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General Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: gshort on February 04, 2004, 06:27:19 pm

Title: Sync with Aethera?
Post by: gshort on February 04, 2004, 06:27:19 pm

I\'m no developer, and forgive me if I\'m being gormless, but wouldn\'t it be good if it were possible to sync the tkc rom with Aethera? I don\'t use Outlook as a matter of principle, but I have to run Windoze on my machine, and syncing between two tkc products seems like a neat solution to the problem of having calendar and address book in different places. I\'d pay to be able to do it!

Title: Sync with Aethera?
Post by: slocaus on February 04, 2004, 07:10:31 pm

http://www.thekompany.com/products/aethera/ (http://www.thekompany.com/products/aethera/)

They have it planned.

Title: Sync with Aethera?
Post by: gshort on February 05, 2004, 02:50:25 am

Thanks for that.

I see that March 2004 is the date they \'envision\' in their timeline/roadmap. Does anyone know what kind of a record they have in keeping to their schedule?

Title: Sync with Aethera?
Post by: slocaus on February 05, 2004, 11:32:40 am

I purchased 4 apps a year ago.  None of them work as advertised.  tkcMail in particular promised IMAP when introduced somewhere around 18-24 months back, still does not work.  I have removed all TKC apps from my Zaurus and chalked it up to a learning experience.  I use the ROM, but that development is by Proto, independent of TKC.  I am using the KOrganizer/Pi PIM app and syncing it with KOrganizer on my Linux desktop, via unison.  The ical format is supported by other apps as well.  From what I have seen TKC may have sync to Aethera working in another year or two, don\'t hold your breath.  

Title: Sync with Aethera?
Post by: Anonymous on February 05, 2004, 02:19:01 pm

I agree with you slocaus.  All my TKC apps have been archived and I\'ve moved to OZ.  I find the PIM apps there better than TKC although I haven\'t tried KOrganizer/Pi yet.  With the exchange to $US everything from TKC was a real expensive lesson for me.  

Title: Sync with Aethera?
Post by: slocaus on February 05, 2004, 02:55:07 pm

@ guest
I\'m in the USA so cost was not that much, but I would rather it had gone to someone deserving, and not such a poorly run kompany, with such poor support, and the excuse that the user hacked and ruined their program; that because I installed to SD card when they did not recommend.  Anyway, save money, time, and frustration.  Don\'t buy tkc.  Moving on.

KO/Pi is great, and the fact that I can sync (with unision, not a true sync) with Linux is enough for me.