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...those quaintly Jurassic old fogies who still keep an address book--more portable than a palmtop, after all--I recently came across a problem: my little book was filling up even though my Christmas-card list was not. In short, the number of my friends was not increasing, but the number of numbers of my friends definitely was. How do I call you? Let me count the ways (even a Catholic hermitage I sometimes have to contact now has two telephone numbers, a fax number and an E-mail address involving the words monks and contemplation...
Your selection of "The Best Websites of 1996" surprised me. Almost all were from the commercial domain; private and personal Websites were virtually ignored. There are some first-class personal sites. Want to receive help for your palmtop computer that does not interest its maker anymore? Go to private sites. Want action to resist some foolish political decisions? Want information about some real writers and artists? Support for a major illness? The list goes on and on. The backbone of the Net is still the private individuals connected to it. ETIENNE BORGERS Singapore...
...their nifty buttons and sex appeal, handheld organizers have always seemed cooler in concept than in reality--too clunky and complicated to replace pen and paper. Then U.S. Robotics introduced its Pilot, the first palmtop to cram addresses and a daily calendar into a simple, 5-oz. electronic tablet. With a penlike stylus, users can jot down notes on the screen and transfer them to a desktop PC program like Lotus Organizer. ($249; Palm Computing...
...flag in its losing battle with Microsoft, the company is opening a new front. The weapons of choice, unveiled this week and available early next year, are its first "information appliances": portable, simple-to-use devices that will sell for less than $1,000 and combine PC functionality with palmtop mobility...
...over a Pilot on the New York City subway. He turned out to be Andrew Manitsky, a TIME reader, who was scrolling through page after page of sports scores downloaded from the Net. Manitsky, a lawyer who dumped his Sharp Wizard in favor of a Pilot, uses his new palmtop to keep track of schedules, phone numbers and the occasional great notion, as well as a link to E-mail and the Internet. But it's not all work: Manitsky also loads up the palmtop with gaming programs like Tetris and Space Invaders...