I keep my wife's schedule and make appointments for her using my computer. I currently use WinXP but will be migrating to Win7 as soon as I can get my new computer unpacked and set up.
My wife's computer is Win7 and it lives in her office and client-space in a different building, but it is connected using WiFi.
We were using a Palm TX to manually sync (via WiFi) my computer to her's. As long as the computers were kept in sync, we had updated calendars at each end. The system has broken down due to corruption in the Palm calendar database. At this point in time, I can either recreate it all from scratch or start with a new system. Since I'm getting ready to move to a new computer, it makes sense to start with a new system.
Moving forward, I'd like to avoid having to manually sync the computers and I'd also like to have access to the data when we're not at home (visiting relatives in another state, vacationing, etc).
The best solution I've been able to figure out is trusting Microsoft and using Live calendar. There's no manual syncing involved, and it can be used from almost any computer using the html web interface. In some ways, it isn't as good as the Palm calendar, but it is better in others.
Of course I'd prefer using something that is portable, but I don't know of any viable solutions. What else is out there that can keep our schedules straight?
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Shared Google calendars?
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Did a quick search and this was the first result: http://www.palminfocenter.com/news/9087/new-google-calendar-palm-sync-tool/
Or just use the web interface.
@J Neutron: Try to move off of Palm OS as soon as it's viable because it's essentially a dead OS (which was great, had some awesome ideas, but nonetheless dead). The apps are fairly outdated and the security isn't much better. On another (snide) remark, I think you mispelled your topic. I think it was supposed to be "Help me avoid Life" :P.
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He was referring to MS Windows Live, an suite of Internet apps and services for Windows.
Unless you were trying to be funny, digitxp? I don't know, it's hard to tell with only text.
Sunbird has a calendar-sync feature, IIRC; better give that a try!
It's a wonderful calendar program, too - I essentially manage my entire life from it now.
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Sunbird with the Google calendars plugin... although if you do that Sunbird is almost redundant. still... It's portable.
If it were just me doing this, Sunbird or actually Thunderbird with Lightning would be my first inclination since I rely on Thunderbird for my email.
Wifey insists on using Outlook Express which is now Microsoft Mail, which is really a local copy of "Live" (not life, even though Microsoft wants to own life as we know it). The calendar, addressbook (contacts), and mails all sync automatically. It seems fairly painless, but I've run away from Microsoft for so long that it bothers me to step in that direction.
I know that Palm is essentially dead. Has been on the skids for years since the hardware/software divorce. The new desktop software didn't even include all of the previous features, and there's never gonna be another version. The handheld software is even older. When all the new Palms were phones, and the models gradually became Windows-based it was pretty clear what was going on. Yeah, if I thought that PalmOS was a viable strategy, I'd rebuild there.
Google calendar has one issue that bothers me. If you aren't online, the local calendar is read-only. It insures that the online version of the calendar is always in sync, but that's like saying that you can't compose an email unless you are online. It seems to be such a natural thing to be able to work as you want and then when the time comes, connect and sync (or transfer mail). That's like the offline mail readers for BBS mail networks (remember all that stuff?) where you got the mail, logged off, read/replied, and logged back on to send in the replies.
Argh... I feel like I'm tilting at windmills trying to fight this battle.
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