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September 04, 2007
Beaming your business card
Years ago, when I did my e-newsletter & web site called Palm Mastery (which some of you may remember) I used to share tips & tricks for using Palm handhelds. I've been using one since the early "Pilot" models and use a Treo 650 these days. While some has changed, much of the OS has not, and there are a few tips & tricks I still share with people that still make it a fun and useful device. Here's one:
1) Create yourself as a contact in your address book with whatever information you would share publicly.
2) Then choose Menu>Select Business Card. Your Palm will ask:
"Make this name your business card?"
3) Tap OK
A business card icon will show up at the top of your record:
What that means is that your record will be deemed your electronic business card. That is the record that will be beamed to another Palm user when you select Menu>Beam Business Card or hold down the Contact button (if you have one.)
Funny story around this. A good friend of mine did this beaming trick, but forgot he had put his key information like his ATM pin# in the "note" field of his own contact record. He was at a Comdex show happily beaming his business card to people not realizing he was also beaming this information in the note field as well. Whoops.
Posted by Kelly at September 4, 2007 04:05 PM
