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September 7, 2003 INSIDE THIS ISSUE Heart health with your handheld This week's news

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HEALTHCARE UNPLUGGED
Heart health with your handheld
By Dennis Crane

Statistics show that high blood pressure affects about 50 million, or one in four, American adults. It's a serious condition, which often has no symptoms. Once high blood pressure occurs, it usually lasts a lifetime. Physicians state that the only way to prevent high blood pressure is its permanent daily tracking. By analyzing the blood pressure trends, the doctor can prescript the cure. Thus, many people from all over the world have to measure their blood pressure several times a day and log it in order to show the statistics to their physicians. The majority of the hypertensive patients simply write down the readings in paper notebooks. Those who use personal computers log their readings in text files, spreadsheets, or databases.

All these methods are inconvenient in their own way. Several years ago, however, the handheld computer brought a simple yet powerful solution to the problem.

Nowadays, a PDA seems to be the perfect tool to keep track of your blood pressure. It's handy and allows for fast reading input. A tiny device is always with you no matter where you are--at home, in he hospital, or in the gym. After you have measured your blood pressure or pulse, it takes just a second to get out your Palm handheld and to enter the reading with a couple of stylus taps. You and your doctor can easily browse and analyze your tracking history.

The various charts show the blood pressure trends from different points of view. The auxiliary modules help to handle the summarized and averaged statistics quickly. And all these features fit in a tiny device that fits in your hand!

There's a pretty wide choice of specialized applications for Palm OS handheld computers that allow you to log, chart, print, and even email your blood pressure and pulse stats to your physician or nurse. Lets dig into that software pile to find the real pearls. The "blood pressure" searches on http://www.palmgear.com or http://www.handango.com return a dozen of titles. In this article, I'll analyze what I find to be the top seven programs.

Click to learn about the top seven heart healthy programs for Palm OS.

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COMPUTING UNPLUGGED NEWS CENTER
This week's news
Want to get the very latest mobile and wireless news? The Computing Unplugged News Center is updated every day with news of product releases, industry info, tips, techniques, and pointers to great mobile and wireless resources on the Web. Here's this week's news:

Siemens S56 review
Maryland's SunSpot.net takes a look at the Siemens S56 mobile phone with its Bluetooth cordless headset and attachable camera and Internet abilities. The telephone is about 4 inches in length and less than 2 inches wide and 0.7 inches in thickness. It can be synchronized with information from Lotus Notes and Microsoft Outlook.

Keep your data safe
TealPoint Software announced the release of TealSafe version 1.00 for Palm OS handhelds. A personal encrypted data vault and wallet, TealSafe, from TealPoint Software, is the place to store and organize all your private, identifying, and financial information. TealSafe supports 128-bit encryption, multi-level passwords, custom icons and layouts, categories, private entries, find function, memopad CSV export, and exclusive list-based data stores.

Palm teams with PalmGear, Novarra
Here are a couple of announcements coming from Palm today.The first is that Palm and Novarra announced that specific future Palm handhelds will feature the next generation of the Palm Web Pro browser, powered by Novarra. Meanwhile, PalmSource announced a strategic alliance with PalmGear. As part of the alliance, PalmGear acquired PalmSource's subsidiary Palm Digital Media, and will power a new PalmSource online store and license the "PalmGear," "Palm Digital Media" and "Palm Reader" brands.

New tools for Zire 71
StylusCentral.com has released a new leather case and 3-in-1 stylus pen for the Palm Zire 71. The new accessories add to the company's catalog of products for the Palm Zire 71 model and are designed to make the device even more functional.

Palm's future
Gary Ankey at EduPalm.org sent in this interesting observation. While not officially listed as discontinued, Palm's m130, m515 and Tungsten T have begun to disappear from some of Palm's Web pages. The M515 and Tungsten T are out of stock, and the m130 no longer sports an order link. If you can find the m130 from a third party dealer, look for some nice discounts. The loss of the m130 leaves a large hole in Palm's pricing structure at the $200 level, a gap the rumored Tungsten E may fill.

Boa Slim DVD-RW drive available
EZQuest's new external Boa Slim DVD-RW drive for Macs and PCs is available now. The drive weighs less than a pound and measures 6-inches, by 5.5-inches, by .75 inch just big enough to accommodate a DVD or CD disc. It features both a FireWire and a USB 2.0 port, and Mac and and PC software. In addition, it is FireWire bus-powered, making it even more portable.

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