iSync

I talked a bit about iSync in the previous entry, and I thought I might want the Palm sync conduit to have the option to not sync the to-dos with iCal and leave them to sync with the Palm Desktop. However, since I tend to ony work with my to-dos on the Palm, this isn't a big issue. I'm not sure, but it seems that even though the calendar, to-dos and addresses sync with iSync, it appears that the Palm Hotsync still backs up those databases itself. This is good in the sense that they can be restored more easily and that there's an extra backup, but it also makes for a longer sync. Normally, the Palm Hotsync doesn't backup databases that are handled with their own conduits. Certainly, the data is in iCal as a backup, but maybe since there is not a perfect mapping from iCal to the Palm data, they chose to let it also backup in the native Palm format as well.

My biggest gripe is still that there is no good mail sync (see earlier entry). The freeware mail conduit works well enough with the standard Palm mail program, but unfortunately, it does not play well with the iSync conduit enabled at the same time. As Starbuck would say, "Felgercarb!"

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