Category Archives: Syncing

Dropbox: Sync Files Between Your Computers

My consulting activities generally involve working with lots and lots of files. Most of the time I work with those files on my iMac or with the Mac’s Windows XP partition, courtesy of VMware Fusion. (I have file-sharing enabled for … Continue reading

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Google Apps Now Syncs with Outlook Mail, Calendar, and Contacts

If you have the Premier Edition of Google Apps, you can now use its sync utility with Google Calendar, Mail, and Contacts. This is a huge enticement for me. I’ve been using the standard edition of Google apps for a … Continue reading

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Gluing Together Outlook, gCal/Contacts, Tasks, iPhone, and More

When I first got my iMac about 2 years ago, I wanted it to have all the data that was on my Windows machine, including all Outlook data (which went back several years). So, I spent a lot of time … Continue reading

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My Initial Encounter with MobileMe

In this article, I describe my initial experimentation with Apple’s new MobileMe service. Now, while I have encountered a few problems with it, which I describe, some people are not having problems with it at all. For example, my friend … Continue reading

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Mobility, WM, Syncing, and The Cloud

Thomas sent an email to me recently that I want to share with you (with his permission). It will be of particular interest to Windows Mobile users who want to have their data “in the cloud.” After the quote, I’ll … Continue reading

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Share Your Thoughts and Tips on Data Syncing

One of the most visited pages on this blog is my March 2007 article on Keeping a Pocket PC, Outlook, Mac iCal, and a Palm in Sync. When I recently realized how popular that page is, I also realized a … Continue reading

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Reader Question on Best Hosted Exchange

Mike has asked What is the best hosted exchange service? How do you set it up? While I have been thinking of setting up a hosted exchange, I have not really decided to do it yet. So, I do not … Continue reading

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How VMware Fusion Eliminates Some of My Syncing Woes

When got an iMac in December 2006, I looked for a way to sync all of my Outlook data to Apple’s iCal and Address Book applications. I describe my first success with this in the following article: Keeping a Pocket … Continue reading

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Syncing a PPC to Ubuntu … a Tip from Ben Stanley

Fellow Smartphone and Pocket PC Magazine blogger Ben Stanley has an interesting writeup on syncing a Pocket PC (or Smartphone) to Ubuntu Linux. I haven’t tried it yet on my Ubuntu setup, but will give it a try later this … Continue reading

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My thoughts on Apple’s WWDC announcements

The news from the WWDC has received a lot of press, so I won’t go into what I think of each of the details of what Leopard will bring to the table, nor what having Safari on Windows means for … Continue reading

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