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From: hog.badger on 30 Dec 2007 05:23 Forgive me if this is a FAQ, but I have a Palmone Zire 72. There is noting much wrong with it except that it's connectivity to a PC is like something out of the CP/M era. What is needed is for the Palm, it's SD card, and it's various internal RAM stores to appear, to the PC, to be external data devices. You get this functionality with MP3 players, cameras, phones, and other divices with USB connectivity, and I really miss it with the Zire. It was a couple of years ago that I bought this unit. Has any decent drivers or other software been written for a Windows PC to connect transparently to a Palm? The Palm Desktop and HotSync that came with the unit are, as I said, too clumsy. Thanks, Patrick
From: lsf_palm on 31 Dec 2007 04:26 You can try: 1. Card Reader, or http://software.palm.com/ph/html/display_palm_product.jsp?navCategoryId=&id=prod580665¤cy=PHP "Connect your Palm device to a desktop just like a usual USB or Bluetooth card reader!" 2. Softick Card Export II http://software.palm.com/ph/html/display_palm_product.jsp?navCategoryId=&id=prod70598¤cy=PHP "Turn your Palm into handy USB card reader and access files stored on SD/MMC media from the desktop leaving card in expansion slot" I personally use Card Reader on my Palm T|3 and T|X. You'll be able to access the SD/MMC card from your desktop, although you still won't be able to look at the Palm's internal memory. On Dec 30, 5:23 am, hog.bad...(a)mbox.bol.bg wrote: > Forgive me if this is a FAQ, > but I have a Palmone Zire 72. > There is noting much wrong with it except that it's connectivity to a > PC is like something out of the CP/M era. > > What is needed is for the Palm, it's SD card, and it's various > internal RAM stores to appear, to the PC, to be external data devices. > > You get this functionality with MP3 players, cameras, phones, and > other divices with USB connectivity, and I really miss it with the > Zire. > > It was a couple of years ago that I bought this unit. Has any decent > drivers or other software been written for a Windows PC to connect > transparently to a Palm? > > The Palm Desktop and HotSync that came with the unit are, as I said, > too clumsy. > > Thanks, > Patrick
From: Gil Baron on 31 Dec 2007 05:43 lsf_palm wrote: >> >> The Palm Desktop and HotSync that came with the unit are, as I said, >> too clumsy. >> WRONG! If you think you can manually reliably do the Hotsync functions you WILL be sorry. -- Gil W0MN Yanoff +, the PDA reader Creed en las obras y no en las palabras
From: hog.badger on 31 Dec 2007 18:30 I don't want HotSync .... that whole paradigm is archaic. It involves storing the data in two places, and then keeping both copies in sync. -- Gil Baron wrote: > lsf_palm wrote: > >> > >> The Palm Desktop and HotSync that came with the unit are, as I said, > >> too clumsy. > >> > WRONG! If you think you can manually reliably do the Hotsync functions you WILL be sorry. > -- > Gil W0MN Yanoff +, the PDA reader > Creed en las obras y no en las palabras
From: Jose on 1 Jan 2008 11:27
> I don't want HotSync .... that whole paradigm is archaic. It involves > storing the data in two places, and then keeping both copies in sync. What do you propose instead? If the data is stored in only =one= place, you need to have access to that place everywhere you want it. The internet is not such an animal, much as we might like it to be. For me, at least, a local copy of my data is very important. It needs to be backed up. That involves another copy, no matter how you slice it. And with two copies, they need to be synched. Jose -- You can choose whom to befriend, but you cannot choose whom to love. for Email, make the obvious change in the address. |