You know, I think Apple has Gates-itis. Bill Gates incorporated all his own software into Windows trying to get consumers to use only Microsoft stuff. To me, Apple is doing the same thing what with Safari, icalc, ical, address book, etc.
Now that I've said my piece, I will get off my soapbox. After I upgraded to Panther I discovered I couldn't sync my Handspring Visor with the palm desktop software, I downloaded a newer version of palmdesktop, installed it and everything is ok. I don't know if the older version would have worked or not. I can't answer any of your other questions. Harry Saturday, January 3, 20042:43 PMMarta Edie PBmledie at insightbb.com >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>.
