TimesToCome Mobile

Eltima Sync Mate is a free sync tool for your WM phone to sync with your Mac. If you are using a Windows Mobile phone and a Mac computer up till now your only choice has been Missing Sync which is a hefty $40.

Sync Mate did a good job on the calendar and contacts and all. It wouldn’t install a file for me from my computer to my phone. All else appears to have worked.  However it broke something with MissingSync.  I have exported, deleted and reimported my calendar and deleted tasks and did a hard reset on the phone and MissingSync will no longer work.  I’ve even hunted down and wiped all the various caches and wiped and re-installed MissingSync.  So now I’m syncing on my laptop.

Missing Sync does an excellent job though this most recent version has been a bit flaky under OSX 10.5. I’m betting there’ll be a patch soon.

Bottom line is spend the money for MissingSync if the syncing is important to you, use the beta SyncMate otherwise.  Just don’t play with both.

All software should be as pretty as Pointui.

Pointui is a user interface that overlays your Windows Mobile and makes it much easier and more pleasant to work with. It was disappointing to click on the icons and bring up the Windows software underneath. The interface was so pretty and user friendly I wanted to stay with it.

It’s still in beta, and there are bugs. I couldn’t set the weather location the first few times I tried. The agenda page doesn’t always update first time through. And I got stuck in the active tasks menu and had to do a soft reset. But It’s so nice I’m betting people will be willing to put up with the bugs while they polish off the software.

If you haven’t tried it, download it and give it a whirl.