RANT - #%*cell phone

[SadieKate]

Anyone use DataPilot? I've got a USB cord, Outlook, XP and this POS phone.

Any comments?

http://www.datapilot.com/productdeta...ucthl/Notempty

[SadieKate]

Ooh, I just remembered Bubba's Nokia is Bluetooth-enabled (as is my old dead Nokia). Ii can sync it with my Outlook and then send the info to my Samsung. How many people think I should load up his phone with 100+ contacts?

No, huh?

[bikerz]

How funny! At at about 3 pm today I had that odd scritchy feeling on the back of my neck that means that someone, somewhere, is trying to blame me for something! Who could it be? For what? The possibilities are limitless!

It's handy having the contacts in your phone, and worth a certain amount of messing around. Sometimes the phone companies have services for this they offer through their websites (like Liza mentions). Phone are not my strong suit, but I'd be happy to look into this with you - and as with all (free) tech support from me, you definitely get your money's worth!

I'm going for a ride tomorrow, then working - I'll check in with you and see if I can help.

[bikerz]

Judging from the DataPilot site, it looks like it will do the trick (typos notwithstanding Don't these companies have proofreaders?).

Seems like the UI is a little hokey, but I saw enough good reviews that it seems like a good risk. The data cable is probably faster and possible more reliable than Bluetooth.

I guess you can't make your company give you back a useful phone?

[SadieKate]

Yes! DataPilot worked!

Apparently they are better are coding than spellchecking websites.

My only complaint is that it did not download the categories from Outlook so I had to manually choose which contacts I wanted to sync.

Thank you all for listening to me rant. And thanks, again, to BZ for spending my geekette money.

[bikerz]

Hurray!

Re: the categories - I recall with some other synchronization tool in the dark past that I had to map the Outlook categories to another field in the destination PIM - would something like that work?

And hey, I appreciate the credit for spending your money, but heck, it's only $29! You know I can do better than that!

[SadieKate]

I'm limiting your budget for awhile. Just bought some nice patio furniture and a Big Green Egg Chiminea, and I refused to buy cheap stuff. Ow.

Think how nice it will be out there for G&T or martini sipping. And I have all this nice music to listen to while I sit, knit and sip.