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Dear Hands High Customer,

Below is our latest newsletter, describing what's new here
at Hands High Software, and what's new in the Palm industry.
Its amazing how fast things are changing, but it is exciting.
I have also included some thoughts gleaned from the latest
Palm developers conference.

You are receiving this newsletter because you have either
signed up for it, or have purchased one of our products. To
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Thanks,

Shannon Pekary
President

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Hands High Software News

In this newsletter, you'll find:

* Memo PLUS Template Contest Winners
* Memo PLUS and ToDo PLUS updated
* Japanese ToDo PLUS Released
* Trip 3.0 Beta Underway
* New Support Form
* Special discounts for Hands High Newsletter Subscribers
* News from 3Com
* Notes from the Developer's Conference
* Our Commitment

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Memo PLUS Template Contest Winners
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The Memo PLUS Template Contest has ended and winners were
announced. It is amazing how many uses people are finding
for Memo PLUS templates. Here are the winners:

Grand Prize, Eric Zaidins
Winner of a clear case for a Palm III!
Entry: Photo Log

2nd Place, David Wilson
Winner of a Palm Computing brief case
Entry: Interview Notes

3rd Place, Maurice Cox
Winner of a clear case for a PalmPilot Professional
Entry: Travel Info

4th Place, David Sadow
Winner of a Palm Computing watch
Entry: Charitable Contributions

ToDo PLUS and Memo PLUS Updated
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Memo PLUS and ToDo PLUS now have alarms with the ability
to snooze for a selected amount of time, and to go to
the alarmed item straight from the alarm screen. They also
have support for Lefty, a small utility that tells Memo
PLUS and ToDo PLUS to put the scroll bars on the left side
of the screen for left-handed users.

Japanese Translation of ToDo PLUS released
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The Japanese version of ToDo PLUS has been completed and is
now available. To download a trial, go to:

http://www.handshigh.com/html/download.html

Trip 3.0 Beta Available
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Trip tracks your automobile mileage for business expenses and
tax deductions. If you have ever tried to do this using a
paper log and you have more than one car, you can understand
how useful doing this with a computer can be.

The newest version of Trip includes a conduit to automatically
export your mileage information to a database file on your
desktop computer every time you HotSync. It also includes an
Excel spreadsheet that will easily turn your Trip data into a
mileage expense report.

The Windows version of Trip 3.0 is in beta, and we hope to put
the Macintosh version in beta soon. To sign up, go to our new
Beta sign up page at:

http://www.handshigh.com/html/beta_registration.html

(Note: you must be a registered user of the current version of
Trip to participate in the Beta).

You can download a trial of the current Trip at:

http://www.handshigh.com/html/download.html

New Support Form
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If you ever have a technical problem with one of our products,
first see the help section at:

http://www.handshigh.com/html/help.html

If you cannot find your answer there, go to:

http://www.handshigh.com/html/contact.html

By filling out the form at this page, you will help us more
quickly solve your problem.

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THIS MONTH'S SPECIALS

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NEWS FROM 3COM

Palm Vx now shipping
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This is actually a little old (a whopping 3 months), but the Palm Vx
is now shipping. It is essentially a Palm V with 8 MB of RAM in it.
I have one and love it.

Palm OS 3.3 Flash shipping
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The latest Palm OS is now available. It is Palm OS 3.3 and comes
as a Flash ROM upgrade. Most Palm devices available are capable of
upgrading to this OS for free. The Palm devices that are not
upgradeable are the original Pilot devices, the PalmPilot Personal,
PalmPilot Professional, and Palm IIIe. The Palm III, Palm IIIx, and
Palm V line are upgradeable. The Palm VII, while upgradeable,
cannot upgrade to OS 3.3. Palm is planning an OS 3.5 upgrade that
will include the Palm VII. An older Palm that has an OS 3.0
upgrade card IS upgradeable.

The main features of the new OS are:
* Support for hotsyncing through a laptop's infrared port
* Faster hotsync for Windows computers
* Improved network logon

To get OS 3.3, go to http://www.palm.com/custsupp/upgrade/

Palm to be Spun Off
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3Com has announced that they are going to spin off the Palm
Computing division into its own company and offer an IPO.
They also just announced a new CEO for the company, Carl Yankowski,
a former president and CEO of Sony. You can see more at a Forbes
article at:

http://www.forbes.com/tool/html/99/Dec/1202/mu13.htm

Sony Becoming a Partner
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Sony has announced that they are going to create Palm devices
instead of Windows CE devices. This is great news, as more and
more devices out there will mean better software and support
for current users.

Operating System Updates
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The latest operating system updates are:

* OS update 1.0.6 for original Pilot users
* OS update 2.0.5 for PalmPilot users
* OS update 3.0.2 for Palm III users
* OS update 3.1.1 for Palm IIIx and Palm V users
* OS 3.3 as mentioned above
* Desktop PalmPilot version 3.0.1 for all Palm OS devices for Windows
* Desktop PalmPilot version 2.5 for all Palm OS devices for Macintosh

Other updates include
* Email conduit update for people having trouble synchronizing email
* Enhanced Infrared update
* Login script enhancement

All of these updates are free and available on the Palm Computing
Web site at http://www.palm.com/custsupp/downloads/

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NOTES FROM THE DEVELOPERS CONFERENCE

As always, the developers conference was overwhelming. The Palm
community is hard to keep up with. Here are some things I thought
were the most interesting:

1) New Palm devices.

HandSpring, TRG, Qualcomm, and Symbol all showed off new
devices. A summary:

HandSpring: Includes a new SpringBoard port, which is like a
PCMCIA slot, but with no limit on thickness. Lots of people
are making add-ons, including phones, pagers, MP3 players, GPS,
and lots more. See http://www.handspring.com/

TRG: A Palm with a CompactFlash module port. A 300+ MB hard disk
the size of a postage stamp is already available for this device.
It also has a great speaker. See http://www.trgpro.com/

Qualcomm: A cellular phone and Palm combo. See
http://www.qualcomm.com/

Symbol: A Palm device with local-area network access through a
built-in radio. They also have industrial strength Palms and Palms
with bar-code readers built-in. See http://www.symbol.com/

2) Color Devices Coming!

While no color devices are available now, Palm released an early
version of an operating system that supports full color.
Real devices were said to be likely available some time
in the middle of 2000, but of course no promises were made.

3) Nice Keyboard to be offered by 3Com.

Some time in early next year, 3Com should be shipping a fold-up
keyboard for your Palm device. I had a chance to see try this
keyboard, and I thought it was real nice. It folds up to a size
about as big as a PalmPilot Professional. The keys felt good
to type on, not mushy.

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customer list.

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support@handshigh.com.

Updates are free within the major version number. In other words,
if you have version 2.1 of a product, 2.2 will be free, but not
necessarily 3.0.

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