There are hordes of calculators, including the touted Convert-It for measurement conversions and SynCalc for mathematical calculations. Mobile Account Manager keeps track of your financial account numbers, passwords, PINs, and other account ID information. ThoughtMill and the commercial BrainForest help you organize your ideas and thoughts into workable outlines. Earthtime, meanwhile, tells you what time it is in any part of the world, which is always handy when you're placing phone calls to distant locations. One of the more interesting and growing application areas for the Palm is e-text reading.
Several sites offer books and articles for download, some for free.
Check first in Palm Central 's Info area, The Lending Library , MemoWare , and the PalmPilot Library . In fact, an entire Web ring exists just to cover e-texts for this platform . Perhaps the most surprising part of this phenomenon is that the Palm isn't half bad for reading. You need a good light, but the machine is lighter and smaller than most novels, and you should be able to read comfortably for half an hour or more. Not surprisingly, a huge variety of Web sites are dedicated to the Palm.