Marta, With Panther you can indeed print every last detail from your Address Book. When you click File > Print, you get a pop-up window where you can design your print-out: which printer, what size paper, vertical or horizontal, and a list of "Attributes": phone, email, address, instant messenger, photo, job title, department, company, nickname, phonetic name, names, birthday, date, note, and homepage. If you check all the boxes, you get a very long print-out! (Address Book is much more customizable now; you can create your own attributes (like "children's names". I suspect, though, that if you want those in your print-out you would have to list the children's names in a field that is on the print-out list. I would try putting the children's names in a category that I'm not using for that person, like phonetic name.) I personally think the new version is vastly better than the old, and so far I have not found anything I want to do that it can't accommodate. I will be the first to say, however, that my needs are not complex.)
I have never tried to print my calendar, so I can't help you there. But perhaps I will try it just to find out. I have never had more than one Mac at a time, so can't help with multi-syncing either. I do have a .Mac account, and I have no idea how to do any of this without it! After you install Panther, you will only have to re-download the iSyncPalmConduit 1.2 from the Apple website. Once set up, your preferences stay put and you don't have to constantly fuss with changing conduits. Alex On Jan 3, 2004, at 2:43 PM, Marta Edie PB wrote: > Hi Harry and Alex, > i am so glad you are discussing this matter, because I use the palm > zire 71 and am not sure what i will be in for when i turn to Panther. > At the moment I use palm desktop on my powerbook, because I like that > you can print whole addresses from the Palm software, not so with > Apple addressbook. There you can only print telephone numbers or > e-mail addresses with the name. That is a flaw of that Apple > addressbook and irritating to me. Neither can you print your calendar > in a list form, which to me is important, because i can go back and > trace all appts and events etc for the last few years in a printout > list. I had hoped with Panther it would be different, but apparently > it is not.. > With my i-Mac I sync all the palm data and Apple addressbook stuff > and iCAl and through my .mac account everything to my powerbook and > sync the pictures into my i-photo folders ( zire 71 has that little > camera in it) . > The trouble with i-sync is that it overrides all the palm desktop > except the note pad and the pictures. In order to not have to change > conduits all the time from the abled to the disabled, I chose to > hot-sync palm stuff only on my PB to get all the entries that can be > printed in addressbook form, and i-sync everything on my i-Mac which > then shows on my PB too. > If anybody could tell me how to print out address lists from the Apple > stuff, I would not need the palm addressbook and calendar at all. ( > there once was a download where you were to work through text-edit to > print total addresses, but it was not successful, it lost its > formatting.) > Will Panther tell you what to install for Palm? Or is that a new > download? I, too have too many palm do-dos and conduits etc floating > around. > Marta > On Saturday, Jan 3, 2004, at 13:41 US/Eastern, Alex Whitman wrote: > >> Hi Harry- >> >> I use a Handspring Treo - like your Visor, it runs Palm OS, so I do >> need >> some of the Palm software in order to HotSync. But I use iCal and >> Apple >> Address Book on the iMac because they are friendlier (to me) than Palm >> Desktop. I used Palm Desktop with Windows98 and XP boxes back before >> I saw >> the light. >> >> I still have everything I need to run Classic apps... I just haven't >> ever >> needed any (yet!). >> >> Alex >> >> ...... Original Message ....... >> On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 21:59:00 -0500 "Harry Jacobson-Beyer" >> <harryjb at bellsouth.net> wrote: >>> Alex, >>> >>> Don't know what to tell you. I use Palm Desktop because I have a >>> Handspring Visor (palm lookalike). I used it with OS9 and now with >>> panther. My classic is on a separate partition but I'm not deleting >>> anything on that partition. It just stays there waiting.... >> >> >> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >> | be January 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >> | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. >> > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be January 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
