Matthew Peck

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Giveaway: super rare E Ink watch! (Engadget)

Jul 10th 2007 9:41PM My 1980's-style, black, plastic Swatch. I would've dropped the same money investing in E-Ink, but no public stock! Oh, well; at least I've got a little calendar on the Swatch...

Mozilla releases Sunbird and Lighting 0.5 (Download Squad)

Jun 28th 2007 12:11PM Hi Kansir & Neil,

I've managed to surf -a lot- of forums looking for the answer to this, and just for a simple PC, not even a Mac!

I don't know if this'll work for you guys, but it's worked for me on-site at a contract job's PC, and hope it can work for other PC users out there:

1. Download BirdieSync (EasySync, several other open-source options for non-ActiveSync-capable Mac users)

2. Download ActiveSync 4.5 from Microsoft's site (CNET only has 4.2--don't bother)

3.Download the Thunderbird extension "WebMail" =and= ("Google Mail" OR "Yahoo! Mail" OR [whatever web-based email service you're trying to tap into and download to TBird locally])
--3a. I have needed to find and install the "YPops!" app to get through one contract client's firewall. Worked fine.

4. Install all of the above. Run ActiveSync -before- you try to run BirdieSync (however, run EasySync whenever you please).And, Be sure to install "WebMail" extension before you try to install your specific web-service extension.

5. Connect your PIM to your PC (or Mac, in a perfect world where the EasySync/whatever works on Macs) via USB (not sure if it can work by IR or Bluetooth), and open your newly-augmented Thunderbird. It should automatically ask you to configure your BirdieSync (EasySync, whatever yer using) profile and confirm things on your PPC. Do so.

Here's what -should- happen:

-WebMail (or WebMail through YPops!) allows TBird to speak the generic language of web mail servers.

-The specific extension you added for -your- particular service speaks the language, and knows their secret handshake, so it lets it take your email. (I always check "leave email on server/until I delete it" in TBird. Saves space.)

-Once on TBird, the Birdie/EasySync you've installed allows you to get all of that data--emails, calendar info, comma-separated files like address books, etc.--over to your PIM!

If it all works right...light a small incense cone, because this is a pain in the ass both Jobs and Gates should have had ironed out years ago.

Hope it helps,

Matt