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John - 16 May 2008 19:24 GMT

I don't want to use .mac . I'm looking for a
Leopard application that will allow me to
(minimum) back up the telephone numbers
stored in my Razr (Verizon) phone. (a v3c as
I recall, it doesn't seem to be written on
phone, nor in any system or info tab).

I have a USB cable to connect it, and when
I used a PC, I had some application that wasn't
very good (name forgotten) but it did let me
preserve a text file of all my entered phone
numbers in case of a catastrophe.

Googling I see .mac and isync references, but
I want a stand alone application.

Anybody use or know of one?

Thanks, John

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Dave Balderstone - 16 May 2008 20:40 GMT

> I don't want to use .mac . I'm looking for a
> Leopard application that will allow me to
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>
> Anybody use or know of one?

I use iSync to sync my RAZR to Address Book and iCal.

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John - 17 May 2008 00:12 GMT

> I use iSync to sync my RAZR to Address Book and iCal.

Ah, I didn't realize it would do this without
a .mac account.

Thanks, John

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Dave Balderstone - 17 May 2008 00:34 GMT

> > I use iSync to sync my RAZR to Address Book and iCal.
>
> Ah, I didn't realize it would do this without
> a .mac account.

There's a hack if your cell co has disabled calendar sync a la
Verizon...

<http://www.briantoth.com/razr_v3c/editmeta.php>

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John - 17 May 2008 01:20 GMT

>>> I use iSync to sync my RAZR to Address Book and iCal.
>> Ah, I didn't realize it would do this without
>> a .mac account.

I just synced the RAZR with my Address Book. Wow!
Just what I wanted and didn't know it was already
at my fingertips. You gotta love Macs!!! :-)

Just one more application and goodbye Windoze totally! :-)

> There's a hack if your cell co has disabled calendar sync a la
> Verizon...

I don't really need this, and with the warnings, I'm going
to leave this disabled.

Thanks!
John

> <http://www.briantoth.com/razr_v3c/editmeta.php>

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Dave Balderstone - 17 May 2008 01:44 GMT

> >>> I use iSync to sync my RAZR to Address Book and iCal.
> >> Ah, I didn't realize it would do this without
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>
> Just one more application and goodbye Windoze totally! :-)

What's that?

> > There's a hack if your cell co has disabled calendar sync a la
> > Verizon...
>
> I don't really need this, and with the warnings, I'm going
> to leave this disabled.

It works great, but if you don't need it...

> Thanks!

You're most welcome.

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John - 17 May 2008 03:20 GMT

>> Just one more application and goodbye Windoze totally! :-)
>
> What's that?

I'm doing genealogy, and as professionally as possible.

I've now used Family Tree Maker on Windoze for a year
now, anxious to drop it, but learned more about how to
do genealogy properly in that year, and now am beginning
to enter ALL the information over again, no export/import
laziness, this time with "proper" attention to sources.

I have Mac's Reunion, and it is good, and it has a lot of
features and is well programmed, but, unfortunately it has
its shortcomings. It needs some maturing. The gold standard
for professional genealogists (to many) is The Master
Genealogist, but it currently only runs on Windoze. I am
hoping as Macs gain share, they will come out with a
Mac version.

So, I'm currently using both and have made a little noise
;-) on support groups for both.

If it weren't for TMG, I could now wipe my XP laptop and
put linux on it. But with UNIX at the heart of MacOS,
I don't think I need to bother with linux any more
either! I have all the UNIX development tools I need
already in MacOS.

I intend to never run Vista, or XP any longer than I have to.
I used Windows since it was born, avoided Macs until they
reached OS X, and for me, they are now so much superior to
anything Windoze, I'm fully leaving them behind. (other
than TMG, and that could possibly go if Reunion matures
quickly).

Oh, I know about dual booting, parallels, and wine. My
position is that I don't want to have any Windoze license
or code, or virus protection, or other crap on my Mac. :-)

I use NeoOffice (OpenOffice), not M$ Office, and moved to
Gimp (free) away from Photoshop Elements ($$). I'm a fan
of Open Source whenever feasible. But $130 (roughly) for
MacOS is the best bargain in software today! As iSync just
proved that to me yet again! One version, one price, for
the full set of features. :-)

Thanks again,
John

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Marc Heusser - 17 May 2008 06:35 GMT

> I'm doing genealogy, and as professionally as possible.
>
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> hoping as Macs gain share, they will come out with a
> Mac version.

See
http://www.versiontracker.com/php/qs.php?mode=basic&action=search&str=gen
ealogy&srchArea=macosx&submit=Go
whether you find someting else.

I would never enter such a lot of data without being able to
import/export.

Or let the developers of Reunion bring it up to what you need, most
likely it is not difficult.

HTH

Marc

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John - 17 May 2008 07:27 GMT

>> I'm doing genealogy, and as professionally as possible.
>>
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> I would never enter such a lot of data without being able to
> import/export.

The programs do have import/export. But I didn't source things
the first time around properly. I am as I reenter it. My
perfectionism. But the GEDCOM export/import is pretty crude
and loses advanced features.

> Or let the developers of Reunion bring it up to what you need, most
> likely it is not difficult.

This is likely to take years. I can't wait that long. I have to use
a program now. (or both).

Thanks, John

> HTH
>
> Marc

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TLizard - 21 May 2008 14:26 GMT

>>> Just one more application and goodbye Windoze totally! :-)
>>
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> hoping as Macs gain share, they will come out with a
> Mac version.

John, don't know if it will do what you want, but I ran across
MacFamilyTree_5_2_Beta_1 the other day on versiontracker. I looked at
the developer's website and was fairly impressed. If you would like to
check it out, it's located at:
http://www.synium.de/products/macfamilytree/index.html
It's not open source, but appears to be powerful and robust.

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Wes Groleau - 24 May 2008 14:58 GMT

> I intend to never run Vista, or XP any longer than I have to.
> I used Windows since it was born, avoided Macs until they
> reached OS X, and for me, they are now so much superior to
> anything Windoze, I'm fully leaving them behind. ....

Different strokes. I always thought Mac was better than
Windows until Win 2000 which was just as stable as Mac OS 9.
I think if Apple had waited another two years to switch to
a Unix base, it would have been too late to rescue their
computer business. iPod, however might have kept the
company going ....

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Wes Groleau - 24 May 2008 15:11 GMT

>>> Just one more application and goodbye Windoze totally! :-)
>>
>> What's that?
>
> I'm doing genealogy, and as professionally as possible.

Have you asked for user reviews of Mac apps on soc.genealogy.computing?

I used LifeLines for quite a while, as ALL other free apps imposed
limitations that the GEDCOM spec did not. GEDCOM is not great,
but it's the only thing approaching a standard that we have, and it
is _more_ flexible than most programs. Eventually, I even got irritated
at one of LifeLine's limitations and started using TextEdit.

Of course TextEdit is not easy to use on a GEDCOM file.

Now I use PhpGedView, which gives me a GUI (admittedly not a
very good one) yet still lets me edit GEDCOM directly when
I want to do something the GUI can't handle. Before I found
PhpGedView, I started writing something with a similar approach.
PhpGedView happens to have the same limitation that made me abandon
LifeLines, BUT it has a workaround, plus being online, the reason
I needed a workaround no longer applies.

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