here are some options that Joel Spolsky said didn't fit his needs:

• Trumba
• Kiko
• 30 Boxes
• Yahoo! Calendar
• Spongecell

i'm really just looking to take my outlook calendar and make it mobile because i want to move away from having to copy a .pst file every time i want to take my stuff somewhere. i use outlook for e-mail and calendar stuff right now but i want to get to using imap on my mail server running with thunderbird and a web-based calendar that syncs to a desktop program.

any opinions?

2/9/2006 12:36:00 AM

do you have an exchange server running? if so why dont you use web access? if no exchange server set one up

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2005-52,GGLG:en&q=mobile+outlook second link looks interesting

[Edited on February 9, 2006 at 1:58 AM. Reason : ]

2/9/2006 1:56:41 AM

another one: http://www.airset.com/

i guess i'll have to just try them all out next week

2/10/2006 2:07:55 AM

kiko has some cool stuff if you do a lot of daily appointments & meetings (cool drag and drop features). however, it does take a sec to start up.

i use 30boxes to just keep my basic shyte straight, it has a pretty neat interface (the 1 box to input all your data). I like to keep it simple.

2/10/2006 11:15:29 AM

i like 30 boxes. it will be even better when they finish with all the features.

2/10/2006 10:13:20 PM

i think i'm set on airset

30boxes is the best but it isn't finished so a lot of key features like sync are missing

2/15/2006 4:35:06 PM

30boxes released its API
http://30boxes.com/blog/index.php/2006/02/22/the-api-is-here/

this could get entertaining

2/22/2006 3:21:20 PM

you can sync yahoo calendar and contacts and notes and tasks with outlook using intellisync for free

2/22/2006 3:47:59 PM

yeah i don't really like yahoo calendar.

we'll see what is best after google's CL2 comes out to the public and the 30boxes API gets a chance to be used by other people.

2/27/2006 4:21:27 AM

From what I've seen, there are two things you are looking for:

1) Mobile Calendar.
2) Ability to locally store your inbox.

If this isn't for work, I would recommend setting up Remote Desktop. Otherwise...

The first can be accomplished with an Exchange Server, as synapse pointed out. If you have a laptop, you can alternatively setup a VPN connection to your workplace and go from there. Web Outlook works decently, but doesn't have nearly the navigation or speed as Outlook. I use it ONLY when I want to check inbox email and don't want to mess with the Calendar/Task List/Sorted email/etc.

The second is a bit tricker. With a VPN connection, you shouldn't have to worry about this. You should be able to archive to network space and be done with it. Otherwise, I'd recommend getting a flash drive and manually backing up to that as needed. Autoarchiving on either option isn't a good idea ... it has a ton of problems.

2/27/2006 6:35:09 AM

http://brickyard.nscu.edu

bitch at people on campus to give you an account as 2006 started a long ass time ago

2/27/2006 11:09:45 AM

this is my fav - http://calendarhub.com/

2/27/2006 11:19:20 AM