I think helping to orient one’s child to the rest of the world and the needs and rights of others is a gift we can offer them that many kids miss out on in large part these days. Seems like pendulum thing. It certainly was good when we historically moved from treating children like property and began to have some regard for their feelings and preferences. But the pendulum for many has continued to swing to where the kids are raised with far too little awareness of the needs, feelings and rights of those around them…which I think in the long run does the child in question no favors. Generally, they WILL learn it, but the question is whether they do so with the loving guidance of their parents, or whether the learning is postponed til the price tags are much higher when their peers, roommates and fellow employees teach them often in much harsher and more painful ways than we can pull off as parents.

i also have a iphone which is not jailbroken eventho i know how and might someday jailbreak it i dont see the use if u have to fix it everyother week due to new patches apple is shooting out like a Gatling gun

on top of that im on windows vista and since im going thru all this its making me want to do 2 things forget about calender sync or get a mac i will never buy mobile me ever so thats out of the question

so im trying to get my iphone and my wife’s iphone to sync to one google calender without haveing to jailbreak it all the replys i get end up to be for mac only or the phone needs to be jailbroken in order to use it does anyone know a solution to my problem or am i just S.O.L

btw besides the three no’s jailbreaking the phone ,buying mobile me and not being on mac i dont care what else it takes to get google calender to my wife’s and my iphone

Have a nice day

I have a doctor I work for, he has an iPhone that currently syncs without issue with his Outlook. I don’t have access or permissions to the domain or exchange server. He primarliy uses Thunderbird for email and is a bigger fan of this email application than he is of Outlook.

He wants to be able to sync his iPhone with Thunderbird, not sure if push and pull are options, or if push is even an option, but that is what he would like to do. I know that the exchange server is pop, but that the iPhone supports imap, smtp, and pop, but not sure of the configurations.

So, to make it short and sweet, here are my limitations:

1. I do not have access to the exchange server.
2. I would like to have the doc be able to sync his contacts and email from Thunderbird.

What are my options from where you sit, thank you, Jerry.

If you have access to your server, you can set up your email as IMAP, rather than POP. This means that the email will stay resident on your server and can be seen from both Outlook and the iPhone. Any changes you make to email on your iPhone will be reflected on your server (and visible in webmail) and in your Outlook.

Likewise, if you make changes in Outlook, it will be visible everywhere. It also means you won’t have to delete items in both places or wonder about replies and sent mail (they will be in the IMAP sent folder).

IMHO, not nearly enough people with multiple devices utilize this option.

Hope this helps!