How to Use an Online Sync Service

If you love using Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express or Palm Desktop for keeping an address book, making notes and organizing your calendar but are frustrated by constantly updating the information in your accounts on the Internet and in your hand-held devices, then get ready for some good news. Synchronizing with Yahoo! Autosync lets you sync all your information with the click of a button--and it's free.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. Go to the Yahoo! website and create an email account if you don't have one. Just follow the directions on the page to do this. Log into your account.

2. Download Yahoo! Autosync by following directions on the screen and agree to the terms of service. Make sure you uninstall any synchronization programs you formerly had on your computer to avoid conflict.

3. Open Yahoo! Autosync and select the information you want to synchronize. Your choices include, calendar, contacts, tasks and notes. Click "Next."

4. Select the option you prefer for frequency of synchronization and click "Next" then "Finish." Enter your Yahoo! ID and password.

5. Put a check mark in the boxes of the contents you want to synchronize. Open "Filters and Mapping"' and click on "Conflict Resolution." Select the setting you desire and click on "OK."

6. Click "Advanced Settings" and don't get scared off by the note saying wacky stuff can happen if you change things. Click "Setup" if you install something new you want to synchronize, such as a Palm product.

Tips & Warnings

• Back up all your data before syncing.

Resources

• Yahoo! Autosync
• Yahoo! website

[grandma38401]

on 7/31/2008 I used to use Yahoo Intellisync with palm with great results. It began having problems and Autosync has more. I have a Treo700p and Palm Desktop 4.2 which uses hot sync 6.01. I have FINALLY gotten Contacts and Memo's transferred from Yahoo to Palm and reorganized since some of that did not come thru. But NOT CALENDAR. And when I try to sync the hand held I now get an error message that I am trying to use more than one conduit. If anyone can help this would be GREATLY appreciated!!
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