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   From: Toby Newman    
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   Subject: Re: Sync Palm T|X in Ubuntu (was: Howto sync my PDA)   
   Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 08:30:06 +0000   
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   On 2007-02-26, Michael Fierro wrote:   
   > On Monday 26 February 2007 01:00 pm, Toby Newman ranted on thusly:    
   >   
   >>> PDAs are supported. I specifically bought a PalmOS-based PDA (Palm T|X)   
   >>> because PalmOS PDA support is robust and tested under Linux. I haven't   
   >>> seen much information about syncing PocketPC-based PDAs.   
   >>    
   >> How's that working out for you? I have a T|X but synch it to my XP box   
   >> because when I bought it the linux software wasn't ready.   
   >   
   > Quite well, actually. Though the upgrade to Edgy broke it temporarily. Turns   
   > out that the calendar conduits for kpilot in Edgy are broken, and it   
   > completely erases the calendar on the PDA. Oops! So I manually deleted the   
   > conduits, then downloaded the latest from the KDE svn, compiled and   
   > installed them.   
   >   
   > Palm T|X <-> kpilot <-> kontact works very well now for calendar, contacts,   
   > notes and file installations. Mail doesn't work, but that's cool, since I   
   > have Versamail sync via wifi anyway.   
   >   
   > I actually sync my T|X with Outlook on my work computer, too. Every now and   
   > then there's some duplication between the three systems, but that's easily   
   > fixable.   
      
   Do you have anything like Plucker set up to harvest parts of the WWW for   
   offline reading on your PDA? I use Plucker an awful lot.   
      
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