Another Option for Free Online Synchronization

Posted By: Dan Williams Wednesday, September 13, 2000 11:59:17 AM

After ReadSynchGo! turned out to be not yet available, there is another web site that looks promising, too:
Get all your devices on the same page with fusionOne’s free Internet sync service. This service enables you to synchronize your calendar, e-mail, address book across your Palm handheld, cell phone and personal computers. Synchronize from any cradle, with a PalmModem, or wirelessly. It is available now for free.

Have you tried fusionOne? If so, write in and tell us your experiences.

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new user: fusionone

I.M. Anonymous @ 9/13/2000 1:52:45 PM #

I just logged on to FusionOne. It took about five minutes, total, including software download and Palm sync. Very nice, easy to use. I think I'll be using this a lot!

Fusion One

I.M. Anonymous @ 9/13/2000 1:56:42 PM #

Just a word of caution with this sync program (and others as well): I've tried it, and as I recall, it totally takes over your conduits from the desktop. If you have other desktop-based programs that depend on the Palm conduits for their data, those programs (like, Desktop To Go, or Wesync, etc.) will not get updated. It's been a while since I tried this, so something may have changed, but...forewarned is forearmed.

Not a New User

Ed @ 9/13/2000 2:35:28 PM #

fusionOne appears to have some kind of incompatibility issue. I installed it on my Win 2K PC and synched and everything worked great. I then installed it on my Palm IIIx and synched, again, everything worked great. Then I tried synching again on my PC and generated a long series of errors. I deleted what was on the fusionOne server and tried again. The same thing happened. The format the Palm saved changes in appears to be unreadable to the PC app. No changes I made on the PC were ever made to the database after I used the Palm. So I deleted everything. Sorry, this service seemed interesting but I don't have hours to troubleshoot.

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RE: fusionOne Irritations Continue

Ed @ 9/14/2000 10:28:51 AM #

Me, again. I realized after missing a meeting this morning that just deleting fusionOne wasn't enough. My Calendar in Exchange on my PC and the Calendar on my Palm had stopped talking to each other. I fooled around for a few minutes trying to figure out what setting had been changed and I couldn't find one so I reinstalled the HotSync Manager and now I'm syncing again. fusionOne also seems to have messed up BackupBuddy but that app was able to uncorrupt its files, though that might have been related to reinstalling the HotSync Manager.

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404

I.M. Anonymous @ 9/13/2000 5:31:55 PM #

Fusionone never worked for me but then again I was using some time ago. I use both my Nokia 6190 and Palm Vx - the contacts did work for my phone but the sync for the palm screwed everything else up.....

WeSync is my choice

I.M. Anonymous @ 9/13/2000 6:51:59 PM #

I use WeSync...when I am on the road, I use it with my Palm Vx and Omnisky modem to keep up with changes that my admin makes to my calendar back at the office. Best of all, I can have more than one calendar on my Palm with WeSync. I have my main calendar, plus about five other calendars (one my wife maintains; other calendars for other things...).

I'm using Fusion One

PTrevino @ 9/13/2000 7:15:42 PM #

Actually it seems to work really well... I am syncing my palm with Lotus Notes via Pylon Conduit on the same machine I sync with Fusion one. Works great. my laptop syncs with Fusion one to Outlook and I can access my data via www.edock.com and also via my web enabled phone.

I never realized but my wife is right.. I am WAY TOO connected.. enjoy everyone....

Works but..

I.M. Anonymous @ 9/14/2000 12:44:19 AM #

I haven't been able to view my data online so I'm guessing I can only view it when I sync back to another device.

Problems

I.M. Anonymous @ 9/14/2000 8:07:24 AM #

I experienced quite a few problems with fusionone, including the inability to sync with some Outlook calendar item types (eg. a meeting that occurs twice a week). I seem to recall problems with datebk4 floats as well. I'm not sure there will ever be a good solution to this problem. Requirements include: ability to sync with datebk4, sync from home or work, sync contacts to my RIM950 and phone, group feature on the Web, sharable items on the Web (share all my family's events and b-days with everyone, but not my rendezvous with the mistress). Also, I'd like the ability to make backups to the Web in case of sync hell, which happens quite often with these things. Also, I'd like this to sync with a company I know will be around, like Yahoo. Seems that these smaller outfits have reliability problems.

my 2 cents...

macfixer @ 9/14/2000 9:34:50 AM #

yawn...i'll wait for the Mac version

RE: my 2 cents...

I.M. Anonymous @ 9/14/2000 11:08:04 AM #

you will be waiting for a long time, buddy!

RE: my 2 cents...

Ed @ 9/14/2000 11:29:04 AM #

Actually, I saw on the fusionOne site that a Mac version is coming soon.

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conduits

I.M. Anonymous @ 9/15/2000 7:09:51 PM #

fusionOne still doesnt support conduits. For someone who uses avantgo, this sucks.

Double Byte Character

I.M. Anonymous @ 9/18/2000 12:39:24 AM #

I have double byte characters (Traditional Chinese) in my datebook, todos, memos and address book. They became un-readable in eDock after sync. (I had already used Chinese enabled IE)

So far only swifttouch can support palm sync with double byte characters.