Macworld: WorldSync intros SyncDek 5.0

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WorldSync ships SyncDek 5.0, SyncDek
Developer Kit

WorldSync ships SyncDek 5.0, SyncDek
Developer Kit 06/14/2004 01:25 PM
Developer WorldSync announced on Monday that SyncDek Single-user Engine 5.0, as well as SyncDek Network Engine 5.0, and SyncDek Developer Kit are now shipping. Designed for use at remote sites and by on-the-go employees who often must work offline, SyncDek 5.0 enables synchronization of specific fields between distributed FileMaker databases, using Java-based background services -- the new feature found in this version -- to do so. It's compatible with FileMaker 6 and 7 databases and requires Mac OS X v10.2.x or higher, 30MB RAM and 50MB free hard drive space.

WorldSync Debuts SyncDeK 5.0

WorldSync Debuts SyncDeK 5.0 01/09/2004 10:10 PM
Trustworthy and Powerful Data Replication for the Rest of Us, SyncDeK 5.0 is Easily Configured, Providing Standards-based Data Synchronization for FileMaker Pro

WWDC: WorldSync demos SyncDeK

WWDC: WorldSync demos SyncDeK 06/28/2004 11:50 AM
WorldSync Inc. used this week's Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco, Calif. to provide live demonstrations of its SyncDeK Engines and SyncDeK Developer Kit software. SyncDeK helps FileMaker Pro developers with bidirectional asynchronous data replication, with the ability to work online or offline. The software is currently available for Mac OS X with a Windows version in the works. Look for the company to demonstrate SyncDeK in FileMaker's booth on Monday from 2 - 3:30PM. A related presentation entitled "Database Solutions for Mac OS X" will be held in the Pacific Heights room on Friday, July 2 at 10:30AM.

WorldSync ships SyncDeK 5.0, and
Developer Kit

WorldSync ships SyncDeK 5.0, and
Developer Kit 06/14/2004 11:19 AM
WorldSync today announced that it is now shipping SyncDeK Single-user Engine 5.0 and SyncDeK Network Engine 5.0, powering bi-directional asynchronous data replication for data in FileMaker databases that are persistently connected to the Internet or used offline...

WorldSync debuts SyncDeK 5.0 at MWSF

WorldSync debuts SyncDeK 5.0 at MWSF 01/06/2004 11:53 AM
WorldSync today will publicly demonstrate for the first time SyncDeK 5.0, bi-directional asynchronous data replication technology for FileMaker databases...

Macworld: Thursby intros Dave v5

Macworld: Thursby intros Dave v5 01/06/2004 06:55 AM
Thursby Software Systems Inc. has introduced DAVE v5, a new version of its Macintosh software tool that enables them to work more effectively with Microsoft networks.

Macworld: Harman intros JBL ON Tour, JBL
On Stage

Macworld: Harman intros JBL ON Tour, JBL
On Stage 07/13/2004 08:20 AM
At Macworld Conference & Expo in Boston, Mass. Harman Multimedia on Tuesday introduced two new speaker products aimed at mobile music users: JBL On Tour and JBL On Stage. JBL On Tour is designed to work with all digital music players, while JBL On Stage has been designed specifically for iPod and iPod minis.

Macworld: Prosoft intros Picture Rescue

Macworld: Prosoft intros Picture Rescue 07/13/2004 03:33 PM
Prosoft Engineering announced on Tuesday the release of Pict ure Rescue, a new utility that recovers pictures eliminated from digital camera media through single delete and delete-all functions or because the media was reformatted or corrupt. However, the application can't find lost pictures on XD cards that have been reformatted in Olympus and Fuji digital cameras. Picture Rescue can recover images of all file types -- including JPEG, TIFF, Raw and other formats -- and also sports the ability to find lost AVI, MPEG and MOV video clips. It's available now for US$59.

Product intros expected for Macworld
Expo

Product intros expected for Macworld
Expo 12/30/2003 08:31 AM
IDG World Expo noted Tuesday that next week's Macworld Conference & Expo will serve as the launching board for new products from exhibitors around the Exhibit Hall floor. The event runs from January 5 - 9, 2004, with the exhibits open on Tuesday, January 6.

Macworld: Griffin intros iTalk for iPod,
SightLight

Macworld: Griffin intros iTalk for iPod,
SightLight 01/09/2004 09:49 PM
You can turn your iPod into a digital audio recorder with Griffin Technology's iTalk, which the company unveiled this week at Macworld Conference & Expo. It snaps onto the top of the diminutive music player and offers voice recording and playback, as well as a pass-through headphone jack.

Macworld: Huge Systems intros MediaVault
U320-R

Macworld: Huge Systems intros MediaVault
U320-R 01/09/2004 09:49 PM
According to Mike Anderson, chief engineer at Huge Systems, Inc., the company chose Macworld Conference & Expo "to unveil our new Huge MediaVault (HMV) U320-R Max Disk Array series because Macworld has always represented one of the world's most prestigious launching sites for debuting leading edge technology to the Mac-based production community."

Macworld: LiveTime Software intros
LiveTime Support 2.5

Macworld: LiveTime Software intros
LiveTime Support 2.5 01/09/2004 09:49 PM
At Macworld Conference & Expo on Tuesday, LiveTime Software announced that LiveTime Support 2.5 will be released later this month. The application is a J2EE-based enterprise-wide technical support and helpdesk product, and the new version includes a dashboard that allows access to key metrics about cases and performance for each user.

SyncDeK Synchronizes FileMaker Databases
(14-Jun-2004; 1.3K)

SyncDeK Synchronizes FileMaker Databases
(14-Jun-2004; 1.3K) 06/14/2004 09:07 PM

SyncDeK 5 beta open to FileMaker
Solutions Alliance

SyncDeK 5 beta open to FileMaker
Solutions Alliance 04/09/2004 03:55 PM
WorldSync Inc. has expanded its beta test program for SyncDeK 5.0 to include members of the FileMaker Solutions Alliance (FSA). SyncDeK is an application and plug-in that enables distributed FileMaker databases to stay in synchronization with each other.

Macworld: Macworld: New technology from
Runtime Revolution

Macworld: Macworld: New technology from
Runtime Revolution 01/06/2004 04:25 AM
"We're constantly developing new features for Revolution, to meet our developers' needs for creating robust applications with up-to-the-minute functionality," said Kevin Miller, CEO of Runtime Revolution. "Now, we've started bringing our developers into the design cycle at the earliest possible stage."

Etisalat Intros 3G

Etisalat Intros 3G 12/29/2003 02:58 PM
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AOL UK intros 1Mb service

AOL UK intros 1Mb service 12/02/2003 01:39 AM

RAD Intros 3G Aggregation

RAD Intros 3G Aggregation 01/19/2004 09:32 AM
Unstrung.com Jan 19 2004 1:19PM GMT

SMC Intros Enterprise APs

SMC Intros Enterprise APs 12/29/2003 02:57 PM
The new APs support 802.11a, 802.11b, and 802.11g: They also support WPA and 802.1x authentication with support for FUNK Odyssey and Microsoft's RADIUS servers....

CDS intros new DMX lighting controller
box

CDS intros new DMX lighting controller
box 06/09/2004 03:47 PM
CDS Advanced Technology announced on Wednesday the release of the LanBox-LCE mini DMX controller for lighting applications. The LanBox-LCE can be used stand-alone or with network applications via its built-in 10Base-T Ethernet port. It features 512 DMX channels, with the ability to store hundreds of lighting cues, and ships with the company's LCedit+ software, which controls the LanBox-LCE, as well as a power adapter and an Ethernet cable. The LanBox-LCE costs €340 or US$410.

Kanguru intros 16X DVD duplicator

Kanguru intros 16X DVD duplicator 01/04/2005 03:48 PM
Kanguru Solutions on Tuesday announced an upgrade to its line of DVD duplicators, which until now ran at 8X speed. Bumped up to 16X, the new devices are compatible with the DVD+/-R, DVD+/-RW, CD-R and CD-RW formats and are capable of burning the contents of one disk to one, three, five or seven blanks. They can function as standalone units or can connect to a Mac via USB 2.0, using the included burning software to manage the process. As MacCentral posted this article, we had not yet received pricing and system requirements from a Kanguru representative. The company had also not updated its Web site to reflect the new products.

DxO intros Optics Pro 2.0, Raw Engine

DxO intros Optics Pro 2.0, Raw Engine 09/16/2004 01:00 PM
Image processing software developer DxO Labs on Thursday announced DxO Optics Pro 2.0 and DxO Raw Engine, two new products for Mac and Windows aimed at professional photographers looking to enhance and correct digital images. DxO Optics Pro uses a mathematical model of the camera and lens to perform precise corrections to remove image faults caused by difficult shooting conditions.

Plextor intros 16x DVD-R drive

Plextor intros 16x DVD-R drive 09/27/2004 08:46 AM
Plextor Corp. on Monday announced the PX-716UF, a new external optical drive compatible with the Mac that can write to 8x-rated DVD-R and DVD+R media at up to 16x. The drive can burn dual-layer DVD+R media at up to 4x, and can also burn DVD+RW at 8x, DVD-RW at 4X, CD-R at 48x and CD-RW at 24x. It comes with USB 2.0 and FireWire interfaces and features an 8MB buffer and features Buffer Underrun Proof Technology. It also comes with Roxio Toast Lite versions 5 and 6. The PX-716UF costs US$239. Plextor's Web site hadn't been updated with information on the new drive as MacCentral posted this article.

MindTree Intros Bluetooth

MindTree Intros Bluetooth 09/17/2004 09:52 AM
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Canon intros EOS-1Ds Mark II SLR, more

Canon intros EOS-1Ds Mark II SLR, more 09/21/2004 10:46 AM
Canon U.S.A. Inc. on Tuesday introduced the US$7,999 EOS-1Ds Mark II, its new flagship Digital Single Lens Reflex (DSLR) camera, with 16.7-megapixel resolution and a full-sized 24x36mm CMOS sensor that eliminates focal length conversion issues. The company is hoping the new camera will appeal to professional and commercial medium-format film photographers. Canon also introduced new point-and-shoot models and a new photo printer.

Intel Intros "Celeron M"

Intel Intros "Celeron M" 01/06/2004 10:33 AM
Intel Corp. said Monday that it has begun shipping a low-cost Celeron version of its Pentium M processor, designed to bring extended battery life to the value notebook market.

Memsculpt intros Knowledgetank 1.0 for
Mac OS X

Memsculpt intros Knowledgetank 1.0 for
Mac OS X 03/08/2004 11:15 PM
Memsculpt today announced the release of Knowledgetank 1.0 for Mac OS X, an information management utility that helps users keep track of information such as URLs, files, projects, recipes, books, DVDs, CDs, sourcecode, and more...

Intel intros 775-pin Pentium 4s

Intel intros 775-pin Pentium 4s 06/19/2004 02:49 AM
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MCE intros updated QuickStream DV

MCE intros updated QuickStream DV 08/16/2004 06:09 PM
MCE Technologies has announced the next generation QuickStream DV, a portable, camera-mountable digital video (DV) capture and storage solution...

Sun intros pay-per-use grid computing

Sun intros pay-per-use grid computing 09/22/2004 09:59 AM
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DoComo intros D900i

DoComo intros D900i 06/21/2004 08:36 PM
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IBM Intros Power5 Server

IBM Intros Power5 Server 05/03/2004 12:34 PM
IBM announced the first in a line of servers powered by the Power5 processor today. The new server, the eServer i5, is aimed at small and mid-sized...

Rio Audio intros new 5GB MP3 player

Rio Audio intros new 5GB MP3 player 08/02/2004 08:35 AM
D&M Holdings subsidiary Rio Audio on Monday introduced four new portable digital music players, including one squarely aimed at the same market as the iPod mini. The Rio Forge comes in 128MB, 256MB and 512MB capacities, while the new Carbon ships with 5GB of internal storage. All are described as supporting Macs and PCs.

VB.NET intros visual inheritance

VB.NET intros visual inheritance 12/15/2002 02:28 AM
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Google intros Q&A service

Google intros Q&A service 04/07/2005 05:00 PM
Google on Thursday began delivering factual answers for some queries at the top of its results page, to save users from having to navigate over to other sites and look for the information.

Google intros Q&A service

Google intros Q&A service 04/07/2005 05:57 PM
Google Inc. on Thursday began delivering factual answers for some queries at the top of its results page, to save users from having to navigate over to other sites and look for the information. For example, if a user enters the query "Portugal population," Google returns the answer -- 10.5 million -- along with a link to the Web page where the information came from, which in this case is the population page of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's Factbook.

The query "who is Jane Fonda?" triggers the answer "... is an Academy Award winning American actress, model, writer, producer, activist and philanthropist" and provides the link to the Wikipedia online encyclopedia's entry for the actress. A small percentage of queries currently trigger these factual answers, but the service, called Google Q&A, is in its early stages, said Peter Norvig, Google's director of search quality.

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Infineon Intros 2GB DDR2

Infineon Intros 2GB DDR2 04/08/2005 03:24 PM
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Iogear Intros New Products

Iogear Intros New Products 11/19/2003 03:29 PM
Iogear has an 802.11g USB 2.0 adapter that lets users rotate the device to point in various directions in search of optimum reception: It retails for $89.95. Iogear also came out with a regular 802.11g network card for $69.95. The press release doesn't seem to be up yet but should appear here eventually....

Motorola intros 3 new phones [video]

Motorola intros 3 new phones [video] 02/10/2004 02:53 AM
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Zaurus Synchronization Repository 1.0.0
(korg todo plugin)

Zaurus Synchronization Repository 1.0.0
(korg todo plugin) 01/03/2005 05:12 PM
A project to produce a tool for synchronization of a Zaurus on a Linux Desktop.

CocoaMySQL 0.4

CocoaMySQL 0.4 03/13/2003 10:22 AM
CocoaMySQL is an OS X application to manage MySQL databases (locally or over internet). It lets you add and remove databases and tables, change fields and indexes, view and filter the content of tables, add, edit and remove rows, perform custom queries and dump tables or entire databases. Changes in this release include the addition of AppleScript support.

CGIScripter 2.19 EE for MacOS X adds
support for FrontBase

CGIScripter 2.19 EE for MacOS X adds
support for FrontBase 08/17/2004 11:01 AM
.com Solutions Inc., a developer of multi-platform database migration, replication and development applications, has released CGIScripter 2.19 Enterprise Edition for MacOS X, Windows, Solaris and Linux. CGIScripter 2.19 adds support for FrontBase database servers in addition to the seven databases which were already supported with previous CGIScripter versions. Developers can quickly develop web applications for FrontBase just as easily as any of the other supported database servers.

CGIScripter 2.19 EE on MacOS X adds
support for FrontBase

CGIScripter 2.19 EE on MacOS X adds
support for FrontBase 08/19/2004 01:53 AM
CGIScripter 2.19 Enterprise Edition from .com Solutions Inc. has been updated to generate Perl CGI scripts for FrontBase databases. CGIScripter 2.19 supports inserting, updating, deleting and replacing images within the FrontBase database via a web based interface on MacOS X and Windows web servers.

FmPro Migrator 2.19 EE for MacOS X
Migrates FileMaker to FrontBase

FmPro Migrator 2.19 EE for MacOS X
Migrates FileMaker to FrontBase 08/27/2004 01:42 PM
FmPro Migrator 2.19 Enterprise Edition from .com Solutions Inc. has been updated to migrate FileMaker databases to FrontBase. This new version of FmPro Migrator also generate Perl CGI scripts for migrated FileMaker data within FrontBase database tables. FmPro Migrator's support for FrontBase databases is in addition to the existing migration support for MySQL, Oracle, Access, SQL Server, DB2 and PostgreSQL databases. Existing FmPro Migrator Enterprise Edition customers may upgrade to FmPro Migrator 2.19 Enterprise Edition at no charge. FmPro Migrator is available for MacOS X and Windows (functional demo available). For more info please see: www.fmpromigrator.com

Daring Fireball: Spotlight on Spotlight

Daring Fireball: Spotlight on Spotlight 07/13/2004 03:47 PM
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.com Solutions Inc. Releases FmPro
Migrator 2.19 Enterprise Edition for
MacOS X and Windows - New Release Adds
FileMaker to FrontBase Migration Feature

.com Solutions Inc. Releases FmPro
Migrator 2.19 Enterprise Edition for
MacOS X and Windows - New Release Adds
FileMaker to FrontBase Migration Feature 08/23/2004 02:27 AM
.com Solutions Inc., a developer of multi-platform database migration, replication and development applications, has released FmPro Migrator 2.19 Enterprise Edition for MacOS X and Windows. FmPro Migrator now supports FileMaker Pro database conversions to 8 different database servers. Supported databases include MySQL, Oracle (8, 8i-9i, 10g), Access, SQL Server, Sybase, DB2, PostgreSQL and FrontBase. [PRWEB Aug 23, 2004]

File Synchronization With Rsync

File Synchronization With Rsync 12/05/2002 03:44 PM
Save time (and money) on data transfers between hosts with rsync, a synchronization tool that allows easy, efficient replication of files between different locations. Sync up, now!

Mac-to-Blackberry synchronization app
launched

Mac-to-Blackberry synchronization app
launched 09/15/2004 07:15 PM
In what may someday may be nicknamed the Macberry, Information Appliance Associates [IAA] announced this week a product called PocketMac Blackberry, a synchronization application that will give RIM Blackberry users the ability to do two-way synching of Mac and RIM data.

File Synchronization with Unison

File Synchronization with Unison 03/14/2005 05:25 PM
Keeping directories in sync on multiple machines can be difficult. Running Unison is one way to make the task easier.

Outlook synchronization Addin for Sync4j

Outlook synchronization Addin for Sync4j 07/23/2004 11:32 AM
First release

ChronoSync synchronization tool gets
updated

ChronoSync synchronization tool gets
updated 01/16/2004 11:33 AM
Econ Technologies has released ChronoSync 2.0.4, an update to its automated synchronization and backup application for Mac OS X...

Synk 5.0 offers intelligent
synchronization, more

Synk 5.0 offers intelligent
synchronization, more 06/23/2004 03:34 PM
Developer Ben Rister released Synk 5.0 on Wednesday. The new release of his synchronization and backup utility adds several new features, including intelligent synchronization that can synchronize deletions and knows if you remove a file or add one; a new preview pane that shows what will happen before you synchronize; an archive feature that stores and organizes each modified document; support for scheduled synchronizations; and more. Synk 5.0 requires Mac OS X v10.3 and costs US$20 for non-commercial use and $40 for commercial use, with free upgrades for anyone who purchased an earlier version of the software within the past year. Educational customers can get Synk 5.0 for free, and volume pricing is available for five or more copies. You can use the software free for 30 days before purchasing it.

PeopleSoft to launch mobile
synchronization

PeopleSoft to launch mobile
synchronization 08/12/2004 05:13 PM
PeopleSoft announced this week a deal with Intellisync to use its data synchronization technology, Intellisync Mobile Suite,  to enable its enterprise users deployed on PeopleSoft's Enterprise and EnterpriseOne product suites to wirelessly update data and work offline while disconnected from the corporate server.

A one-way synchronization script for
Address Book

A one-way synchronization script for
Address Book 01/03/2005 11:55 AM
I often user three different Macs, and I tried different solutions for syncing the Address Books on these Macs. Neither a .Mac nor Address-O-Sync give me satisfaction. So I wrote save_address_book (Download page), which is a ...

PalmSource Drops Mac Synchronization in
Cobalt

PalmSource Drops Mac Synchronization in
Cobalt 02/12/2004 07:36 PM

19+ Hours to Incomplete iPod
Synchronization

19+ Hours to Incomplete iPod
Synchronization 12/09/2002 01:25 PM
19+ Hours to Incomplete iPod Synchronization [Sorry for the delays in getting this out. Just a bad, bad, bad day so far. Has anything good ever happened to anyone in the history of the universe on a Monday? I mean sheesh. Oh and did I say it was bad?]. I'm writing this with more than a bit of trepidation -- I know no matter how I write this I'm going to take some flack. So let's start with a disclaimer: NOTE: The iPod is a work of great beauty. I bloody well love the little beastie. I mean it's the size of a pack of cigarettes and it can hold 20 gigabytes of music. I really do love it. I wouldn't have spent the @)(#*@ 19+ hours, now would I, if I didn't love it? But .... (And, dear reader, you new a but was coming, didn't you?) The iPod on the PC isn't the effortless thing that Mac folk like to maintain. So here comes my tale of woe. My iPod arrived Friday afternoon thanks to the wonders of Amazon. Having tasks to accomplish I actually managed to put it aside until Saturday morning, believe it or not. Now that's not to say that I didn't take it out of the box and both ooh and ah at it. Even to say that I "fondled" the lovely lines and delicate curves that are the iPod would not be extreme. Like most modern Apple products, the term "work of art" is not out of the question. Saturday morning arrived and, despite much important work, I attacked the iPod with the enthusiam of a vandal sacking rome. Installation was pretty much a snap consisting of one CD and connecting it to the Firewire interface I've been using for months now. Now, as a blog reader and someone who's boring enough to do his homework, I know that the MusicMatch iPod software has been pretty widely "dissed" in favor of Ephpod. Ephpod is from a 3rd party developer and closer to iTunes than is MusicMatch. Since I've never been a MusicMatch fan anyway I figured that I should give it a whirl. And now the force left me and a dark cloud entered the room. Ephpod downloaded in a jiffy, is totally free and looks just plain beautiful. From an interface perspective it made me feel like I was using an iMac -- and that's cool. I clicked on the Add Directory button and told it my MP3 root directory (astonishingly enought -- MP3, can ya believe it?). It started chugging though my MP3 files. And it quickly found that my MP3 ID tags were not in order. An MP3 ID tag is a bit of metadata stored in the MP3 file which has information like Title, Artist, Genre. If the ID tags aren't present then you pretty much can't even select a file to play. Kind of hard to select the Doors "Light my Fire" when it's artist field is blank or has "Artist" in it. Now I have 5500 odd MP3 files. So you know here this is going, don't you .... That's right -- I needed to clean up all my MP3 ID tags -- say 50% of 5500 files times at least three fields (Artist, Title, Genre) -- that's a lot of metadata. Thankfully ephpod just prompts you as it goes and remembers what you last entered. This made cleaning up many of my MP3 files relatively painless. But note that I said "many".... At the roughly 50% stage (49% to be exact), ephpod crashed. [_Go_] Ok then. I reloaded it and tried to add some more files. Crashed. Sigh. I tried deleting some of the files I had added to ephpod thinking I had reached some kind of capacity limit and that if I deleted them I could add more. Crash. I continued to play with ephpod for a bit since it's approach to fixing the MP3 ID tags was damn good. I've used other MP3 tagging tools and they pretty much uniformly aren't good. When ephpod failed to accept any more files, I decided to give it a shot for synching my iPod. That too caused a crash but some music did get to my iPod. That was cool since I could then at least listen to something while I figured out how to deal with my MP3 files and their ID tags. I surfed over to download.com and looked over the different MP3 tools. I did focus solely on the free tools while ignoring the different $20 to $30 / copy utilities. Most of them weren't very good but MP3 Tag Tools [_Go_] wasn't bad. Actually I'd say that most of them were pretty horrible; fine to edit one or two files and lousy for large scale changes. But MP3 Tag Tools wasn't too horrible and I used that to edit a lot of tags. I mean a lot of tags (I don't know what you did Saturday night but I really can't recommend as a hot date "Tag Editing" or 'But Honey, it'll be fun....'). The cats did their best to keep my company but as Daddy did nothing but stare at a screen and mutter about "ID tags" and "Stupid UI choice / Idiot developer" they lost interest. After I did as much with MP3 Tag Tools, I moved over to MusicMatch, the software which was officially bundled with the iPod. I've never been a big MusicMatch fan preferring the simplicity of WinAmp over MusicMatch but it works. Generally. Now you do realize that problems are coming when I say something like that, don't you ? So I started to import my MP3 directory into MusicMatch and, of course, this exposed the different files where I still hadn't gotten the ID tags quite right. Thus began "Tag Session 2" which extended from Saturday night into much of Sunday. Well I finally got everything ready to go. I had edited all my tags and it was time to do a full synch. Coolness was in the air, wasn't it ? Well I started to synch and it took a long ass time. I mean multiple hours. And then it got to about 3700 files when this charming little error occurred. [_Go_]. Yup. Division by zero. Which effectively ended my synch process. It did get 3700 odd music files onto my iPod but definitely not all of them. Total time spent? Approximately 19 hours and all of my music still isn't on the iPod. Now the vast bulk of that wasn't spent actually doing the synch -- the bulk of it was spent normalizing the ID tags in my MP3 files. My guess as to the final Ephpod and MusicMatch functioning / synch problems is that they simply can't handle a music archive of 5500 songs. Given the size of hard discs now a days that's just as dumb as a small collection of brown toads. So I guess that I'll fork my archive into things I'd actually listen to when mobile (rock, punk, new wave, comedy, jazz, new age) and leave things like classical behind since I rarely listen to it. I also clearly have some duplicate files which I can remove to cut down the total number of files. So why were my ID tags so wrong? Well a lot of my CDs were ripped literally years ago when CDDB wasn't as prevalent. I also have a fair amount of ecclectic CDs (Vince Guaraldi Trio, BachBusters) which just don't show up in CDDB. So a lot of music was just stored in MP3artistcd and I'd play the music via filename never really caring much about the ID tags until they actually mattered. Of course, like most of us, I probably have a few files acquired via some kind of peer to peer distribution and those also had messed up ID tags. Oh and if you wonder why I tried a lot (5 +) of different tools but wasn't happy, I can only say that when you have files to modify measured in the thousands, a lot of UI assumptions just don't work anymore. Example: To select the genre of a music piece in MP3 Tag Tools, you have to select it from a combo box. That isn't sorted. Try doing that 1,000 times. Heck even doing it 100 times sucks rocks. So most of my music isn't categorized by Genre. MusicMatch allows you to paste in the Genre which is better but lacks a sortable editing grid like MP3 Tag Tools which means I can't just set all the options quickly directory by directory. Do I regret my purchase? Actually no. Not in the slightest. I seem to have been seduced by Apple's charms in this respect like most other Mac lovers. After all, the MP3 tag normalization would have had to be done no matter what. And since they didn't write the PC software I really can't blame them, can I? (Sure I could but I won't; after all I have been seduced). I do find it astonishing that just trying to synch 20 gigs of music cause the errors that I found. I'd connect the iPod to my iBook and try and do the synch that way but since my iPod now has as big a hard disc as my iBook then that's just not an option. Overall? Would I recommend it? Without questions or reservations. The iPod is just an awesome piece of engineering. Kudos to Apple.

Zaurus Synchronization Repository 0.2.1
(zync)

Zaurus Synchronization Repository 0.2.1
(zync) 01/03/2005 05:12 PM
A project to produce a tool for synchronization of a Zaurus on a Linux Desktop.

Siebel Receives Patent for
Synchronization Technology

Siebel Receives Patent for
Synchronization Technology 04/12/2005 08:21 PM
BPM Today Apr 12 2005 9:01PM GMT

SMS FAQ: What are the Active
Directory/SMS Collection Synchronization
Tools & where do I get them?

SMS FAQ: What are the Active
Directory/SMS Collection Synchronization
Tools & where do I get them? 05/01/2004 06:29 AM

Security aspects of time synchronization
infrastructure

Security aspects of time synchronization
infrastructure 08/19/2004 09:13 PM
3APA3A (Aug 19 2004)

PocketMac 3.0 Released; Major Upgrade
for Mac-to-Pocket PC Synchronization

PocketMac 3.0 Released; Major Upgrade
for Mac-to-Pocket PC Synchronization 11/05/2003 10:34 PM
BrightHand Nov 5 2003 10:15PM ET

Password Retriever 4.5.8 offers revised
synchronization engine

Password Retriever 4.5.8 offers revised
synchronization engine 12/12/2003 08:06 AM
Koingo Software has announced the release of Password Retriever 4.5.8, a utility to store and categorize passwords for everything from voice mail to e-mail accounts...

Re[2]: [Full-Disclosure] Security
aspects of time synchronization
infrastructure

Re[2]: [Full-Disclosure] Security
aspects of time synchronization
infrastructure 08/20/2004 02:03 PM
3APA3A (Aug 19 2004)

RE: Re[2]: [Full-Disclosure] Security
aspects of time synchronization
infrastructure

RE: Re[2]: [Full-Disclosure] Security
aspects of time synchronization
infrastructure 08/21/2004 01:33 AM
joe (Aug 20 2004)

RE: [Full-Disclosure] Security aspects
of time synchronization infrastructure

RE: [Full-Disclosure] Security aspects
of time synchronization infrastructure 08/21/2004 01:33 AM
joe (Aug 19 2004)

Intellisync launches desktop
synchronization for Windows Mobile
Smartphones

Intellisync launches desktop
synchronization for Windows Mobile
Smartphones 04/22/2004 09:06 AM

Request For Comments: Synchronization of
Information Aggregators using Markup
(SIAM)

Request For Comments: Synchronization of
Information Aggregators using Markup
(SIAM) 01/06/2004 12:56 AM
Dare, Brent, Kevin, myself and others have been discussing a standard to exchange subscriptions and item-states between aggregators. A standard like this would not only allow you to for instance sync up different SharpReader instances on different PCs (say one at work and the other at home), but would also work across aggregators so you'd even be able to for... (95 words)

Guide to Vertical Synchronization,
Triple Buffering, and Temporal
Anti-Alias

Guide to Vertical Synchronization,
Triple Buffering, and Temporal
Anti-Alias 08/20/2004 06:31 PM

Wide Area Wireless Synchronization Now
Available with IQMax™ Mobile Healthcare
Solutions

Wide Area Wireless Synchronization Now
Available with IQMax™ Mobile Healthcare
Solutions 04/18/2005 02:24 AM
IQMax, Inc., a leading provider of mobile healthcare solutions announced today the immediate availability of wide area wireless synchronization support for their suite of PDA applications. [PRWEB Apr 18, 2005]

Macworld: WorldSync intros SyncDek 5.0

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