Thursday, July 20, 2006
Mark/Space Releases Missing Sync 2.5, Including WM5 Support
Posted by Janak Parekh in "SOFTWARE" @ 09:00 AM
Mac WM5 Pocket PC owners, rejoice! Mark/Space finally released an update to their popular Missing Sync product, version 2.5, yesterday. In addition to WM5 support, Missing Sync 2.5 is Universal Binary and contains many bugfixes. It's a free upgrade for 2.0 users, there's upgrade pricing for 1.x users, and costs $39.95 for new users.
A mini-review: I successfully installed it on my Mac; if you had 2.0 on the machine, it accepts the registration code without further question. MS 2.5 does support both Bluetooth and USB connections to WM5 devices. The first thing it does is to install a little helper application (around 100K) on your device; after that, the process is largely similar to 2.0, although the user interface has a few nice tweaks. I successfully synced iCal and Address Book, although I would strongly recommend backing up any desktop data first before syncing for the first time (iCal and AB, in particular, have easy backup options in the File menu). Entourage is also supported, but I don't use it regularly, and haven't tried syncing it. The only major quirk I experienced is that Missing Sync seems to get confused if you have a data connection while trying to sync (I was syncing over BT, not sure about USB); after disconnecting from the wireless data connection, I had no trouble syncing all my data to my Treo 700w.
A mini-review: I successfully installed it on my Mac; if you had 2.0 on the machine, it accepts the registration code without further question. MS 2.5 does support both Bluetooth and USB connections to WM5 devices. The first thing it does is to install a little helper application (around 100K) on your device; after that, the process is largely similar to 2.0, although the user interface has a few nice tweaks. I successfully synced iCal and Address Book, although I would strongly recommend backing up any desktop data first before syncing for the first time (iCal and AB, in particular, have easy backup options in the File menu). Entourage is also supported, but I don't use it regularly, and haven't tried syncing it. The only major quirk I experienced is that Missing Sync seems to get confused if you have a data connection while trying to sync (I was syncing over BT, not sure about USB); after disconnecting from the wireless data connection, I had no trouble syncing all my data to my Treo 700w.
