Registered: Oct 2001
Location:
Posts: 203

Several Mac OS X conduits available

WordSmith and Pocket Quicken conduits are now in beta.

http://www.visorcentral.com/content/Stories/1403-1.htm

Registered: Sep 2000
Location: Raleigh, NC
Posts: 832

Had a problem with the first download of the conduit, but it's fixed now. Chubby....

Registered: Sep 2000
Location: Raleigh, NC
Posts: 832

Wordsmith

The website and the readme seem to differ, It doesn't look like Wordsmith will work under X right now...I get a Hotsync error that the Hotsync manager I'm using is either too new or too old.
For what it's worth, i've been using Pocket Quicken for about a month and It's worked perfectly...

Registered: Nov 1999
Location:
Posts: 4

Plucker?

How does Plucker work on OSX? I've heard a lot of people are switching to Plucker after AvantGo's "beat down" on sites that won't pay them. Plus Plucker takes up a lot less room. It can be a pain to configure though.

Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Posts: 18

Plucker!

I'd recommend Plucker to anybody who has rudimentary Unix skills... I installed it a couple of weeks ago and it works great! Basically, you need to first download and install Python, then install Plucker, and neither of these are very Mac-friendly procedures, but they do go smoothly from the command-line. Here's what I did:

• Install Python.
  I downloaded and installed a package containing a precompiled python 2.2 plus some optional bundles from http://redivi.com/~bob/ all wrapped up in one nice Mac OS X Installer package. It's size may be a drawback for some (it's a 35.1mb package), so if you need something a little smaller you might want to try the 5.9mb python 2.1 package from http://tony.lownds.com/macosx/ (I haven't tried this one personally, so I don't know if it works with Plucker, but I'd guess that it probably does)
  
• Install Plucker.
  Go to http://www.plkr.org/index.pl/article015 and download the "binary-only version (tarball, 833k)", unpack it and follow the directions in the INSTALL file. It's fairly straightforward AFAIR.
  
• Configure the S.O.B.
  This is not the most straightforward thing in the world. Plucker creates and uses a set of configuration files that have to be edited by hand, but it really shouldn't be too bad for most people.
  

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Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Them Twin Cities
Posts: 1758

iSiloXC (command line version) works fine with OSX

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Registered: Mar 2002
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AvantGo works fine with malsync utility on OS X

The standard utility for accessing AvantGo on Linux is called
malsync. It is available through AvantGo's web site, and also
through its official website.

I ported it to OS X, and have provided a patch to the maintainer,
Tom Whittaker, who has provided a prebuilt binary on his web
site.

Limitation: you'll need a USB-serial adapter and a Visor serial
cradle in order to use it, since malsync accesses the handheld
through a serial port. On Linux, there is a driver that makes
the Visor USB cradle look like a serial port, but there is no such
driver yet for OS X.

I use malsync daily to sync up to AvantGo's service through OS X
with no problems, using a Keyspan USB PDA adapter and the
Visor serial cradle.

- Doug Lowder