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From: Harold Fuchs on 11 Jul 2010 11:52 I've just found something called CompanionLink (http://www.companionlink.com/) which claims to be able to synchronise several different PC applications with many different smartphones/PDAs. In particular it claims to be able to sync an iPhone or iPod Touch with Palm Desktop. It claims to do calendar, contacts, tasks and notes. One method of syncing is via WiFi.and does *not* use the cloud, although there are other options that do. Has anyone tried this? Does it really work as well as Palm's HotSync? -- Harold Fuchs London, England
From: kronhead on 12 Jul 2010 09:55 I realize this doesn't match your Apple environment - but I use CompanionLink on my Android phone, and it works pretty well. The Android version is pretty new, and doesn't have WiFi yet - you have to use a USB cable - and there are some other pending enhancements needed - but support gas been good, and new versions have been pretty frequent. There is another product - Missing Sync from markspace.com - that does do WiFi (supposedly) - but I have no experience with them at all. Dan On Jul 11, 8:52 am, "Harold Fuchs" <m...(a)privacy.net> wrote: > I've just found something called CompanionLink > (http://www.companionlink.com/) which claims to be able to synchronise > several different PC applications with many different smartphones/PDAs. In > particular it claims to be able to sync an iPhone or iPod Touch with Palm > Desktop. It claims to do calendar, contacts, tasks and notes. One method of > syncing is via WiFi.and does *not* use the cloud, although there are other > options that do. > > Has anyone tried this? Does it really work as well as Palm's HotSync? > > -- > Harold Fuchs > London, England
From: Harold Fuchs on 12 Jul 2010 10:16 Thanks. I'm in the process of installing the trial version of CompanionLink on my Vista laptop and the corresponding app on my iTouch. Then we'll see. I *think* I may have found an upgrade path from Palm m515 that doesn't require the cloud or Outlook. The eternal optimist ... I don't think Missing Sync is for me as, on Windows, it syncs to Outlook which I don't have (or want to have). CompanionLink syncs to Palm Desktop which I think is pretty good - it's served me well since 2003 and still does all I need from a PIM. Regards, Harold "kronhead" <subs(a)kronhead.com> wrote in message news:6581df45-4971-42db-a08e-bde534426c8a(a)z30g2000prg.googlegroups.com... >I realize this doesn't match your Apple environment - but I use > CompanionLink on my Android phone, and it works pretty well. The > Android version is pretty new, and doesn't have WiFi yet - you have to > use a USB cable - and there are some other pending enhancements needed > - but support gas been good, and new versions have been pretty > frequent. > > There is another product - Missing Sync from markspace.com - that does > do WiFi (supposedly) - but I have no experience with them at all. > > Dan > > On Jul 11, 8:52 am, "Harold Fuchs" <m...(a)privacy.net> wrote: >> I've just found something called CompanionLink >> (http://www.companionlink.com/) which claims to be able to synchronise >> several different PC applications with many different smartphones/PDAs. >> In >> particular it claims to be able to sync an iPhone or iPod Touch with Palm >> Desktop. It claims to do calendar, contacts, tasks and notes. One method >> of >> syncing is via WiFi.and does *not* use the cloud, although there are >> other >> options that do. >> >> Has anyone tried this? Does it really work as well as Palm's HotSync? >> >> -- >> Harold Fuchs >> London, England > >
From: drruth2 on 12 Jul 2010 22:27 On Jul 11, 11:52 am, "Harold Fuchs" <m...(a)privacy.net> wrote: > I've just found something called CompanionLink > (http://www.companionlink.com/) which claims to be able to synchronise > several different PC applications with many different smartphones/PDAs. In > particular it claims to be able to sync an iPhone or iPod Touch with Palm > Desktop. It claims to do calendar, contacts, tasks and notes. One method of > syncing is via WiFi.and does *not* use the cloud, although there are other > options that do. > > Has anyone tried this? Does it really work as well as Palm's HotSync? > > -- > Harold Fuchs > London, England I indicated in another thread that I have tried CompanionLink, Missing Sync for PalmPre (MarkSpace) and the HotSync. CompanionLink is pretty robust in synchronization w/ the calendar in the Pre and with either Outlook, Outlook Express, or the Desktop by Access desktop calendars. It permits quite of bit of specification. I sync via the USB cable. Missing Sync will accommodate calendar, notes, tasks via wi-fi and ringtones, music, video, and files via USB. I've gotten the USB part to work but have managed to get some pairing keys wrong for wi-fi and haven't sorted that through as yet. Downside to Missing Sync is you have to download three apps to your Pre, the Missing Sync, and Fliq Notes, Fliq Tasks. This means that it is forcing things to migrate away from the Palm OS environment. For now I intend to stick with the Palm OS as I as sure that is not migrating out to the cloud.
From: Harold Fuchs on 30 Jul 2010 04:02 "drruth2" <dennis.ruth(a)verizon.net> wrote in message news:e79148f0-d02d-4703-be38-7e35707528a6(a)q12g2000yqj.googlegroups.com... >On Jul 11, 11:52 am, "Harold Fuchs" <m...(a)privacy.net> wrote: >> I've just found something called CompanionLink >> (http://www.companionlink.com/) which claims to be able to synchronise >> several different PC applications with many different smartphones/PDAs. >> In >> particular it claims to be able to sync an iPhone or iPod Touch with Palm >> Desktop. It claims to do calendar, contacts, tasks and notes. One method >> of >> syncing is via WiFi.and does *not* use the cloud, although there are >> other >> options that do. >> >> Has anyone tried this? Does it really work as well as Palm's HotSync? >> >> -- >> Harold Fuchs >> London, England >I indicated in another thread that I have tried CompanionLink, Missing >Sync for PalmPre (MarkSpace) and the HotSync. CompanionLink is pretty >robust in synchronization w/ the calendar in the Pre and with either >Outlook, Outlook Express, or the Desktop by Access desktop calendars. >It permits quite of bit of specification. I sync via the USB cable. >Missing Sync will accommodate calendar, notes, tasks via wi-fi and >ringtones, music, video, and files via USB. I've gotten the USB part >to work but have managed to get some pairing keys wrong for wi-fi and >haven't sorted that through as yet. Downside to Missing Sync is you >have to download three apps to your Pre, the Missing Sync, and Fliq >Notes, Fliq Tasks. This means that it is forcing things to migrate >away from the Palm OS environment. >For now I intend to stick with the Palm OS as I as sure that is not >migrating out to the cloud. I have now tried CompanionLink with my Palm m515. This seems to work quite well. My only (initial) difficulty was that my Palm data is stored in Palm Desktop 4.1 format and I installed 6.2, which uses a different format, on my laptop to test with. The CompanionLink support group was very responsive and helpful and quickly came up with a simple solution. Excellent. However, I won't be buying the product because the accompanying iTouch app (DejaOffice) is so immature. It can't do simple things that (a) I rely on and (b) were in Palm's software from day 1 nearly 10 years ago. Just a few examples, in no particular order: 1. Can't search the calendar so can't ask "when did I last see Joe?" or "when is my next dentist appointment?". 2. Can't attach alarms to tasks (this wasn't actually in the original Palm software but I've used ToDo2 for so long ...) 3. Can't set the day length to only show, for example, from 8am to 8pm *unless* there are appointments outside these times. The problem here is that you nearly always have to scroll the day view. 4. In day view it doesn't show what day it is (Monday? Thursday?) so if you are looking at something in the past or in the future you have no idea what sort of a day that appointment is/was for. 5. Many (most) of the settings available on the Palm simply aren't there in DejaOffice, for example the default time before an appointment for the alarm. 6. The general use of screen "real estate" is very poor, much worse than Palm's even though the Palm's screen resolution is only 160x160 compared to the iTouch's 320x480 on roughly the same sized screen. In general I get the impression that DejaOffice was written by people who have never actually used any sort of electronic PIM. Why is it that I keep being surprised that software developers "now" make the same design mistakes we made 10, 15, 20 years ago? Ho hum. -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please do *not* reply to my personal e-mail address.
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