Palm VII - Manual (Page 130)

Page 122 Query Applications and the iMessenger™ Application
Query applications
Just as your web browser gives you access to many different web sites,
your organizer gives you access to many different “sites” for web
clipping — as many as you care to add and your organizer can store.
If you have already set up your organizer, you have some already.
These “sites” are called query applications. They were created by third-
party developers, but you open them and use them just as you would
a basic Palm VII application like Address Book.
Query applications give you access to a wide spectrum of practical
Internet information. Each query application is designed to let you
query the Internet for a specific kind of information.
For example, the query applications available to you when you set up
your organizer and install Palm™ Desktop organizer software give
you access to the following kinds of information: traffic and weather
conditions; airline, hotel, and restaurant information; locations of
automatic teller machines; driving directions; stock market data;
movie listings; availability of tickets to local events; business and
general news; definitions, spelling, and synonyms of words; and
business and residential phone numbers, addresses, and e-mail
addresses.
Web clipping, not web browsing
It’s impractical to browse the Internet from a small handheld
computer and look at elaborate, animated, graphics-laden web pages
on a screen the size of your organizer’s. As a way to access Internet
information, web clipping offers you the following advantages:
■ Convenience: Because your organizer is a wireless device, you can
be walking down the street while accessing the Internet.
■ Focus: Query applications focus on retrieving small pieces of
specific, up-to-date information.