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What is the most used function of your Zaurus ?

Movies and Mp3s (Entertainment)
6 (8.1%)
Games
8 (10.8%)
Word Processing & Spreadsheet
4 (5.4%)
Web, Email, War driving
11 (14.9%)
War Driving
1 (1.4%)
Voice recording
0 (0%)
PIM Apps
16 (21.6%)
Linux Administration or Development
15 (20.3%)
Other: Please post
13 (17.6%)

Total Members Voted: 43

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Trying to get a feel for uses of Z... ANY Zaurus.

Please check out my next poll for type of Z owned.
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« Reply #1 on: June 21, 2004, 09:36:08 am »
Notes & Project Management/Todos - IQNotes, tkcMemo and Todo (not really PIM stuff)

But I also use it for games, music, web browsing and email
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« Reply #2 on: June 21, 2004, 09:43:38 am »
you really are bored with all these polls and questions.  I must no be too far behind since I read them all.  PIMs are the main reason I need a PDA (I have no memory), but I use the Z for unix admin/windows admin and spreadsheet/word stuff too.
I'm now an iphone user and use my zaurii as serial terminals, perl and shell scripting and when I need 640x480 screens

sl-c3100/pda cacko 1.23 | sl-6000l/needs battery | sl-c760/server pdaxrom rc12 | Former sl-5500/tkcrom owner (sister's birthday gift)

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« Reply #3 on: June 21, 2004, 10:14:33 am »
I have to say right now web surfing has been one of the main uses I have for my Z so far.  THough it has beenr eally nice to be able to loign to any of my Linux or Solaris Server as long as I have a WiFi connection and do some quick admin...but then again I have only had my SL-6000L for a little under 2 weeks...
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« Reply #4 on: June 21, 2004, 11:44:14 am »
PIM apps is technically my Z\'s \"main\" purpose, but it logs more hours playing mp3\'s while commuting and, in the past week, playing games using zfceu.
SL5600 with default Sharp ROM
Windows 2000, Windows XP Pro
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Sandisk 512MB CF Card
Sandisk 256MB SD Card
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« Reply #5 on: June 21, 2004, 11:50:09 am »
It would have been nice to be able to check more than one item, since I do many of those items.

My primary purpose for my Z (SL-6000) is notes. I keep a journal of my activities (Sys Admin, work, life in general). I use Zeditor for this.

I also listen to Oggs, and the occational MP3, as well as serve web pages when my Z is at home (and connected to my home wireless network).

I also use it to read web-zines off line, which I yank down with wget, and later read with Opera.

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« Reply #6 on: June 21, 2004, 12:38:08 pm »
Web and email is my primary use, but for email, naturally you also need a little bit of contacts (PIM) plus PIM for calendaring is second most used use.
Rest is for word and excel use (once a wekk maybe).
4th would be music and watching my digital images straigth from my camera.
New no more-C1000 / 5000D (sold my 6000 and 750) | Cacko ROM 1.23 on C1000 | 256 MB CF | 2GB PNY SD card | Socket Networker WiFi CF Card | USB Host cable from StreamlineCPUS | Mini Microphone (for voice recording) |

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« Reply #7 on: June 21, 2004, 06:35:14 pm »
I use it a lot to keep track of my personal finances(I use Jabp), next Ko/Pi(such a wonderful application! Kudos to the author) to keep track of my todos and events. Then, web browsing and listening mp3s.

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« Reply #8 on: June 21, 2004, 07:32:09 pm »
doing quite a bit of everything listed in the poll ... except voice recording which I don\'t need ... btw I use my Zaurus as a \"palmtop\" or \"micro-laptop\" or however you may want to call a \"full featured computer in my pocket\"
SL-C3000 - pdaXrom 1.1.0Beta1
SL-C860 - pdaXrom 1.1.0 RC8 (charging circuitry dead :( )
CF RamStar 512 Mb / Hitachi 4Gb microdrive (thanks to creative's muvo² :p)
SD Sandisk 1Gb / Viking 256 Mb
Linksys WCF13 CF wifi card

Anyone willing to donate for my work, please consider donate to pdaXrom and/or OE/OZ projects instead, I wouldn't have been able to do anything without them ...

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« Reply #9 on: June 21, 2004, 07:37:10 pm »
I use my Zaurus for all of the items on the list, including: Web Development, Remote Access to Servers I maintain, etc...  Eventually it will replace my current laptop.

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« Reply #10 on: June 21, 2004, 07:57:36 pm »
i basically do the samething. i use vim to write the journal and burp to encrypt it. i also have a password file - i know there are password management programs available. but i prefer to keep everything in one file.


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My primary purpose for my Z (SL-6000) is notes. I keep a journal of my activities (Sys Admin, work, life in general). I use Zeditor for this.
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« Reply #11 on: June 21, 2004, 08:22:38 pm »
ebooks, notes, some programming and of course movies, mp3s and games - the order depends on what takes my fancy at any given time.

Currently playing Sam and Max hit the road on ScummVm, just finished reading The DaVinci Code on opie-reader

stu
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Running X apps via X/Qt
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« Reply #12 on: June 22, 2004, 08:21:30 pm »
Use a 6k for a combo of - network admin,  Wireless network admin (war-walking my own net), web / email, and writing documents on the go thanks to my stowaway wireless keyboard.
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« Reply #13 on: June 22, 2004, 08:37:40 pm »
Wow, 400% for PIM apps alone. Must be that new math...


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« Reply #14 on: July 15, 2004, 04:21:59 pm »
My primairy use is as a soaring flightcomputer. I'm the original author of Cumulus, a soaring flightcomputer written for the Zaurus. MP3 are my secondairy use, sometimes at the same time
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