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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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