Palm TM Zire Zire 71 User manual

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Getting Started With
Photos, Music & Videos

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Requirements
•Complete all steps in Read This First, which is included in your handheld package.
•Locate the CD. If your handheld package contains two CDs, locate CD with Software Essentials.
•Purchase an expansion card (sold separately) to store music files for playback on your
handheld. You can buy SD and MultiMediaCard expansion cards at www.palm.com/intl
and your local computer or office store. For details on using expansion cards, see your
Handbook.
•Install QuickTime 3.0, or a later version, on your desktop computer, to play video clips.
Download QuickTime for free at www.apple.com. Be sure to select the Recommended
installation when you download.
Install Information
Windows: Use Quick Install. Drag Palm application files, images, video clips, zipped files, even
folders of files (but not music files). Then drop them onto the icon that’s on your desktop, or into
the open Quick Install window. You can also right-click a file and send it to Quick Install. Then
just press the HotSync®button to transfer the file to your handheld. For video files make sure
Kinoma is installed from the CD.
Mac: Use the Send to Handheld droplet. On your desktop computer, it’s
located here:
•Applications:Palm
Drag and drop files onto the Send to Handheld droplet.
They’re transferred to your handheld with your next HotSync®operation.

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Photos
You can view photos in JPEG and BMP file format, add notes to photos, even share,
copy, and delete photos on your Palm™ handheld. (If you own a Palm™Zire™71
handheld, Read This First shows you how to capture photos.)
Windows
Use the Palm™Photos application in Palm™Desktop software to transfer photos to your
handheld, edit them, organize them, and attach them to an outgoing e-mail.
To work with photos on your desktop computer:
•Open Palm Desktop software and click the Photos button. Use the Add Photos
button to add photos to your handheld. Perform a HotSync®operation to
synchronize photos between Palm Desktop software and your handheld.
•Zire 71 handheld users: To see photos that you captured with your handheld on the
desktop, perform a HotSync operation and open Palm Photos. Click the Card Photos
icon on the toolbar to see photos captured to the expansion card. Follow the
onscreen instructions to view them.
Mac
•Use the Send to Handheld droplet to transfer images from the desktop to your
handheld. Perform a HotSync operation.
•Zire 71 handheld users: After a HotSync operation, your photos are transferred to
folders on your computer called Handheld and Expansion card, depending on where
you stored them on your handheld. These folders are located here:
•Mac OS X: Home:Pictures:PalmPhotos:<Username>
•Mac OS 9: Documents:PalmPhotos:<Username>

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Music
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NOTE! An expansion card (sold separately) is required to store music files for playback
on your handheld.
You can listen to your music through the built-in speaker or through plug-in stereo
headphones (sold separately). Music files must be either MP3™or RealAudio files.
Install the RealOne Player application
Windows and Mac
Locate the CD and insert it into your computer’s CD-ROM drive. If your handheld
package contains two CDs, locate CD with Software Essentials.
Windows
1. Insert the CD:
•CD with Software Essentials: Click Entertainment, and then click RealOne Player
for Palm.
•Software Installation CD (single CD): On the Discover Your Handheld screen,
click Install Essential Software. Then click RealOne Player.
2. Follow the instructions onscreen.
3. Perform a HotSync®operation. A RealOne Player icon appears on your computer
desktop and on the Home screen of your handheld.
Mac
NOTE! RealOne Player is already installed on some Palm™handhelds.
Look in the Home screen of your handheld; if the RealOne icon does not
appear in the Home screen, complete the following steps.
1. Open Palm™Desktop software.

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2. From the HotSync menu, select Install Handheld Files. Be sure the correct
username appears in the User pop-up menu.
3. On the CD, open these folders:
•CD with Software Essentials: Entertainment and RealMP3.
•Software Installation CD (single CD): Software Essentials, Multimedia, and
RealMP3.
4. Select all the PRC files, and then drag and drop them into the Install Handheld
Files dialog box.
5. Perform a HotSync operation. A RealOne Player icon appears on the Home
screen of your handheld.
Transfer music files from your computer to an expansion card
Be sure the music files you want to transfer are on your computer’s hard disk.
Mac users, your instructions appear on page 8.
Windows
The RealOne Player application on your computer is the fastest way to transfer
music files to the expansion card.
Copy music files stored on the hard
disk to the RealOne Player:
1. Open RealOne Player on your desktop
and click My Library.
2. Double-click Audio and then All Audio.
If a music file you downloaded does
not appear in My Library, drag it from
its location on your computer and drop
it in the All Audio window of My Library.
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Copy music files from a CD to RealOne Player:
1. Insert the CD into your computer’s CD-ROM player.
2. Open RealOne Player on your computer and click CD.
3. Click Save Tracks and follow the
onscreen instructions to select and
copy tracks.

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Transfer music files from your computer to an expansion card:
1. Open the RealOne Player on your handheld AND on your computer.
2. Remove the placeholder card and insert an expansion card (sold separately).
•If your handheld has a placeholder card in it,
push lightly against the card. When it releases,
take out the card.
•Insert an expansion card by pushing it in. You
feel the card lock and hear the system sound.
3. Connect your handheld to the HotSync®cradle/cable.
DO NOT press the HotSync button or tap the Star icon.
4. In RealOne Player on your computer, click Devices. Double-click Palm Handheld,
and then double-click Card.
5. Click Add Clips to open the Add Clips window.
”Connected” means you successfully completed steps 1 – 3
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6. Click the files you want to add.
7. In the Add Clips window, click
Add Clips, and then click Close.
8. Be sure your handheld is still
ON. In RealOne Player on your
desktop, click Transfer.
DO NOT press the HotSync
button or tap the Star icon.
For additional information, open the RealOne Player on your computer and click Help
in the menu bar; then select an item in the Help menu.
Mac
Music files are very large, and transferring them to your handheld may take a long
time. For example, transferring 10 megabytes takes approximately 10 minutes.
Transfer music files to an expansion card:
1. Remove the placeholder card and insert an expansion card (sold separately).
NOTE! For details, see the procedure on page 7.
2. Connect your handheld to the HotSync®cradle/cable.
Transfer

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3. Drag and drop the music files on the Send to Handheld droplet.
4. In the Send to Handheld dialog box, select the Palm username for your
handheld. Click OK.
5. Press the HotSync button on your cradle, or tap the Star icon on your handheld.
Play music on your handheld
Turn on your handheld and open the RealOne Player.
For tips on using the RealOne Player, tap the upper-left corner of the screen, tap
Options, and then tap Help.
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Play
Previous song
Clip duration
Stop
Continuous play
Random play
Volume
Next song

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Video
You can play video clips on your handheld using Kinoma Player.
Install Kinoma software
1. Insert the CD with Software Essentials into your computer’s CD-ROM drive. If your
handheld package contains two CDs, locate CD with Software Essentials.
2. Windows: Do one of the following:
•CD with Software Essentials: Click Entertainment, and then click Kinoma.
•Software Installation CD (single CD): On the Discover Your Handheld screen, click
Install Essential Software. Then click Kinoma Video Player.
3. Mac: Do one of the following:
•CD with Software Essentials: Open the
Entertainment folder, and then open Kinoma.
•Software Installation CD (single CD): Open the
Software Essentials folder, and then open
Multimedia. Open Kinoma.
4. Follow the instructions onscreen.
5. Perform a HotSync operation. The Kinoma icon
appears on the Home screen on your handheld.
Convert, transfer, and play video clips
Before you can play a video clip on your handheld,
use Kinoma Producer for Palm, Inc. on your
Windows or Mac computer to convert the clip from
its original file format (AVI, DV, MPEG, QuickTime
[MOV]) to the format that your handheld can read.