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PalmPilot: The Ultimate Guide, Second Edition
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PalmPilot: The Ultimate Guide, Second Edition

by David Pogue
May 2000
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
620 pages
18h 2m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Acknowledgments

At the Palm Computing division of 3Com, the spirit of openness and friendliness has made the Palm OS platform a hit. The company embraces and promotes programmers, accessories, events, and participation in the Palm business, continually fanning the fires of PalmPilot passion.

The same infectious excitement, I’m happy to say, extended to the preparation of this book. 3Com went beyond the call of duty over and over again to help. In particular, my master contact Chris Weasler repeatedly interrupted his regularly scheduled duties to answer tweaky questions, provide technical background, and much more. He orchestrated helpful briefing sessions with Palm’s Mike Lundsford and Joe Sipher that paved the way for this book’s Palm V and Palm VII coverage.

3Com’s Maurice Sharp was my other Friend in High Places. Not only was he once again an outstanding technical reviewer for this edition (as he was for the first edition), but nobody is more fun to hang around with at trade shows. Tech reviewer Dan Royea, moderator of the weekly Internet Palm chats and knower of all things Palm, set me straight on hundreds of technical points; Chapter 17, especially benefitted from his wisdom.

In fact, the best part of writing a Palm book was getting to know the amazing people who work at Palm. That they’ve let me into the family, welcomed me to trade shows, advance briefings, and their own headquarters in Santa Clara, California, has been a head rush nonpareil. Thanks especially to Robin Abrams, ...

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