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Oct 19

Funambol: Free Open Source sync server for smartphone

Beside the obvious phone function, smartphone also allow you to carry your personnal data such as contact, meeting and so on. Of course you have to sync it with your computer for backup and replication. However when you seek to do it while traveling or what to have multiple deviced synced. Let’s say your office computer, your laptop and an web calendar. Things get tricky, Moreover if your office computer is like mine under Linux. The natural solution is to have a sync server. However until now, the two available options where not what I was looking for.

First using a third party service. Here confidentiality and availability are an issue for me. I me sorry but these files are to personnal, I dont trust third party here. Even my phone compagny Orange. Sorry guys.

The other option was to have an exchange server (my phone is a windows mobile) and I want to stick with this technology because it work like I want. I infact plan to have a tytn2 as next phone. This was not an option because if I have a server, the one used to host this blog in fact, it run a Linux and I am not going to change that either.

So until now I was pretty stuck, but I may have found my holy graal : an open source sync server. Take look at it here:

Funambol: Open Source sync server

It also support Iphone :) I really dont know how I have miss this software. Any way I will give it a try in the few next days, Anyone have already try it ?

Oct 12

Search Engine Comparison Poll: The Results

Search engine poll resultsA blind test was performed to evaluate the quality of search engine. The idea was to enter a query of your choice and decide based on the first result which engine is the best. It is a good idea to evaluate the quality of the engine based on user query, however it should have been run with more user and for a more long time to have a more significante result. Moreover a more detailed report with query analysis breakdown should have been nice. Anyway, the poll is over and the winner is google followed by MSN. Take a look at the poll here:

Search Engine Comparison Poll: The Results