I am a true solo practitioner located in Northern Virginia. I am solidly middle of the pack in the knowledge and use of technology; neither a guru nor a novice.

I have owned my Palm 3x for approximately one year and continue to find new uses. For example, I was recently introduced to a program called "Trip". This program allows me to enter automobile mileage; it has many shortcuts for who, where and when. It allows multiple cars and multiple drivers. When synced with the PC, the information from Trip goes into an Excel spreadsheet that can then be filtered (sorted) in a number of different ways. At the least, it will eliminate trying to read my own handwriting at the end of the year in order to report business mileage to the taxman.

I am still using the Palm for calendaring and address book purposes the majority of the time I suppose. However, I have TimeReporter for Timeslips, which integrates seamlessly with Timeslips to keep track of time and expenses when I am out of the office.

I also have a couple of different document readers installed, and more and more I put documents on the Palm and work on them while waiting in lines or for my case to be called, and at other otherwise "dead" times. I am more and more using the Palm to take notes and even compose correspondence and documents.

Avantgo allows me to download maps and directions from Mapquest and get news, weather and sports scores downloaded to the Palm whenever it is synced. It also allows FedEx tracking to the Palm. Mike Elgan's Palm Reader, Lawyer's Weekly and various other publications are also available through the Avantgo portal.

The FRCP and FRE are available for the Palm, although I have not used either yet; notwithstanding that was my original rationale for making the purchase.

Another interesting use of the Palm is the Vindigo portal that provides directions to interesting sites, restaurants and shopping in selected cities. This is obviously useful when traveling and may even open new horizons in one's hometown.

All in all, the Palm has proven to be a valuable tool allowing the elimination of paper calendar, address book, notepaper and calculator as well as books that I routinely carried before its arrival. The "gee whiz" element is still good too.

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