School issues with Type 1 diabetes

Many people have problems with their schools not allowing blood sugar testing in the classroom, not having a trained person to give shots, allowing students to go to the nurse’s office alone with a low blood sugar (should NEVER do that!) and many other issues. There is a great publication called Helping the Student [...]

Insulin Pumps

My son was 13 when he was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. He started insulin pump therapy 4 months later. I CANNOT say enough WONDERFUL things about a pump!! It is THE best way to help manage Type 1 diabetes for everyone, especially kids, especially teens!
This link has many links to good [...]

Understanding Diabetes book (aka The Pink Panther book)

There is a great book that many parents get when their children are diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. Most refer to it as the “Pink Panther book” because of the cover. It is written in easy to understand terms, even younger children can understand it.
We didn’t get this book at diagnosis, but I [...]

Palm Backup

If you have a Palm, you really should back it up regularly. If you lose power, or something just makes it act up, you might have to do a hard reset and could lose everything on it. First of all, make sure you regularly sync it to your PC. I purchased a [...]

Trillian – 1 program to chat on AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ

I found this program a couple of months ago and love it! Since friends use different Chat services, you have to have several programs running in order to chat with everyone. This program lets you open your AIM, MSN Messenger, Yahoo messenger and ICQ chat programs with one program! You can ALSO see all the [...]

Syncing the Palm — Tips & Tricks

This is an explanation of how the Palm and PC match information (sync). I will give you tips on what to do if it isn’t matching, or if you “mess up” one of them (say the Palm) and want to let the PC overwrite it to correct it!
The Hotsync program puts a small red & [...]

Preferences & Options in Palm

Preferences and Options in Palm
If you want to check preferences of ANY of the Palm software, be in that program and then click on the top blue bar where the name of the program is, and it will drop down menus (just like at the top of Word or an internet page). There will [...]

Free Bible PDA software

Here is a link to a site where you can download the Bible to your PDA. They have several versions, some are low cost and some are free.
http://www.discountchristian.com/olivetree_freesoft_frm.html

 

Money for Palm

UltraSoft Money – Syncs with Money, lets you keep track of your accounts when not at home to use the computer. It is password protected.

Several Free Programs for Palm

There are several good free programs for Palm. Go to this link to check out:
Tip calculator – I haven’t used this one personally because I’ve been using Tipsy, which I explain in the next paragraph.
Another tip calculator called Tipsy, which I use for my home-based business. You can split the ticket in a [...]