Share
info
fast
Beam and receive whole categories from Calendar, Contacts,
Tasks
, Memos, and other applications to quickly share lots of info. Whether you want to share a bunch of photos or a combination of contacts and deadlines, there's no easier way to pass along stuff to the people who need it (or just can't wait to see it).
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Marla and John are married airline pilots. Every week was a scheduling nightmare until they both got handhelds. Now they beam their schedules to each other at the beginning of every month. They each maintain a category with their own schedules. When either of them views All in Calendar, both of their schedules appear together.
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When you
turn
off your handheld's ability to receive beamed info (
Prefs > Power
), it doesn't affect your ability to beam info.
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Beaming a category works just like beaming a single item, except that you select
Beam
Category
from the menu. You must be viewing the category as a whole you can't beam a category when an individual entry is displayed. If you're receiving a category of info and don't have a preset category, create a category before the beam and select it when you receive the beamed info.
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Beaming entire applications can be easier than installing them from scratch, but you can't beam
copy-protected
apps. Files created or used by a program must be beamed separately. Select
Home > Menu > App > Beam
to beam anything that isn't a single entry or a category.
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Open
Photos from the Home screen. (If you don't see it, install it from your installation CD.)
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From either the thumbnail view or the list view, select the photo you want to beam. Use the navigator, since tapping a photo will open it. Select
Menu > Photos > Beam Photo
.
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Position your handheld close to the receiving handheld and beam it.
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If you think a friend should meet one of your contacts (or vice versa), beam the info. For more about Contacts, see page 49.
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You can beam a task or an entire category of tasks. Nothing feels better than creating tasks for someone else and then beaming them all their assignments at once.
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To beam info or applications from an expansion card, select
Beam
from the Home screen's
App
menu. Tap
Beam From
at the top of the screen and select the expansion card.
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First,
designate
an entry as your business card (see page 50). Beam your business card by holding down the
Contacts
button until the beaming message ("Searching…") appears.
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Many apps and
games
can be beamed. Just go to the Home screen and select
Menu
> App >
Beam
, select the game, and tap
Beam
. Some commercial games, like Handmark Scrabble, let you beam a trial version of the game that can be
played
several times.
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