News
Issue #2002 - 37 (September 2002)
(Updated October 2, 2002)

APPLICATION SOLUTIONS and APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT 

Hands High Releases Slap - Quickly Converts Palm OS Notes to Appointments, Address Book Entries, Tasks and More

East Palo Alto, Calif. Sept. 25, 2002 Hands High Software, Inc. announced today the release of Slapª, software for the Palm OS that quickly converts notes to appointments, address book entries, tasks and more. 

Many handheld computer users find that organizing appointments, address book entries, tasks and other information while simultaneously talking to people in a meeting or on the phone is too difficult. The number of programs to start and screens to navigate makes the process cumbersome. Instead, many people use a pencil and paper, or "sticky notes" to take notes, and then re-enter the information to the handheld computer later. The result is a clutter of papers, and no organization.

Slap solves the problem by giving the handheld user one screen to enter notes. The screen is accessible by pushing one button. The user can enter appointments, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, task lists and more into one screen in the same way as entering information onto a piece of paper. Later, to organize the information, the user selects it and taps an icon to send it to another application. Slap will interpret the text selected, and make the entry into the program selected.

For example, a user could enter Meeting with Bob on Thursday at 4.00 PM. To turn this into an appointment, the user would tap on the date book icon. Slap would then show a screen that reads "Meeting with Bob". The date and time would automatically be set to the date of the next Thursday from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. The user could then enter the appointment by tapping one button. At this point, the date book would appear with the given appointment highlighted, allowing the user to quickly and easily make any further edits to the appointment. Returning to the Slap program is as easy as pressing one button.

Beta tester Ellen Biggs said that Slap saves her one to two hours per day. I do not have to recopy notes and put them in the computer, I do not have to sort out papers at the end of the day. Everything needs to be written only once.

Slap can send information to the address book, date book, task list, memo pad, ThoughtManager, and Doc file readers. Slap includes a plug-in interface so that developers of other products can build in support for Slap in their products and receive Slap text.

Slap requires Palm OS 3.0 or above and 150 KB free space. It supports the high resolution modes of the Sony Clie and Palm OS 5 computers. It also supports the expandable screens of some Clie models, the Handera 330 and the AlphaSmart Dana. 

A free 30-day trial of Slap can be downloaded from the Hands High Software Web site  The registered version can be purchased for $12.95 also from the Hands High Software Web site.

About Hands High Software, Inc.
Hands High Software, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is an award-winning provider of personal organization software for Palm OS handheld computers. Products include ThoughtManager, Slap, FontBucket, ToDo PLUS, Memo PLUS, Trip, Trip Deluxe, PhoneLog, and AirMiles.

For more information: http://www.handshigh.com

MobileInfo Comments and Advisory:  This is useful application for Palm.

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