14. Installing Applications

Contrary to the *.exe Windows applications Palm programs generally use the suffix .prc. If you are ready to enhance your Palm, the Install Tool allows you to transfer the appropriate software components. Click on the 'Add' button and choose the Palm program you downloaded from the Internet.

The next HotSync transfers the selected program components. Afterwards you switch your Palm off and on. Immediately the programs appear in the start menu.

The Palm uses its resources very sparingly. You could not blame the classic Windows user for being concerned about the fact that the Palms only comes with 8 MB of memory. Programs for the Palm do not have the MegaByte overhead of Microsoft programs, but are mostly in the kiloByte range. If you install a Web browser for example, you will notice that you only need 300 kB. Files of this size remind of the good old Commodore64, ATARI and MS-DOS times when resources were used sparingly. Microsoft and its memory-hungry Windows programs actually did the memory industry a favor.