Method and apparatus for providing access to and working with architectural drawings on a personal digital assistant

A computer-implemented apparatus for providing access to architectural documents comprising:

• a graphical virtual hand held computing device that is displayed on a display of a desktop computer;
• one or more architectural documents associated with the virtual hand held computing device, wherein the association is established by graphically adding the architectural documents to the virtual hand held computing device using an input device;
• and
• wherein the hand held computing device is synchronized with an actual hand held computing device wherein a synchronization process ensures that information displayed on the virtual hand held computing device matches information displayed on the actual hand held computing device.

An article of manufacture comprising a non-transitory program storage device readable by a computer, tangibly embodying at least one program of instructions executable by the computer to perform method steps of providing access to architectural documents, the method steps comprising:

• displaying a graphical virtual hand held computing device on a display of a desktop computer;
• associating one or more architectural documents with the virtual hand held computing device by graphically adding the architectural documents to the virtual hand held computing device using an input device;
• and
• synchronizing the virtual hand held computing device with an actual hand held computing device wherein the synchronization provides that the information displayed on the virtual hand held computing device matches information displayed on the actual hand held computing device.

A computer-implemented method for capturing a screen image comprising:

• displaying, on a display device via a desktop computer, a virtual desktop comprised of one or more windows;
• activating a command to capture an image;
• in response to the command:
• changing a cursor to a capture cursor;
• defining, via the capture cursor, an area of the virtual desktop to be captured;
• capturing the defined area;
• and
• inserting the captured defined area into a workspace as a bitmap image.