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