| Acknowledgments | p. vii |
| Introduction | p. vii |
| Welcome to Zire | p. 1 |
| A Brief History of Handhelds | p. 2 |
| What Makes Handheld PCs So Great? | p. 3 |
| Zire 101: The Basics | p. 5 |
| Get to Know Your Zire | p. 7 |
| A Guided Tour of the Hardware | p. 8 |
| Using Your Zire for the First Time | p. 14 |
| Getting to Know the Operating System | p. 16 |
| Setting Zire Preferences | p. 20 |
| An Introduction to Palm Desktop | p. 24 |
| Getting Set Up with Your Computer | p. 27 |
| Plugging It All In | p. 28 |
| Installing the Desktop Software | p. 29 |
| Your First HotSync | p. 31 |
| HotSync as a Way of Life | p. 35 |
| Getting Information In and Out of Your Zire | p. 39 |
| The Three Ways to Enter Data | p. 40 |
| Getting to Know Graffiti | p. 44 |
| Beaming Data Between PDAs | p. 49 |
| Installing New Software on Your Zire | p. 55 |
| The Date Book | p. 57 |
| View Your Appointments | p. 58 |
| Manage Your Day from the Agenda View | p. 63 |
| Create New Appointments | p. 65 |
| Work with Alarms | p. 70 |
| Work with the Palm Desktop | p. 73 |
| The Windows Date Book | p. 73 |
| Using Outlook | p. 75 |
| The Address Book | p. 77 |
| View Your Addresses | p. 78 |
| Create New Entries | p. 80 |
| Assign Categories | p. 84 |
| Edit and Delete Addresses | p. 85 |
| Create and Beam Your Business Card | p. 86 |
| Work with the Palm Desktop | p. 86 |
| Using Outlook | p. 90 |
| The To Do List | p. 93 |
| View the To Do List | p. 94 |
| Create a To Do | p. 95 |
| Work with the List View | p. 97 |
| Delete Old To Dos | p. 101 |
| Share Your To Dos | p. 102 |
| Work with the Palm Desktop | p. 102 |
| Using Outlook | p. 103 |
| The Memo Pad and Note Pad | p. 107 |
| Where's the Memo Pad Button? | p. 108 |
| Viewing the Memo Pad | p. 108 |
| Creating New Memos | p. 110 |
| Arranging Memos in the Memo List | p. 111 |
| Working with Your Memos | p. 113 |
| Working with Notes | p. 115 |
| Working in the Palm Desktop | p. 116 |
| The Windows Note Pad | p. 119 |
| Using Outlook with the Zire | p. 120 |
| The Rest of the Palm OS Team | p. 123 |
| Zire Security | p. 124 |
| The Find Feature | p. 132 |
| The Calculator | p. 134 |
| All About Expense | p. 135 |
| Alternatives to Expense | p. 139 |
| The Internet in Your Zire | p. 141 |
| Channel Surf with AvantGo | p. 142 |
| Vindigo: A Concierge in Your Pocket | p. 147 |
| Throw Away Your PC! | p. 149 |
| Building the Perfect Beast | p. 150 |
| The Wonderful World of E-Books | p. 151 |
| Creating and Editing Documents | p. 155 |
| Printing from Your Zire | p. 161 |
| Games and Music | p. 163 |
| Turn Your Zire into a Game Machine | p. 164 |
| Sketch and Draw on Your Zire | p. 170 |
| Collaborate on a Sketch | p. 171 |
| Make Music on Your Zire | p. 172 |
| Graffiti Enhancements and Other Utilities | p. 179 |
| X-Master and the Wonderful World of "Hacks" | p. 180 |
| Other Utilities | p. 185 |
| Organize Icons with a Launcher | p. 187 |
| Graffiti Enhancements and Alternatives | p. 189 |
| Problems and Solutions | p. 197 |
| Cure Zire Problems with a Reset | p. 198 |
| Avoid Battery Problems | p. 200 |
| Fix Scratched Screens | p. 200 |
| Fix a Screen That No Longer Responds Properly | p. 201 |
| Reclaim Memory for Software and Data | p. 201 |
| Resolve Hack Conflicts | p. 203 |
| Fix a Zire that Won't "Wake Up" for Alarms | p. 203 |
| Beaming Problems | p. 204 |
| Deal with a Zire that Will No Longer HotSync | p. 205 |
| Manage Multiple Zires or PCs | p. 207 |
| Where to Find Help | p. 208 |
| Index | p. 209 |
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