Registered: Oct 1999
Location: College Station, TX
Posts: 143

When I got my first PalmOS handheld, a Palm Pro, I bought it as a bundle with some programs called Now-Up-to-Date and Now Contact, a calendar and contact manager, respectively. What was really great was that you could set categories to be shareable over the network, and your desktop machine would automatically update items in those categories. This allowed us to have departmental events on a server, and when I did a hotsync, any changes or additions would automatically be transferred to my Palm. The server software would even automatically generate an HTML calendar and serve it on the web.

Alas, Now Software was bought out by Qualcomm, which killed both packages. My old versions stopped running when I went from a Powermac to a G3. Palm Desktop seems to have nothing like this capability built in.

Does anyone know of anything that can mimic what the Now packages used to do? The ideal would allow you to create or modify events in public calendar categories, have them show up in any other subscribed copy of Palm desktop (or its replacement) and on a web site for those who don't have the software. It would be syncable from any desktop platform - Windows or Macs or unix or Linux (I think Now only did the first two). Hotsync would add those events to the default calendar on the handheld.

The really sad thing is that everything above except unix and Linux versions was already there in the Now packages...just another example of how superior products don't always win out in the market <sigh>