Page 40 Managing Your Applications
Choosing preferences
You can set options that aff ect an entire application in the application’s Preferen ces dialog box.
To change preferences for an application:
1. Open an application.
2. Press Menu .
3. Under Options, select Preferences (/R).
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4. Make changes to the settings.
5. Hold Option and press Return to finish.
Installing and removing applications
This section explains how to install and remove application s on your communicator and h ow to
remove Palm™ Desktop software from your computer.
Installing add-on applications
Your communicator comes with the PhoneBook, Date Book Plus, Blazer (or another web browser
installed by your wireless service provider), SMS Messaging, To Do List, Memo Pad, Expense,
Calculator, CityTime, SIM Book, and SIM Services applications installed and ready to use. The
Handspring CD-ROM also includes e-mail appl ications which you can in stall when you config ure
the wireless portion of your communicator with the CD-ROM.
You can also install additional applications on your communicator, such as business applications,
games, and other software. The Install Handheld Files dialog box makes it easy to install software
on your communicator during a HotSync® operation. There are a var iety of third-party a pplications
available for devices that use Palm OS software. To learn more about these applications, go to
the web site: www.handspring.com.
When you download an add-on application from the Internet, it is probably in a compressed format
such as a .zip or .sit file. If you have a decompression utility on your computer, use it to decompress
the .prc and .pdb files inside the compressed file. If you do not have a decompression utility,
search the Internet using ph rases like 'zip decompress ion' or 'how to unzip'. Th is will lead you to
various third-party utilities that you can use to decompress any kind of compressed or
downloaded file--not just add-ons for your communicator. After you install the utility, you are ready
to decompress the add-on application files that you downloaded.
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To install add-on software on your communicator:
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1. Copy or download the ap plication you want t o install into the add-on folder in your Palm fo lder
on your computer.