First the InstallShield Wizard

installs the software on your computer, and of course

you have to accept the License agreement.  There

are also some release notes to page through. One thing

that I find annoying is that you have to enter your

Customer information.  Then you can choose the

destination location, just in case you don’t like

to put stuff in the default areas. I almost always

run programs off my memory cards.  After all

After the program has been installed, click on the

Pocket controller icon that is either on your desktop

or in your desktop program menu under SOTI. 

On the first attempt to run the program you have to

choose which Pocket PC device you are using; iPAQ,

Cassiopeia, or Jornada.  You also choose the

the program you have to tell it to connect; you can

either do it from the File Menu by choosing connect,

or hit the first button on the left on the toolbar. 

Once connected you have control over your Pocket PC

    As I mentioned before,

you can control your Pocket PC from your computer

now.  The following screen shot shows me working

on this review in FrontPage, and the screen on the

right is actually Pocket Controller connected to my

use your mouse to click on things on your Pocket PC,

and even tap and hold just like on your handheld device. 

When you need to input text into a contact or any

other program you can just start typing on your keyboard

and it will appear in a second on your Pocket PC. 

As I mentioned earlier, there are a lot of other features

included in this program other than just the controlling

File Menu you can connect and disconnect your device

to Pocket Controller, you can also use the first two

buttons on the toolbar to do the same thing. 

Using Pocket Controller you can take screen shots

by using Save Screen to Disk.  You can save the

files as .GIF’s; you can also take a screen shot by

using the sixth button on the toolbar.  You can

even print screens directly to your printer, which

would be a great way to print out notes from a meeting. 

menu you can choose to view or not view the toolbar

by selecting or deselecting it.  You can also

make the status bar disappear by deselecting it; the

status bar is the one on the bottom that says "Show

or Hide the Toolbar."  You can also zoom

Tools Menu you can use your Application Buttons that

are mapped on your device.  You can either use

them from the Tools Menu or the last four buttons

on the toolbar.  When you activate one of these,

whatever application you have mapped to that button

will open.  Now we are going to get into some

stuff that similar applications lack.  Let’s

Options choice you can specify if you want to automatically

start and connect as soon as ActiveSync starts up,

which is an option I really like.  You change

the refresh rate by changing the "Check for changes

every".  The default is the fastest at 1/6

seconds, but you can knock it down to 1/4 seconds

refresh.  If you are using this in conjunction

with a keyboard from another country, you can change

the keyboard; you can choose English (default), French,

Spanish (Latin America), German, and Swiss. 

From here you can also change what type of device

you are connecting to without adding any extra software;

just change the radio button, close Pocket Controller,

and open it back up, and success!  Another way

you can connect to this is through TCP/IP.  Do

this by changing the Connection Type to TCP/IP. 

So if your device is connected to a LAN/WAN you can

control it over your network.  You can also enable

logging features; these features I assume are for

troubleshooting because they are supposed to be off

shows the current connection status, your last connect

and disconnect times, and some other stats that might

a very cool feature that I really like.  If an

application is not responding, or you just want to

quit an application, you can do it from here. 

Just Kill the Process and the process will be stopped. 

You can also switch to an active task by choosing

the Activate button.  It also is useful because

it shows you some background processes that are running,

and then you can look at Details of each of those. 

Sometimes it’s nice to see the background processes

because it might help you understand a little more

shows you valuable system information like general

info about your device, memory status, and battery

The program has an excellent help section,

although I don’t think that you will even use it because

it is so easy to get up and running.  If you

do need any help after looking in their help files

you can go to their online Help from the menu just

above.  You also get one year of free upgrades

and support with the latest version 1.11 that was

just released.  The new version added support

for iPAQ 3135 and 3150 Pocket PC’s and also has boosted

performance on Casio devices, although I didn’t really

see any performance issues with the Casio, and I also

    This program will work

on the iPAQ 3630/3635/3650/3670 (and I got it to work

on my 3100 B/W special), Jornada 540, and Casio E-125/EM-500. 

It requires 246.5 K of storage memory and about 1

MB of program memory on your device.  The desktop

only $24.99 you too can control your Pocket PC without

lifting a stylus.  It is sold through Handango:

Professional

| Standard. 

For $19.99 you can get the standard version, which

lacks some of the language support for the keyboards

and you don’t have the ability to view the system

information or manage processes with Pocket Manager. 

Spend the extra $5 and it will be well worth it. You

can find the latest details on Controller through

   I love that I can finally control

my Pocket PC from my desktop, as well as the added

features of the viewing system information and being

able to manage processes that are running on your