Jim I echo your sentiments and hopes to the power of 10
Having jumped to Mac 14 months ago I fought with PocketMac - repeatedly, haphazardly, ad nausea. There have been so many moments where everything seems to be working. And then, bam, one or two synchs later and whole sections of Contacts have been deleted, calendar dates triplicated, etc. Needless to say, despite the miniscule and completely unhelpful responses from PM Support, I've since given up with the whole project. However, like a fool I am, the latest range of Palm's has had me wondering again and I await any assurances from the Group to the positive. Of interest to you, Jim, is a piece of Software by the makers of Pocket Mac called GoBetween. This 'seems' to sync OSX Contacts and Calenders fine, when one avoids throwing PocketMac into the equation. Thus, should a Palm synch with OSX fine, synchronising it with Entourage looks 'feasible' Regards Mark(o) Turner C. Psychol. Area Adolescent Mental Health Team 53-65 Mitchell Street CARRAMAR NSW 2163 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jim Robertson Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 9:48 AM To: Mac-L list; Mac OS Digest; Entourage:mac Talk Subject: Palm vs. PocketPC A few years ago, even BEFORE Palm stopped attending Macworld Expos, I gave up on the platform after making NO headway for years when I'd complain about the deficiencies in the basic bundled Palm applications. The most glaring of these was in the Contacts database, which steadfastly refused to allow one to enter separate work and home addresses for one's contacts. That was OK when the basic Palm had something like 16 kilobytes of RAM, but as memory became cheaper the deficiencies became more glaring. I bought a PocketPC, struggled to make it work with Macs, and eventually gave up on that as well, returning to writing notes on scraps of paper that I lose. I now store names and phone numbers in my BlueTooth phone, but I'd love an organizer that would sync to Entourage. For some reason just today I visited the Palm website and discovered that some time during my absence the company has realized that people do live and work in different places, and that a handheld is a good place to store such information about one's contacts. I've been away from that platform for a few years, and I'm interested in hearing opinions from people who use Palm devices. How good is synchronization to the Mac? Can synchronization software remember categories, multi-day events in the calendar, recurring events with custom repeats (third Thursday of every month, last Friday of every month, etc.). Does one need to purchase third party software to do the synchronizations? Do the built-in sync services in Tiger serve any purpose when talking with Palms? Both PocketMac and the Missing Sync for Windows mobile seem to collapse at the worst times trying to talk to Pocket PC devices. Besides, my iPAQ is too big and bulky. Should I be looking again at a Palm device? Thanks so much, Jim Robertson -- -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/> _____________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for viruses by MCI's Internet Managed Scanning Services - powered by MessageLabs. For further information visit http://www.mci.com This message is intended for the addressee named and may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it and notify the sender. Views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, and are not necessarily the views of Sydney South West Area Health Service. -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
