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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=715474501-18042006>> </SPAN>This may sound like a really stupid
question but here goes!! What exactly is a PDA and how do you use it to go to
paperless caching? I have</FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=715474501-18042006>> </SPAN>paper caches all over the house and would
really like a new way of caching!!</FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV></FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=715474501-18042006><FONT face="Book Antiqua"
color=#0000ff>PDA stands for "Personal Digital Assistant". It's a catch-all term
that's used to describe the hand-held organizers that are made by several
manufacturers. If you've heard of "Palm Pilot", that's one brand of PDA
(although Palm doesn't use that brand name anymore). At one time Palm
Pilots held so much of the market that's what everyone called them. But PDA is
more generic and accepted now. They all keep track of addresses and phone
numbers, appointments, to-do lists, etc.</FONT></SPAN></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=715474501-18042006><FONT face="Book Antiqua" color=#0000ff>One
thing all PDA's have in common is the ability to move information to and from a
computer, usually just by plugging the PDA into a cable and pressing a button.
This process is often referred to as "synching". To use a PDA for paperless
caching, you download the caches you want to hunt onto your computer, and from
there you sync them on to your PDA. Then instead of carrying sheets of paper
about the caches with you, you just carry your PDA out on the trail, and you
have all the information you need.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=715474501-18042006></SPAN><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN
class=715474501-18042006><FONT face="Book Antiqua" color=#0000ff
size=3>Depending on the type of PDA you buy and how much caching you do, you may
need to buy other software for either your PDA or your computer (or both) to
make it all work right, but that's a whole other discussion. I hope this is the
information you were looking for.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN class=715474501-18042006><FONT
face="Book Antiqua" color=#0000ff size=3>Steve</FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN class=715474501-18042006><FONT
face="Book Antiqua" color=#0000ff size=3>Team Tierra
Buena</FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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