Daylight Savings - Are your Handhelds prepared?

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:43:30 GMT

March 13 2007

Q: I have a Treo. Is there anything that I need to do to prepare for the new Daylight Savings Time change for this year?

A: If you own a Palm, Treo or even a BlackBerry, you have to update it to avoid any problems with Daylight Saving (Here I am just having problems keeping up with my coffee maker & microwave).

Anyway, here's is the Palm website that gives you the scoop. It's a download that will get everything on your portable brain all hunky-dory:

http://www.palm.com/us/support/downloads/dst.html?sssdmh=dm13.130166

For BlackBerries:

http://www.blackberry.com/select/dst2007/resolutions/internetservice/

Use Google Maps to find-out where you are and where you are going

Sun, 25 Feb 2007 18:51:11 GMT

January 8 2007

Q: I spend most of my day outside the office visiting clients. I usually print-out on-line maps to find my appointments for the following day. Is there anything available for my mobile phone where I don’t have to do this without investing in a GPS system?

A: Yes – You can acquire a free download from Google - Google Map. It is a combination of Google Earth and Google Mobile into a single handy program for your smart phone.

It can help you:

-Find an address

-Get directions

-See Real-time traffic updates (although in Austin it is a little sketchy)

-Toggle between a Satellite and Map views (I can see my house from here!)

-Find the closes UPS store or closest Vietnameese restaurant using the Business Finder

Supported Devices (Includes BlackBerry and Treos) http://google.com/gmm/devices.html

You can download directly to your phone/smart phone or to your computer and install it by executing a sync.

Download at: http://google.com/gmm

(Copy and paste these addresses into your browser, if they aren't live).

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Daylight Savings - Are your Handhelds prepared?

Use Google Maps to find-out where you are and where you are going