\nI am finally defeated. I have tried to make a PC at University, a
\nWindows Mobile 5 phone-pda, a home office desktop PC, and my MacBook Pro
\nkeep a synchronised calendar, for all the appointments and plans in the
\nmany walks of my life, each being a place where changes might be made.
\nThe synchonisation problems across these platforms seem insurmountable.<\/p>\n
Missing Sync for Windows Mobile on the Mac plays at being Active Sync
\nquite well, but changes events by one hour (yes I have installed the
\nreleased patch but it made it worse!) Events are routinely duplicated
\nduring synchronisation, as if Entourage simply cannot see the exact same
\nevent on the PDA, although the PDA happily writes the details into
\nEntourage. Delete the duplicate and it will be removed by Windows XP
\nwhen the PDA synchronises with the Desktop. [And yes I’ve exported the
\nlot out of Outlook as a CSV, reimported it into Outlook, and then
\nsynchronised that across to empty WinMobile PDA and from there into
\nempty Entourage. It still fucks up.]<\/p>\n
I am so fed up with spending up to an hour a day pissing about trying to
\nkeep my calendar in order, when the synchronisation is supposed to make
\nmy life easier, not more complex. Keeping one calendar, say on my PDA,
\nis not good enough because the PDA is a poorer interface than a full
\nscreen where I can plan more effectively.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, the present solution is to stop using Entourage, and
\nlaunch Parallels on my Mac with Outlook installed on a Virtual WinXP,
\nand use that to synchronise with my PDA. But do I then have to use
\nOutlook on virtual PC on my Mac to hold all my contacts, email, etc etc.
\nThis is sad. It could be worse to being running both! The only other
\nthing to do is to get an iPhone and begin to use iTunes on the PC. Try
\nsynchronising from that to Outlook! Maybe it will be better – on WinXP.
\nNot sure to be honest. <\/p>\n
When Orange offered me a \u00a36.50 monthly deal worth \u00a335 a month, with a
\nfree LG Viewty, it had to be better than \u00a335 a month plus \u00a3270 outlay to
\nhave an iPhone on 02.<\/p>\n
So for the next 18months I am still with Orange. So do I try an
\nunlocked iPhone, with all the extra expenses that it may entail in
\ndecent patching software etc etc…. Doesn’t seem like a reliable
\nalternative to me.<\/p>\n
Oh and as for getting the LG Viewty to talk to ANYTHING at all…. well forget it.<\/p>\n
And yes of course I have tried to put the whole lot on Plaxo, and
\nsynchronise everything to that. THe LG Viewty couldn’t talk to it at
\nall. Entourage and Outlook and the PDA all managed to talk and
\nsychronize with it and deleted more than half of all my calendar events
\nin the process!!!! So I dumped out of Plaxo pronto, restored my
\ncalendars from backup (all important appointments with times and
\nlocations as well as dates) and thanked God for archiving.<\/p>\n
Yep = go with one operating system and software company. that’s the
\nmessage. and because of that I really would rather go mac. but keeping
\nthe WM-PDA instead of going for the iPhone means, unfortunately, that
\nMS have won. Outlook on parallels-virtual-winxp here I should go! But I
\ntried it and it sucks.<\/p>\n
Perhaps I just have to keep everything online – access it from the PDA
\nover GPRS – and not use either Outlook OR Entourage. Perhaps this is
\nthe real change. Yep. This, though needing some research, is most
\nlikely the way forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tubthumper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":741,"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}