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+From: 	John Toebes
+Sent: 	Saturday, April 12, 1997 2:23 PM
+To: 	'datalink-developers@listproc.wsu.edu'
+Subject: 	Data Hider App Beta
+
+Hi all,
+  Here's another useful app which I am nearly finished with, but wanted
+people to have a chance to comment on it.  What it does is allow you to
+protect the entries in your watch so that they can't be seen unless
+someone enters a password.  The way it works is pretty simple:
+  Switch to the app.  If the data is currently hidden, it says:
+   DATA
+   HIDDEN
+   J. TOEBES
+ Otherwise if you can actually see the phone numbers and list entries it
+says:
+  DATA
+  HIDER
+  J. TOEBES
+
+To hide the data on your watch, press the next button.   Once you exit
+the app, you can't see any of the phone or list entries if they have
+been hidden.  To get them back, just go back to the Data Hider app and
+press the SET button to enter the password.  What password?  Oh, the
+default one is 1234.  Once you have entered the password, the note
+symbol will once again appear and allow you to unlock the entries.  If
+the note symbol is visible, you can change the password to anything else
+by just pressing the SET button.  
+
+Note that if you forget the password, there is no way to retrieve it (downloading another app will destroy where the password is stored!) or your entries.  
+
+Possible enhancements:
+  1) Add an automatic timeout to lock the watch after 1 minute
+  2) Allow you to set the password before you download it to the watch
+  3) Consider hiding the appointments and anniversaries.  This has an
+unfortunate side effect that they won't go off (or at least I haven't
+figured out a way to trick the app into skipping them but still have
+them go off).
+
+
+---- John A. Toebes, VIII ----         toebes@southpeakcom
+Vice President Research and Development
+SouthPeak Interactive