Dealing with handheld diversity
POSE allows you to create and save various configurations, making it easier for you to manage producing teaching materials and presentations for different groups in your organization.

For example, one configuration could be for your sales force, using Palm IIIxe handhelds with your company's order entry software installed. Another configuration could be for your shipping department, using Symbol Technologies SPT 1500s with third party inventory control software installed.

When creating these configurations, you have three options for installing your third party applications on POSE:

• Choose the Install Application/Database option from the POSE menu;

• Drag and drop the desired PRC or PDB files from your desktop onto the simulated Palm device while it's turned on;

• Perform a HotSync either with another computer over a serial cable or with the network.

On the big screen
Once you have POSE running on your computer, doing demonstrations for large groups is a simple matter. Just hook up your computer to a projection system and demonstrate away. For best results, you'll want to change the settings for POSE so that it displays at double scale by selecting the Skins Option on the Settings menu of POSE.

Some of the projection systems I have worked with and gotten good results from include various models made by InFocus (at http://www.infocus.com) and Mitsubishi (at http://www.mitsubishi-presentations.com/Products/products.html).

On the small screen
POSE can also be used by the trainees on their individual desktop machines, providing them with a safe hands-on environment where they can work without worrying about getting training data mixed with real data or accidentally deleting important records from their Palm devices as they learn.

On the printed page
In addition to live demonstrations, the screen capture capabilities of your computer and of POSE can be used to prepare screen dumps for written materials. On a Microsoft Windows system, you can use ALT+PrintScrn to copy the active window to the clipboard. The image pictured in Figure A would be useful as part of an instruction sheet discussing the functions of the various buttons or the layout of the silkscreen area.

FIGURE A


ALT+PrintScrn saves an image of the whole Palm device. Roll over picture for a larger image.

POSE is also capable of saving screen dumps of just the 160x160 display area. You can save this image in one of two ways. First, you can use the normal background of the Palm device, as shown in Figure B.

FIGURE B

A screen dump with a green background works best for online documentation.

Alternatively, you can select the Skins option from the Settings menu and choose the white background option, as shown in Figure C.

FIGURE C

A screen dump with a white background works best for printed materials.

Using your favorite paint program to add callouts, arrows, and annotations is a good way to further increase the effectiveness of these screen dumps.