[NTLK] What does everyone use their MessagePads and eMates for these days?

[Gene Beaird]

2010 patching!!  :-D

We use ours for note-taking at races.  We note weather information,  
track information and our times.  It helps when we run a course layout  
we've run before, or are running a different set of tires.  I'd do  
this all on my iPhone, but the typing is murder, and you _can't_ see a  
iPhone screen in the sunlight, something I'm happy to say is easy to  
do on our MP2100s, at least until the heat gets to the screen.  We  
keep it in a bag when not in use at the track, and when it's really  
hot outside, try to shade the screen from direct sunlight.

It came in quite handy today, as we had a new set of tires in a wider  
size than we normally run.  I checked my notes and came up with a tire  
pressure setting that was pretty close.

It's amazing to see who recognizes it, and when someone laughs at that  
'old' technology, I ask them if they can do this, or this, or this  
with their <insert favorite gizmo here>.  They usually shut up at item  
number 2.

Gene Beaird,
Pearland, Texas


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> Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 14:14:59 -0500
> From: Timothy Chaten <tchaten at gmail.com>
> Subject: [NTLK] What does everyone use their MessagePads and eMates
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> I thought I would start up an interesting discussion on what  
> everyone uses
> their MessagePads and eMates for.
>
> I think it would be awesome to just see all of the different use  
> cases still
> around for these wonderful devices.
>
> I'll begin by saying I got my first Newt an eMate as a notebook for
> Evernote.  I'm getting it setup with WiFi so I can email all of my  
> notes to
> my Evernote account and use the eMate as a distraction free  
> environment to
> be creative and let my ideas flow out :)
>
> Now only if someone could write an Evernote app for the Newton OS -  
> that
> would be amazing! :)
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> Tim
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