[NTLK] Hi there - How to synch your Newton best with Mac OSX

[Woody Smith]

Thank you for your thoughtful comments and insight on this issue.

My continued Newton use has been due to the fine work of Simon, Frank,  
Eckhart, Daniel and others who continue to program and provide support.

Woody



On Jan 7, 2010, at 9:31 AM, Doug Denby wrote:

> Hi Woody,
>
> My investigations show that the syncing problem lies more with the  
> translation of information between applications than the OS. That  
> together with the errors in format that occur in the soups. Let me  
> explain:
>
> Problem 1: Information Translation, eg. phone numbers
> Names on the Newton has 7 predefined labels: home, work, phone, fax,  
> car, cellular, and home fax.
>
> AddressBook on the Mac has 8 predefined labels: work, home, iPhone,  
> mobile, main, home fax, work fax, pager, and other.
>
> AddressBook also has the ability to add custom labels defined by the  
> user.
>
> While some of these are obvious match ups, others are not. Example:  
> cellular (N) and mobile (AB) are often interpreted as the same by  
> syncing programs, but they are not in reality the same.
>
> What does the translation program do with pager (AB) on the Newton?  
> Since the Newton does not allow custom labels, it could be put in as  
> just plain PHONE, but then when synced back from Newton to  
> AddressBook, it would end up MAIN, which it clearly is not.
>
> As an example OBEX, using bluetooth translates pager, other, cell,  
> satellite and car in AddressBook as straight phone in a vCard. But  
> ignores phone on the Newton when translating to vCard.
>
> NCX makes a vCard from the Newton Names soup translating PHONE to  
> MAIN, great! NCX also translates FAX as WORK FAX, leaving HOME FAX  
> to be translated properly. Great! And logically it translates CAR  
> and CELLULAR as CELL. But Address Book only accepts a single CELL  
> phone upon importation. One gets lost.
>
> Address Book creates a vCard with OTHER, CELL, SATELLITE and CAR  
> correctly, but Names on the Newton, through either OBEX or NCX, puts  
> them all into plain PHONE. Which when converted back become MAIN!
>