We were giving away five SyncMate Expert 1.4 licenses at UsingMac.com recently. The rules were extremely simple: all those, who wanted to get SyncMate Expert 1.4 for free had to post a comment and tell which SyncMate features they like most and why.

Below you can find some positive comments about SyncMate:

“Bookmarks… it is so very painful to have to retype out my web addresses using my SPV M3100’s “touchscreen” so the ability to sync bookmarks would save me a lot of time. I’m sure there’s an app to do it but I don’t want 10 different applications when SyncMate does it all in one!”

- Sam G

The feature I like the most is folder synchronization. …Managing files on the phone is the only really important feature the iPhone lacks. However, everybody knows how complicated Windows Mobile can turn to be. …I always dreamt of the day when my Mac stopped harasing my WM phone and they became friends. Such day has come…  ;)”

- Mike

“…I’m very interested in some of smaller features in Syncmate Expert, notably: bookmarks, folder and notes synchronization, SMS manager and reader, Device info, actions log and Call History. Those small features would enable me to track my usage better, remove unnecessary steps that I currently repeat on a daily basis, and allow me to access data that I would otherwise have no way of touching without a PC. …Nice work!”

- James Lee

“…That being said, SyncMate provides the bridge fo the gap between the two turfs. It’s been quite a while since I was able to find a program that would do this, and to add to it ToDo list & iCal capabilities means that I no longer need to use my PC desktop just to be able to sync all this information via MobileMe. Now I can be completely Mac, and I LOVE IT.”

- Zachary Price

“… its good to know that even though we don’t have an iphone, some developers still care about us W-Mobile/Mac users, cause its really frustrating having this No-Sync-problem. “managing SMS right from Mac computer. Sending, receiving, creating and deleting SMS when working at Mac became possible with SyncMate Expert Edition” … that’s just plain and simply awesome! “

- alej11

Thanks everyone for your feedback!

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If you have Mac OS X computer and love it as well your Windows Mobile device but still don’t know how to sync data between these devices, this tutorial is just what you need!

SyncMate by Eltima Software can solve this problem easily. SyncMate is a handy and powerful synchronizator, which allows synchronizing Contacts, Calendar, Bookmarks, Mail, Notes, ToDos’s, multimedia files and other data between your Mac and Windows Mobile device.

SyncMate is offered at two Editions : Free and Expert.

SyncMate Free Edition enables all Mac users to synchronize Address Book and iCal on Mac with their analogues in Windows Mobile PocketPC/Smartphones as well as with Google account. You can also read SMS directly on your Mac and visually analyze detailed information of the Windows Mobile device connected (such as battery state or memory usage).

SyncMate Expert Edition (available for a small fee) grants even more synchronization possibilities. With SyncMate Expert you can easily synchronize iTunes, iPhoto, video files, Bookmarks, Mail, Notes and ToDo’s between your Mac and Mobile device.

SyncMate Expert allows managing your SMS directly on your Mac: create, delete and send SMS right from your computer!

You can find detailed comparison chart of SyncMate Free and Expert Editions here.

So, this small tutorial will show you how to sync your Contacts in Windows Mobile device with Address Book on Mac.

Step 1. First of all you’ll have to download and install SyncMate (You can sync your Contacts and calendar with SyncMate Free Edition).

Step 2. After the launch of application you’ll have to establish connection. Just choose the desirable connection option (USB or Wi-Fi)

Step 3. Match Contacts item and set all the parameters.

Step 4. Click “SyncNow” button.

That’s all, your Contacts are synchronized in both devices in four easy steps!

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ThisMobileLife.com together with Eltima Software are starting a contest, where everyone can win a free SyncMate Expert License!

Now about the contest:

“It’s a simple contest, one that involves a bit of work, but it won’t be too hard. All you have to do is send in a picture that has “ThisMobileLife.com” somewhere in it. It can be a picture you took, a photo you made with Photoshop, or even a drawing; anything, as long as it has “ThisMobileLife.com” in it. Entries will be accepted until December 24th at midnight, you have three weeks. That should be enough, right?”

Please, send all your entries to contest@thismobilelife.com
and good luck everyone!

Eltima is thrilled to present a new tool for developers!

Flash’In’App is a free Cocoa framework that lets you load and fully manage Adobe® Flash movies directly from your own applications for Mac OS X. Flash’In’App is a set of several specific classes to manage and fully control all the aspects of Flash manipulations in your application.

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Flash’In’App will help you:
- Playback any Flash movie inside of your application (a banner, a tutorial, anything)

- Completely re-design your application using the latest possibilities of Flash, make it stand out and match your exquisite design and user-interactivity requirements without the need to develop custom controls, etc.

- Develop and deploy eye-catching high quality interactive interfaces with minimum effort in Flash

- Distribute Flash-enabled desktop widgets, Flash games as compiled applications

- Create custom-shaped applications (Intel-based Macs only)

- Run your Windows Flash-enabled applications’ GUI on Mac

Flash’In’App is a great alternative for all developers who don’t want to waste their time and write all the code manually. With our framework your applications will be times more functional and advanced.

Don’t forget that Flash’In’App is completely free, so all willing to deploy it go ahead and do so now!

If you want to know more about Flash’In’App, don’t hesitate to comment and ask.

SyncMate Updates are coming every day.

First, we have new SyncMate build available for download.

What’s new:
Added: ability to establish Internet connection via USB cable (only on WM Pocket PC edition now)
Fixed: several bugs in “iCal” plugin
Fixed: minor bug when manually adding directory in “iTunes” plugin
Fixed: critical shut down while deleting messages in “SMS manager” plugin
PLUS, many reported issues fixed.

Another compatibility report! Thanks to your confirmations we now know that, SyncMate supports:

-Eten M600 Pocket PC
-HTC S200
-Dell Axim x50v
-Airis T620 Pocket PC
-Qtek 9100 (HTC Wizard)
-HTC P3600 Trinity
-O2 XDA Nova
-HTC Touch
-MDA Touch Plus/ HTC Touch Dual
-XDA Orbit (HTC Artemis) with WM6
-Sprint Touch
-HTC P3600 (Dopod D810 / Dopod CHT 9100 / Orange SPV M700 / Swisscom XPA v1510 / Vodafone VPA compact GPS / Vodafone SFR S300+ )
HTC S710
-T-Mobile Shadow (HTC Juno)
-T-Mobile Dash (HTC S620)
-Samsung SGH-i607 aka Blackjack 1
-Treo 750

P.S. If your device still doesn’t work with SyncMate, but is listed as one of the supported, please make sure that a) your device is unlocked b) your firewall doesn’t block the connection. If for some reason you still can’t get SyncMate to work, please don’t hesitate to contact our support department.

We are on the last phase before the official release of SyncMate. So, today we are announcing SyncMate Release Candidate (RC) version. We worked hard, trying to fix all the reported issues and the ones we have found on our own. We’ve made a long way towards this RC version and it is, we hope, the last step before the final release coming very soon.

This is a fully-functional Expert Edition with multiple features added, with improved stability and speed. We have changed and fixed as much of the reported issues as we could. And we would be glad to hear what YOU think, whether syncing works fine for you or not.

Here’s what we would like to offer you:
You are welcome to download SyncMate RC version and unlock it with the following Registration Information:
Registration Name: Beta
Registration Key: C1274C24-C564002D-6218783C-0620549A-29388825-70C45464-7906BD78-D817FA2B

You are free to run complete tests of this version until March, 15 (RC version will expire).
From our side, we will fix all issues and problems as you report them on an on-going basis. Please, note that the most active testers of SyncMate RC will receive free SyncMate official licenses from Eltima.

Your comments are always appreciated.

P.S. If you discover that your device works smoothly and error-free with our SyncMate, we kindly ask you to let us know. Please, drop us an email to beta@eltima.com and attach the activity log of SyncMate’s successful deployment. We’ll gladly send you a lifetime license :)

UPDATE!

Thanks to everyone who replied to this post and sent us comments. Your feedback is very important to us. We ask once again, if your SyncMate deployment is successful, please, let us know the model of your device, its OS version and don’t forget to attach the activity log!