Compaq iPAQ Pocket PC h3600 Specifications download pdf (Page 9)

Micke Gunnarsson 2001-07-19

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very convenient to place a shortcut to the E-Book

that one is currently reading on the

Start menu. Then the Microsoft Reader application is started with the actual book

already opened. At the top of the Start Menu the latest used applications is shown fore

easy restart. By default the six latest used is shown but if a shortcut with a longer

name is added to the menu up to the eight latest is shown.

Another menu for fast access to applications is the QStart menu that is started by

pressing the first button on the right. Adding shortcuts is done the same way as to the

Start menu on the stationary computer. The shortcuts are grouped in different folders

shown in the drop down menu at the bottom. This is a handy feature when adding a

large number of shortcuts because the Start menu looses its purpose of easy overview

when getting large.

The shutdown of a started application is done a little different on the iPAQ than on

the stationary computer. One of the buttons on the iPAQ is labelled Q. This is the

QMenu. If the user wants to shut down for example an open Word application he/she

has to press this button and choose either Close active task or Close all tasks. The

menu opened shows all open applications for easy switching between them. If the

application that the user wishes to shut down is not active the user first needs to set it

active by choosing it and then press the Q button one more time and choose Close

active task. This is not a user-friendly way to do this compared to a stationary

computer. It would be much easier if there were an icon similar to the one in the

upper right corner in Windows or a command like the ALT+F4

command in

Windows. Another non-user-friendly thing is the need to press the button to access

the QMenu. An alternate and better way to open this menu is to locate it in the

programs folder and create a shortcut on the Start menu.

3.2.3 File Management

The iPAQ has a limited version of the file explorer in Windows. As mentioned earlier

there are for example no possibilities to create shortcuts. The file explorer on the

iPAQ has no options in the way that the folders/files are shown. The user cannot

choose between large and small icons or a detailed list. Once again it should be

mentioned that a user familiar to Windows might want to do just that. A feature that

the user might miss is the way that folders are shown on the stationary computer, in

frames with the folders to the left. To the iPAQ´s defence it perhaps would be a little

hard to fit it into the small display but it should be up to the user to choose.

Copy and paste is done in a similar way as in Windows by right clicking (on the

iPAQ by tap-ing and holding) and choose from the opened menu. This feature also

makes it easy to send a file by email because the popup menu includes the choice

send file to….

An E-Book is a book stored electronically as a text file.

In a Windows environment the active application terminates when pressing the ALT and F4 buttons

on the keyboard at the same time.

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