Publisher's Message ................................ 1 E Letters to the Editor .................................. 4 - (Y) HP PalmVue System ................................. 6 '­ HP makes critical patient data available to the Q) U.S. physician, anywnere, anytime! .0 E ::l Imaging Technology Used :z: witli the HP PalmtQP Helps Out - P Palmtop in Oklahoma City Ti'agedy ...................... 10 "<T Q) E HP Palmtop' Contributes to Safety of ::l Oklahoma City Rescue Workers ............ 12 o > New Third Party aper Products and Services ........................... 13 HP News .................................................. 15 New liP PalllVlle PalmConnect Windows Con nectivitv Software ............................ 17 This connectivity software lets you run Windows versions of PhoneBook, Appointment Critical patient data available Book and NoteTaker on your desktop PC, and to the physician .. .anywhere! keep them synchronized with your Palmtop files. System Using LapLink Remote with Windows ............................ 19 User to User ............................................ 20 Discover the "Patience" to Qlay solitaire; take a look at the new HP 1000CX DOS Palmtop; Hal and others give HP advice on how to advertise the HP Palmtop. PCMCIA Ethernet Adapter Card ......................•••.•.••• 28 Slip this PC Card in your HP 100/200LX Palmtop PC and carry your LAN teminal in your pocket wherever you go. Palmtop Wisdom ....................... 2-3 Keep meetings focused and on time; Use your Palmtop to end bad habits and begin good ones; Use World Time game to teach you geography. User Profile: A Week in the Life of a CPA ...... 30 This CPA on the go uses the HP 200LX to balance his books - as well as his life! Blaze Through Home Study Course with NoteTaker .•. 36 This introduction to NoteTaker shows how one HP Palmtop helps investigators person used his Palmtop to finish his course work rescuers in Oklahoma City born in half the time. Basic Tips ........................................... 42-43 Quick Tips .......................................... 44-46 06 Product Index .......................................... 47 Advertiser'S Index ................................... 48 Files on May/June 95 ON DISK .............. 48 o 744 7083112 9 I YOUR HP PALMTOP JUST TOOK AQUANTUM LEAP. With just one SMART move, your Hewlett-Packard your life easy, this powerful multifunction card Palmtop can jump from a portable organizer to a provides all the functions you need: easy data mobile communications center! The Fax Modem & transfer between your HP LX and your notebook Memory Multifunction Card from SMART or desktop computer, additional hard drive capacity, Modular Technologies enables this transformation and increased reliability during data transmission. by combining industry high speed fax & modem Best of all, it has the lowest power requirements of capabilities with powerful, on-board flash any multifunction card made for the HP LX in the memory-all on the same streamlined PCMCIA market! All told, the Fax Modem & Memory Card Type II compatible card. By coupling 14,400 bps from SMART is a Calaveras County-like leap for­ ward for palmtop computing :::BU~::::y4a:d ~ C M[MOny and serious Hewlett- a 2400 bps modem l.t [ n Packard 100LX and in a single card, you can send, receive, store and 200LX users like you. print communications that before now were When you think speed, beyond the reach of palmtop computing. performance and quality. In keeping with our reputation for making Think SMART. To order product or for more information call: EduCALC 1-800-677-7001 or SMART Modular Technologies Mobile Planet at 1-800-M-PLANET (1-800-675-2638) 45531 Northport Loop West, Fremont, CA 94538 Toll free: 1-800-536-1231 • Tel: 510-623-1231 • Fax: 510-623-1434 © 1995 SMART Modular Technoiogies, Inc. All rights reserved. SMART Logo is a trademark of SMART Modular Technologies, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective companies. Publisher's Message The HP Palmtop Paper We, HP Palmtop users throughout the world, use our little machine in three ways: for data access, data cre­ ation, and data communications. Volume four / Number three The most common use is for refer­ May/June 1995 ence (data access) to check our Executive Editor/Publisher todo's, phone entries, databases, spreadsheets and so forth. In fact, we Hal Goldstein Managing Editor devoted the last issue to using the Richard Hall HP Palmtop as an always-handy ref­ Associate Editor erence library. Paul Merrill Of course, we also use the Palmtop Technical Editor Robert Roney to create data - our PhoneBook, Department Editors DataBase and ToDo entries; finan­ Ed Keefe cial transactions in Pocket Quicken; Mark Scardina Contributing Writers 1-2-3 spreadsheets; NoteTaker Tom Gibson entries and Memos. Most of the Ray Kump activities we perform on the Palmtop Advertising/Marketing Brian Teitzman are for personal organization and Margaret Martin computation. However, as technolo­ Top: Hal Goldstein Diane Wimett Bottom: Robert Roney and Richard Hall gy progresses and we see possibili­ Circulation ties, we will be spending more time Sharon Ash Sharon Dilmore with our Palmtop communicating Cindy Ericson with the rest of the world. Tom Gibson Tiffany Lisk In this issue we build on past HP Palmtop Paper data communica­ Colleen Rodibaugh tion discussions (Fax/Modem cards, wireless receivers, data transfer prod­ Executive Advisor ucts, CompuServe and Internet access, and so forth). Our cover story reveals Rita Goldstein how medical professionals and criminal investigators can use a combination The HP Palmtop Paper (ISSN 10656189) is of paging and palmtop technology to receive graphic and textual images published by Thaddeus Computing Inc., at 57 East Broadway Avenue, Fairfield, IA 52556. anywhere. Closer to home, our own network administer, Tom Gibson, Second-class postage paid at Fairfield, Iowa. explains that we received our Silicom PC LAN Card for the Palmtop just in Subscription rates payable in U.s. dollars, checks drawn on a U.S. bank, or by credit card time to test nodes in our newly expanded Local Area Network. Finally, - one year: $39; two years: $69. Postage: U.S. Mark Scardina takes a look at a recently released Palmtop-to-Windows file and U.S. possessions free; Canada, Mexico add $6 per year; other countries add $18 per transfer product from Palm Connect. year. Published bi-monthly plus two bonus In this issue we profile a CPA. As you might expect author, Ray issues, one in March and one in October. Please allow four to six weeks for receipt of Kump, gives us lots of interesting uses of 1-2-3 and HP Calc. As a bonus, he first issue. Executive, Editorial, Circulation, describes how he uses the HP Palmtop Database program to organize his Marketing and Advertising Offices: P.O. Box 869, Fairfield, IA 52S56. Telephone: (515) 472- day and his people. Managing Editor, Reverend Richard Hall, adds a second 6330, FAX: (515) 472-1879. Copyright 1995, mini-profile as he explains how he used NoteTaker to aid him in recently TIladdeus Computing, Inc., all rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced becoming a priest in the Liberal Catholic Church. without written permission. Reasonable In my User To User column I look at the HP 1000LX and a solitaire effelrts are made to provide accurate and use­ ful information, but the reader must make his game. Then I (and other readers) give Hewlett Packard some unsolicited or her own investigations and decisions; the advice about how they should advertise the HP Palmtop. I go to the extreme Publisher and Editorial Staff cannot assume any responsibility or liability for the use of on page 26 of working with the designer of our HP Palmtop Paper covers, information contained herein. George Foster, to come up with a sample ad for the HP Palmtop. See what POSTMASTER: Please send any address changes to The HP Palmtop Paper, Attn: you think. Thaddeus Computing, Inc., P.O. Box 869, Our Quick Tips, Basic Tips, Palmtop Wisdom and Letters are espe­ Fairfield, IA 52556. cially meaty, and as usual provide bite-sized ideas of how to better use the Palmtop. MAY / JUNE 1995 THEHPPALMTOPPAPER 1 The editors of The HP Palmtop Paper welcome you to out) for 60 minutes. You also have a choice of five different sounds. I select­ Palmtop Wisdom. Palmtop Wisdom takes current think­ ed a short rising sound for the quarter ing about leadership, human relations, time manage­ hour beep and a chime for the on-the­ hour reminder. ment, finance, self-development, travel, and entertain­ In meetings I place my Palmtop so ment and shows the concrete application of these concepts I can see the digital clock. The clock stays on and every 15 minutes beeps to using HP'slOOj200LX Palmtop pes. keep me, and the rest of the staff, con­ We welcome your feedback, ideas, and contributions. scious of the time. I also use the pro­ gram when I teach our weekly Palmtop classes, and at my desk when I'm working under a tight deadline. STAYING alarm ring gives us a five minute Hal Goldstein ORGANIZED warning (or however many minutes I Publisher, The HP Palmtop Paper choose). On longer meetings that I Keeping Meetings want to finish on time, I might set two Focused and on Time or three appointments warning of the SELF Meetings enhance communication and meetings end, so that alarms go off ten, DEVELOPMENT coordination, both critical elements to five, and even two minutes before the the success of a business. However, end. Use your Palmtop to meetings must be focused and time­ I recently discovered a simple but end bad habits and begin conscious, or they can cause more quite useful freeware program called good ones - now! problems than they solve, and waste VISCLOCK.EXM ii, by Eugeen Dorr, Anthony Robbins, in his book productive time. to keep meetings on schedule, or at the "A waken the Giant Within", proposes least keep us all aware of the time.