FIGURE B

WhatzUp offers a number of nice features.

As you can see, WhatzUp offers a number of additional features, including expanded viewing options and the ability access and edit any notes that are attached to your Date Book or To Do List items. So, unless you're limping along with only 4K of free memory on your Palm device, give WhatzUp a try.

Now, getting back to the program at hand, once you've finished clicking your way through the installer, you'll be taken to the Desktop To Go Installation Wizard, pictured in Figure C.

FIGURE C

Here's where you get to pick and choose. Click picture for a larger image.

As you can see, you get to choose whether you'd like to synchronize with Outlook or Schedule+ (or a combination of the two). You also get to specify where your data is coming from and going (these settings will only apply to the first HotSync). Once you have made these basic choices, the final screen of the installation wizard lets you go directly to the Desktop To Go application, if you'd like. Otherwise you can HotSync and get right to work.

One word of caution to those who are using Palm Desktop 4.0: you'll need to download and install an updated version of Desktop To Go. You can get this update at http://support.dataviz.com/support.srch?docid=2094&;product=Desktop%20To%20Go.

General settings
Desktop To Go is a simple and easy-to-use application. I was immediately impressed by the straightforward and uncluttered interface, as shown in Figure D.

FIGURE D

Desktop To Go offers an easy-to-use tabbed interface. Click picture for a larger image.

Under the Global tab, you can configure several key setting, as well as choose the user to whom these settings will apply. If you'd like to configure specific settings for each of the four handheld programs, just select the appropriate tab. I'll get to those in a minute.

The Options tab, pictured in Figure E, provides you with a number of key options, including the ability to bypass Outlook and synchronize any of the handheld applications directly with Palm Desktop.

FIGURE E

Have a look at these useful options. Click picture for a larger image.

You can also set Desktop To Go so that all your information from Outlook will be regularly backed up in Palm Desktop.

In order to customize how the individual handheld applications interact with Outlook, simply select the appropriate tab. What you'll see looks something like what's shown in Figure F.

FIGURE F

If you don't want to think globally, you can always act locally. Click picture for a larger image.

If you need to modify any of the settings specified under the Global tab on a module-by-module basis, you can do that. Here you can choose to synchronize the individual handheld application with either Outlook or Schedule+, change the location of your personal data, set the conflict resolution options, change your synchronization method, and set up links to public folders. You can also use the HotSync Manager's Custom dialog box to change your synchronization method. Both methods are shown in Figure G.

FIGURE G

Desktop To Go gives the standard Custom dialog box a bit of a facelift. Click picture for a larger image.

By the way, this screen looks the same for each of the four application tabs. If you really want to get under the hood and customize things, you need to choose the Advanced Options button in the lower left corner.