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If you know more about those platforms from a developers perspective, please note it. | If you know more about those platforms from a developers perspective, please note it. | ||
For ActiveSync-API you can show at | For ActiveSync-API you can show at Microsoft�s Compact Framework | ||
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As a Firefox and Thunderbird user who also has a Pocket PC, this project is very interesting to me. After some research with making programs that can sync using ActiveSync, I have discovered that it is possible. (Un)Fortunately to make this work, a version of Thunderbird would have to be created to run on the PPC. There may be some sort of hack that can be done just by writing DLLs for Thunderbird and possibly having to rewrite the ones for Outlook on the PPC. This page should give you the information needed to accomplish this. As a programmer I would be interesting in helping but am not sure how much time I would have to devote to this project. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnce21/html/ActiveSync.asp?frame=true | As a Firefox and Thunderbird user who also has a Pocket PC, this project is very interesting to me. After some research with making programs that can sync using ActiveSync, I have discovered that it is possible. (Un)Fortunately to make this work, a version of Thunderbird would have to be created to run on the PPC. There may be some sort of hack that can be done just by writing DLLs for Thunderbird and possibly having to rewrite the ones for Outlook on the PPC. This page should give you the information needed to accomplish this. As a programmer I would be interesting in helping but am not sure how much time I would have to devote to this project. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnce21/html/ActiveSync.asp?frame=true | ||
=== Sync with Mac OS X === | |||
Mac OS X has a built-in synchronization framework called the .Mac SDK. The framework is available for download from the Apple Developer Connection (ADC) at http://developer.apple.com, but requires free registration. The latest released version of the SDK is 1.2 (10-Oct-2005). A "developer preview" of the SDK v 2.0 is also available and was released on 17-Nov-2005. The Apple .Mac service is <b>not free</b> however, which cuts against the grain of free software like SunBird or Mozilla in general. | |||
The SDK is made up of the service and a private framework. The private framework would need to be built into the project and is not open source. As such, how the Mozilla license and the license covering the .Mac SDK would interact is not clear. It may be necessary to wrap the SDK with a plug-in so that it is not part of the application. | |||
The next version of Mac OS X Server (v10.5) will include a CalDAV server, which will allow any calendar application that supports the iCalendar format to access and share calendars. A brief blurb about iCal Server is available from Apple at http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/leopard/icalserver.html. You can find additional information about CalDAV at http://www.caldav.org/. | |||
== Sync Thunderbird's Contacts and Calendar's Events/Tasks with Pocket PC using JAVA-based application FinchFink== | == Sync Thunderbird's Contacts and Calendar's Events/Tasks with Pocket PC using JAVA-based application FinchFink== | ||