Coola had a quick and easy way for transferring pre-selected chunks of information from the Web or an email message to a palm device. You could click on a link on a Web page or in an email, and the associated information will be added to the appropriate application on your palm (schedule, address, or memo) the next time you sync. Unfortunately, Coola is no longer in business.
This capability makes it easy for you to make your information readily accessible for future reference by friends, customers, and business associates who use palms. It just takes a minute fill out a form at their Web site www.coola.com and get the link for inclusion in email and the code for inclusion on Web pages to make it easy for others to move your particular information to the right application on their palms.
Try the samples below. [Since Coola is no longer in business, the links, which no longer work, have been removed.] Click on the sync button and you'll get a prompt to register and download a small file. Then the associated info will move to your palm automatically the next time you sync; and you'll be set up so the next time you see a link like this, all you'll need to do is click. Give it a try, and set your imagination loose. You can add links like this to your own email and Web pages, very quickly, at no cost.
Keep in mind that with Coola, you the user are in control of what information goes to your Palm. At any time you can go to the Coola site and login, which takes you to your MyCoola page. There you can View the coolets that will be added to your Palm the next time you sync (based on the links you have clicked on and those sent to you by your authorized "friends"), and delete them if you like.
Also, keep in mind that Coola is not a "destination site." They haven't set it up so you have to keep going back to the Coola site again and again. Rather you can create Coola links ("coolets") wherever you like -- on your own Web pages and in your email. Just fill out the appropriate form at the "Create Coolets" page
If you come up with creative ways to use this new capability, please let me know, and I'll add your comments/links here. (NB -- I've added a Coola link to my email signature file, and put a Coola sync button on my chat reminder page, www.samizdat.com/chat.html)
Richard Seltzer, seltzer@samizdat.com
Start the day with the start of a good book
Here I'm experimenting with the new editing capability at Coola. If you click on this Coolet, the next time you sync the first sentence of a good novel will move to your palm -- as an event scheduled for 5 AM the next day, so you'll see those inspiring words at the top of your schedule. The link here will stay the same, but I'll change the content of the Coolet each night by editing it at the Coola site (one of the options in your MyCoola area). So if you get a kick out of this, you can return here and click on this link each day to get each day's new quote. You could do the same kind of thing for Joke of the Day, Inspiring Quote of the Day, sports scores, weather forecasts etc., providing palm users who visit your site with a reason to return each day (or whatever other interval you choose). Folks with programming skills could probably write scripts to update their Coolets. Please let me know about your experiments of that kind.
For the curious, I'll keep a log of all these quotes at www.samizdat.com/start.html
Contact information
Richard Seltzer, B&R Samizdat Express, 33 Gould St., West Roxbury, MA 02132. 617-469-2269. seltzer@samizdat.com www.samizdat.com
(To move this contact information to the address book on your Palm, click the "Sync" button.)
Address Book: Richard Seltzer, Internet consultant/writer/speaker, B&R Samzidat Express
July 20 -- Coola: a fast new way to move info to your palm and to communicate with other palm users. As a test of this service, click the "Sync" button below and move info about this event to the schedule on your Palm.
Use email to "beam" information to other palm users. Coola
Users of palm devices often "beam" contact info to one another at trade shows and meetings, using the built-in infrared port. That's like exchanging business cards only the info goes straight to the Address Book on your palm. Now, thanks to Coola, we can produce the same effect with email.
If you want the folks who get your email messages to remember you, just go to www.coola.com, register, and download their free software. Then go to their "MyCoola area" and click on "Create Your Coola Signature". Fill in the form, and you'll get a simple one-line link that you can add to your standard email signature.
When you see such a "Coolet" link in an email signature, just click on it, and (if you are registered) the associated information will move to the Address Book on your palm the next time you HotSync. (If you aren't registered yet, you'll be prompted to register.)
By the way, since you create your Signature Coolet on the Web and use it in email and in newsgroups, you can do this even if you don't own a palm yourself -- making it easy for people who do have them to get save your contact info.
Palm resources to go (coola-ized for convenience)
Related article The Web and your palm -- sometimes
less is more, when it's the right less
Related article: Sync to people: building relationships
palm-to-palm
Transcript of chat session on what you can do
with Coola
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