This program is intended for use in keeping track of program items at science fiction conventions.

It has the following features:

• It allows users to easily page from one timeslot to the next, or to select a specific timeslot to view.
• Users can also hide program items that they are not interested in, and highlight items that they are especially interested in (optionally moving highlighted items to the top of the list).
• The display can take advantage of the hi-res screens available on some units, and will display program items in a smaller font, if desired.
• (New in version 1.10)Users can select and highlight (or hide) all items that have a particular string in the title or list of participants.
• (New in version 1.10)Items can be highlighted in color, on units that support it.
• (New in version 1.10)There is a menu item to go to the current time.
• (New in version 1.10)If the data for the program is beamed to a different unit, the highlights set by the beaming user will be cleared in the receiving unit.
• (New in version 1.20)Users can now set alarms for program items.
• (New in version 1.20)The first time the program is run, it will default to showing the program items at the current time.
• (New in version 1.20)You can now select whether or not to follow the system preferences for time formatting.
• (New in version 1.26)It is now possible to beam schedule data from the program.
• (New in version 1.29)You can beam a subset of the flags marking individual items to another Palm, and mark them differently there. This lets you mark someone else's items, so you can have some idea of where they might be.
• (New in version 1.29)You can show a list of program items matching all items that have a particular string in the title, participant list, or description.
• (New in version 1.29)You can show the highlighted items for the current day.
• (New in version 1.29)An additional highlighting mode (underlining) was added.
• (New in version 1.29)The program now makes use of the additional screen features of the Tungsten T3.
• (New in version 1.29)If the program for the convention has track information for the program items, it is possible to select whether to display program items by track.
• (New in version 1.29)There is an additional button on the screen, to go to the time of the next item that is marked in any way. In addition, you can select up to five sets of flags, and a button will appear that will move to the time of the next program item with that set of flags set.
• (New in version 1.34)The screen for going to a selected time now allows different days to have different times, rather than having all days have the same start times.)
• (New in version 1.35)If you want to fill the screen all the time, you can set "overview mode" in the preferences, and the app will display as many program items as will fit on the screen.
• (New in version 1.35)The app now supports the right and left buttons on the five-way navigation bar to move forward and back time slots.
• (New in version 1.37)Beaming via Bluetooth is supported on devices with Bluetooth.

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I wrote this program, rather than using one of the general-purpose database programs out there, for several reasons:

• It allows you to see just the events for one timeslot, and to change which timeslot that is easily. All the database implementations I could see would allow you to limit which records were being shown, but changing which timeslot to show was a clumsy process.
• The time-selection screen allows an overview of all the times at the convention.
• I'd had an idea for something like this for years, and I finally decided to do something with it.

• Various user interface improvements.
• Releasing the program to convert text data into the data used for the program. (This hasn't been done yet, because every convention whose data I convert for the program has required changes to the conversion program. I'd like it to have some stability, and I'd like to have some confidence that it can handle most conventions easily, before releasing the conversion program.)