Four Mice from Macworld – Great Job SyncMate!
Posted by Alex Taylor on November 19th, 2009
These four little mice look perfect, aren’t they? :)
As you’ve already guessed, SyncMate was reviewed by Macworld and got 4 mice rating. John Rizzo has kindly agreed to test SyncMate and below you may find some quotes from his review.
After the installation, he tried Contact and Calendar sync. “A nice touch is the ability to delete all contacts, events, or to-dos that reside the device or another computer that your Mac is connected. This is an easy way to clear out old data before syncing for the first time”, says John.
After the testing Free basic features, John tested Expert Edition features.”I looked at the $40 SyncMate Expert 2.4, which is chock full of data types and handy features, many of them unique.
For example, SyncMate Expert is the only utility that will sync Windows Mobile e-mail with the Mac Mail application (Entourage e-mail isn’t supported). It’s a one-way sync, where you select mailboxes to sync over to the phone. The mailboxes appear in a Mac OS X Mail folder in the phone’s Mail application, where you can read, reply to, and forward them. To prevent floods of e-mail from filling your Windows Mobile’s memory, you can limit the sync to one or more weeks of e-mail.
While the free version of SyncMate lets you view SMS message on your Mac, the Expert edition lets you send messages from your Mac, where you have a full-sized keyboard. Just type the message in SyncMate and sync with the device. Another useful feature is the ability to copy the call log to the Mac. SyncMate Expert provides a search field for calls history, as well as the ability to view incoming, outgoing, or missed calls.”
“If that isn’t enough,” John said, “SyncMate Expert also syncs music, photos, and movies with iTunes and iPhoto or to a folder. There’s also syncing of Safari and Firefox bookmarks, Mail notes, and even stickies. You can also install Windows Mobile applications from the Mac. Just drag a CAB file to the Application List, which displays the applications installed on the Windows Mobile device. Perform a sync to install the software.”
So, what does Macworld advise to its readers?
I can say for sure, we’ll do our best in order to add one more mouse into this rating and to be named #1 Sync Software for Mac OS X. All of you, dear readers, can help us improving SyncMate – just leave your comments, ideas, suggestions or complaints (if any :). Thanks!
