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CHAPTER 2 Your Mobile Manager
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Palm
®
Desktop software View, enter, manage, and back up info for Calendar, Contacts, Tasks,
Memos, Expense, and Voice Memo on your computer (Expense is
Windows only). You can also view, manage, and back up info for Note
Pad. When you synchronize your device with your computer
, this info
is updated in both places.
Palm Desktop includes HotSync
®
Manager software, which allows you
to customize the settings for synchronization. You can access HotSync
Manager by selecting its icon in the task bar at the bottom of your
computer screen.
On a Windows computer, use Quick Install within Palm Desktop
software to install applications (PRC) to your device or to an expansion
card that is seated in the expansion card slot.
Palm Desktop is installed automatically during the initial CD
installation process.
During installation, you can choose to synchronize your
device with Microsoft Outlook on your computer (Windows only). If
you do, information from Contacts, Calendar, Tasks, and Memos is
synchronized with info in the corresponding application in Outlook.
(Memos is called Notes in Outlook.) Information for Expense, Note
Pad, and Voice Memo is still synchronized with the corresponding info
in Palm Desktop software.
Send To Handheld droplet
(Mac only)
Install applications from your Mac computer to your device or to an
expansion card that is seated in the expansion card slot for use on your
device. The Send To Handheld droplet is installed automatically during
the initial CD installation process.
HotSync Manager
NOTE
Tip
After you install an app
and discover how
valuable it is, be sure to
add it to Favorites
. Assign
your most important
application to the Star
button so that you can
open it with one press.
Did You Know?
You can categorize
applications in
Applications View
. Some
apps are automatically
assigned to a category
when you install them;
others are assigned to the
Unfiled category. Apps
from all categories
appear in the All
category. Assign an
application to a category
in Applications by
selecting Category in the
App menu. Select the pick
list next to the
application’s name; then
select a category.