NeuvaSync lets me keep my dates sorted
By Gareth Powell
Neuva Sync is the sort of program that makes it worth buying an iPod Touch or an iPhone just to use it.
Being formal Neuva Sync ‘allows direct, over-the-air, native synchronization of certain smart phones and PDA devices with public PIM, and calendaring services including Google Calendar. NuevaSync does not need any software installed on your device because it uses synchronization protocols that are already built in.’
You may not have followed all that exactly but hang in there because if you use ANY form of calendaring and event programming this new free — great price — program solves all your problems. And it does it in technicolor.
Will you have to pay for it? Perhaps, possibly, eventually. But nobody seems to be to concerned about it or care when it will happen.
OK, it will work with Microsoft Outlook although that program could be seen as a cruel and unusual punishment. What you do is import contacts/calendar from Outlook, to Gmail/Google Calendar first. Neuva Sync, God bless its little cotton socks, prefers to work with Google.
NeuvaSync provides wonderful idiot-proof instructions and once you have used it you most certainly will never go back to Microsoft Outlook and you will have everything with you as far as addresses and appointments are concerned.
It works with original iPhones running 2.x software and the iPhone 3G. So if you have an older iPhone you need to upgrade its software to 2.x. And, but of course, it works with my iPod Touch. If yours is a very early one there is a $20 upgrade involved.
You do not need to JailBreak anything. It works as it is with your machine as it is.
The first time you synch it with your computer it takes a short while — say just over 30 seconds — and after that it is a blur of light.
There are some odd quirks for this is software in progress.
When synching multiple calendars, occasionally the device decides to turn all the calendars yellow. Most people do not have multiple characters so this does not apply. And it is not to great a burden to bear to have a yellow screen.
You can get it at Nueva Sync and it is still — repeat, stress and underline — in the developing stage but the instructions are so clear that you should have no trouble.
The only thing that threw me was it kept asking for my Google ID. My email address worked. In fact, this Google ID thing as it appears to be a 14 digit number which is a form of authentication and it needs to be sorted out. Will be done Real Soon Now. But for the moment Nueva Sync is a thing of beauty and a joy forever.
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