contact database, such as Datebook a new set of calendar, and the pages Microsoft Outlook or ACT!, hosted on inside a traditional organizer can only a Personal Computer or a corporate be written on once. server or servers. The data synchronized ensures that the PDA has an accurate Popular Consumer PDAs References list of contacts, appointments and Amida HP iPac www.wikipedia.org e-mail, allowing users to access the Apple Newton Palm Pilot www.flickr.com same information on the PDA as the BlackBerry Psion host computer. Dell Axim Sony CLIE New Menu Digital–Analog Design Punch Cards is a set of research cards designed DSGD 186 and produced by the students of DSGD 186, Digital Applications Digital Applications Methodology, a third-year graphic design course at San Jose State Methodology University, Fall 2006. The set, composed of 1+26 cards, is by no means School of Art and Design complete. Each topic was chosen and researched by the students, San Jose State University based on a theme presented by the instructor Pino Trogu, with help California, USA - October 2006 from Mauro Panzeri. This is card number 11 and it was designed by Digital–Analog Card No. 11 Bethanny Tsui. Printed by psPrint.com.
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