The Holy Grail of Synchronization?

[Jason Dunn]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://engtech.wordpress.com/2006/08/11/the-holy-grail-of-synchronization-how-to-synchronize-microsoft-outlook-multiple-locations-google-calendar-gmail-ipod-and-mobile-phone-with-funambol-scheduleworld/' target='_blank'>http://engtech.wordpress.com/2006/08/11/the-holy-grail-of-synchronization-how-to-synchronize-microsoft-outlook-multiple-locations-google-calendar-gmail-ipod-and-mobile-phone-with-funambol-scheduleworld/</a><br /><br /></div>The full title for this article is <i>"The Holy Grail of Synchronization: How to synchronize Microsoft Outlook (multiple locations), Google Calendar, Gmail, iPod, and mobile phone with Funambol / ScheduleWorld"</i>, and that title sums up nicely what this article is about. Synchronization is always a dark art, and while it's pretty simple when you have one computer running Outlook and one Windows Mobile device, things get rapidly more complex when you add in more devices and services. This article covers a whole array of services - it's unlikely that many of you are using exactly that same services as he is, but perhaps you can adapt the same basic principles to your own scenarios.<br /><br />Myself, I've found that using a combination of <a href="http://www.4smartphone.net/affiliates.aspx?go=referal&ref=JD10726">4smartphone</a> [affiliate], <a href="http://www.foldershare.com target=">Foldershare</a>, <a href="http://www.newsgator.com/NGOLProduct.aspx?ProdID=FeedDemon">FeedDemon</a>, and the <a href="http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/browsersync/">Google Browser Sync Tool</a> has let me hit about 90% bliss when it comes to synchronization. I wish some other things would synchronize across all my PCs - like my <a href="http://www.activewords.com">ActiveWords</a> data file, but for the most part I'm quite pleased with the way I'm able to keep my life in sync. What about you? How "in sync" are you?

[Mike Temporale]

Oh man, this just makes my head spin. It shouldn't be so hard to keep things in sync. I just use FolderShare to keep things in sync between my machine, my wife's machine, and a file server in the basement. Then I run Carbonite to back all that up to the internet. And my device, well that just sync's when ever I plug it in. ;) Someday I'll break down and setup an exchange sync. Someday.

[Jason Dunn]

Someday I'll break down and setup an exchange sync. Someday.

4smartphone is only $6.99 a month...seriously, once you go hosted Exchange, you never go back. ;-)

[Mike Temporale]

It's not the money that's keeping me back. The biggest issue is deciding which email account I want to have pushed. I use around 8 different accounts. From my phone I check 1 of them whenever I get a chance and I have the 2 most imporatant accounts setup to pull every hour. The rest can wait until I get back to my computer. I just can't decide which account is more important to have the status of Push assigned to it. :D

[bluetrane]

for windows mobile, Google calendar sync i created an application for a direct sync

www.oxacah.com/golook.htm

its still has a few bugs but so far many users on qusers.com are quite happy with it :)

[Rocco Augusto]

It's not the money that's keeping me back. The biggest issue is deciding which email account I want to have pushed. I use around 8 different accounts. From my phone I check 1 of them whenever I get a chance and I have the 2 most imporatant accounts setup to pull every hour. The rest can wait until I get back to my computer. I just can't decide which account is more important to have the status of Push assigned to it. :D

you can have all of those email accounts forward emails off to the 4smartphone.net account you are given, that way all 8 accounts are push ;)

[Mike Temporale]

you can have all of those email accounts forward emails off to the 4smartphone.net account you are given, that way all 8 accounts are push ;)

But then they're not in the the correct account anymore. I don't use 8 accounts with one inbox. ;) I have seperate inboxs and rules for each. If I forward them all to the 4Smartphone account then I'll have to break them out again. :? This is my problem. I will go push - some day.

[Jerry Raia]

What I don't get is why exchange wont let you sync multiple email addresses to multiple inboxes. I can understand only one calendar and tasks etc. Why only one email??

[Jason Dunn]

What I don't get is why exchange wont let you sync multiple email addresses to multiple inboxes. I can understand only one calendar and tasks etc. Why only one email??

Because no one at Microsoft can fathom why anyone would possibly need more than one email address for anything. :lol:

[Jerry Raia]

Yeah it is mystifying!