Palm and Treo Hacks

Add Pictures to the Address List

If your Palm device supports it, you can be sure you’ll never have trouble putting a name to a face again.

With a couple of easy steps, you can add pictures to the entries in your address list, as you can see in Figure 1-9. You need to have a memory card installed on your Palm device and your Palm needs to support this feature. To check, go to the Address List and tap one of the addresses. Tap Edit. If the Edit page says No Image, then your PDA supports images.

Figure 1-9. Address view, showing a picture

You have a couple of choices. If you are running a PC you can use the Image Converter application to copy files over. You can also just copy the files over directly.

Image Converter

If you want to use Image Converter, then either run it and select images from there, or from the Windows desktop, right-click on images and hit Send To → Image Converter from the pop-up menu.

With Image Converter running, attach your Palm device to the cable or cradle and launch the Data Import application. When Data Import is running, press the Connect button.

Warning

Do not hit Disconnect in the Data Import application while data is being transferred. Doing so could cause you to lose data off of your memory card.

You can select images from Image Converter. When you have all of the images selected that you want to transfer and your Palm device is connected via Data Import, then ...