Random gripe/success/whatever (I’ve been busy rebuilding a small fence in the back yard so I’ve been offline for a couple of days). A side benefit of the new phone is the hope that I might actually be able to sync my laptop/phone/PDA with each other (core benefit was the data access plan). iSync is one of those great little Apple utilities that you get for free which make past dreams a reality (I love OSX).
I have been hesitant to give up Palm Desktop (sad, I know) mostly because I really like the category support for addresses (and Todo items for a lesser extent). I was also disappointed by my original attempts to sync to the phone though as it ended up with over 400 people, the majority of which I would never call from my cell phone anyways (the whole idea here is to have increasing levels of data access available to me). Then I found the Address Groups in OSX’s Address Book. Hurrah! Now I can keep my Palm and my computer fully synchronized with all addresses, plus I can push a small subset of those contacts directly into my phone. Fantastic!
OK, I just found one issue. If I add a contact on the phone then sync, it won’t automatically add that contact into my “Phone List” group, and it disappears from the phone! Oh well, it’s still pretty close. Guess I’ll submit some feedback.
I’d really like to try using iCal now as well, but my Palm’s battery is too damn low.
I too love(d) Palm desktop but needed to sync my Ericcson P900 via BT which I thought means ditching Palm and using iCal/Address book which I find less integrated and clunky. Do you know any way I can sync Palm desktop 4.1, the Ericsson P900 and my G4 /400 OS X 10.2.8