Using a 4th generation iPod Touch as a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant)

A LITTLE BACKGROUND

(You can skip this by scrolling down to the iPod Touch Photo if you want to just hear how it worked from moving my Palm Data > iPod Touch)

For as long as I can remember, I’ve always been enamoured with PDAs.

There is something about organizing your life into one little device that is so sexy. I had used a paper organizer for a while and hated that I couldn’t erase my mistakes without whiteout or using a pencil, and it wasn’t easy to find things if I had hastily scribbled it down somewhere. Paper. Ick.

(Not the exact one I wanted, but close!)

I think it all started when I was 7 and I desperately wanted this (then) beautiful pink PDA/organizer for children that I think had Contacts, Calendar and possibly a Calculator. I obsessed over it, touching it in the store, reading the back of the package as much as I could. It was the HOLY GRAIL of products for me.

(Yes, I can see that my obsession with electronics started right around this time.)

But what my 7-year-old-self needed a PDA for, is totally beyond my comprehension today.

Luckily, it was also beyond my dad’s comprehension as well, because upon seeing the $100 pricetag for such a toy, he firmly put his foot down.

I cried for 3 weeks until my brother consoled me and explained why $100 was a lot of money, and said that it was something I wouldn’t want to keep forever. He was so right!

It was on that day I vowed to start saving for my precious pink PDA and I got a paper route job.

Two years later, I had enough money, but by that time, upon witnessing my resolve to get that damn pink PDA, my brother handed me his old Palm PDA, trusting that I would have no tech skills to hack into deleted Memos or Contacts, and to avoid seeing any hard earned money of mine wasted on a toy.

It was that day that my love affair with Palm was born. Throughout the years, I used a variety of Palm products, from the coloured-screen Palm that someone *cough* notmebutsomeoneiwasdatingatthetime *cough* spilled water all over it and made it fizzle in the most unpleasant way.

I had backed up my data (luckily), but I was still annoyed. I had to shell out for another PDA. Then that one got stolen. ARG!!!

I think I owned about 5 Palms since my 9-year-old days, and my latest acquisition was the Palm T|X, but they had mangled improved the software so much trying to be clever that I couldn’t use it in the same way I could with my old Palms.

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