PICPC - P*** Israeli Cellphone Prefix Changer

for Palm™ Desktop Software

As covered on "Yedioth Ahronoth" - Israel's most widely-circulated nation-wide newspaper.

On April 20th, 2004, all of the numbers of cellular phones in Israel have changed.

Cellphone numbers which were of the form 064-****** until that date, were changed to be of the form 052-4******, cellphone numbers which were of the form 050-****** until that date, were changed to of the form 050-5******, and so on.

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PICPC (pronounced pic-pac) is a program designed to ease this transition for users of Palm™ Desktop Software in general and specifically for owners of Palm Powered™ handhelds. Tungsten E, Tungsten T3 and Zire 21 handhelds are currently not supported because their Palm™ Desktop Software stores address book data differently on the computer and since I don't have any of these, I can not analyze the way their address book data is stored.

The process is fairly simple: after performing a HotSync®, simply run PICPC which will update the phone numbers stored in the address book of your Palm™ Desktop Software (just follow the on-screen instructions and don't forget to backup the files the program tells you to back up!). After running the program and verifying that the change was successful, perform another HotSync® and the address book of your Palm Powered™ handheld will be updated.

The program was written by me, Yannai A. Gonczarowski, so you can thank me :-)
If you find it useful and want to say "thank you" or if you have any questions or comments, feel free to contact me.

• Automatic detection of Palm® Desktop Software installation directory - all you need to do is choose your HotSync® user name from the list.
• Choose which field types to update - only those of type 'Mobile'? maybe also those of type 'Main', 'Home', or 'Work'?
• Afraid that you might accidentally change phone numbers which have similar prefixes in other countries? Don't be! You may choose to change only persons whos country field in the address book is, for example, "Israel". (You may also choose to change only the phones of persons with a blank country field, in case you write down the country only for people not living in Israel.)
• No matter how you write numbers - like this: 067-******, like this: +972-67-******, like this: 067****** or in any other way - just input your favorite way of writing them and PICPC will do the rest.
• Easy to use.
• And best of all... it costs nothing.

You can download a ZIP file containing the program (it's just 199 kB) here: picpc.zip.

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