Adobe Reader 3.05

These days, it's hardly possible to overstate the importance of Adobe's PDF file format. Government agencies, companies, publications and many others all use it to distribute electronic documents that are print-ready. Many tools exist to read these documents, but Adobe's own Reader remains the leader. It is easy to find, easy to use, and very powerful; it can handle password-secured documents, and of course offers all the traditional features such as text search and cut and paste.

This version brings most of those same familiar functions from the computer to the Palm OS, allowing users to take digital books and other documents on the go. Running in conjunction with a program on the PC, it transports PDF documents to the handheld device, helping to resize some documents for the small screen. It can handle books protected in Adobe's copy-protection format, as well as Photoshop-formatted slide shows. It's a free download, and in our opinion a must-have for every Palm user.