Back-Packing With Nokia N810

Corey Burger corey.burger at gmail.com
Sun Feb 17 03:47:20 UTC 2008


On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Kip Warner <kip at thevertigo.com> wrote:
> Greetings Everyone,
>
>  So I finally got around to buying one. The following post I made on the
>  Ubuntu forum, but I just realized this might be a good place for it as
>  well.
>
>  So I would like to do some travelling and reasoned the Nokia N810 is the
>  way to go after doing some extensive research. I would now like some
>  more advice from the gracious forum community.
>
>  Throughout my travels, I will most likely want to record dates and
>  times, new contacts, and communicate via email. But there is always the
>  potential risk that my N810 might get lost / broken / stolen / etc.. If
>  that were to happen, it would be tragic to lose any of the various forms
>  of data I may have gathered throughout my travels.
>
>  Email has a simple solution, IMAP. Everything is automatically
>  synchronized and get on my mail server.
>
>  Contacts and calendar are the next issue. I've been using Evolution for
>  a long time on my laptop and desktops. I don't mind moving to another
>  PIM that is available and well maintained in one of the many Maemo apt
>  repositories available, but I would like to use something that also has
>  a server based backend like IMAP, but still accessible locally when
>  offline. Any recommendations?

Evolution-data-server, the backend beyond Evolution, has been ported
to the N810 by a company called OpenedHand, a contractor with Nokia.
They have written some new frontends for the Calendar and Task
interfaces, called Pimlico: http://www.pimlico-project.org

There is also the Tinymail tool, which is currently in heavily
development. Tinymail is used in the Modest email client. It doesn't
use EDS, however.

Corey




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