Re: Activesync replacement?

I found the following for anyone wishing to ditch their current ActiveSTINK
solution:

http://lifehacker.com/software/palm-os/ask-lifehacker-sync-my-pdasmartphone-to-the-web-230353.php

talks about replacing Outlook and syncing with Google Calendar. Hmm, funny,
never mentioned here huh?

There's also Companionlink which of course costs money, but seriously folks,
every "MVP" here has said, "Activesync or nothing" well, seems that's not
really the case is it?

You can use Google calendar, any number of other calendaring tools and use
Companionlink to sync those.

http://www.companionlink.com/products/gmigrate.html

For those of us who use Outlook only for email, i can easily think of nPop,
nPopw for that purpose (freeware), or Eudora.

For those of us who would like to sync just our calendar and contacts, the
above solutions sound a lot better than ActiveSTINK telling me over and over
that I have an exchange issue when I never changed a stinking thing in my
current setup. Yet, what's teh solution? HARD RESET? Wipe out the entire
handset just because the software provided "as is" from M$ is buggy.

Personally, i'd rather go down this road and start expecting to get what I
pay for. Wait, we don't pay (directly) for ActiveStink, just indirectly in
lost time and productivity.


"Chris De Herrera" wrote:

Hi,
Did you check to make sure that the Exchange functionality (server name,
user name and password) in Activesync on your device is not setup? This is
only used when you sync with an Exchange server.

Also, if you want to sync with a Mac there are other solutions. However for
the PC there is no option to use another app because the developers do not
see a market competing with Microsoft.


--
Chris De Herrera
http://www.pocketpcfaq.com
http://www.tabletpctalk.com
http://www.pocketpctalk.com
http://www.mobilitytalk.com

Windows Mobile Device Center FAQs -
http://www.pocketpcfaq.com/faqs/wmdc/index.htm
ActiveSync Troubleshooting Guide -
http://www.pocketpcfaq.com/faqs/t-shootactivesync.htm

"sanjsrik" <sanjsrik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:474BFC31-D814-47CE-AC1B-822759E06928@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I'm running Windows XP, NOT Vista, so Mobile Device Center is not an
option,
but at the same time, I've had so many issues with ActiveSync that I'd
like
to explore an alternative to this buggy software.

Any suggestions?

I'm going to install Intellisync tonight. I'm only looking sync my
Contacts/Calendar and Tasks.

I've just had so many issues and now I'm being told error code 85010001
and
that I can't sync with my exchange server but I don't HAVE exchange server
installed. Something has to sto the headaches.

Thanks in advance for any advice.



.

Loading