Archive for September, 2008

September 28th, 2008

Sigh.

So, after today’s baseball, the only thing I have to say is… go Red Sox. Mets? Mets? Who are they? They play ball?

September 26th, 2008

Making stuff work

It’s fun to make stuff work. I just verified that with current Cooker, I can synchronize a bunch of contacts from a Blackberry (Curve) to a Windows Mobile device (HTC Apache, running WM 6.1) and it all works. Phone numbers, email addresses, everything shows up right. Sure, this all relies on a messy hack to [...]

September 18th, 2008

Synchronization in 2009: what’s new, what’s good, what’s not so good

First things first, the eye candy: here’s a video showing off how to synchronize with a Windows Mobile 5+ device (with GNOME) in Mandriva Linux 2009. So today I finally got a 2009 test install on my clean testbed machine (long story), which meant I could get down to testing synchronization in a clean environment. [...]

September 8th, 2008

Beat that, Windows

It’s nice when something you worked on becomes practically useful My partner works in a cellphone store, so he gets lots of shiny new demo hardware. Right now he just got an HTC Touch Diamond (pretty nice phone actually) for two months. The phone he uses regularly is a Blackberry Curve. So he needed to [...]