The Tungsten PDA

The maintenance of a car or motorcycle is a complex task. There are many details that need to keep the account, in addition to recall the periodic reviews, and so on. That is why our Palm becomes once again our great ally when it comes to carrying out these tasks.

A management program and free car with an interface is pretty neat AutoBuddy. It has the following features:

AutoBuddy allows all information on our car

• Control of mileage traveled and refueling, with graphs and charts on it, so you can see when there may be a problem in the engine, or if our leadership is efficient.
• Management of security, not to lead a surprise when we make any changes.
• Control of periodic maintenance, like oil change or wheels. We no longer think back to when was the last time you ...?
• Repairs, but the less we have to point out here the better.
• Projects do-it-yourself "for the handyman who prefer to keep themselves maintaining the car, or make changes to your liking.
• Details of accidents, another section that preferred to have blank.
• And of course, we can always carry with us all the information about our car for when it may be necessary: registration, chassis number, insurance, type of oil, and so on.

Another free program to take control of our vehicle is MyCar, which also has a PC version which synchronizes the data to the PDA, although this is a complement to pay. Regarding AutoBuddy added:

MyCar has a plug for PC

• Data management of insurance for periods analyzed.
• Data from the parking and travel expenses, for those who need to deliver cost to the company.
• Possibility of maintaining the distributed data, in addition to several vehicles, several drivers at once.

And for those who own a motorcycle, we have ZMoto that while focusing on these vehicles, is similar to the previous ones: to keep a record of maintenance, create alerts to remind the scheduled trip by separating the data, including consumption, possibility of export the data to the PC, and so on.

Taking account of our bike repairs

There are other similar programs such as Car Info, Auto Tracker and Auto Mechanics, based on the three ThinkDB, or the classics programs to remember the plaza of the shopping center parking lot where we left the car, as MyCar!.

Finally, there are commercial programs for such tasks as the classic TealAuto, or TripBoss, analyzed in PalManiac, which allow you to detail the cost of each trip.

TripBoss allows keeping track of all expenses of the trip

As we see the options are numerous, and undoubtedly useful for Updated control of the state of our vehicle, and the costs it entails.

Published: in comments have discovered another program, pFuel, which also is in Spanish and is free software and free. Thanks rbgnp.

By: Mark Gonzalez Troyes in Palm Analysis
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