Chapter . Sync a Handheld Device with iSync
Formerly the core of the Mac OS X syncing experience, iSync now has a more focused mission: to sync calendar and contact information between your Mac and your portable, non-Apple devices.
When iSync syncs with a handheld device it uses the contact info managed by Address Book and the calendar info managed by iCal. However, that doesn’t necessarily leave contact and calendar data from other programs out in the cold: if those other programs can sync with the Tiger sync engine, their information can be included in the Address Book’s and in iCal’s data collections, and make its way from there to the device (for example, see Sync Entourage).
To use iSync with your device, you have to do the following:
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