Acer S60 User Manual

User Manual for

Acer s50 and s60 Handhelds

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Acer s50 and s60 Handhelds User Manual Original issue: August 2002

Acer and the Acer logo are registered trademarks of Acer Inc. Graffiti, HotSync, and Palm OS are registered trademarks. HotSync, Palm, and the Palm logo are trademarks of Palm, Inc. or its subsidiaries. Other company’s product names or trademarks are used herein for identification purpose only and belong to their respective companies.

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NOTES

Record the device ID, serial number, purchase date, and place of purchase information in the space provided below. The serial number and device ID are recorded on the label affixed to your Acer handheld. All correspondence concerning your unit should include the serial number, device ID, and purchase information.

Acer s50 and s60 handhelds

Device ID: _________________________________

S/N: _______________________________________

Purchase Date: ____________________________

Place of Purchase: _________________________

Your guides

First things first

Your guides

First things first

We would like to thank you for making Acer handheld your choice for your handheld needs. Your new sleek Acer handheld is packed with user-friendly applications and utilities designed to make organising work-related information and synchronising it with your personal activities a time-efficient task. We hope you enjoy using your Acer handheld as much as we enjoyed creating it for you.

To help you use your handheld, we have designed a set of guides:

• First off, the Just for Starters poster helps you get started with setting up your handheld.

• This online Acer s50 and s60 Handhelds User Manual introduces you to the many ways your handheld can help you organise and manage both business and personal information so as to make your everyday activities a more productive and satisfying experience. This User Manual provides clear and comprehensive information about your handheld, so read it thoroughly.

• The handy Acer s50 and s60 Handhelds Quick Guide useful for taking a quick reference glance on your handheld’s basic functionalities. Keep it on your desktop or in your backpack for easy access. This Quick Guide is also available in PDF format on the Acer s50 and s60 Handhelds Installation

CD.

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•A Graffiti strokes of this powerful writing software.

For more information about our products, services, and support information, please visit our web site at http://www.acer.com/

pocket reference card to remind you of the standard writing

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First things first

Maintaining your Acer handheld

This section provides information on the following:

• Proper care and usage of your handheld

• Resetting your handheld

Proper care and usage of your handheld

Your handheld’s rugged and tough construction is designed to provide you with years of reliable and trouble-free service. Observing the following general maintenance procedures will help ensure this:

1 Take care not to scratch the screen of your handheld. Keep the screen clean. When

working with your handheld, use the supplied stylus or plastic-tipped pens intended for use with touch-sensitive screens. Never use an actual pen or pencil or other sharp object on the screen surface.

2 Your handheld is not waterproof and should not be exposed to rain or moisture.

Under extreme conditions, water may enter the circuitry through the front panel buttons. In general, treat your handheld as you would a pocket calculator or other small electronic device.

3 Take care not to drop your handheld or subject it to any strong impact. Do not place

your handheld in your back pocket; if you sit on it, you may damage it.

4 Protect your handheld from temperature extremes. For example, do not leave your

handheld on the dashboard of a car on a hot day or on a day when temperatures are below the freezing point. Also, keep it away from heaters and other sources of heat.

5 Do not use or store your handheld in any location that is extremely dusty, damp or

wet.

6 Use a soft, damp cloth to clean your handheld. If the surface of the screen becomes

soiled, clean it with a soft cloth moistened with diluted window-cleaning solution.

Battery considerations

Please note the following considerations for the battery in your handheld.

• Under normal conditions, your handheld battery should remain charged by placing it in the cradle for just a few minutes each day. You can conserve battery life by minimising the use of the backlight feature and changing the the Auto-off setting that automatically turns off the handheld after a period of inactivity. For more information on the Auto-off setting, refer to "Setting the Auto-off interval time" on page 247.

• If the battery becomes low in the course of normal use, an alert appears on the handheld screen indicating low battery status. If this alert appears, perform a HotSync operation to back up your data; then leave your handheld in the cradle to recharge the unit. This will prevent accidental data loss.

• If the battery drains to the point where your handheld does not operate, it stores your data safely for about a week. In this case, there is enough residual energy in the battery to store the data, but not enough to turn on your handheld. If your handheld does not turn on when you press the power button, you should recharge your unit immediately.

• If your battery drains and you have the unit in an uncharged state for an extended period of time, you can lose all the data stored in it.

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• There are no serviceable parts inside your handheld so do not attempt to open the unit.

• If you ever dispose of your handheld, please dispose it without damaging the environment. Take your handheld to the nearest environmental recycling center.

Assigning security options

The Security application in your handheld lets you set options to protect entries from unauthorised users in a variety of ways:

The security application lets you:

• Mask or hide entries you have defined as private.

– The Mask option displays a gray bar over private records. – The Hide option completely hides private records.

• Assign a password to viewing options to enhance security.

– Assigning a password requires you to enter a password before private

entries can be viewed.

– Not assigning a password lets you view private entries when you select

Show Records from the Security dialog box.

• Lock and turn off your handheld so that a password must be entered before you can use the device again.

• Hide records that you have defined as private, with or without a password.

– Without a password, private records are hidden until you set the Security

application to display them.

– With a password, you must enter the password to view the private

entries.

For more information on how to set these security features, refer to "Security" on page 16.

First things first

Assigning security options

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First things first

Assigning security options

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1 Entering data in your Acer handheld

Entering data using Graffiti

The Graffiti alphabet

Draw Graffiti letters using the following strokes.

Letter Strokes Letter Strokes

AN

BO

CP

DQ

ER

FS

GT

HU

IV

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JW

KX

LY

MZ

Space Backspace

Carriage

Return

Period

Tap twice.

To write Graffiti letters

1 Tap the screen where you want to write letters, for example, on a line next to a time

in Date Book.

NOTE: A blinking cursor must appear onscreen above the Graffiti writing before you can begin writing text.

2 Refer to the Graffiti alphabet table to find the stroke shape for the letter you want to

write. For example, the stroke shown below creates the letter n.

Lift stylus here.

Start stroke at heavy dot.

You use the same shape to create both the uppercase and lowercase version of a letter.

3 Position the stylus in the left hand side of the Graffiti writing area.

4 Start your stroke at the heavy dot, and draw the stroke shape as it appears in the

tables.

5 Lift the stylus from the screen at the end of the stroke shape.

Your handheld recognises your stroke immediately and displays the letter at the insertion point onscreen. As soon as you lift the stylus from the screen, you can begin the stroke for the next character you want to write.

Graffiti writing automatically capitalises the first letter of a new record or sentence. To write additional capital letters, you must first write the Caps Shift stroke to shift to

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Caps Lock mode— just as you press the Shift key on a keyboard—and then write the desired character stroke.

Caps Shift

When Caps Shift is active, an Up arrow appears in the lower right corner of the handheld screen.

Caps Shift

If you accidentally activate the Caps Shift, draw the Backspace stroke to cancel it.

To write capital letters:

1 Choose from the following options:

• To enter a single capital letter, write the Caps Shift stroke. Then write the character stroke.

• To enter all capital letters (Caps Lock), write the Caps Lock stroke, as shown below. All subsequent letters are capitalised.

Caps Lock

2 To return to lowercase or release the Caps Lock, draw the Caps Shift stroke again.

The Graffiti numbers

Draw Graffiti numbers using the following strokes.

Number Strokes Number Strokes

05

16

27

38

49

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To write Graffiti numbers

1 Tap the screen where you want to write numbers.

NOTE: A blinking cursor must appear onscreen above the Graffiti writing before you can begin writing numbers.

2 Refer to the Graffiti number table to find the stroke shape for the number you want

to write. For example, the stroke shown below creates the number 3.

Start stroke at heavy dot.

Lift stylus here.

3 Position the stylus in the right hand side of the Graffiti writing area.

4 Start your stroke at the heavy dot, and draw the stroke shape as it appears in the

tables.

5 Lift the stylus from the screen at the end of the stroke shape.

Your handheld recognises your stroke immediately and displays the number at the insertion point onscreen. As soon as you lift the stylus from the screen, you can begin the stroke for the next character you want to write.

The Graffiti punctuation marks

You can create any punctuation symbol available from a standard keyboard using Graffiti writing.

All punctuation marks begin with a single tap on the Graffiti writing area. This tap activates the Punctuation Shift, indicated by a dot displayed above the writing area. The next stroke you make with the stylus creates a punctuation mark. When Punctuation Shift is active, you can write a symbol stroke on either side of the Graffiti writing area (the letter or number side).

Punctuation Shift

Create punctuation marks using the following strokes:

Punctuation

mark

Period

.

Comma

,

Apostrophe

'

Stroke Punctuation

mark

Dash

—

Left Paren

(

Right Paren

)

Stroke

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Question

?

Exclamation

!

Additional Graffiti punctuation marks include the following:

Slash

/

Dollar

$

@ # % ^ & * < > – + = |

\ { } [ ] ~ ` ; : " tab

The Graffiti symbols and extended characters

Symbol

Shift

Symbol Shift

Draw symbols or extended characters using the following strokes:

•   

+

±

:

X

,

==c

ƒ

,

Y

∅

.

?

!

,

The Graffiti accented characters

To draw accented characters, you first draw the stroke for the letter, and then draw the accent stroke. Graffiti writing then adds the accent to the letter.

For example, the following illustration shows the strokes required to draw an accented e.

= e

Using these accent strokes, you can write the following accented letters:

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a a a a a a

à á â ã ä å è é ê ì í î ï ò ó ô õ ö ù ú û ü ÿ D ñ

The Graffiti non-English characters

You can write the following characters in the lowercase alphabet mode without special punctuation or shifting. You must write these non-English characters in the left side of the Graffiti writing area.

c

a

e

Graffiti navigation strokes

Graffiti writing includes additional strokes for navigating within text or fields in your applications.

Command Stroke

Move cursor right

Move cursor left

Previous field

(Address Book only)

Next Field

(Address Book only)

Open Address

Record

(Address Book only)

Using Graffiti ShortCuts

Graffiti ShortCuts let you easily enter commonly used words and phrases. You can create ShortCuts of up to 45 character using the ShortCut preferences. Refer to "ShortCuts preferences" on page 268 for detailed instructions on how to create a ShortCut.

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Predefined Graffiti ShortCuts

Your handheld includes the following predefined Graffiti ShortCuts for common entries.

Entry ShortCut

Date stamp ds

Time stamp ts

Date/time stamp dts

Meeting me

Breakfast br

Lunch lu

Dinner di

To use a ShortCut

Draw the ShortCut stroke followed by the ShortCut character(s).

When you draw the ShortCut stroke, the ShortCut symbol appears at the insertion point.

ShortCut

To edit a ShortCut:

1 Tap the Applications icon .

2 In the All or System screen, tap the Prefs icon .

3 Tap the pick list in the upper right corner of the Preferences screen, then select

ShortCut.

4 Tap the ShortCut you want to edit.

5 Tap Edit.

6 Make the changes you want.

7Tap OK.

To delete a ShortCut

1 Tap the Applications icon .

2 In the All or System screen, tap the Prefs icon .

3 Tap the pick list in the upper right corner of the Preferences screen, then select

ShortCut.

4 Tap the ShortCut you want to delete.

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Using the onscreen keyboard

5 Tap Delete.

6Tap Yes.

Graffiti tips

When using Graffiti, keep the following tips in mind:

• For greater accuracy, draw letters with large strokes; strokes that nearly fill the Graffiti writing area are easily interpreted.

• To delete characters, set the insertion point to the right of the character you want to delete, and draw the Backspace stroke (a line from right to left) in the Graffiti writing area.

• Write at natural speed. Writing too slowly can produce errors.

• Do not write at an angle. Vertical strokes should be parallel to the sides of the Graffiti writing area.

• When letters and numbers can be written using two different strokes, use the one that’s easiest for you.

• Press firmly.

Using the onscreen keyboard

You can open the onscreen keyboard anytime you need to enter text or numbers on your handheld.

NOTE: You can enter Graffiti characters while using the onscreen keyboard.

To use the onscreen keyboard

1 Open any application (such as Address Book).

2 Tap any record, or tap New.

3 Choose one of the following to display the alphabetic or numeric keyboard:

• Tap on the Graffiti writing area to display the alphabetic keyboard.

• Tap on the Graffiti writing area to display the numeric keyboard.

Tap here to display the

alphabetic keyboard.

TIP: To select either keyboard, tap the Menu icon and then tap Edit. Tap Keyboard, and then select an option.

4 Tap the desired characters or numbers.

Tap here to display the numeric keyboard.

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Beaming data

Alphabetic

Backspace

5 Tap Done to enter the text or numbers.

Beaming data

Caps Lock

Caps Shift

Tap here to display alphabetic keyboard

Numeric

Tap here to display numeric keyboard.

Your handheld is equipped with an infrared (IR) port that you can use to beam information to another Palm OS handheld that is close by and also has an IR port. The IR port is located on the top part of your handheld, indicated by the Infrared icon

, behind the small dark shield.

Refer to "8 Beaming information" on page 207 for more information on beaming procedures.

Carriage return

International

Tap here to display internationalkeyboard.

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Beaming data

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2 Managing your

applications

Using Applications Launcher

By default, Applications Launcher displays all the available applications installed on the internal memory of your handheld. You can choose to display only selected applications by arranging applications into categories.

NOTE: For instructions on how to display the applications stored in a Memory Stick, refer to "Switching memory source" on the Acer s50 and s60 Handhelds Quick Guide.

To open Applications Launcher

2 Managing your applications

Using Applications Launcher

• Tap the Applications icon . The All category of Applications Launcher appears.

NOTE: The first time you launch Applications Launcher, it will display the All screen. If the Remember Last Category preference option is selected, next time you launch Applications Launcher, it will open in the last screen it was in from its last session. To set this option, refer to "Displaying the last selected category of applications" on page 15.

In addition to providing a way for you to open applications, Applications Launcher also displays the current time, battery level, and the category of the displayed applications.

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2 Managing your applications

Using Applications Launcher

Categorising applications

The category feature enables you to manage the number of application icons that appear in the Applications Launcher screen. You can assign an application to a category and then display a single category or all your applications.

NOTE: When you have a Memory Stick properly seated in the Memory Stick slot, the last item in the category pick list refers to the Memory Stick.

To categorise an application

1 Tap the Menu icon .

2 From the App menu, tap Category.

Tap here.

3 Tap the pick list next to an application name to select a category.

Tap here.

4Tap Done.

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Using Applications Launcher

To create a new category

1 Do either of the following to display the Edit Categories screen:

• In the Category screen, tap any of the pick lists, then select Edit Categories.

• In the Applications Launcher screen, tap the category pick list on the upper-right corner of the screen, then select Edit Categories.

2 In the Edit Categories screen, tap New.

3 In the New Category screen, enter a new category name.

Tap here.

NOTE: Category names are case-sensitive. You can have categories named 'GRAPHICS' and 'graphics’ at the same time.

4Tap OK.

To display applications by category:

• In Applications Launcher, do one of the following:

– Tap the Applications icon repeatedly to cycle through all the

categories.

– Tap the pick list in the upper right corner of the screen; then tap the

category you want to display.

Changing the Applications Launcher display

By default, Applications Launcher displays applications as icons. As an alternative, you can display applications in a list format.

To change the view of applications

1 Tap the Menu icon .

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Using Applications Launcher

2 From the Options menu, tap Preferences.

3 In the Preferences dialog box, tap the View By pick list, and then tap List.

Tap here.

4Tap OK.

Icons in the Applications Launcher screen will now be shown in a list format.

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2 Managing your applications

Setting preferences for applications

Displaying the last selected category of applications

The first time you launch Applications Launcher, it will display the All screen. If the Remember Last Category preference option is selected, next time you launch Applications Launcher, it will open in the last screen it was in from its last session.

To display the last selected category of applications

1 Tap the Menu icon .

2 From the Options menu, tap Preferences.

3 In the Preferences dialog box, tap Remember Last Category.

Select check box.

4Tap OK.

Each time you return to Applications Launcher, the category of the last application you opened is displayed.

Setting preferences for applications

You can set preferences for individual applications in the Preferences dialog box. This will allow you to customise your applications to fit your work methods.

NOTE: Not all applications have preferences settings.

To set preferences for an application

1 Open an application.

2 Tap the Menu icon .

3 From the Options menu, select Preferences.

4 Enter the desired preference settings.

5Tap OK.

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Security

The Security application in your handheld allows you to prevent unauthorised access to your records by setting such entries as private records. Private records remain visible and accessible until you select the security setting Hide Records.

NOTE: You can set records as private in all basic applications, except Mail.

You can mask or hide private records. When you mask private records, a gray placeholder appears where the record would normally be displayed and a Lock icon

is visible opposite the masked entry; when you hide records, they are not visible anywhere in the list.

You can mask or hide records without assigning a password, or you can assign a password if you want records to remain masked or hidden until a password is entered.

To make a record private

1 Open one of the basic applications (except Mail), then display the entry you want to

make private for editing.

2 Tap Details.

3 Tap the Private check box.

4Tap OK.

An alert box appears.

Tap here.

5Tap OK.

To mask a private record

1 From within any basic application you have a private record in, tap the Menu icon .

2 From the Options menu, tap Security to display the Change Security dialog box.

3 Tap the Current Privacy pick list.

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4 Tap Mask Records.

5Tap OK.

The Mask Records screen appears.

2 Managing your applications

Security

Tap here.

6Tap OK.

To mask all private records

1 In Applications Launcher, tap the Security icon to display the Security screen.

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Security

2 From the Current Privacy pick list, tap Mask Records.

3 Open one of the basic applications (except Mail) and view a record.

Records marked as private are masked with a gray bar and are marked with the Lock icon .

Tap here.

To hide a private record

1 From within any private record, tap the Menu icon .

2 From the Options menu, tap Security.

3 Tap the Current Privacy pick list.

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Acer S60 User Manual

Specifications and Main Features

Frequently Asked Questions

User Manual

Your guides

First things first

Maintaining your Acer handheld

Proper care and usage of your handheld

Battery considerations

Assigning security options

Contents

Entering data using Graffiti

1 Entering data in your Acer handheld

The Graffiti alphabet

The Graffiti numbers

The Graffiti punctuation marks

The Graffiti symbols and extended characters

The Graffiti accented characters

The Graffiti non-English characters

Graffiti navigation strokes

Using Graffiti ShortCuts

Using the onscreen keyboard

Graffiti tips

Beaming data

Using Applications Launcher

2 Managing your applications

Categorising applications

Changing the Applications Launcher display

Setting preferences for applications

Displaying the last selected category of applications

Security