[the] Code Girl

and I just found something that looks like it will do just that: Syncal

then use PHPiCalendar to publish your calendar to the web
and/or create RSS feeds that your friends and family can use. I happen to already have PHPiCalendar installed, as it came with Tasks 2.0.

Next TODO item: sync the todo/note list from Tasks 2.0 with
the Palm ToDo list.

PDA #1) Palm Pilot (the original — with only 1MB ram)
2) Agenda VR3 (Linux! but way before its time)
3) VTech Helio (never even used it once)
4) Casio EM500
5) Casio E125
6) Casio E200 (dropped $600 on this!)
7) Zaurus SL5500 (Linux! but still not much of any support for synching on Linux)
8) Visor Deluxe (see my previous entry)
9) Palm m500

Within 48 hours, I had realized the Visor had a lot of limitations:
1) OS v3.1 — most programs require a minimum version of OS v3.5. Because of the older OS, I had to use older apps. Older apps do not have VFS support, thereby making the Compact Flash adapter useless (Ex: Adobe Acrobat reader)
2) almost no peripherals available such as modems or wireless cards….just a handful of Springboard modules that are selling for $$$$ because they are hard to find

I went with the m500 because it was
+ very small and light
+ OS v4.0
+ SD / MMC port….the market is finally producing some decent SDIO-based accessories, the lack of which is why I dumped the Casio EM500 which had only an MMC slot [I already have a 128MB SD card that I bought for my Zaurus]
+ Li-Ion battery which I can recharge via USB w/o needing an AC adapter around

I’ve already “restored” everything I had installed on my Visor…and bought a USB charge/sync cable as well as 2 portable keyboards. Yes, my ADD is that bad that I bought 2 keyboards in the space of 10 minutes, completely forgetting that I had bought one when i bought the second one.

So my Visor Deluxe, with lots of accessories, will be up on eBay within a few days.

I bought a Visor Deluxe off eBay recently (only $30); it arrived Saturday. It only took about 10 minutes to get it set up with my 2.6.1 kernel. This speedy setup was due mostly to this great, very-specific USB/Visor HOWTO. I setup JPilot to do my syncing with. I had to set $PILOTPORT to /dev/usb/tts/1 (which only exists when the Visor is HotSyncing) to make it work though. HINT: *during* a sync, create a symbolic link (world writable) from this port to /dev/palm and /dev/pilot as these are the most commonly-used device names that apps will try to use to connect.

Before you start in on me about how old it is and why did I waste my $$ and all that, here’s why I chose this PDA (for now anyway! haha):

1. It uses PalmOS which Linux has had support for for *years*, mostly due to this wonderful package: Pilot-Link. If you are using Gentoo, as I am, all you need to do is run “emerge pilot-link”.
2. I have owned several PocketPCs and could never get them to interact with Linux in any way, especially syncing anything. Meaning, I am well aware of much more ‘powerful’ alternatives. As soon as they have the same solid support under Linux as Palm devices do, I will gladly try again with a PocketPC, or with another Zaurus (which my BF has now)
3. I don’t need to know C to write my own programs to interact with the Visor. I found Pilot Manager, which is written with Perl/Tk and has easily extensible conduits. It even syncs on Solaris to the built-in CDE calendar. The conduit I care about most is: SyncXML. I will try to use that to sync events from “WebCal” that are stored in a mysql db because that is where I keep all my appointments now. The possibilites are endless for uses of this conduit.
4. A primary reason for purchasing it: a cheap but highly effective ebook reader. Much, much cheaper & smaller & lighter & more productive than this HIeBook (for example).
5. I have no web-accesible contacts/address book manager

More later