Syncing an Outlook Replacement w/ Pocket Outlook? 8
Rick the Red asks: "I'm using Windows ME, Office 2000, and a Pocket PC, but I'm trying to break free (pun intended). To begin my migration, I've decided to replace Office 2000 with OpenOffice.org on Windows, then move to Linux (dual-boot; I've still got the games issue) once that conversion is complete. My concern is the Pocket PC. I'd love to go cold-turkey and replace my Jornada with a Sharp Zaurus, but that's not in the budget right now. OpenOffice.org provides XMerge, which covers Word and Excel, but what about Outlook? What email reader/contact list/calendar apps (for Windows) do you recommend to replace Outlook -and- sync with Pocket Outlook? Any success stories to share?"
Beware of what you're doing! (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Beware of what you're doing! (Score:2)
I don't care if the calendar app won't talk to the email app, only that they each talk to their respective parts of Pocket Outlook. I don't email appoi
Re:Beware of what you're doing! (Score:4, Informative)
I moved to a linux desktop with openoffice.org about a year ago, and I used Evolution in place of Outlook
About a year ago, things were in pretty good shape, but still not perfect. I find your conerns to be most heartening though, and while I'm sorry it was tough for you, I'm glad that you were having problems of the sort you were rather than the ones that you would have had 2 years ago.
I thought it was great - or least that's what I kept telling myself. What I really found was that it was great to feel like I was cool for using those things, but in all honesty, it sucked. Nothing worked well together
My mailer, Web browser, calendar, contact manager, task manager and command-line terminal all work well together with minor problems caused almost exclusively by the fact that I run a poorly integrated development-version desktop rather than a more stable, if older, version from a vendor who has the done the integration work (e.g. Ximian or Red Hat).
When it comes to office applications, I mostly don't bother. Folks who send me resumes in a proprietary format can suffer with what a conversion program does to them when trying to extract text. If they don't like that, they should offer a text version of their resume.
I couldn't copy text in one app and paste it into another
Pasted from terminal: 1526 Oct 30 12:39 x.html
Pasted from mailer: To: ajs@ajs.com
Pasted from calendar: Boston.pm
That's about all I really need....
Evolution didn't allow me to change my email font - it required changing the default HTML view of Gnome What's more, sadly, much of the world is still using MS Office. Sure, openoffice.org can open and even save in documents in office format, but they're not perfect.
Perfect is a relative term when you're talking about handling unspecified formats. Converting to text is about your best bet. Another approach would be to convert to a neutral XML format that lets anyone read it.
If it really bothers you, you should send people a reply and ask them to send you HTML or plain text, both of which are quite possible from Word.
Re:Beware of what you're doing! (Score:2)
>format, but they're not perfect. Formatting gets all screwed up and this
>causes big problems for things like, say, resumes.
Ever considered sending your resume as a PDF?
Re:Beware of what you're doing! (Score:2)
One observation for when the budget appears (Score:3, Informative)
The Zarus is a nice machine, but I still maintain that PalmOs is the best solution for PDA usage.
BTW, can you put Linux on the jornada? I've heard of it on the Ipaq, but I'm a little out of date on PPC.
Observations (Score:2)
Second - OT - why so few? My profile tells Slashdot to show me all stories. Period. But this one was never on my front page. Hmmm. I also notice that the sidebar on my front page shows "Ask Slashdot" was last updated on April 20. Odd. I guess I can't trust that I'm seeing all stories after all. And with so few replies, I guess few others saw it, either.
Anyway, back to the subject: After much research came up empty I thought I'd Ask Slashdot, and /. has come up empty also. There
Palm It If You Hate Pocket PCs... (Score:1)