So I'm back
from my little road trip during which I got to see the Miami
Dolphins lose yet another December game, and after being gone
three days, let's just say that the little
red number on Mail's dock icon, politely informing me of how
many incoming emails were cheerfully awaiting my perusal, stretched
to more digits than I thought would actually fit on the icon.
I'm going to take the entirely inappropriate step of "pulling
from the top" and answering the most recent email first. That
may not be fair, but then neither was the fact that the Dolphins'
offense has finally come alive at a time when their defense has
suddenly fallen to pieces. If life were fair, everyone would
know the joy of using a Mac, and we all know that that hasn't
happened...yet, anyway. So I'll go out of order, mainly
because AppleWorks users always get priority around here.
Chuck writes
in with a question that has me stumped:
"I
am trying to find an easy way to sync a rather large Appleworks
database
file that I have built with my palm pilot. My database file
is an address book and so much more. The built in address book
on the Palm is not nearly as versatile I use appleworks for
everything but am frustrated that I have to update two files
all the time if I want to carry my info on my palm pilot. Any
suggestions?"
Well, Chuck,
my first thought was DocumentsToGo by Dataviz, which does wonders
for cramming your word processing documents and spreadsheets
into your Palm...but alas, not so for databases. I can tell
you that if you were using FileMaker Pro for your database,
you could use its companion product, FileMaker Mobile, to rather
seamlessly go back and forth between your Mac and your Palm.
Anyone who has spent time using the AppleWorks database module
will easily find their way around FileMaker Pro (the two products
were designed by the same team of engineers, way-back-when,
at Claris Corporation).
But if you
don't already have FileMaker and don't want to drop a few hundred
dollars on it, or if you
don't want to take the time to recreate your database from
scratch, then this isn't the solution to your problem. So
I'll throw this one out to readers, and hopefully there's another
Palm-toting AppleWorks junkie who can cheerfully cough up the
answer. If you think you've got this one covered, let me know
at billpalmer@billpalmer.net and
I'll be sure to pass it along to Chuck.
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