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User Manual for
Acer s50 and s60 Handhelds
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COPYRIGHT Copyright © 2002 Acer Inc. or its subsidiaries All Rights Reserved. Printed in Taiwan. Acer s50 and s60 Handhelds User Manual Original issue: August 2002 Acer and the Acer logo are registered trademarks of Acer Inc. Graffiti, HotSync, and Palm OS are registered trademarks. HotSync, Palm, and the Palm logo are trademarks of Palm, Inc. or its subsidiaries. Other company’s product names or trademarks are used herein for identification purpose only and belong to their respective compani
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First things first Your guides First things first We would like to thank you for making Acer handheld your choice for your handheld needs. Your new sleek Acer handheld is packed with user-friendly applications and utilities designed to make organising work-related information and synchronising it with your personal activities a time-efficient task. We hope you enjoy using your Acer handheld as much as we enjoyed creating it for you. Your guides To help you use your handheld, we have designe
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First things first Maintaining your Acer handheld Maintaining your Acer handheld This section provides information on the following: Proper care and usage of your handheld Resetting your handheld Proper care and usage of your handheld Your handheld’s rugged and tough construction is designed to provide you with years of reliable and trouble-free service. Observing the following general maintenance procedures will help ensure this: 1 Take care not to scratch the screen of your handheld. Kee
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First things first Assigning security options There are no serviceable parts inside your handheld so do not attempt to open the unit. If you ever dispose of your handheld, please dispose it without damaging the environment. Take your handheld to the nearest environmental recycling center. Assigning security options The Security application in your handheld lets you set options to protect entries from unauthorised users in a variety of ways: The security application lets you: Mask or
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First things first Assigning security options vi
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Contents First things first iii Your guides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii Maintaining your Acer handheld . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iv Proper care and usage of your handheld . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iv Battery considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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User-defined categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Finding records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Finding Address Book records . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Using the Find option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Using Phone Loo
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Big Clock mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .86 Timer mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .87 Clock menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .88 Using AudioBox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Backup menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 5 Working with your PC utilities 155 Installing PC utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 Selecting files when using the PC utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 Using Palm Desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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8 Beaming information 207 Beaming a business card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 Beaming a record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 Beaming an application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 Receiving beamed information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Using non-ASCII characters in login scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263 Plug-in applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 Troubleshooting TCP/IP connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 Network Preferences menus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 Owner preferences . . . . . . . .
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1 Entering data in your Acer handheld Entering data using Graffiti 1 Entering data in your Acer handheld You can enter data into your handheld in several ways: Using Graffiti Using the onscreen keyboard Beaming data Entering data using Graffiti You can use Graffiti writing commands to create letters, numbers, punctuation, and symbols. The Graffiti alphabet Draw Graffiti letters using the following strokes. Letter Strokes Letter Strokes AN BO CP DQ ER FS GT HU IV 1
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1 Entering data in your Acer handheld Entering data using Graffiti JW KX LY MZ Space Backspace Tap twice. Carriage Period Return To write Graffiti letters 1 Tap the screen where you want to write letters, for example, on a line next to a time in Date Book. NOTE: A blinking cursor must appear onscreen above the Graffiti writing before you can begin writing text. 2 Refer to the Graffiti alphabet table to find the stroke shape for the letter you want to write. For example, the stroke shown bel
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1 Entering data in your Acer handheld Entering data using Graffiti Caps Lock mode— just as you press the Shift key on a keyboard—and then write the desired character stroke. Caps Shift When Caps Shift is active, an Up arrow appears in the lower right corner of the handheld screen. Caps Shift If you accidentally activate the Caps Shift, draw the Backspace stroke to cancel it. To write capital letters: 1 Choose from the following options: To enter a single capital letter, write the Caps Shift
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1 Entering data in your Acer handheld Entering data using Graffiti To write Graffiti numbers 1 Tap the screen where you want to write numbers. NOTE: A blinking cursor must appear onscreen above the Graffiti writing before you can begin writing numbers. 2 Refer to the Graffiti number table to find the stroke shape for the number you want to write. For example, the stroke shown below creates the number 3. Start stroke at heavy dot. Lift stylus here. 3 Position the stylus in the right hand side
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, , , 1 Entering data in your Acer handheld Entering data using Graffiti Question Slash ? / Exclamation Dollar ! $ Additional Graffiti punctuation marks include the following: @ # % ^ & * < > – + = | \ { } [ ] ~ ` ; : " tab The Graffiti symbols and extended characters Symbol Shift Symbol Shift Draw symbols or extended characters using the following strokes: • + ± = c X
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1 Entering data in your Acer handheld Entering data using Graffiti a a a a a a à á â ã ä å è é ê ì í î ï ò ó ô õ ö ù ú û ü ÿ D ñ The Graffiti non-English characters You can write the following characters in the lowercase alphabet mode without special punctuation or shifting. You must write these non-English characters in the left side of the Graffiti writing area. c a e Graffiti navigation strokes Graffiti writin
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1 Entering data in your Acer handheld Entering data using Graffiti Predefined Graffiti ShortCuts Your handheld includes the following predefined Graffiti ShortCuts for common entries. Entry ShortCut Date stamp ds Time stamp ts Date/time stamp dts Meeting me Breakfast br Lunch lu Dinner di To use a ShortCut Draw the ShortCut stroke followed by the ShortCut character(s). When you draw the ShortCut stroke, the ShortCut symbol appears at the insertion point. ShortCut To edit a ShortCut: 1 Tap th
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1 Entering data in your Acer handheld Using the onscreen keyboard 5 Tap Delete. 6Tap Yes. Graffiti tips When using Graffiti, keep the following tips in mind: For greater accuracy, draw letters with large strokes; strokes that nearly fill the Graffiti writing area are easily interpreted. To delete characters, set the insertion point to the right of the character you want to delete, and draw the Backspace stroke (a line from right to left) in the Graffiti writing area. Write at natural
