RE: NTLK Re: Brad Smith

From: Bradley Smith (BradleyS@artisansw.com)
Date: Wed Mar 29 2000 - 05:32:21 EST


Outlook is a piece of cake to get information into and out of using COM.
Synching is the tricky part but I reckon I got synching working pretty good
in Notes2Notes.

What I'd like to do is create a load of translation layers for things like
palm desktop, claris organizer, outlook etc. As you say, this makes synching
awkward. However, I have a plan for that too ;-) Could anyone who's
interested in helping out here mail me offline please.

Brad
bradley.smith@cableinet.co.uk

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth Wong [mailto:ghoonk@mailworld.net]
> Sent: 29 March 2000 11:16
> To: newtontalk@planetnewton.com
> Subject: Re: NTLK Re: Brad Smith
>
>
> Man, I would kill just to get software that would sync my
> Newton with Palm
> Desktop!
>
> Outlink needs work. IMHO, I think it would ultimately be
> easier to sync
> Newton to PD as opposed to with Outlook.
>
> PD's file format seems to be quite straight forward, but the
> syncing is
> another thing altogther.
>
> Kenneth
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bradley Smith" <BradleyS@artisansw.com>
> To: <newtontalk@planetnewton.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 4:42 PM
> Subject: RE: NTLK Re: Brad Smith
>
>
> > Woah! Hold your horses guys, and *definately* don't start
> sending me money
> > (Clinton, Gary)! ;)
> >
> > The PDA market is in a bit of a state at the moment and
> it's not clear if
> > any of the current big players (Palm, Psion and MS) will fall by the
> > wayside. I've been reading up on the new technologies and
> basically I'm
> not
> > happy to start developing for anything at the moment. This
> means that I'm
> > not ready to buy a new PDA at the moment and this, in turn,
> means I'll be
> > keeping my Newton (for the moment at least - besides, I've
> had no offers
> for
> > it) :-) What it *doesn't* mean is that I'll be writing
> loads of really
> cool
> > Newton software :-( Some of you are under the
> misaprehension that I'm a
> good
> > Newton programmer: I'm not. Don't even know NewtonScript :-( I do,
> however,
> > think that we need better ways of getting data between the
> desktop and the
> > Newton and I am a software developer by trade so by leveraging the
> > capabilities of Steve Weyer's Sloup I think we can improve
> things in this
> > area.
> >
> > As we have Mac, Linux and PC users here it doesn't seem to
> make sense for
> me
> > to concentrate my efforts on Wintel Outlook. Instead I'd
> like to take a
> more
> > generic approach to the issue and help provide something we
> can all use.
> It
> > does mean that the end result won't in the form "click the
> synch button
> and
> > away it goes" but it will be more versatile.
> >
> > Sorry, this message is going beyond what I'd intended but
> if you're still
> > with me I'll carry on :)
> >
> > How many people would be interested in free, open source
> development of
> > generic multi-translation Newton-Desktop software? In
> addition how many
> > people can program in C++ and would be willing to help? What sort of
> > conversions would we be looking at? Would it be better to take this
> > discussion off-line or to NewtonTalkers want to hear what's
> going on?
> >
> > Brad
> >
>
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