Palm BlueBoard 2.0 Handbook

Palm

™

BlueBoard 2.0

Handbook

Copyright

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of this software. Palm, Inc. assumes no responsibility for any damage or loss caused by deletion of data as
a result of malfunction, dead battery, or repairs. Be sure to make backup copies of all important data on
other media to protect against data loss.

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Contents

Palm™ BlueBoard 2.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

How it works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

System requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Installing BlueBoard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Launching BlueBoard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Getting help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Starting a BlueBoard session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Ending a drawing session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Configuring BlueBoard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Blocking drawing requests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Assigning a new Bluetooth device name to your handheld . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

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Palm™ BlueBoard 2.0 allows you to wirelessly share and create drawings with
other BlueBoard 2.0 users.

How it works

BlueBoard relies on Bluetooth™ technology to allow you to work on drawings
with other BlueBoard users. You can wirelessly connect with similarly equipped
handhelds up to 10 meters (30 feet) away. And unlike beaming, you aren’t required
to point your handheld at other handhelds in order to make and keep a connection.

BlueBoard uses the standard Bluetooth discovery process to automatically find all
other users in range. In addition, BlueBoard stores the device names and addresses
of the last ten BlueBoard users you collaborated with, so you don’t have to go
through the discovery process to find them again.

You can connect with up to three other BlueBoard users to work on a collaborative
drawing.

Palm

™

BlueBoard 2.0

System requirements

To install BlueBoard, your handheld must have at least 200 kilobytes (KB) of free
RAM storage available.

To find the amount of RAM storage available:

1. Tap the Home icon .

2. Tap the Menu icon .

3. Tap Info in the App menu.

4. Tap Size.

In the line beginning “Free Space” are two numbers. The second number is the
total amount of RAM available on your handheld. The first number is the
amount of free RAM available. If the first number can be rounded up to 200KB
or more, your handheld has enough RAM to support BlueBoard. For example,
if the first number is 1MB (1 megabyte), your handheld has enough RAM.

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