Syncing your Mac with your Blackberry

I bought myself a BlackBerry 7100 a few weeks back. At the time someone said you could add it to iSync using PocketMac.

I got around to looking into this yesterday. Talk about great timing. At Mac World 2006 San Francisco RIM announced they had licensed PocketMac for all BlackBerry users.

While it was announced that the free version would be up on blackberry.com in February, you can download it now from PocketMac. They have changed the price to $0. Make sure you use the credit card option. It will skip the credit card screen and take you straight to downloads. If you use PayPal it causes an error. Obviously the store is not normally used for charging nothing.

PocketMac seems to work fine as an iSync conduit.

Now if only I could something working for Lotus Notes syncing to iCal…

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By Greg Luck

As Terracotta’s CTO, Greg (@gregrluck) is entrusted with understanding market and technology forces and the business drivers that impact Terracotta’s product innovation and customer success. He helps shape company and technology strategy and designs many of the features in Terracotta’s products. Greg came to Terracotta on the acquisition of the popular caching project Ehcache which he founded in 2003. Prior to joining Terracotta, Greg served as Chief Architect at Australian online travel giant Wotif.com. He also served as a lead consultant for ThoughtWorks on accounts in the United States and Australia, was CIO at Virgin Blue, Tempo Services, Stamford Hotels and Resorts and Australian Resorts and spent seven years as a Chartered Accountant in KPMG’s small business and insolvency divisions. He is a regular speaker at conferences and contributor of articles to the technical press.