PDA

Getting my PDA doing what I want, the way I want it is probably going to be one of the tougher things. For starters, I have a Sony Clie, and Sony does not support the Mac. I might not have gotten one if I hadn't checked that people were using them with Macs. The Clie T-665C I have is a wonderfully crafted device that I had to have. I also sync my PDA with Outlook on my work PC. I also got the same model Clie for my wife, and she syncs it with her PC. I would like to switch to both of us syncing with a Mac and iCal with each subscribing to each other's calendar. Not too much to ask is it?

The Palm desktop for the Mac syncs with it just fine. Of course, I had to tell PalmOne that I had one of their Tungstens to download it since I couldn't get the Mac version from Sony or a Sony Mac version from PalmOne. I also knew that I could get Mark/Space's Missing Sync to enable extras like Memory Stick mounting, allowing iTunes to see it as an MP3 player, iPhoto picture sync, and some others. Apparent PDA nirvana for the Clie user on a Mac, right? All except for mail sync. The Apple page talks glowingly about how well a Palm PDA works with a Mac and how well iSync and Palm Desktop work together, but read carefully, and there's no mention of it doing anything about mail sync. Palm's site is the same story. Fine. Some searching a while back turned up a Palm conduit for the Mac that would sync mail with Mac OS X mail, including ClieMail on the PDA, which I was using. When I went to get this software, it had even been updated, but the ClieMail sync had been removed and only ever worked with the Japanese version I think. So, I'm going to switch back to the regular Palm mail program that I was synchronizing with my work mail via Inbox-To-Go, but not using all that much.

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