SaiFightsMS Posted August 8, 2003 Share Posted August 8, 2003 The more I use my pda, (handheld computer), the more uses I find for it. Recording workouts in the weight room. Rather than drag the notebook around I use a program called handy shopper and enter what I plan on doing before hand. Then just check it off as I go. Advantage being I can design multiple workouts and have them all in the palm of my hand. I have always kept written descriptions of the katas I work on. I have a program that is compatible with work called Documents to Go. I download my files into the handheld and have them right with me. So I can mentally review where ever I am. Videos, this is a new use for me. Using kinoma player I load video clips of the katas on a memory stick and have it as a handy memory jog. Has anyone else done any work with a handheld? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeygirl Posted August 8, 2003 Share Posted August 8, 2003 Sai I'm gonna move this to General MA since I feel that the whole community could benefit from this really nifty idea! 1st dan & Asst. Instructor TKD 2000-2003No matter the tune...if you can rock it, rock it hard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kumite988 Posted August 8, 2003 Share Posted August 8, 2003 Sounds cool but my Palm Pilot doesn't have all those high end features. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonymousCoward Posted August 8, 2003 Share Posted August 8, 2003 Yes, I too use a PDA for everything but I have a PocketPC one rather than a PalmOS one. I had a handspring Visor whilst I was at university and it was great for taking notes and stuff. My instructor has a Compaq iPAQ and uses his to maintain a register / take notes on some students. I have a Dell Axim PDA (I think they cost about $200 in the US) and it's great. I have all 24 of the Taekwon-Do hyung on there in MPEG 1 format so that I can use PocketMPEG to view them (I have a 256MB SD card for it). It has a full colour screen and sound, so it's pretty good for watching video clips. It also has a version of Internet Explorer on there so you can view web pages and so on. I also have a stash of Kyokushin clips and other stuff and at the moment, I'm working on OCR'ing the entire Taekwon-Do encyclopedia and converting it into web pages since on the Taekwon-Do encylopedia CD rom set, it's just scanned in pictures of each page of the encyclopedia - but it's quite a task, I only have the first 12 or 13 chapters completed. Now that General Choi has passed away, there seems to be some confusion over who owns the copyright to the Encyclopedia... but I think I should be able to get the whole thing to fit on a PDA easily. I've also converted the videos of General Choi on the encyclopedia from quicktime over to MPEG for use on my PDA, not that I'm particularly interested in what he has to say though! Just because I can! Some PDA's have CompactFlash slots or SD slots so that you can load up your digital cameras memory into the PDA to look at the photos / videos you've just made. You can then share the photos around those who have PDA's using IR / Bluetooth or 802.11b if your PDA supports it. I don't use it to store workout notes or anything, just so that I can study hyung on the way to training. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gino Posted August 8, 2003 Share Posted August 8, 2003 Very nice! Never give in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaiFightsMS Posted August 8, 2003 Author Share Posted August 8, 2003 I got my first pda so I could sync to avant-go. But you know the more you do with one the more things you find to do. I am thinking about to a project in Margi. It is the pda version of Power-point. I have done written descriptions of some katas with pictures interspersed with them. I want to see how this would look as a presentation on the handheld. The SJ33 is my first color handheld. The first was monochrome. And the appearance of things is nothing short of spectacular. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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