Comments on: What Happens When a Windows Mobile/Mac OS X Gal Gets Her First Blackberry

By: VentureFiles » Blog Archive » links for 2007-03-28

VentureFiles » Blog Archive » links for 2007-03-28 — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 04:12:00 +0000

[...] Blackberry Sync with Exchange on Mac (tags: blackberry) [...]

By: wayne

wayne — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 14:19:28 +0000

Hey, this is a great solution for Mac/Parallels/Outlook/ users, the main problem is really with Parallels usb not working with our blackberry handhelds. I’m going to give this a try.

By: The Law of Mobility » Blog Archive » Managing the Danger: Week of 4/01/07

Tue, 03 Apr 2007 11:18:11 +0000

[...] Syncing [...]

By: paramvir singh

paramvir singh — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 06:18:00 +0000

hello Judy. I am an independent worker, a Cinematographer, and my phone book and phone is my office. AND I use a Mac, very happily. I use a Nokia E61, sync ith perfectly with MAc OSX 10.4.9 (used Novamedia plugins before that) and also keep a backup on Mobical.net, scheduleworld.com and zyb.com, all for FREE.

If you need Push email, you could use http://www.morange.com (FREE push email) and mail2web.com. There are some other free push email solutions listed at macandmobile.com

If you really MUST use a BB, MissingSync is a great solution, so is scheduleworld.com and morange.

By: kristin

kristin — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 08:12:49 +0000

Whoops. Sorry Judi, Forgot to include the links.

I use this semi-often: http://murphymac.com/sleep-your-mac-by-email

Heres another blog post I wrote on BB/Mac when I first got mine, just has some links & tips: http://wiphey.com/2006/12/10/the-sunday-slice-crackberry-pie/

and if you’re seriously bored or need any help pinstack.com is great, or you can pin me 204d1693

By: kristin

kristin — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 08:06:52 +0000

As a mac user I’ve used the mark/space and pocketmac. Both are if anything… meteokre. mark/space software is definitely the more consistent of the two, but paying $40 for something like sync software is a ripoff. I’m actually a bit peeved at mark/space that they didn’t give the private beta testers a discount since we did… beta test it and help them develop it by posting bugs and suggestions.

Having to plug your phone in to sync every day is very irritating, especially when syncs error and you loose data. Ideally blackberries are meant to work with BES/domino servers….

even with the goods & bads. i couldn’t go even 1 day without my BB @ my fingertips.

By: Judi Sohn

Judi Sohn — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 07:36:44 +0000

PocketMac for Blackberry doesn’t have the best reputation. Typical review here.

I would be interested in a way of getting directly from Google Calendar to Blackberry without having to go through iCal. I know I can sync to Entourage, but that’s just another application to throw into the mix that I don’t use. I’m stuck in Outlook and the reasons why don’t work in Entourage.

I know it seems crazy, but my little hack-up *does* work and it lets me get out of the house more during business hours without having to worry about taking the laptop.

By: Lefty

Lefty — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 05:29:10 +0000

Jeez la beeze…a lot of points of failure between Outlook 2003 for Windows and your mashup on a Blackberry connecting to a Mac. But if you’re up to geeking it when need be (translation: more time, energy, fees, & continuous maintainence & monitoring), in order to keep you Crackberry & Mac addiction, well then have fun!

But perhaps a WinXP laptop would have made life easier….

By: Daniel Burns

Daniel Burns — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 04:41:45 +0000

Ugh… Groupcal is *annoying* to use.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 00:46:13 +0000

Judi,

Apple would be crazy to make the iPhone Mac-only. Its very likely that the iPhone will sync Outlook contacts via iTunes on Windows – this is already happening for iPods:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302268

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 00:22:44 +0000

Judi,

couple of things. i can send you a couple of hacks to sync gcal directly with blackberry.

in addition, you can simply use the free software from blackberry and pocketmac.net to sync apple os-x with blackberry, without spending money on mark/space solution.

lastly, you can sync exchange to entourage and use pocketmac to sync with your blackberry.

frankly, for me blackberry is just a reminder of a big company i used to be part off.

By: Mrinal

Mrinal — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 00:04:37 +0000

So why didn’t you choose the BlackJack?

By: Judi Sohn

Judi Sohn — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:01:18 +0000

Boris, thanks for the input…still a bit of a windy road.

I feel like we’re playing a game…”I can sync that Blackberry in 3 step, Bob!”

By: Judi Sohn

Judi Sohn — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:58:45 +0000

Chris, I *don’t* use Exchange. I needed to sync Outlook data that is stored in Personal Folders with iCal. As far as I could tell, there is no direct link that doesn’t involve importing/exporting databases. Also, while the Apple iPhone will have a lot of very cool features…syncing with Outlook through Parallels or Boot Camp likely won’t be one of them. ;-)

By: Boris

Boris — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:57:45 +0000

Yep, GroupCal, Plaxo and a .Mac account coupled with a hosted Exchange account syncs everything back and forth. Works for me…

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 21:28:34 +0000

Doh – sorry about the messed-up link folks. I was suggesting Snerdware’s GroupCal for ExchangeiCal syncing.