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Help Me Merlin-Wan Kenobi, You're My Only Hope (Entourage vs. iCal/Mail/Address Book)

Merlin, I feel you when I say that I've tried and tried to like using Apple's trio of productivity apps. But I cannot kick the Entourage habit. I like my full contact history, the links between messages, the Palm Sync, and launching one app instead of three.

You've mentioned some of those same things on 43f, and I was wondering how you made it to using the triumvirate without feeling all weird. I've tried to use Apple's offerings in the past and it all just felt clunky.

//k

TOPICS: Mac OS X
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Well, I'm back with Entourage...

Well, I'm back with Entourage (again...) -- as nice as it was to have the eye candy with my Contacts' photos in my Palm syncing with my Address Book, and colorful categories syncing with iCal, I realized that it was at the expense of:

- Longer sync times (Missing Sync 5's conduits are SLOW!)
- Duplicated data (with almost every sync)
- That blasted set-each-alarm-manually thing in iCal

Life is good with Entourage. :cool:

//k

 
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