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NAME="APPS">5. Desktop Applications.</H1
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>This section
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describes applications which can synchronise their data with your PDA. The
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applications generally use pilot-link to provide communication with the
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PDA. Coldsync provides conduit capabilities to application that are not
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specifically written with PDAs in mind. </P
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NAME="JPILOT">5.1. JPilot</H2
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>JPilot is a
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Personal Information Manager (PIM) that provides a replacement
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for the Palm Desktop software provided for Windows and the
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Mac. JPilot provides desktop versions of the Palm address book,
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todo list, calendar and memopad. JPilot can also be used to install
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applications onto the PDA. </P
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><P
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>JPilot is available with
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most Linux distributions. You can also download JPilot from <A
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HREF="http://www.jpilot.org/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>http://www.jpilot.org</A
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>. To use JPilot
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you must have pilot-link installed. As JPilot is a gtk+ application,
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you will also need gtk+. </P
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NAME="GNOME-PILOT">5.2. Gnome-pilot</H2
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><P
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>Gnome-pilot
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aims to provide PDA connectivity for the Gnome desktop. Gnome-pilot
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provides conduits for the Gnome PIM applications, a control centre applet
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for configuring the link, and a panel applet for dislaying the hotsync
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status. </P
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><P
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>Gnome-pilot uses a daemon process to communicate
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with the PDA via pilot-link. Client applications use the daemon, rather
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than call pilot-link directly. The daemon must be running in order
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to use the client applications such as the conduits. </P
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><P
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>Gnome-pilot should be available as part of Gnome. The home page for the
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project is at <A
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HREF="http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnome-pilot/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnome-pilot/</A
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>. </P
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><P
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>Gnome-pilot configuration is done through the Gnome control centre. If you
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have gnome-pilot installed, you should have a "Pilot Link" section under the
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peripherals section of the control centre.</P
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NAME="GNOME-PILOT-LINK">5.2.1. The Pilot Link Applet</H3
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>The Gnome control panel Pilot Link applet allows you to configure your PDA for
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use with Gnome. You must set up your PDA before you can use any of the Gnome
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conduits.</P
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><P
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>The first step is to add a device. Start the Gnome control centre, and click on
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"Pilot Link" in the left hand pane. The right hand pane should show the pilot
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link applet.</P
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><P
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><P
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></P
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><UL
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><LI
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><P
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>Click on the devices tab, then click "Add". You should see the "Device Settings"
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dialog box. </P
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></LI
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><LI
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><P
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>The "Name" field can contain anything to help you identify the port that you
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create.</P
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></LI
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><LI
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><P
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>The "Port" field should contain the port to which you attach your PDA. The port
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should be the same as you use for pilot-link.</P
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></LI
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><LI
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><P
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>The speed and timeout values will depend on your device. Try the defaults, and
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change them if you have problems synchronising.</P
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></LI
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><LI
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><P
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>The "Type" should be set to your device type.</P
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></P
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><P
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>Once you have configured the device, you can configure the actual PDA:</P
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><P
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><P
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></P
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><UL
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><LI
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><P
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>Click on the "Pilots" tab, then click on "Add...". You should then see the
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"Pilot Settings" dialog box.</P
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></LI
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><LI
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><P
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>If you already have a user
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name set up on the PDA, click "Get from pilot" to download the username and ID.
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Otherwise, click "Send to pilot" to set up your username on the PDA.</P
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></LI
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><LI
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><P
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>The "Pilot Attributes" allow you to name your PDA and set a local directory to
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use for the conduits.</P
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><LI
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><P
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>The "Sync action" determines what happens when you press the hotsync button on
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your PDA. The default is "Use conduit settings". This allows you to customise
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set different sync actions for each conduit.</P
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></LI
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><P
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>Once you have configured your PDA, you need to configure the conduits.</P
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NAME="GNOME-PILOT-CONDUITS">5.2.2. The Pilot Conduits Applet</H3
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>Start the Gnome control centre, then click on "Pilot Conduits" in the left hand
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pane. If you have a PDA configured in the pilot link applet, you will see a
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list of available conduits. If you have more than one PDA, you can use the
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drop down list to select the one that you wish to configure.</P
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><P
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>Each available conduit starts out disabled. To enable a conduit, select it in
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the list and click on "Enable". You will then be given a choice of methods for
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synchronisation.</P
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NAME="EVOLUTION">5.3. Evolution</H2
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>Evolution is a Microsoft Outlook clone for Gnome from Ximian. Evolution comes
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with a conduit for gnome-pilot. The conduit can be configured through the
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gnome-pilot conduits control centre applet described above.</P
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><P
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><STRONG
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>Warning:</STRONG
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> Mandrake 8.1 comes with a beta
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version of Evolution. This version seems
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to have a bug whereby it does not correctly identify records when synching.
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This can lead to records being duplicated on the PDA.</P
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>The latest version of Evolution can be downloaded from <A
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HREF="http://www.ximian.com/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>http://www.ximian.com</A
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>. Evolution is
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designed mainly for use with Ximian Gnome, and installing it independently
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involves resolving a number of dependencies.</P
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NAME="KPILOT">5.4. KPilot</H2
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>KPilot is the KDE
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equivalent of Gnome-pilot. KPilot provides basic PIM functionality,
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as well as conduits to KDE applications such as KOrganizer.</P
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>As with gnome-pilot, kpilot uses a pilot-link
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via a daemon process. </P
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><P
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>KPilot is available from <A
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HREF="http://www.slac.com/pilone/kpilot_home/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>http://www.slac.com/pilone/kpilot_home</A
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></P
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><P
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>TODO: Again, I don't really use KDE, but will give it
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a spin. </P
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NAME="XNOTESPLUS">5.5. XNotesPlus</H2
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CLASS="LITERAL"
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>XNotesPlus</TT
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> provides a means to
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post small notes on your X-Windows desktop. These notes can be shared
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as memos with your PalmOS device. </P
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><P
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>In addition to the notes, XNotesPlus provides PIM features, and integrates
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the notes feature with the todo list and addressbook. Note that XNotesPlus
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does not perform a true synchronisation, but simply replaces changed
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databases.</P
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><P
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>The XNotesPlus web
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page at <A
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HREF="http://www.graphics-muse.org/xnotes/xnotes.html"
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TARGET="_top"
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>http://www.graphics-muse.org/xnotes/xnotes.html</A
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> contains full
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installation and use instructions.</P
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><P
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>XNotes is shareware, and not freely distributable.</P
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NAME="WMSYNC">5.6. WMSync</H2
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><P
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>If you use WindowMaker, this might be useful. From the website:</P
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>Wmsync is a WindowMaker dockapp that starts your favourite sync program
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for your Palm(TM) PDA. It displays a small animation when syncing.
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It is controlled by a small perl script via SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 so it
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is highly customizable. That<61>s all. </P
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><P
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>Wmsync is available from <A
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HREF="http://home.t-online.de/home/db7ne/wmsync.html"
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TARGET="_top"
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>http://home.t-online.de/home/db7ne/wmsync.html</A
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