The Missing Sync to Come for Palm Pre! 14
If you've been struggling with trying to sync your Palm Pre to your computer intstead of to the cloud, looks like we have great news for you. We just received the above teaser from mark/space, creators of the excellent "The Missing Sync" software for syncing Windows Mobile, PalmOS, and the iPhone to both Mac and PC. Add one more smartphone platform to the list: The Missing Sync for Palm Pre.
Per their site, looks like you're going to be able to sync darn near everything you could desire: Contacts, Music, Photos, Ringtones, Calendars, Documents, Bookmarks (!), and podcasts. Our favorite feature: Proxmity Sync:
Sync without thinking! Contacts and calendars sync automatically over WiFi when your Pre is near your Mac.
Looks like it may hit the Mac before it hits the PC, but as a longtime lover of the software over Palm Desktop, this is great news.
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That is wonderful news!
Oh, that is just terrific. Thank you! I was really hoping that someone would fill in the gap on this. Thank you, mark/space!
Dats great new, I've used wmp to sync a few pics and song to my pre, I sync some videos but they're no where to be found...
Music sync over wifi would be great, then I don't have to buy a second microUSB cable.
I don't really care about anything else, I'm entirely fine with everything on the cloud, though I guess synced bookmarks would be good too.
This is great news. However, any idea if USB sync of PIM data is possible? My company does not allow WiFi in the building.
WiFi sync would be an additional way sync along with USB.
Hm, what about Notes/memos and Tasks? That'd be great, too!
As an operating system based on Linux, shouldn't they also support Linux on computers? i.e. Ubuntu, Red Hat, etc.?
If it's true that this will be available for MacOS (which is derived from the unix world), this means that porting this to Ubuntu can be done. And if the PRE has the success and popularity that it's surely posed to have, I don't have any doubt that Ubuntu functionality will be developed for the mid-term future.
I would very much enjoy that.
(written from my pre)!!
I know this is off the topic of this post here but I do have a question. Now that the Pre is out people are starting to talk about what is great about it and what would be nice for it to have. Could Palm just review all these little comments that people make and do a software update making the phone meet even more needs of the people?
Great news!
Hope tasks and memo will be added too...
Seems categories will finally be managed, at least on the "desktop", as category managment seems being forgotten by Palm.
Would be great to have all the desktop data managed such way for its initial transfer on the Pre...
"Sync without thinking! Contacts and calendars sync automatically over WiFi when your Pre is near your Mac."
I don't really care about syncing contacts and calendars, they get synced with google already. I want to sync music over wifi. Why don't they alow that?... really stupid, without that this news is really worthless so I hope they implement wifi music sync real soon.
Local sync to the mac was a huge oversight on the part of Palm in my opinion. In today's technology environment you simply have to make your product available to the full marketplace and that is basically pc, mac and *nix in a nutshell. As far as the Pre goes the hardware on this device is a deal breaker. It literally overshadows any of the goodness that the new WebOS may have. Palm will need to come out quickly with a new piece of hardware/device if they hope to do well with the WebOS sales.
i need help......everytime i try to install the missing sync on my compuer...which is windows xp it says unable to connect to a server and my internet is on