PAC Mate allows you to modify many settings that determine what and how much information JAWS reads. In addition: you can set alarm notifications, choose to read time in different formats, select what programs appear in the Start Menu and in the Programs submenu, and customize the Today Screen to view only those items you want.
For ease of reading and usability, this section mirrors the list view sequence in the Settings multipage dialog found in the Start Menu.
The Braille Settings multipage dialog configures the behavior of your Braille display.
To configure your Braille display, press Windows Key, S, and if necessary B to select Braille Settings, otherwise press ENTER to open the Braille Settings dialog. When the dialog opens, press CTRL+TAB to navigate from tab to tab.
Enable Translator: Use the SPACEBAR to check this box if you would like to read contracted Braille on your display.
Expand Current Word: If this box along with Enable Translator is checked, then the word at the position of the Braille cursor is displayed in uncontracted Braille. If this box is not checked and Enable Translator is checked, then the Braille cursor rests at the beginning of the current word and moves as you navigate from word to word.
Braille Mode: This combo box is used to determine the format of the information sent to the Braille display. The following options are available:
Reverse Advance Buttons: If checked, pressing an advance button that ordinarily pans left will result in advancing to the right and pressing an advance button that ordinarily pans right will advance to the left. This check box is not checked by default.
Braille Follows Active: If checked, the Braille cursor follows as you move the active cursor, but is not limited to where the active cursor can move. For example, when moving through a dialog, the Braille cursor moves to each control as you press TAB.
Active Follows Braille: If checked, the Braille cursor and the active cursor are linked together. When you move the Braille cursor, the active cursor also moves. However, you cannot move the Braille cursor where the active cursor cannot move. For example, with the PC cursor active, you cannot read down to the status line of a window.
8 Dot Braille: If this check box is checked, the display uses 8 dot Braille. This item is checked by default.
Highlight: When this check box is checked, text that is highlighted is indicated with the addition of dots 7 and 8. Unchecking this may help new Braille users become accustomed to working with a Braille display. This item is checked by default.
Suppress Capital Signs: When this item is checked, capital signs are not shown on your Braille display. This item is unchecked by default.
Dot Firmness: Specifies the firmness of Braille dots on the PAC Mate and Focus displays. There are five levels of firmness. Adjust the display to the level of firmness most suited to the sensitivity of your fingers.
Focus Braille Display Options Button: This button is only available when a Focus Braille display is connected to your PAC Mate. Use this button to open the Focus Braille Display Options dialog where you can adjust settings for a Focus Braille display.
Use the Cursors tab to configure cursor behavior on a Braille display attached to your PAC Mate.
Cursor Type: This list box contains three cursor types that you can configure:
Dot Pattern: The Braille dots that will be used to represent the cursor. By default, these are DOTS 7-8 for each cursor type, but you can change these if you want to do so.
Cursor: There are three radio buttons from which to choose:
Blink Rate: This setting controls the rate at which the Braille Cursor, if set to "Blinking," moves up and down. The smaller this number, the faster the blink rate. The default is 500 milliseconds .
Show Messages: This check box determines whether messages are shown on your Braille display. It is checked by default.
Duration: This combo box allows you to select the length of time messages are displayed. The default is 5 seconds and the range is from 1 second to 10 seconds.
Show Message Prefix: This check box allows you to determine whether message prefixes; which indicate what kind of message is being displayed; are shown. It is checked by default.
Message Level: This combo box allows you to choose the level of messages to be displayed. The choices are Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced.
Preferences: When you press ENTER on this button, a dialog opens that allows you to choose the types of messages that will be displayed.
Note: The message prefix is shown in parentheses following the message type.
Placement of Status Cells: Specifies if the informational status cells are located on the left or right end of the display, or not displayed at all. The status cells are located at the left end of the display by default.
Reading Line: Use the Reading Line edit spin boxes to show information within the portion of the display you want to use. The default settings are determined by the location of the status cells, and the length of the display.
See Also:
PAC Mate with a Braille Display
You can assign eight hotkey commands to any of the programs on your PAC Mate from within the Buttons dialog. This feature is convenient because anytime you want to open a program all you have to do is press the hotkey command. The following table lists the default program for each command.
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Program |
Command |
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Record |
JAWS Key+SPACEBAR, 1 |
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Calendar |
JAWS Key+SPACEBAR, 2 |
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Contacts |
JAWS Key+SPACEBAR, 3 |
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Tasks |
JAWS Key+SPACEBAR, 4 |
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Inbox |
JAWS Key+SPACEBAR, 5 |
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File Explorer |
JAWS Key+SPACEBAR, 6 |
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FSEdit |
JAWS Key+SPACEBAR, 7 |
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FSCalc |
JAWS Key+SPACEBAR, 8 |
To assign a different program to a command, open the Buttons dialog by pressing Windows Key, S. Move to Buttons with the DOWN ARROW and press ENTER.
The Buttons dialog opens with the Program Buttons page. The list view, which has the eight hotkey commands and default programs, is active.
Select a hotkey command by moving up or down with the arrow keys, then press TAB to move to the Button Assignment combo box. Use the arrow keys to move through the list and select a program you want to associate with the hotkey command.
To assign the next program to a hotkey, press SHIFT+TAB to move back to the list view. Press DOWN ARROW to move to JAWS Key+SPACEBAR+2. By default this button is set to Contacts. To change the program, repeat the steps discussed above.
In addition to assigning programs to hotkey commands, you can assign commands for scrolling. These options are also listed in the Button Assignment combo box.
Use the Dictionary Settings dialog (JAWS Key+S, D) to change the way PAC Mate pronounces words, phrases, abbreviations, acronyms or ANSI symbols. The pronunciation changes you make are global so they occur in all programs on the PAC Mate.
To add a word to the Dictionary:
To Change or Delete Existing Entries:
Alternatively, you can press TAB to move to the Search for Entries edit field and type the text you want to change or delete, then press TAB to move to the appropriate button and press ENTER.
This dialog controls the way PAC Mate reads pages written in html. If you intend to browse the web, understanding this dialog is imperative.
Open the Start menu (Windows Key), press S to choose Settings. Press H once to select HTML Settings or use the arrow keys to select it. If an item is not selected, press the SPACEBAR first, and then use first letter navigation. Once HTML Settings is selected, press ENTER.
When you open HTML Settings, you will hear PAC Mate say, "JAWS HTML Settings dialog, Skip Past Repeated Text On New Pages check box, checked." With this control checked, PAC Mate skips text that is repeated on web pages within the same web site and automatically moves the cursor to new text found on the page.
When you press TAB to move forward, the next control you encounter is the "Lines Per Page" edit field. This setting determines how many lines the cursor moves when pressing PAGE UP or PAGE DOWN. With the default value set to twenty-four, the cursor moves twenty-four lines. For more information on moving through and reading text, please see PAC Mate Basics, Working with Text.
The next control is the "Maximum Line Length" edit field, which controls how many characters the cursor treats as one line of text. The default value is 150 characters.
Headings are used to understand how each section of text relates to the web page as a whole. Press TAB to move to the "Headings Verbosity" combo box. With the Headings Verbosity combo box, use the arrow keys to choose whether PAC Mate announces headings and whether this includes heading levels. The default setting is Headings with levels indicated.
Many web sites use Graphics as links. If you want PAC Mate to announce only graphical links that use alternate text, use the arrow keys to select Tagged Graphical Links in the Graphical Link Verbosity combo box.
In addition to graphical links, frames are another web structure you will encounter. To control how PAC Mate responds to frames, choose one of the three options in the New Frame Indication combo box. Your options are:
If you want to continue with adjusting HTML settings, press TAB to move to the Advanced button and press ENTER. If you are done with this dialog, press ENTER to return to the Settings dialog. Press ESC to return to the Today Screen.
When you press SPACEBAR on the Advanced button in the JAWS HTML Settings dialog, you open the HTML Advanced dialog. The first three controls in this dialog are check boxes, which are checked by default. To uncheck the boxes, press the SPACEBAR.
The first check box of this dialog is the "Say Link Type" check box, which sets PAC Mate to announce the type of links encountered when navigating an HTML document. To move to the next control, press TAB.
With the "Identify Same Page Links" check box checked, PAC Mate announces when links point to other locations on the same page by stating, "same page link."
The "Indicate Tables" check box sets PAC Mate to announce the start of a table by declaring its number of columns and rows and when the end of the table is reached. To move to the next control, press TAB.
The "Text Block Length" edit box lets you specify the number of characters in a block of text. This control affects the N command used in Pocket Internet Explorer. When you press this command, PAC Mate moves to the next block of non-link text that is equal to or greater than the number of characters specified in this edit box. The default value is 25.
The "Text Link Verbosity" combo box determines what information PAC Mate speaks when a text-based link is encountered. The following options are available:
To move to the next control, press TAB.
Similar to the "Text Link Verbosity" combo box, the "Graphic Verbosity" combo box allows you to specify how you want PAC Mate to announce graphics within HTML documents. The following options are available:
The last control in this dialog is the "Image Map Link Verbosity" combo box. This control determines how images, mapped with coordinates for use as links, are announced. PAC Mate offers the following options:
If you are done, press ENTER twice to return to the Settings dialog. Then press ESC to return to the Today Screen.
While this Settings' dialog has limited support, it does contain two controls that may be beneficial for you to know about. The first control is the "Voice Recording Format" combo box. The settings in this combo box determine the quality of your voice recording. The default setting is 8000 Hz, Mono (2 KB/s), which gives you the longest possible recording time, but with the least amount of recording quality. Naturally, Pocket PC offers you a wide variety of settings to choose from. To learn more about the Voice Recording Feature, please see Notes, Creating a Recording.
The second control in this dialog is the "Capitalize first letter of sentence" check box. With a check in this box, anytime you press ENTER to start a new line in an edit field, the first letter of the line is capitalized. This control works only with Pocket PC programs.
To access these controls, go to the Input dialog (Windows Key, S, I, ENTER) and move to the Options page with CTRL+TAB. As the page opens the first active control is the "Voice Recording Format" combo box. Make your selection using the arrow keys and then press TAB until you reach the "Capitalize the first letter of sentence" check box. Use the SPACEBAR to disable or enable this control.
When you want to adjust the amount of feedback you receive as you type in an edit field, use the "JAWS Keyboard Settings" dialog.
To use this dialog, open to the Start menu (Windows Key) and press S to choose Settings. Press K to move to Keyboard Settings and then press ENTER. When you open the Keyboard Settings dialog, the Typing Echo combo box is active and ready for you to use the UP and DOWN ARROW keys to select an option. Your options in this combo box are:
When you are done making your selection, press TAB to move to the next control.
Tip: You can also change these options with JAWS Key+S, K. Continue to press K until you select the option you want.
The next control in this dialog allows you to use the CAPS LOCK Key in addition to the JAWS Key as your JAWS Key command. To enable this control, use the SPACEBAR to place a check in the box. To use the CAPS LOCK Key as the JAWS Key you double press the key to toggle it on or off.
The last control is a combo box that allows you to select your input language. Use the UP and DOWN ARROW keys to select an option.
To save your settings and return to the Settings dialog, press ENTER. To close the Settings dialog and return to the Today Screen, press ESC. Or if you want to explore the other pages in the Settings dialog, press CTRL+TAB to move to the other pages.
Depending on the programs you use most, you may find it useful to arrange the Start Menu and the Today Screen New Menu differently than the default. This is done from the Menus dialog.
To customize your menus, open the Start menu and press S to choose Settings. Press M to move to Menus and then press ENTER.
The Menus dialog opens with the list view in the Start Menu page active. Use the UP and DOWN ARROW keys to move up and down the list. Programs with a selected check box appear in the Start menu, while programs with a clear check box appear in the Programs submenu. Press the SPACEBAR to select or clear a check box. The Start menu can only hold nine programs.
When you are finished setting the Start menu, press CTRL+TAB to move to the New Menu page.
(If you are not yet familiar with this menu, go to the Today Screen and press ALT.)
Because the first control on the New Menu page, Turn on New button menu, is not supported, press TAB twice to move to the list view. Use the arrow keys to move up and down the list and press the SPACEBAR to check or uncheck the item. All checked items appear in the New Menu.
The Notification System on PAC Mate is controlled from the Sounds & Notifications settings dialog. In this dialog, you can choose what events you'd like to receive notifications for, and how you'd like to be notified.
Note: PAC Mate does not support pop-up screen display notifications or screen taps.
You open the Sounds & Notifications dialog from the Settings list view on the Personal page. To quickly move to the Sounds & Notification dialog from the Today Screen, open the Start menu and press S to choose Settings. Press S to move to Sounds & Notifications and press ENTER.
The Sounds & Notifications dialog opens on the Volume page with the system volume control active. This particular control is a left/right slider, which you adjust with the LEFT and RIGHT ARROWS. After you press TAB to move forward, the next control is the "Enable sounds for Events (warnings, system events)" check box. Press the SPACEBAR to enable this control if you want to be alerted to system events such as the start and/or completion of synchronization or when e-mail arrives in your inbox. The next two controls are similar, except that it applies to program notifications such as reminders and alarms. Be sure to enable both the Programs and Notifications check boxes if you want to use appointment/task reminders and the alarms on the clock. The last control in this dialog is the "Enable sounds for Hardware buttons" check box. This control is similar to the Typing Echo control in the Keyboard Settings dialog, except that it is a key click. If you check this box, be sure to move to the accompanying radio buttons where you can use the LEFT and RIGHT ARROWS to decide how loud you’d like the "clicks" to be.
When you are done with the Volume page, press CTRL+TAB to move to the Notifications page.
On this page, the Select an Event and the Select How to be Notified, Play Sound controls work in tandem. That is, as you select an event from the combo box, move forward and enable the Play sound check box. Then move to the next control, which is a combo box, and choose the sound you want to hear for this event’s notification. Remember in combo boxes, the UP and DOWN ARROW selects, while the ENTER activates buttons.
When you are done with these settings, press ENTER to save and close this dialog. Press ESC to return to the Today Screen.
Use the Text Settings dialog to set preferences for how the Say All command (JAWS Key+A) works.
To use this dialog() open the Start menu (Windows Key) and press S to choose Settings. Press T move to Text Settings and then press ENTER.
With the Text Settings dialog open, use the arrow keys to make a selection in the Say All combo box. Your choices in this box are:
As you move forward (TAB) in this dialog you arrive on the Say Blank Lines check box, use the SPACEBAR to check it if you want blank lines announced when using the Say All command. This control is unchecked by default.
If you want JAWS to speak numeric dates in a different format, use the Numeric Date Processing combo box to select a format. Your choices are:
Use the TAB command again to move to the Number Processing combo box. This combo box allows you to determine how numbers are read. Use the arrow keys to make your selection. Your choices are:
The next control in this dialog is called Mixed Case Processing. This control causes JAWS to speak words that are joined together with capital letters, such as SayAll, as two words. This check box is enabled by default. To disable, use the SPACEBAR.
Immediately after the Mixed Case Processing check box, is the Speak Dollars check box. With this check box enabled, JAWS reads numbers preceded by a dollar sign ($) in the format of number of dollars and number of cents. For example, $9.95 is read as "nine dollars and ninety five cents." For monetary values less than a dollar, type a zero to the left of the decimal. For example, $0.02 is read as "two cents." This check box is disabled by default.
To close this dialog, press ENTER. If you want to explore the other pages in the Settings dialog, press CTRL+TAB to move to the other pages.
Use the Today dialog to change the items and their information listed on your Today Screen.
To use the Today dialog, open the Start menu (Windows Key) and press S to choose Settings. Next, press T twice to move to Today and then press ENTER.
Note: When the Today dialog opens, PAC Mate announces "Today dialog, Appearance page." This page allows you to change the Appearance of Pocket PC's user interface and is unsupported in PAC Mate.
Press CTRL+TAB to move to the Items page. Use the UP and DOWN ARROW keys to move up and down the list of items and press the SPACEBAR to select or clear the associated check boxes.
You can rearrange the order in which the items appear on the Today Screen. Use the arrow keys to move to each item in the list view. Press TAB to see which of the three buttons, the Move Down, Move Up, and Options, become available for each item. Press ENTER to activate the buttons. The Options button lets you alter the information that is displayed for Calendar and Tasks.
To save your settings and return to the Settings dialog, press ENTER. To close the Settings dialog and return to the Today Screen, press ESC.
Use the JAWS Verbosity dialog to set JAWS verbosity levels: Beginner, Intermediate, or Advanced. This determines how much information JAWS speaks.
Open the Start menu (Windows Key) and press S to choose Settings. Press V once to move to Verbosity Settings and press ENTER.
With the JAWS Verbosity Settings dialog open, use the UP and DOWN ARROW keys to select the Verbosity Level in the combo box. Move to the Preferences button and press ENTER. This opens the Advanced Preferences dialog, where you can choose how much information JAWS speaks. Press TAB to move about the dialog. Use the SPACEBAR to select the check boxes next to the type of message you want to hear. In the Message Length combo box, use the UP and DOWN ARROW keys to select long or short, and then press TAB. If you want to restore the default settings, move to the Restore Default Settings button and press ENTER. To close the Preferences dialog and save the settings, move to the OK button and press ENTER.
Before you exit out of JAWS Verbosity Settings, there are two more controls in this dialog that you should know about. They are the Tutor Messages and the Access Key Messages. These check boxes are unchecked by default. Tutor Messages provide navigational tips, while Access Key Messages provide information on the access key that moves you directly to a control or to an item in a menu. If you prefer to enable this additional verbosity, use the SPACEBAR to check these controls.
If you want to continue adjusting features on your PAC Mate, return to the Settings dialog by pressing ENTER and use first letter navigation or the arrow keys to move through the list view.
To escape the Settings dialog, press the ESC key.
Certificates establish your identity and the identity of other computers when you are logging onto a secured network. On PAC Mate, you can store two types of certificates: personal certificates that establish your identity, and root certificates that establish the identity of servers with which you connect.
To access the Certificates multipage dialog, press Windows Key, S to open the Settings dialog, then press CTRL+TAB to move to System page. Use arrow keys to move to Certificate and press ENTER.
On the Personal page of the Certificate dialog is a list that displays the name of the certificate issuer and the expiration date.
To read more information about a certificate, press ENTER on a certificate in the list. To delete a certificate, select a certificate and press the Application Key, and then from the Context Menu choose Delete.
To view root certificates, press CTRL+TAB to move to the Root page and follow the directions given above to read more information or delete a certificate.
The Clock program features two clocks: one for home and one for visiting. So if you visit or have family that lives in a particular time zone you may want to adjust your Visiting clock to reflect that time zone. The Home clock is intended to keep time for the zone that you live in.
Open the Start menu (Windows Key) and press S to choose Settings. Press CTRL+TAB to move to the System page. On the System page, press C twice to select Clock and then press ENTER.
To view the Home or Visiting clock, use the UP or DOWN ARROW to choose the appropriate radio button. Each clock allows you to change the time zone, the time, and the date. Press TAB to move to any one of these controls. For the Time Zone combo box, choose a zone with the UP or DOWN ARROWS. For the time and date controls, you will use all the keys of the arrow keys. To move between the hour, minutes, seconds of the time control, use the LEFT and RIGHT ARROWS. To set these parameters, use the UP and DOWN ARROWS. These same commands apply to the date control as well.
This feature accommodates up to four alarm settings and requires that you enable the "Notifications (alarms, reminders) check box in the Sounds & Notifications dialog. For more information, please see Setting Up PAC Mate, System Sounds & Notifications.
From the Today Screen, you access the alarm using the same steps for accessing the clock.
Open the Start menu (Windows Key) and press S to choose Settings. Press CTRL+TAB to move to the System page. On the System page, press C twice to select Clock and then press ENTER.
Once this dialog opens, press CTRL+TAB to move to the Alarms page.
Now, press TAB once to hear, "Alarm 1 check box not checked." To select or clear check boxes, use the SPACEBAR. The next control you encounter is an edit field where you can type in a reason for the alarm. To choose how you would like to be notified, activate the Set Notification Sound button with the ENTER Key.
This opens a new dialog, which consists of three check boxes and a combo box. Use the appropriate commands to navigate and activate the controls on this page. When you are done, press ESC to return to the Alarms page.
The last control to set for the alarm is the day(s) you want it to sound. For instance, you would like your alarm to sound off everyday except Saturday and Sunday. To select Monday through Friday, move to each day with the LEFT or RIGHT ARROW and press the SPACEBAR. You should hear "Monday selected," "Tuesday select," etc., but for each weekend day you will only hear Saturday and Sunday. To unselect a day, press the SPACEBAR again.
If you prefer reading time in 24 hour format, close the Clock dialog by pressing ENTER. Press R to move to Regional Settings and then press ENTER. Press CTRL+TAB to move to the Time page. To change the time display to 24 hours, choose a time style that starts with a capital "H."
When a program becomes unstable or when program memory is low, the first step to take is to free memory manually by stopping any active programs on your PAC Mate.
To do this, open the Start menu (Windows Key) and press S to choose Settings.. Press CTRL+TAB to move to the System page. Now, press M to move to Memory and press ENTER to open the Memory multi-page dialog. Next, press CTRL+TAB to move to the Running Programs page. To move to the list view on the Running Programs page press TAB and select the Program(s) in the list using the DOWN ARROW. Press ENTER on the Stop button to stop the currently selected program. Press ENTER on the Activate button to switch to the currently selected program. Press ENTER on Stop All button to stop all programs currently running on the PAC Mate.
The second step would be to store files on a CompactFlash® card. Open the Start menu, move to Programs, and press ENTER. Move to File Explorer and press ENTER again. Select the file with the DOWN or UP ARROW, or select multiple files with CTRL+DOWN ARROW or CTRL+UP ARROW. Next, press the Application Key and from the context menu, choose Cut and press ENTER. Press ALT, use the DOWN ARROW to select Storage Card and press ENTER. With Storage Card open, press the Application Key again, choose Paste and press ENTER, please see Using Windows Mobile with PAC Mate, Using File Explorer.
If the first two steps do not free enough memory, the third step would be to delete unnecessary files. In File Explorer, choose a file(s), press Application Key, and select Delete.
To find and delete your largest files, Go to the Start menu (Windows Key ) and choose Find. Press TAB to move into the Type combo box, and select Larger than 64 KB, then press ENTER on the Go button.
In Internet Explorer, delete all files and clear history.
The last step would be to remove the programs you are not currently using. For more information on removing programs, please see PAC Mate Basics, Removing Programs.
Use the Power dialog to view the charging status of the battery, to set the length of time that will expire before the PAC Mate automatically shuts off, and to set the microprocessor's operating speed. When you have finished, press ENTER to save your settings.
To open the Power dialog, press Windows Key, S, press CTRL+TAB to move to the System page, use the arrow keys to move to Power and press ENTER.
Use the Recording Settings dialog to configure some of the recording functions. When you have finished, press ENTER to save your settings.
To open the Recording Settings dialog, press Windows Key, S. Then, press CTRL+TAB to move to the System page. Use the arrow keys to select Recording Settings and press ENTER.
You can use the headset/external microphone jack to create recordings from other audio devices such as cassette recorders, radios, musical instruments, and so on. Use the settings on this page to configure the PAC Mate for maximum flexibility when using the headset/external microphone jack as a line-in recording source. For more information on the headset/external microphone jack, please see Ports for details.
Notes: If you plan to use the line-in recording feature frequently, you may want to purchase an attenuated patch cord. These cords, available from most electronics stores, decrease the volume level that is sent to the recording circuit of the PAC Mate, reducing the possibility of damage from "overdriving" the circuit. When using an attenuated patch cord, be sure that the headset/external microphone jack is not attenuated.
You will need an adapter plug to convert one end of the regular or attenuated patch cord to a 2.5 mm plug to fit the PAC Mate's headset/external microphone jack.
Freedom Scientific does not provide technical support for any external audio devices other than those included with the unit. While it is unlikely, it is possible that an external device could damage your unit or that an external device could be damaged while using this feature. Damage to your PAC Mate caused by external devices may not be covered under your warranty or Product Maintenance Agreement (PMA). In addition, Freedom scientific assumes no liability for damage to any third party device that may be incurred while using the PAC Mate in this configuration.
To set your PAC Mate to reflect the currency, time, date and numbers of a foreign country, use the Regional Settings dialog. Pocket PC has over 80 foreign regional settings to choose from.
You open the Regional Settings dialog from the Settings list view on the Systems page. To quickly move to the Regional Settings dialog from the Today Screen, open the Start menu (Windows Key) and press S to choose Settings. Press CTRL+TAB to move to the System page. Press R to select Regional Settings and then press ENTER. The Regional Settings dialog opens with the Region page active. There is only one control on this page. For this combo box control, use the arrow keys to select a region.
If you want to make further changes or just explore the other pages in this dialog, press CTRL+TAB to move back and forth between pages. To move onto a page and navigate through the controls use the TAB and SHIFT+TAB commands. To make a selection in combo boxes, use the UP and DOWN ARROWS.
The PAC Mate allows beaming of information to and from other infrared compliant devices. The infrared port is active by default. In certain situations or if you are not using the port you may want to consider deactivating it as its activation uses up battery life.
If someone attempts to send you an IR beam from an earlier version of Pocket PC or Palm OS, you may not be prompted to accept it. In this case, before the beam is sent from the other device, move to the Receive an infrared beam link at the bottom of the Beam dialog by pressing TAB, then ENTER.
Deactivating the Infrared Port: