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Book Description

My Palm® Pre™: Palm Pre, Palm Pre Plus, Pixi, and Pixi Plus
Step-by-step: instructions with callouts to Palm Pre images that show you exactly what to do.
Help: when you run into Palm Pre problems  or limitations.
Tips and Notes: to help you get the most from your Palm Pre.

Full-color, step-by-step tasks walk you through getting and keeping your Palm Pre working just the way you want. The tasks include:

• Getting started quickly and making the most of Palm Pre’s amazing interface
• Moving your information to your new Palm Pre
• Customizing your Palm Pre to your exact needs
• Saving time with Palm Pre’s typing shortcuts and slide-out keyboard
• Setting up and using speed dialing, voicemail, and conference calls
• Sending and receiving text and picture messages
• Making the most of Palm Pre’s contact, calendar, and To Do list software
• Syncing your Palm Pre with Outlook, Facebook, and MySpace
• Connecting to the Internet, Bluetooth devices, and your company’s VPN
• Browsing the Web from your Palm Pre
• Shooting, storing, and viewing photos and video
• Finding, choosing, installing, and working with new Palm Pre applications
• Keeping your Palm Pre up-to-date, reliable, and running perfectly
• Topics relevant for Palm Pre, Palm Pre Plus, Palm Pixi, and Palm Pixi Plus. Download Now »

Book Description

Professional Palm OS Programming is everything programmers need to create applications for the world’s most popular operating system for handheld devices.

Veteran Palm developer Lonnon Foster, who has been developing commercial applications for the platform since its introduction nearly a decade ago, provides readers with hands-on instruction, lots of code, and advice that only comes from the trenches – giving readers everything they need to build cutting edge applications and take advantage of the features of both Garnet and Cobalt.

Coverage includes:
* Building forms, menus and user interfaces
* Managing memory
* Tying into Palm’s standard applications such as the Calendar, Phonebook, or Tasks
* Storing program data on removable storage cards
* Building network enabled applications
* Creating web applications for Palm
* Working with Palm OS new support for Web Services
* Programm ing for new device features such as jog dials, rocker switches, 5-way navigators
* Working with sounds, graphics, multimedia, and new high-resolution color screens
* Encrypting and decrypting data
* Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and wireless networking
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Book Description

Today’s Web 2.0 applications (think Facebook and Twitter) go far beyond the confines of the desktop and are widely used on mobile devices. The mobile Web has become incredibly popular given the success of the iPhone and BlackBerry, the importance of Windows Mobile, and the emergence of Palm Pre (and its webOS platform). At Apress, we are fortunate to have Gail Frederick of the well-known training site Learn the Mobile Web offer her expert advice in Beginning Smartphone Web Development. In this book, Gail teaches the web standards and fundamentals specific to smartphones and other feature-driven mobile phones and devices.

• Shows you how to build interactive mobile web sites using web technologies optimized for browsers in smartphones
• Details markup fundamentals, design principles, content adaptation, usability, and interoperability
• Explores cross-platform standards and best practices for the mobile Web authored by the W3C, dotMobi, and similar organizations
• Dives deeps into the feature sets of the most popular mobile browsers, including WebKit, Chrome, Palm Pre webOS, Pocket IE, Opera Mobile, and Skyfire

By the end of this book, you’ll have the training, tools, and techniques for creating robust mobile web experiences on any of these platforms for your favorite smartphone or other mobile device. Download Now »

Book Description

If you’ve got your hands on this year’s hottest new smartphone, you’ll want the book that covers it inside and out: Palm Pre: The Missing Manual. This beautiful, full-color book from USA Today personal-technology columnist Ed Baig will help you go from newcomer to expert in no time.

The maker of the legendary Palm Pilot is back on center stage with a smartphone that lets you browse the Web, listen to music, watch video, view pictures, and a lot more. Palm Pre: The Missing Manual provides you with everything you need to know to get the most out of this amazing mobile tool.

• Get to know the touchscreen, and learn to navigate by tapping, swiping, dragging, flicking, and pinching
• Link your contacts, merge calendars, combine email accounts, and more by syncing your phone over the Web
• Stay in touch with other people by using the Pre as a full-featured phone and organizer
• Use it for email, texting, chatting, and as an efficient web browser
• Take advantage of the Pre as a complete media center to store, sort, play, stream music and video, and sync with iTunes
• Take and view photos, import images, and share them with others Download Now »