The Missing Sync
For the past six months or so I have been making a "back-burner" effort to move my 350+ contacts from my Outlook over to my Address Book on my Mac. Unfortunately, Microsoft doesn't appear to support the vCard standard like many others (even in the latest beta of Office 2007, which is utterly shocking to me) when it comes to exporting. My only guess is that they don't want to make it easy for people to export all of their contacts to another application and stop using Outlook. It was painful until I very recently installed Thunderbird on an old Windows machine I was retiring. Thunderbird allows the easy import (and subsequent export) of your contacts to standard vCard format, which allowed me to easily import them into the Address Book application. While I never plan to use Thunderbird, I commend them on their cooperative skills.
Today I was on the road and desperately needed a phone number that was in my Address Book but not on my Windows Mobile 5 SmartPhone. It was at that point that I decided I needed to get my Mac to sync with Windows Mobile.
Enter "The Missing Sync". Although their price is cheap and their product seems reliable, the one thing I wasn't able to do was sync my 2125 via Bluetooth. Once I switched to USB, however, the sync occurred without error and now I have my entire iCal calendar as well as my Address Book contacts all on my phone.
Yet another successful product has been released that allows me to use my great Mac as my main machine and my Parallels installation to do nothing but develop in .NET. Thank you, Missing Sync. Not only can I continue to develop .NET applications for my phone using the compact framework, but now I can sync with my main computer.