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Sunday, March 21. 2010
eGroupware + SE PC Suite
Pleasantly surprised to note that the Sony-Ericsson PC suite will out-of-the-box sync with any SyncML capable host—Funambol or eGroupware—thereby syncing your phone to the rest of your world. While I’ve got a (tiny) data plan and I’m generally happy to OTA sync, New Zealand belongs to that sub-Third World chunk of the mobile data universe where data is excruciatingly expensive and syncing by cable can be an attractive option.
Anyway, if this is relevant to your interests, it’s pretty straightforward:
From the main screen, the default is to sync to “My Computer”; click on the “Online Service” button, and you’ll be given the chance to edit a new account.
Bonus points for S-E: the account is completely free-form, leaving you able to simply whack your settings in. The ones I’m showing here are for an eGroupware server.
(An aside: the reason I say bonus points is because of the number of times I’ve looked at similar software that locks you into a limited range of services. It’s frustrating knowing that somewhere under the hood they’ve implemented standards-based protocols that do exactly what you want but the UI won’t let you point them at the service you want to use.)
