Gordon's Tech

I've used Appigo's ToDo app for about 12 years (with Toodledo at first). It's had problems over the years, but in general it'...

I'm rather late to this party [6], but around the time Google ended ActiveSync support for unpaid accounts [1] they added vCard  3 (199...

I have managed family credentials and web site data in a FileMaker database since 1996  [1]. That database now holds over 1600 records, of w...

I'm surprised by the conclusion of my recent survey [3] of iPhone/OS X/Web task management solutions. There are still no great task man...

[Shortly after I first wrote this, C.Y. released ResophNotes 1.0.5. Among other things, such as the ability to store notes as indexable .txt...

I had despaired of rescuing my notes from Outlook 2007. I'd written hundreds over time. In the old days I used Palm products that would...

I received a comment on on of my many Palm to iPhone migration posts plugging a calendar migration tool: ... To move from Palm Desktop to ...

I don't think this was available when I moved my PalmOS tasks to my iPhone. Toodledo will import PalmOS Task archives: Toodledo : Palm P...

An escaped image is giving techies a deep look into the innards of the Pre . Turns out the PalmOS is based on OpenEmbeddded Linux which in...

Sislaw Nettie (sister to sislaw Martha and to Emily) has a Pre. I trust her reviews far more than the pro reviews – am I the only one to n...

Pogue claims the Pre can sync "to-do lists with Google" . I hadn't heard of any app synchronizing with Google's To Do list...

Yes, of course you can charge an iPhone with a USB power source, but you can't run an iPhone on USB power. If you use your iPhone the ba...

I was just about ready to turn my iPhone into cyber-mulch when, unexpectedly, Google saved it . Calendar nerdvana has come to my iPhone, a...

I usually keep my editorial opinions off my tech blog, and post them in Gordon’s Notes (tech) instead. This one’s a bit of an exception. ...

Microsoft now has monopoly control over the standard for corporate data synchronization: Ars talks to Palm at CES, gets under the hood with ...

Gear Diary made a list of the types of iPhone apps professional geek bloggers use. I have many of them, with the exception that Twitter isn&...

Chapura is offering an iPhone Task management application tied to an online "cloud" service . If you're an Outlook user you c...

After my latest iPhone Toodledo / Appigo disaster I've been reconsidering my approach. Maybe I need to go give up on the Cloud for a wh...

This is about the worst design flaw / bug /emergent interaction I’ve encountered in the past few years. Here's the story from my rejec...

In the past few days I've run into cryptic synchronization errors from Sharepoint, Outlook, Exchange server, and Spanning Sync. Messages...