keithclancy

Ello,

Being a Mac/FreeBSD User proved to be a bit of pain in the bum when it came to my newly aquired Axim x30, I found i couldn't sync it with my mac !! But still got it being drawn to the fact that there was a solution from PocketMac and the Missing Sync Etc.

So i went and bought it and found out that PocketMac and Missing Sync are a hefty 50 squid :)

Anyways,
I looked at SynCe
http://synce.sourceforge.net/synce/

Pros: Its free
Cons: Really only syncs with Evolution

On the mac there is a tool to allow serial over USB but it only supports 2 devices, but! you can use bluetooth ! :) I discovered this by accident after installing it then i said to myself , Hey ! i can just use the bluetooth serial utility ! :)

Voila, got it to connect to the mac, but i'll be damned if i'm moving all my crap from Mail to Evolution and running X on top of that.

So i bought PocketMac Lite for 14 euro
I deviced the only real missing useful feature was the cabextractor.

So after using it, i realised , Hey , theres a little app called orange thats part of the wince project :)

Downloaded , compiled and installed (after editing the makefiles with instructions from the wince page)

Ran it :)

And woo hoo ..
got cab files from an exe :) tested with quite a few apps and it works fine.

So if i want to install an app on my pocket pc now i don't have to run Virtual PC anymore to do it , i just get the exe, open up the terminal, type "orange nameoffile.exe" and i'm left with the cabs (arm mips etc) in the same DIR :)

The only hard part is it can be a bit tricky if you've never compiled and installed an app before, but your luck is in if you have Redhat, Gentoo, Fedora or Debian :) they have premade packages for those.

Anyways ,
Thought you mac users would like to know as its a bit self defeating to have to run windows on a mac to install apps on your little pocket pc :)

Any problems with the install just post to this message and i'll try to help

Keith. :)

P.S. you need the OS X developer tools to install it (obviously since you need to compile it)