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Unlock the potential of your Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) with 15 practical uses to organize your life and stay productive. From managing your calendar, contacts, and to-do lists, to leveraging web browsing capabilities via offline apps and WiFi hotspots, we explore how to optimize your workflow. Explore document sharing options, the joy of eBooks, and engaging games. Discover how to capture moments with a photo album, create impactful presentations, navigate with GPS, and manage expenses, all while staying connected through email.
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15 More Things To Do With Your PDA EdTech Group Discussion 5/11/03
1. Organise your Life • Calendar • Appointments • Contacts • To-do • Course organisers
2+3. Web Browsing • 2. Off-line • AvantGo • 3. On-line • WiFi hotspots
4. Documents • Transfer • Share • Edit • Secure
5. Games • Recreational • Educational?
6. Music • Entertainment • MP3, WAV, WMA
7. EBooks • Easy reading while commuting • Large volumes – small size • Download and store annotations • Search for passages • ‘They’ll never offer the full, tactile experience of the real thing’
8. Photo Album • Favourite photos handy • Good display quality • Work ‘together’ with digital camera
9. Presentations • Powerpoint capabilities • Create and show • Safer than carrying laptop • Animations and transitions supported – but not embedded video/sound
10. GPS – I know whereyou are • Route finder • But also location-awareness, enabling location-specific content and services
11. Voice recorder • Dictaphone: ‘record impulse thoughts for posterity’
12. Expenses watching • Microsoft’s Money • Convenient to use while commuting
13. Remote control • Use to operate TV, DVD player, VCR… • Will it take the dog out?
14. Mobile TV • Download favourite programmes, news, films • Good video quality
15. E-Mail • Download (synchronise) and view e-mail • Prepare items to send on the go • Stay in touch