Comments on: The Hidden Cost of Tiger OS

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 15:12:26 +0000

yes you have to purchase tiger. and there is no other way

By: Priti

Priti — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 15:04:57 +0000

I have panther installed on my G5..and now i need to install the Tiger..Do I need to purchase the cd again?
well i searched on apple site it seems one has to..True? well seems to be as you have written but is there any other way?? (like using the kernel of tiger on Panther??)
Waiting for your input.
Thanks,
Priti

By: Eric Goldberg

Eric Goldberg — Thu, 12 May 2005 21:45:54 +0000

I think paying for .Mac service is a bad idea.

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Sun, 17 Apr 2005 22:30:41 +0000

i read somewhere that they are opening up isync but not sure how it is going to happen. i think this is going to be an interesting one to see and hopefully a lot of innovation happens around isync. anyone find more information about this, i would be glad to include that in the top piece

By: Limeybloke

Limeybloke — Sun, 17 Apr 2005 19:38:06 +0000

From what I gather Apple are opening up iSync to allow developers to write syncing plug-ins in a similar documented way as iTunes visualisers. The M$ developers of word are already promising a plug in to make isync work with office rather than the iApps. This means that Apple don’t have to write for every single model of PDA or whatever because somebody who knows what they’re doing will write it for them. So rather than having to write a whole program for the mac platfrom Nokia techs could just write a small plugin. This also alllows for new uses (eg. how about a script/plugin that would take notes after lectures from word, use the inbuilt text reading to turn it into an audio file and then put it onto an iPod for badly dyslexic students ?)

By: Hugo

Hugo — Sun, 17 Apr 2005 19:32:18 +0000

If you use the regular iTools email account settings for your .mac account in Mail, the contents of your inbox, sent-mail and other folders will be synchronized automatically. (See the Mail account settings.) This is through the IMAP protocol. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imap. All computers configured with the same (IMAP) .mac account synchronize automatically. If you move mails to a local mail folder on your computer, those mails are only availble on that one computer. You could copy the mails on both computers before you delete them from the server but that is not exactly nice and automated. Hey, maybe you can use the new Automator to create your own copy-and-delete script to take care of it :) It looks like Tiger will Sync mail settings and local mail folders across computers as well. (See: http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/dotmacsync/ ) For those local folders to be Synchronized through iSync you would indeed need the storage.

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Sun, 17 Apr 2005 14:56:58 +0000

sasha – can you elaborate how you do it?

thanks

By: Sasha S.

Sasha S. — Sun, 17 Apr 2005 07:58:20 +0000

Syncing e-mail can be done in another way. You can have both your Powerbooks get e-mail from your ISP (I have that setup) and then you only need to sync outgoing e-mail. I do not know will Tiger support this but there should be a workaround that makes this possible.

By: Eddie

Eddie — Sun, 17 Apr 2005 02:49:12 +0000

RSNanak and iSynd Devices site: If you read my comments, I am fully aware that iSync requires the Palm Desktop. Its a piece of junk. If you think about it, Palm is just not in the Desktop applications business (they are in the PDA business). I don’t want to be required to install (nor use) the Palm Desktop on my Mac. I want to sync and install to other PIMs such as Sunbird (calendar) and Thunderbird (mail) and maybe down the line Chandler (Mitch Kapor’s new project).

By: RSNanak

RSNanak — Sat, 16 Apr 2005 22:29:31 +0000

I use Treo 650 and iSync does indeed work. Only cavet is you need to install the palm desktop and when you hit the sync button it will launch the palm sync and then iSync takes over.