Summary
Whether you are a light, average or hard-core handheld user, you are going to have to do some housekeeping at some point. You can slog through it on your own, hit or miss, or take advantage of a couple of the best Palm applications I've come across.

Cleanup will help you identify and remove that memory clogging junk, and Uninstall Manager/Hack will monitor your installations and make application removal easier, to help keep that garbage from building up in the first place. I consider them as essential to my Palm device as the Norton Utilities I'd never run my PC without.

The price is too good to resist as well. Cleanup goes for $9.95 USD (United States Dollars) and Uninstall Manager/Hack for $14.95 USD. The best deal though is the Neat Freak Pack, both Cleanup and Uninstall Manager/Hack for $18.95 USD. Free and unlimited upgrades and tech support, the best I've ever encountered, comes with product registration. I hope this, my first product review, has been as informative for you to read as it was fun for me to write.

[We certainly liked it and have invited James to write lots more articles for Computing Unplugged. He's already submitted a few additional pieces and we're hoping that James will become a regular fixture in the magazine. Welcome, James! -- Ed.]

James Booth is a self-taught PC and Palm device user that dabbles in graphics and photography. He can be reached at lizardworks@mchsi.com.