One important thing you should do is click the Sign Out link when you're done with a session, which helps prevent someone else using your computer from accessing your calendar. Yahoo! uses a cookie to process your unique information when you sign out, that cookie is deleted from your browser's cookie database, requiring you to sign in the next time you access the calendar.

The dating game
Like many maturing services on the Web, Yahoo! Calendar can act as a good accessory to your PalmPilot-based scheduling system. This way, you can get the best of the Palm world as well as the scope of the Web world.

Jeff Carlson is the author of Palm III & PalmPilot Visual QuickStart Guide, available in mid-October 1998 by Peachpit Press. He can be reached via email at jeff@necoffee.com.