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Palm Desktop is the free calendar/address book/to-do program that comes with every Palm organizer. But you don't have to buy a Palm to get it; you can download it from http://www.palm.com/software for free. It's available in separate versions for Mac OS 9, Mac OS X, and Windows. 8.4.1 Mac OS 9, Mac OS XIf you want to copy your entire Date Book to the iPod as quickly and thoroughly as possible, proceed like this:
NOTE Although you probably won't use this technique as often, you can also drag individual events out of your Palm Desktop calendar display ”clear out of the window ”and into the iPod's Calendars folder. Dragging the events creates separate files with the .vcs file extension, which is the mark of a vCal document. It's a quick and dirty way to schedule your day. 8.4.2 WindowsPalm Desktop for Windows can't export your whole calendar file at once, or even multiple appointments at once. Incredibly, you have to export one event at a time, which is tremendously annoying, not to mention lame (see Figure 8-6). Figure 8-6. To copy events out of the Palm Desktop Date Book in indows, select the items you want to move and choose File Export vCal. Give your event file a name in the resulting dialog box, and then click Export. Save the file into the iPods Calendars folder ”or drag it there from wherever you saved the file.Fortunately, shareware can do the job for you. Download Palm2iPod (from, for example, http://www.missingmanuals.com). Once you install this plug-in for the Palm software, you see two iPod-shaped icons at the top of your Palm Desktop screen. Consult Figure 8-7 for the simple instructions. Figure 8-7. To set up Palm2iPod, click the second iPod icon as shown here, which opens the iPod Export Preferences dialog box. Choose your iPod's drive letter, and click OK. When you're ready to export, click the first iPod icon. All of your Palm contacts and calendars are sent to the iPod in one thunderous mouse click. |
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