Mark Crispin <mrc@Washington.EDU> wrote in
news:alpine.OSX.1.00.0801271807590.21314@pangtzu.p anda.com:

> The contact manager on both N800 and iToy is nothing to write home
> about. iToy's contact manager is a little bit more functional (N800's
> is mostly aimed at working with Google Talk and Jabber) but only
> allows loading through iTunes and whatever iTunes will synchronize
> with. If your contacts are on a PC running Outlook but your media is
> on a Mac, you have to break synchronization with one to load from the
> other. N800 allows import of CSV files without requiring
> synchronizaton. iToy's contact manager doesn't handle name display
> well at all. Bottom line is that iToy and N800 both have annoying
> defects in the contact manager.
>
> N800 doesn't have a Nokia-supplied calendar, so iToy wins with that.
>
> Neither one have a task manager.
>

I don't know why you boys are so synchronizing with the N800. I never
use the N800 email or contact clients at all! That's why there's
rdesktop ported to the N800, right?

Why run 2 mailboxes and try to figure out where that email went, when
you can run your master computer from anyplace on the planet with
rdesktop on the N800 connected to Remote Desktop on the XP/Vista boxes
at home and have your whole system at your fingertips?!

Except for watching movies in realtime, for which it's too slow due to
upload bandwidth from the cable providers, I can use my email and usenet
clients from anywhere. No need to "sync" like an old Palm III at all.
Let your SERVER do the work...(c;

Besides, rdesktop is loads of fun, wherever you plop the tablet down....

If someone is showing you their Iphone, just boot up rdesktop and
doubleclick on the GOOGLE EARTH icon. You don't HAVE to tell 'em Google
EArth isn't running on the tablet. They can see it is!...(c;

"What operating system does this little Nokia run?"

"Well, you can choose. See if you boot it normally you get Linux. But,
if we push this button, watch it boot Windows XP.", you say trying not
to look too guilty. WinXP's full desktop appears, sans the naked ladies
on your home desktop, and all the icons explode onto the screen like a
booting winXP box. Look on their face? PRICELESS>..(c;

Does MAC OSX support remote desktop access?? I've never tried it to a
MAC.