I’m a bit of a geek, there’s no real way of getting around that. Also, im a particular kind of geek. I’m a Mac user. Now there is an army of devout Apple followers who will berate anybody who so much as questions the very brilliance of a Mac.
I’m not one of those.
I’m a funny hybrid. I still own windows boxes, and am very much tied to windows because of certain applications i use at work. I’ll even occasionally dabble with Linux (well Ubuntu, one of the more user friendly forms of Linux). Yet still, nothing i use really measures up (in my eyes, I’m not here to start an argument) to my Macbook Pro.
As such, i do the vast majority of my day to day emailing, browsing and communicating on my Macbook. Therefore you can understand my complete frustration and being unable to sync my phone, a HTC hermes running windows mobile 5 with my main computer. I have tried various syncing utilities over time, but none have been effective or free. This has meant one of two alternative options.
1. manually adding any events/contacts to whichever device i wasn’t nearest to when i need to make the addition.
2. bypassing my mac completely and always syncing with a windows box.
I tried the second for a while, but i just found it a plain nuisance as i rarely sat in front of the same windows machine on a regular basis. Like i said, i encounter them a lot at work but those machines are part of our media server so it would be completely inappropriate to run outlook on them. I have an office pc at work which is windows but never sit in the office. I pick up my work email on my Mac via webmail bypassing the need for all that. At home i have 2 windows boxes, one is a file server and the other a media server which get well used. But again, always via my mac!
The whole re-entering events multiple times completely defeats the object of the modern interconnected world! So one big HALLELUYAH to the very great lifehacker for discovering Syncmate its a freeware app for doing the windows mobile syncing to ical, address book, bookmarks, iphoto… infact you name it. I’ve had a bit of a play with it today and so far i’m very impressed. It just works, first time ever time. The way i expect it to!
