For mobile devices excluding iPhones. (Part of Mac OS X)

"Starting with Mac OS X v10.4, much of this functionality has been moved into the Sync Services framework, which developers can use to incorporate synchronization into their own applications. iSync, however, retains responsibility for synchronizing mobile handsets, Palm OS organizers and compatible smartphones. Since the release of iTunes 4.8, the responsibility for synchronizing iPods has been delegated to iTunes. Synchronization with MobileMe is now the domain of MobileMe Sync, accessible through a System Preferences pane." [wikipedia]

• info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISync

• iSync: Supported mobile phones in Mac OS X 10.4, 10.5, support.apple.com/kb/HT2824
• support: www.apple.com/support/isync/

For iPhones (and iPod Touch). Standard part of Mac OS X; also available for MS Windows.

Primarily a powerful application for managing and playing multimedia (music, video, ...), buying media from iTunes Store, ...

But also the application for synchronizing - and configuration of - information between iPhones and Mac.

• http://apple.com/itunes
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes

For getting photos and videos from iPhone to Mac computer. Part of Mac OS X.

Useful to run to get photos/videos taken with iPhone onto computer and don't want to have iTunes synchronizing both ways.

To use:

1. Connect iPhone to computer (USB)
2. Start application
3. Press Download Some... and select what to get or Download All to, yes, download all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_Resolver

Behind the scene application - only mentioning it as it can show up in Activity Monitor as process that occasionally can be using some CPU processing power.

/Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Office/Microsoft Sync Services.app/

Behind the scene application - only mentioning it as it can show up in Activity Monitor as process that occasionally can be using some CPU processing power.

/System/Library/Frameworks/SyncServices.framework/Versions/A/Resources/SyncServer.app/Contents/MacOS/SyncServer

From Mark/Space - www.markspace.com

For a long time one of the better 3rd party solutions for fixing all problems synchronizing different devices can pose.

Versions for Apple iPhone, Palm OS, Windows Mobile, ... exist that adds capabilities that otherwise may be missing.

Applications often starts around $40.

general open

standard

general open

standard

Entourage Item

(Bold: name as used in Entourage)

Address Book

& MobileMe

iCal &

MobileMe

"All Microsoft Exchange account calendars and their events in Entourage are continually synchronized with the Exchange server automatically.

NoteEntourage 2008 does not support Microsoft Office Outlook counter-proposal invitations. If an Entourage user sends a meeting request to an Outlook user and the invitee makes a counter proposal, the counter proposal appears as text in the Entourage message body. The Entourage user must make any meeting time adjustments manually."

Entourage through

MobileMe

No

"Entourage notes are not synchronized with the Exchange server."

iCal &

MobileMe

No

"Entourage tasks are not synchronized with the Exchange server."

No config from Mac

"Although rules stored on the Exchange server will run, users cannot change or create new Exchange server-based rules by using Entourage."

(/Applications/Address Book.app)

Can remove all categories - not used/not synchronized from/to Entourage anyway. Only obscures screens on iPhone and MobileMe web interface.

###(/Applications/iCal.app)

Can remove all categories - not used/not synchronized from/to Entourage anyway. Only obscures screens on iPhone and MobileMe web interface.

Many tabs

Summary

[X] Automatically sync when this iPhone is connected

[X] Sync only checked songs and videos

[  ] ...

[  ] ...

Info

[X] Sync Address Book contacts

   (*) All contacts

[X] Sync iCal calendars

   (  ) All calendars

   (*) Selected calendars

       [X] Entourage

[X] Do not sync events older than [ 30 ] days    (default)

[X] Sync Safari bookmarks

[X] Sync Notes

...