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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Will You Buy an Apple iPad? Post 302390617 by pludi on Thursday 28th of January 2010 11:27:01 AM

01-28-2010

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Originally Posted by andom

I like the idea of having something of the right size to connect to the internet whenever I want and to buy and organize books. I love the turning of pages in an e-book on this device. I can use it as a table calendar when I am in the office, as a full-scale organizer, foto library or foto frame, as a map, book shelf, mobile office, well, anything I like. Or might need.

The thing is, a regular netbook is better suited for office work than the iPad. If I have to write up some document, I prefer having a keyboard I can use with both hands. And the missing multitasking ability will prevent you from quickly looking up something on the 'net without having to close the word processor first. So proper office work probably won't be possible.

With a starting price of $500 (that's for the version without direct 'net access) I expect a few things more than a mobile photo viewer and music player. For that money you can (almost) get an Asus Eee netbook and a Kindle.

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pilot-foto-treo600

pilot-foto-treo600(1)						    PILOT-LINK						     pilot-foto-treo600(1)

NAME

       pilot-foto-treo600 - Copies Treo "foto" databases to current directory and extracts image files from within them.

SECTION

       pilot-link: Userland conduits

SYNOPSIS

	pilot-foto-treo600 [-p|--port <port>] [--version] [-?|--help] [-q|--quiet] [--usage] [-w|--write]

DESCRIPTION

       Copies Treo "foto" databases to current directory and extracts the .jpg image files within them.

OPTIONS

   pilot-foto-treo600 options
			       -w, --write

       Write the database data to disk

   Conduit Options
			       -p, --port
			       port

       Use  device file port to communicate with the Palm handheld. If this is not specified, will look for the $PILOTPORT environment variable.If
       neither are found or supplied, pilot-foto-treo600 will print the usage information.

			       -q, --quiet

       Suppress 'Hit HotSync button' message

			       -v, --version

       Display version of pilot-foto-treo600 and exit without connecting.

   Help Options
			       -h, --help

       Display the help synopsis for pilot-foto-treo600 and exit without connecting.

			       --usage

       Display a brief usage message and exit without connecting.

EXAMPLE

       # connect to the Palm device and fetch all photos found in the Treo "foto" database, convert them to .jpg files and write them to  disk	on
       your local machine in the current working directory.

		       pilot-foto-treo600 -p /dev/pilot -w

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Neil Williams <linux@codehelp.co.uk>

REPORTING BUGS

       We  have  an online bug tracker. Using this is the only way to ensure that your bugs are recorded and that we can track them until they are
       resolved or closed. Reporting bugs via email, while easy, is not very useful in terms of  accountability.  Please  point  your  browser	to
       http://bugs.pilot-link.org: http://bugs.pilot-link.org and report your bugs and issues there.

COPYRIGHT

       This  program  is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
       the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

       This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY	WARRANTY;  without  even  the  implied	warranty  of  MER-
       CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

       You  should  have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
       Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.

SEE ALSO

	pilot-foto (1), pilot-link(7).

0.12.5							      Copyright 1996-2007 FSF					     pilot-foto-treo600(1)