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In response to the question asked in a post today: Do you know a young person who owns a Palm? How old is the youngest Palm owner/user you know?



Guess that would be my 11yo daughter, Meg. She has had a Palm for a number of years, at least since she was 7 or 8. Normally when I get a new Palm the old one goes to my wife; in turn hers gets handed down to our daughter.



This has been going on since 1999. I have been through a few -- can't recall the exact order of the early ones but something like Palm Pilot, Palm 1000 and Palm Pro; then a III, IIIx IIIc, m500, m515, TT and now a T3. My wife wanted a Palm with camera so for Cmas I got her a Zire 71 which she loves, which meant Meg ended up with my TT when I got the T3.



Meg is quite good at Graffiti (and, like most of the rest of us, much prefers G1), stores phone numbers and email addresses for a handful of her friends which I set up to sync to her laptop's Outlook Express using Chapura's neat little Jibe app (too bad it doesn't work with the T3!), writes and stores poetry on the Palm in the memo pad, and has tried to keep her diary on it but prefers to write that out longhand in a cute book her grandmother gave her.



Of course she mostly uses the Palm for games. Her favorites are mostly the old standbys: Air Ball, Chess, Checkers, Tetris, Hangman, Hot Lines, IR Pong and IR Battleship. She has a lot of fun teasing her friends and our adult friends with the clever handwriting joke-analysis app "MB Handwriting." She and I play together with BlueChat and BlueBoard (which work between our two Palms using Bluetooth), and likewise we use BT to play Handmark's two great board games for the Palm -- Monopoly and Scrabble.



When she has a friend over and I am home she gives her Palm to her friend and borrows mine so they can play IR and BT games. Guess when I get my next PDA she can have the T3 and, LOL, keep the TT as a "guest" PDA.



But her favorite program by far, of which I am enamored as well, is NoviiAnimator. She has spent many hours creating amazing little animations, birthday and holiday cards, etc., which she will then "give" to her friends or beam (using FileZ) to my wife and myself. When on the road I love to look at her sweet, loving "I love you Daddy" animations/cards almost as much as looking at the pictures of her I carry in my Palm (SplashPhoto rocks! -- much preferred to the "Photos" app supplied with the T3).



Tom Ehman

Hamburg, GER