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PocketMac 3.0 syncs Macs with Pocket PC-PDAs

updated 10:50 am EDT, Thu October 2, 2003

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is an application for syncing Macs to Pocket PC-based handhelds. Version 3 offers Bluetooth support, email synchronization for Mail and Entourage, theme installation (as well as bundled Mac-like PocketMac Theme), full support for Pocket PC 2003 Edition, both Avanto/Mazingo support, iSync integration, Internet connectivity sharing with any Mac, desktop mounting, and sync support for iTunes, iPhoto, Web favorites, iCal, Now Contact, and others. It is available for Mac OS X 10.2.6 and costs $42.

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10/02, 11:16am | report spam | close Reply |
Great Product!

I purchased this software on Monday and it works perfectly. On the first attempt I synced my HP 2215 with my new 15" Alum PowerBook G4. Synced with AddressBook without a hitch. Also, works well with iSync, just like the Bluetooth phones. Great product worth purchasing.

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Avoid PocketMac

As a user of PocketMac 2.0 I think it's pretty safe to say it's best to avoid this company altogether. I can't speak for PocketMac 3.0, but I do know that I purchased 2.0 and it was quite honestly the worst piece of software I've ever owned. It gave my Mac well over 1 dozen kernel panics and I was never able to actually successfully sync. Worst of all when hordes of scorned users complained, PocketMac vanished. They simply stopped returning e-mails, phone calls, etc. No refunds, no apologies just dead silence. The worst $70 I ever spent.

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PocketMac 2 vs. PM3

They are completely different. Don't be scared by the bad reputation this product has. PM2 was a disaster all around. PM3 is completely different and well worth trying out.

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10/02, 11:49am | report spam | close Reply |
educational pricing?

What is the pricing for education and how do go about ordering it?

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AvantGo

Does AvantGo finally work in OSX? If anyone can confirm ... I'll order right away!!!

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Missing Sync, PPC

Use Mark/Space's Missing Sync for Pocket PC. At version 1, it already includes the features of PocketMac 3, not to mention it works. If I remember, I think it's cheaper to buy than PM3.

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Avantgo

Avantgo will work both with PM3 and Missing Sync. PM3 has a setting to automatically update your avantgo information. Both allow you to get an internet connection through your PPC, so you can set up avantgo that way too.

There's a thread in the Peripherals forum that has a good overview of PM3 if you're more interested.

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Missing Sync does NOT

include a LOT of the features that Pocket Mac 3.0 does.

Bluetooth? No. Entourage? No. PocketMac 3.0 is honestly far more featureful and usable tahn Missing Sync. And PM 3.0 is now priced almost at the same price, even upgrades are only $5!!

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No Demo

Strange, they are following the same tactic as before. No Demo posted, you must buy the software, no refunds, after enought people buy the software, then they will release a demo; if something goes wrong with the release, good luck getting your money back....

BTW, if you buy with a credit card, their no refund policy is nonsense as the CC company will refund your money if the product is worthless...

...unless of course i wasn't looking in the right place for the demo....

I had a faculty member buy the software (2.0 Pro) and it never worked. They never answered my questions for support on their forums (before they changed them to Yahoo... what kind of a company has their tech support forums in Yahoo???????) so she got fed up and switched to a PC (yes, i told her not to!!!) But using her pocket pc was important to her....

Unforutnately i would not recommend buyingthe product without trying it. Wait until a demo is provided and test it.

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re: No Demo

I agree, they should at least provide a proof of concept demo so that people can test out the connection and make sure it can connect and transfer data to the Pocket PC. After the fiasco they've had up to now, I think it's in their best interest to do something like that, if only to say, "yeah, it does work."

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Demos

Neither the Missing Sync nor PM3 provide demos. That's just the way it is. I don't like it either, but what can you do?

Unfortunately, there's some misrepresentation going here about both the Missing Sync and PM3. MS DOES do bluetooth. Neither have a demo. They are both good programs and seem reliable. At least as reliable as ActiveSync anyway.

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What can you do?

You can NOT BUY THEIR PRODUCTS. You can send them an email explaining WHY you will not buy their products. That's what you can do.

Doh!

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Re: Demos

Yeah, but MissingSync doesn't have the history of absolute failure that PocketMac does. I got interested in PocketPC because of the thought that someday PocketMac would work with it and allow me to use the PPC normally. I got an iPaq and subsequently spent close to a year watching the PocketMac board looking for anybody who actually got it working. I never wanted to buy the software because so many people had trouble buying it. I eventually sold the iPaq and will never again look at PocketMac because of its history. That's why I think it's in their best interest to post a demo, there's a lot of bad blood with the company I think and a demo would do a lot to fix that.

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Pricing - No response

I can't get them to give me an educational price. They have a form on the site - I filled it out about 4 times - no answer. My emails to them have gone unanswered and calling them ... they just take a message and don't call back. So here I am wanting to buy the software but can't get any response from the company.

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Demo - Follow up...

Err....wrong, they had a demo for 2.0 after enought people complained that they were buying the software, then it didn't work, and couldn't get their money back....

All i can say is that in MY experience as a computer services coordinator, the experience of my faculty wasn't good. And that i have never seen a company have their tech support forums in Yahoo...

That alone would make me thinkg about buying from a company twice... but someone posted in this forum that we have choices and i recommend people think twice, research the product by going to other recent buyers and make up their mind then...

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I LOVE PocketMac

I've been using PocketMac for nearly a year and have found it to be a great application. At first I experienced some minor glitches but was able to sort them out with the help of PocketMac's support team.

I sync my PowerBook and my Siemen's SX56 from ATT without issue. I can also use PM to transfer themes to me device and to add or remove applications. All around I would call PM a good buy.

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petition

We should petition MS to port ActiveSync. It sux paying for what's free functionality for others.

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Smartphone 3.0 is Good

I was able to synchronize 1,000 contacts, 3 years of calendars and all of my tasks. I have a Motorola MPX200 Smartphone and a 15" iMac flat panel, 800 Mhz, 768 Meg of RAM, Mac OS X 10.3.2 and Entourage 10.1.4. The Smartphone is also synchronized on a daily basis with my Windows 2000 office computer.

The only bugs were:

(i) Smartphone must be plugged directly into iMac USB port (not keyboard), otherwise OS X will crash upon disconnect.

(ii) In names on contacts, "&" becomes "+" on iMac.

(iii) If you reconnect the Smartphone after disconnecting it, the software will not recognize the existence of the Smartphone. You must restart your computer prior to reconnecting the Smartphone.

Since I plan on synchronizing my iMac with my Smartphone only twice a week, none of these limitations are problematic for me.

This currently is the only software that will make the Smartphone sync with an OS X computer, and it does a satisfactory job.

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Works well for me

I'm synching an HP iPaq 4155 with Apple Address Book, Calendar, iPhoto, and iTunes on OS 10.3.2 using Bluetooth only (I use USB to sync with Windows for a Win-only mapping program). Everything works great with PocketMac Pro 3.3. The only negative is copying iTunes mp3s is a *very* slow process, and the new mp4/aac format is not supported on the PocketPC platform.

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Pricing - No response

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I LOVE PocketMac

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