27 Mar 2008
Version 4.1.1
Improves Documents, Stickies and Mail processing such that they properly support extended characters, diacritics, etc.
07 Feb 2008
Version 4.1
Adds full Entourage 2008 support.
Gmail messages now appear in their own Gmail folder on your iPod so you can sync both your local mail and Gmail.
Improves RSS feed processing.
Fixes News downloading to account for US election news.
04 Jan 2008
Version 4.0.3
Handles Mail Notes that contain images.
Supports Quick Look for all files transferred to your iPod.
Verifies Weather cities when they are added.
Cleaning Notes now includes Mail Notes in addition to Entourage Notes.
Fixes problems with preference setting and your iPod being ejected by iTunes prior to sync completion.
07 Dec 2007
Version 4.0.2
Fixes RSS downloads under Tiger.
Fixes News downloads under Tiger.
Fixes Gmail password saving in Keychain under Tiger.
Fixes Direction transfer problems.
23 Nov 2007
Version 4.0.1
Improves Gmail message downloading by switching to the new IMAP interface for accessing and downloading messages. Please ensure that you have IMAP support enabled for your Gmail account.
Improves Mail text processing to ensure correct handling of HTML only messages and messages containing extended characters.
Fixes Address Book backward (Tiger) compatibility.
Fixes a problem with the automatic detection/addition of RSS feeds in websites.
15 Nov 2007
Version 4.0
Leopard compatibility, including:
- Syncing Mail Notes,
- Sync Mail To Do’s, and
- Improvements to iCal, Mail, Address Book and Entourage syncing.
Please see the Mail help page for details on how to make the most out of Note and To Do syncing.
Sync selection has been made more intuitive by making it available within each category window (instead of in the preferences).
Fixes a number of minor problems.
03 Oct 2007
Version 3.4.1
Improved Mail and Gmail message processing to properly handle standard message encodings.
Fixed PDF processing to correctly handle accented characters.
Added Previous Page links to notes that span multiple pages — now you can easily navigate forwards and backwards through your notes.
Fixed a problem with the downloading of directions.
27 Aug 2007
Version 3.4
You can now transfer your Gmail conversations and contacts to your iPod.
Stickies now includes notes from the Stickies Dashboard widget — in addition to the notes from the Stickies application.
Ensures full compatibility with Pages ‘08.
Improves directions support for International users.
The feed button icon is now the standard RSS icon.
Minor bug fixes for RSS feeds, directions, and Sync error handling.
07 Jun 2007
Version 3.3
You can now download driving directions from Google Maps directly to your iPod.
iPDA will now backup the contents of selected folders (and their sub-folders) to your iPod. Make sure your important files are always with you (not to mention having a backup copy in case your Mac drive fails).
Mail message listings now include the sender name in the note title (in addition to the subject) to allow for easier identification of messages.
Mail messages now list the file names of the attachments in the message.
The iPDA trial now allows for 6 full syncs before requiring a purchase.
When producing multiple pages for a note, iPDA now numbers pages with 3 digits to support up to 1000 pages instead of 100 pages.
When reading full News articles, pressing your iPod’s menu button now takes you back to the news summary page instead of the first page of the article.
You can now option click iCal calendars to edit the URL (just like RSS feeds).
Fixed some problems with Mail message processing, iCal processing in OS X 10.3.9 and a rare problem when adding documents.
15 Nov 2006
Version 3.2.1
Fixed a problem with PDF document processing when using Transfer Now.
13 Nov 2006
Version 3.2
You can now transfer the contents of PDF and Pages 2 documents.
Changed note linking so that pressing the Menu button on your iPod takes you to the first note you read, making it easier to back out of a chain of notes and move to the next item to read.
Subscribing to shared iCals now supports Backpack (see www.backpackit.com) in addition to Google calendars. In general, iPDA should support subscribing to any web based calendaring system that supports the iCal standard. If there’s a calendaring system that doesn’t work please let us know.
You can now option click on an RSS feed or Document to see and/or change its current location.
Transferring Entourage Mail folders no longer includes sub-folders since you can select those separately.
Fixed US weather downloading.
Fixed some minor problems with RSS/web page processing.
11 Sep 2006
Version 3.1
Calendars
- You can now download Google calendars to your iPod. See the Help for details on how to subscribe to Google calendars as Web Calendars.
- iPDA now uses the calendar name for subscribed calendars (instead of the file name) for a more accurate listing of your calendars within iPDA.
- Fixed a problem where subscribed calendars were not always getting their full note text.
RSS
- Reorganized feeds on the iPod such that every feed has it’s own folder and each news article has its own note. We also ensure that the news articles are ordered with the most recent article at the top of the list of notes in a folder.
- If a feed has no new articles the feed will no longer appear on the iPod — I was finding it annoying to open a feed to only find out that there was nothing new.
- When adding a web page iPDA will check for an RSS feed and ask if you want to add the page contents or the feed.
- Added Atom feed support.
- Improved full article processing. Note that we recommend the use of Atom feeds since they tend to include the full article without having to download an additional web page (if you have existing feeds it might be a good idea to remove them and add the equivalent Atom feed — if available).
Entourage
- Added a None item to the category lists so that you can choose to sync only those items that don’t belong to any category — applies to Events, Contacts, Notes and Tasks.
- When selecting multiple categories for syncing iPDA now ensures that items that have multiple categories only appear once on the iPod.
- Tasks are no longer ordered in Notes and the To Do list. The ordering was causing too many problems. iPDA no relies on the iPod’s default ordering (currently alphabetical but that could change in the future to use priority, due date, etc).
There are many more minor changes and fixes, including guaranteeing unique file names for contact and notes — allowing for multiple entries with the same title/name.
13 Jan 2006
Version 3.0.1
Fixed a problem when trying to add multiple documents and/or folders to iPDA.
Gracefully handle documents that are deleted or renamed in the Finder.
Transfer Now will always transfer everything — it used to only transfer selected items.
Fixed a problem with Entourage Events and Tasks not transferring all of the required entries.
Updated Clean to allow for easily removing all Contacts, Calendars and Notes currently on your iPod.
A number of minor bug fixes to Weather city entry and Mail filtering.
05 Jan 2006
Version 3.0
Application name changed from iPod It to iPDA.
Added document transferring capabilities:
- You can select any number of Word, RTF and text documents for transfer to your iPod.
- You can select folders to transfer all contained documents to your iPod.
- All documents are accessible within your iPod’s Notes section.
You can now select multiple Mail folders/mailboxes for transferring to your iPod.
You can now select multiple Entourage categories and Address Book groups for transferring to your iPod.
Calendar entries now include calendar names so you can easily identify where they come from without having to back out of the calendar view.
Contacts now include category/group names so you can identify where they belong in Entourage/Address Book.
Improved Mail processing by eliminating a problem that would cause Mail to hang.
Improved iCal handling of completed To Do items.
Improved the formatting of iCal and Contacts notes.
Many other improvements including web page processing, note splitting, Entourage Notes and Tasks organizations within Notes, the handling of contacts with Asian text, and a number of user inteface enhancements.
29 Oct 2005
Version 2.5.2
Mail mailbox names now include the account name so you can uniquely identify mailboxes with the same name (e.g. Inbox). Note that if you have selected a mailbox for syncing iPod It will revert to All mailboxes since it’s mailbox identifiers have changed.
Fixed Event and Contact handling with Entourage 2004 SP2.
27 Sep 2005
Version 2.5.1
Fixed Event support with Entourage X and attendee handling with Entourage 2004 SP2.
Fixed iCal support to ensure that event notes are always include on your iPod.
Removing iCal calendars from your iPod no longer removes Entourage calendars.
09 Sep 2005
Version 2.5
Added RSS feed syncing capabilities:
- You can subscribe to any number of RSS feeds and have the articles automatically synced to your iPod as Notes entries.
- iPod It maintains a history to ensure that only unread articles are synced to your iPod.
- Adding RSS feeds is as easy as dragging and dropping the feed URL into iPod It’s feed list.
- You can choose to download the full articles for your feeds. iPod It will ensure that articles are only included if the full text isn’t in the feed itself.
Web page processing (for News article and RSS article downloads) has been improved under Tiger.
iCal support has been completely revamped:
- The calendar listing has been redesigned to enhance usability.
- Better selection of calendars to sync — you can now choose which local calendars to transfer to your iPod.
- Location information now appears within the notes section of an event.
- Event attendees not in Address Book are now included in the iPod’s attendee list.
- To Do support has been enhanced:
- You can choose to not transfer completed To Do items.
- You can choose to transfer To Do items as calendar events so that your iPod will generate alarms for items with due dates.
- To Do items being created as calendar events now include the note text (Tiger only) and completed status.
Mail support has been updated to improve message extraction — it’s now faster and can handle very large attachments in a message.
Entourage Tasks going into the To Do list now include their priority information.
Entourage Events now include any invited attendees when viewed on your iPod.
19 May 2005
Version 2.4.3
Now Tiger compatible — supporting the new versions of iCal and Mail.
Improved Stickies processing and made Tiger compatible.
You can now remove iCal To Do items.
News download processing has been improved.
24 Feb 2005
Version 2.4.2
Entourage
- Fixed a problem with recurring event modifications not always being shown correctly on the iPod.
- Improved Entourage X support.
- Tasks going into Calendars are now ordered by priority (if they appear on the same day) and show completed status using the same text as To Do entries.
- Tasks going into Notes now includes an “Other” folder for tasks without a category (to match Notes and Calendar organization).
- Task completed status is no longer shown if you’re only transferring incomplete tasks.
- Events that span a month (start in one month and end in the next) now have the event end date displayed correctly.
Web Services
- Fixed news and weather downloads.
- Improved the processing of web pages for News full article downloads.
Miscellaneous
- Updated the icon and utility icons to use the latest iPod icon.
- Added birthday and maiden name fields to Address Book contacts.
- Fixed Mail processing to ensure proper handling of subjects with extended characters (e.g. accented characters) and proper handling of attachment information.
05 Oct 2004
Version 2.4.1
This version includes a number of bug fixes and minor enhancements:
- News downloads have been fixed.
- Generation of full News articles has been improved.
- Entourage Tasks and Notes without a category now go into an Other folder to match the organization found with Calendars.
- Entourage Tasks going into a Calendar will now generate correct alarms.
- Entourage Events that cross multiple days now contain text indicating when the event ends.
- Entourage Notes and Stickies are now ordered based on titles.
- Fixed a problem with Entourage Mail messages not exporting when they are within a sub-folder.
17 Aug 2004
Version 2.4
Entourage
- Optimized Event transfer when using a date range.
- Recurring events that have individual events moved now display correctly on the iPod if you’re using Entourage 2004.
- When exporting all Notes they will now be organized by category within
the iPod Notes section (with properly linking/ordering based on
category).
- When exporting Tasks to Notes they are now organized by category (with
properly linking/ordering based on category).
- Contact custom fields and Instant Messaging addresses are now included in the contact’s note section.
Weather
- You can now sync multiple city weather forecasts.
- Today’s weather forecast now includes the sun/moon rise/set times.
- Weather forecasts for one day (day and overnight) to a Calendar now
appear as a single entry in the calendar (overnight used to be separate
at midnight but this tended to get lost at the bottom of the day).
- Fixed a problem with weather forecasts for cities with spaces and commas.
News
- You can now choose to download full articles in addition to the news headlines.
- Fixed a problem with News titles in Notes not displaying extended characters properly.
- Fixed note linking in News when splitting across pages.
Mail
- Added support for mailbox selection.
- Fixed a problem processing messages that contain no text.
- Fixed a problem with messages that had no plain text but included
graphics and/or html only (e.g. iCards).
Address Book
- Custom fields and instant messaging addresses are now included in the contact’s note section. iPod It also includes extra e-mail and phone numbers for 1.x iPods (since they don’t recognize the special vCard fields used by Address Book).
- iPod It now supports contacts with extended (non-English) characters.
General
- There is no longer an iPod version preference; iPod It will automatically get this information from your iPod.
- ⌘-. will cancel a sync operation (instead of escape) so that iPod It uses the standard Mac key combination.
- File names for Note entries are now only the index number. The name
is only used for linking and this guarantees valid links all the time
(the iPod doesn’t seem to handle extended characters in links).
More minor enhancements and bug fixes.
10 Feb 2004
Version 2.3.2
This version provides more robust and efficient support for Panther Mail.
Entourage Contacts now include all personal information for a contact, including birth date, spouse, children and interests.
Entourage Mail now has the ability to transfer messages from all folders at once.
Entourage Mail now has the ability to filter based on sent as well as received time.
Fixed a problem with News transfers when running OS X 10.2.x.
Fixed a problems with Calendar deletion and date range filtering with Entourage Events.
Fixed a problem with sticky formatting when transferring them into Contacts (for iPods running version 1.3 software).
Fixed a number of minor file management bugs.
20 Jan 2004
Version 2.3.1
This version fixes a number of problems with Panther Mail support; all Mail users should update to this version. Changes/fixes include:
- Properly include all messages stored in folders on your Mac (including sub-folders).
- Messages are now organized on the iPod based on their Mail folder (including the linking of messages across folders).
- Properly handle messages with attachments.
- Include redirected, forwarded, and replied flags in the message header generated for reading on the iPod.
- Users with multiple accounts no longer see duplicate messages.
- Added a number of error handling features to deal with unexpected problems trying to retrieve information; read this as gracefully handling Mail AppleScript bugs.
Now ensures unique Note file names (using the sequence number used for ordering and linking). This is mainly an issue for e-mail messages that have the same subject line.
Fixed a rare problem whereby a connected iPod wouldn’t properly be detected.
Fixed a problem whereby some recurring event from Entourage were not appearing on an iPod.
02 Jan 2004
Version 2.3
Added full support for Panther Mail. This includes message linking and note splitting. iPod It is now able to transfer messages from all of your accounts and all of the mailboxes within those accounts. You also have the ability to filter messages based on whether or not they are flagged.
Changed the management of files on the iPod. Syncing will now always delete iPod contents while using Export Now within a window will never delete iPod contents (this allows for the easy adding of a new contact, for example). To support this iPod It will always generate individual files for notes and contacts and aggregates events based on category.
Fixed some formatting problems with Calendar names and News for “non-Latin” characters (e.g. accented letters and umlauts).
Fixed a problem detecting an iPod when there are secondary hard drives present (i.e. other than the main drive).
Lots of other bug fixes (too many to list…). If you’re curious about a change you’re seeing or want the full list, contact me and I’ll let you know.
12 Nov 2003
Version 2.2
Notes entries that are longer than 4KB are now split into multiple entries within a sub-folder. Each entry is linked to the following entry to ease navigation while reading.
Notes entries within a folder are now organized and linked so that you can easily navigate to the following entry in the folder.
You can now select an Address Book group to transfer to your iPod; all contacts within the group are transferred. In addition, the notes for each contact are included in the Contacts entries (this seems to have disappeared with Panther).
All existing iCals are now removed when transferring iCals to your iPod.
Fixed some more problems with text containing “non-English” characters when transferring Entourage events.
The locating of an iPod is now more reliable and iPod It now handles iPod names with any characters.
The removal of files from an iPod as been revamped to more reliably remove the required files.
Many other enhancements and bug fixes (too many to list…). If you’re curious about a change you’re seeing or want the full list, contact me and I’ll let you know.
25 Sep 2003
Version 2.1
There are a number of usability enhancements:
- Button names now have a check mark beside the name if it is currently set for syncing.
- Command clicking a button will toggle syncing on/off (requires registration).
- Command-option clicking a button will automatically initiate an export of the selected information (requires registration).
- Command clicking the Clean button will automatically remove all Contacts, Calendars and/or Notes on your iPod (requires registration).
You can override the sync on launch preference by holding down the Option key when launching iPod It.
You can now export Entourage Tasks to the To Do list of 2.0 iPods. Note that having them in the Calendar gives you full support for tasks, including alarms based on your remind time and categories. The iPod doesn’t support To Do alarms and categories so your remind times and categories are lost. The iPod also expects the To Do items to be within a calendar but since it doesn’t support categories you will see a calendar called Other that will be empty (unless you have events that don’t belong to a category); this is the default calendar the iPod puts events into if they don’t belong to a calendar and that’s where it puts your To Do items.
Fixed a problem with “non-US” characters (e.g. umlauts) when exporting France or Germany News and Stickies to Notes.
Fixed Weather download problems.
Fixed a problem generating contact names when all you have is an e-mail address for the contact.
07 Aug 2003
Version 2.0.2
Fixed a problem with weather downloads in the US. Along with the fix, downloads have been made faster and the weather update time now accurately reflects when the forecast was last updated (and not when it was transferred to your iPod).
Added France and Germany to the News downloads. The section titles are now localized such that you get accurate local titles when viewed on your iPod.
Fixed another problem whereby some people couldn’t successfully run the application if you didn’t have Entourage installed. Sorry about that; this should (finally) do it for people who have never installed Entourage on their Mac.
Fixed a problem with the display of Address Book entries that didn’t have a first and/or last name.
Corrected a problem with iPod ejecting to indicate when iPod It couldn’t successfully eject the iPod (instead of inaccurately indicating that it had been ejected and was safe to disconnect).
28 Jul 2003
Version 2.0.1
Fixed a problem whereby you couldn’t successfully run the application if you didn’t have Entourage installed. Sorry about that!
You can now transfer iCal To Do items into a calendar called “To Do” if you are using a version 1.3 iPod (which doesn’t have native support for To Do items). They are organized by due date, with those that have no due date or are past due appearing on the current date (at the time of the transfer). Past due items will continue to follow the current day as you transfer your data as a reminder that they need to be completed. They will also contain text indicating when they were originally due.
Warning iPod It transfers all of your To Do items. If you have iCal setup to hide completed items it is important to remember that they have not been deleted. As such, they will all be transferred to your iPod and can result in you unnecessarily reaching the iPod’s calendar entry limit (if you’ve gone through hundreds of items). It’s probably a good idea to delete your old completed items.
Fixed a problem with deleting weather forecasts with long city names (or rather the fact that they weren’t being deleted). Due to the required changes, the city name may now differ from that of the file currently on your iPod. If this is the case it won’t delete the existing file since iPod It will only delete forecasts from the same city. It would be a good idea to perform a Clean operation prior to exporting a new weather forecast.
Fixed a problem with Stickies whereby it wouldn’t transfer stickies with font settings other than the default.
Fixed a problem with Mail.app messages where the sender didn’t include a name (all you have is the e-mail address).
iPod It would try to remember your last window position so that it would open in the same location the next time it was run. This was causing too many problems so the feature has been removed (it may return if I find a good way of handling it).
23 Jul 2003
Version 2.0
The user interface has been re-designed to become sync centric, while still allowing manual exporting of data if required. Explanations are given in each window to try to make it clear how manual exporting versus syncing works. In addition, all of the windows now have a consistent look and feel.
You can now transfer all or a subset of your information stored in Stickies, Mail and Address Book. iPod It is now the application for transferring your PIM data to your iPod.
Entourage contacts without names or a company wouldn’t have a name for the entry. iPod It now uses the e-mail address if available.
The order of messages in the mail windows are ordered by time sent so that the latest messages are displayed first. All mail transferred to your iPod is now organized by time sent (you used to be able to organize by subject as well).
You can now cancel a sync operation by pressing the escape key. iPod It will complete the current transfer before stopping the sync (e.g. if you press escape while iCals are being transferred then it will complete the iCal transfer before stopping).
Syncing now requires an iPod be connected for the operation to be performed (you used to be able to save the exported data to your Mac for later transfer to your iPod).
iPod It will now inform you of any problems that were encountered during a sync operation. If there was a problem a window will be displayed indicating the source of the problem (e.g. Internet connectivity issues trying to download a weather forecast).
There’s a new icon to reflect the new capabilities of iPod It. If you’re interested in having an icon that uses the image of the original iPod, let me know.
There were a number of minor bug fixes, enhancements and performance improvements.
30 Jun 2003
Version 1.9.1
You can now download localized news for Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States.
You can now have Entourage check for e-mail when you open the Mail window (before the list of messages is generated) and before you sync messages to your iPod. The mail settings provide the ability to enable the running of an Entourage Schedule and define which schedule to run.
There was a problem with weather downloads not working if wunderground.com was issuing a “Nowcast” (US only).
People with an extremely large number of contacts or calendar entries were experiencing timeout errors. This should now be fixed. If not let me know so I can extend the timeouts even further.
Added iPod and View menu options so that everything that can be done with iPod It is accessible via a menu (in addition to providing keyboard shortcuts). There are also new menu items for sending feedback, purchasing/registering iPod It and accessing the iPod It FAQ and News sections of the website.
Added the playing of the “Glass” sound at the end of sync to provide an indication that the sync has finished.
16 Jun 2003
Version 1.9
Version 2.0 iPods can have Notes, Mail, Tasks, Weather and News transferred into Notes instead of Contacts or the Calendar. Simply select your iPod version in the preferences and you’re ready to go. iPod It fully exploits the organizational features of Notes so that your information is organized by type and category; it’s never been easier to find and read information on your iPod.
You can now restrict event exporting by category in addition to being able to export all categories.
Added the ability to not show the contacts names in the contacts window. This is useful if you have a large number of contacts and it takes a while to load the window; now you don’t have to wait simply to export all of the contacts in a number of categories.
Fixed a number of bugs that were revealed when adding Notes support (which had been present for quite a while…).
15 Jun 2003
Version 1.8.2
There are a number of bug fixes to ensure correct downloading/formatting of the News and Weather.
The Weather now has a timestamp so you know when it was updated.
Directions has been removed since MapBlast was purchased by Microsoft. If there’s enough demand, I’ll look into finding another provider.
Proxy server support has been added. Now you can download Web Services at work as well.
Version 1.8.1
There are a number of bug fixes, including problems with weather downloads and better iCal compatibility.
News now includes the source for each news item.
Contacts now have a .vcf extension so they can be easily imported into the Address Book or Entourage (note that if you have all of your contacts in a single file Entourage will only recognize the first entry while Address Book correctly imports all of them).
Version 1.8
You can now automatically start a sync when iPod It is launched, automatically quit when a sync is completed and automatically eject your iPod before quitting. Note to override the automatic quit operation (so you can change your settings), click on the sync progress bar.
With these settings and iPod Launcher you can update your iPod by simply connecting it to your Mac!
You can now download news headlines from news.google.com.
You can now include calendars being managed by iCal itself; use iCal to handle your subscriptions (including automatic refreshing) and you don’t have to worry about downloading them when syncing to your iPod.
Version 1.7.1
This is a maintenance release. There are few subtle additions (e.g. you can remove alarms from subscribed iCals) but the purpose of this release is to fix a few problems. Most people won’t have any problems but if you have a space in your iPod name or live outside North America, this fix is for you.
Version 1.7
You can now subscribe to published iCals and export them to your iPod. You can include as many iCals as you like and have them automatically update every time you Sync.
There are a number of user interface enhancements. This includes keyboard shortcuts for all of the main window’s options; use the first letter to perform the corresponding action (except Clean and Eject, use the second letter for them).
You’ll also notice a change on your iPod. All of the Entourage categories in the calendar list now start with “*” so that they always appear at the top of the list.
There are a number of bug fixes to ensure proper processing of weather and continued support for version 10.1.x of OS X.
Version 1.6
When exporting to the Calendar the Entourage category is attached to each entry. The category is used as the Calendar name so that you now have your entries separated into multiple iPod calendars (just like iCal). This applies to Events, Tasks, and Weather (which is put into the “Weather” calendar).
You can now select Notes and Contacts based on their category. This is handled in the same way as e-mail folders, which means you can export categories individually and separately update the Contact entries for each category.
In the Sync settings you can now choose between exporting all Events or just those Events within your current date range.
You can now choose to have all alarms, no alarms or the set alarms for Events. This was added due to an apparent battery drain issue when alarms are present (even if you have them turned off on your iPod).
Weather has been changed to use wunderground.com. This means that you can now get metric forecasts if you live outside the US.
Version 1.5
You can now sync information to your iPod via a single click. Using your current settings, iPod It will export the information you’ve specified in the preferences.
Directions works again. mapblast.com changed the way directions are queried.
Special characters are supported within the Calendar (it doesn’t support Unicode…). Note that the iPod doesn’t have complete support at this time (e.g. it doesn’t generate the Euro symbol).
Tasks that are past due will now have their reminder move with them (when exported to the Calendar). If you have the reminder set for the day the task is due you will continue to be reminded until the task has been completed (provided you are updating your iPod…).
You can now choose to generate alarms for all events exported to your iPod (when exported to the Calendar). Events without a reminder will have an alarm set for the start of the event.
When Maintain Formatting (in the Preferences window) is deselected the processing has changed. It still removes formatting but it will now interpret 2 consecutive carriage returns as a paragraph break and will start the paragraph on a new line. You still gain cleaner text on your iPod while allowing for logical separations in the flow of the text.
There are a number bug fixes (most useful for Europeans). There are also a number of performance improvements, including the retrieval Contacts and Notes lists.
Version 1.4
Calendar support has been enhanced to include the event location and alarm time at the beginning of the notes section (if they’re present for the event).
Tasks now support exporting into the calendar such that the tasks will be present on their due date (or the current date if they have no due date or are past due). Task reminders are also exported so you can have your iPod remind you when something needs to be done.
You can control how and which Tasks are exported. Tasks can be exported to the Calendar or Contacts. You can control which Tasks are exported based on whether or not they have a due date or are completed. One possibility is to export all of your dated tasks to the Calendar and then the rest as a Contact entry. With this you don’t have to continually re-export your Tasks to move them to the next day.
Weather forecasts can be exported to the Calendar. The forecast for each day will appear as an event for that day.
You now have the ability to append Contacts and Notes to an existing file. This allows you to export a new entry without having to export (and remember) all of the Contacts/Notes currently on your iPod.
You can now choose to export only those Contacts and/or Mail messages that have been flagged. This option can make it much easier to export your information; if they’ve all been flagged then simply click on Export All and you’re done.
On exporting files iPod It would move existing files to the Trash (if you select the preference to delete old files). iPod It now allows you to select between moving the files to the Trash and automatically removing them.
Version 1.3
Now includes support for version 1.2 iPod software (with more to come)!
To support this iPod It will now automatically detect your iPod and export your information to the Contacts or Calendars folder. If your iPod isn’t connected it will prompt you for a location.
The preferences allow you to select between version 1.1 or 1.2 iPod software. For version 1.1 it will export everything into Contact entries. For version 1.2 iPod It will export Events into Calendar entries. These entries support the following:
- All event information is exported. Note that the location is being exported but isn’t displayed by the iPod.
- Events with a reminder setting will generate appropriate alarms on your iPod.
There is now an Export All button for events. The cleaning/deleting of events will also remove files from both the Contacts and Calendars folders.
The ability to organize contacts is disabled for version 1.2 software since the iPod will now do the organizing for you.