_____/ On Thursday 25 August 2005 10:22, [Harold] wrote : \_____
> When you buy a paper diary it often has details of "interesting" events
> shown on the relevant dates. Such details might include sporting events,
> public holidays in different countries, art exhibitions, music concerts
> etc. etc.
>
> There used to be a company (I think it was called On Board Info) that
> published this type of data for the old Psion series of clamshells but I
> think they shut up shop.
>
> Does anyone know if this type of data is published for the Palm (m515)?
>
> The software would, hopefully, let you select the type(s) of event and the
> country/countries of interest and then, based on your selection, generate
> some sort of update to Agenda.
>
> I don't mind if the thing is PC, web or Palm based as long as the selected
> details end up in my Palm's Agenda.
There are such programs for holidays, e.g. HolidayUSA
http://www.freewarepalm.com/clock/holidayusa.shtml
It will export all holidays to your Calendars and be able to go many years
ahead.
I doubt whether you can find similar things for sporting events and the like
because they are announced year by year (very few at a time). The service
provider will need to retain a database and feed information to you. There
might be a commercial solution. I suggest that you search the Web for:
'Palm schedule import', 'Palm clock import' or 'palm event database'.
If you find a solution of this kind for your schedule agent (sometimes
incorporated into a mail client), you can perhaps import it, then import
from the schedule agent to Palm Desktop and synchronise it to have it in
your Palm. A long path of imports and conversions -> time-consuming and
often not feasible.
Best of luck!
Roy
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Roy S. Schestowitz "Disk quota exceeded; sig discontinued"
http://Schestowitz.com
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