J-Pilot is an
open-source
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GTK+
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-based desktop organizer for
Unix-like
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systems written by Judd Montgomery, designed to work with
Palm OS-based handheld PDAs.
[Judd Montgomery]
"J-Pilot: Desktop Organizer Software for the Palm Pilot"
October 22, 2005. Retrieved on May 13, 2008. It uses the
pilot-link libraries to communicate with Palm devices. It is released under the
GNU GPL, version 2.
[Judd Montgomery]
"J-Pilot User Manual: Copyright"
, 1999. Retrieved on May 13, 2008.
Linux support
Palm does not provide a version of the software for Linux operating system, nor do they officially support the ones developed by third parties such as J-Pilot or
Gnome-Pilot.
Features
*Third-party Application Support
*Plugin Support
*Import and Export Features
*Supports Palm Application Features
*Supports Datebook, Address, To Do List, and Memo Pad
*Supports the newer Contacts and Memos (
Calendar
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and Tasks not yet)
Installation instructions
Installation instructions are available in the README.md file, in the J-Pilot source code repository.
See also
*
KPilot
*
Palm Desktop
Palm Desktop is a personal information manager computer program for Microsoft Windows or Mac OS/Mac OS X, and can be used alone or in combination with a Palm OS personal digital assistant.
Features
Palm Desktop contains four main modules which cor ...
Gnome-PilotColdSyncPilotManager
References
Free software
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