"Major combat operations in Iraq have ended."

The devloper must be a Yale graduate. I'm reasonably sure the two of them are cut from the same cloth (my apologies to all other Yale graduates that really studied). ;-)

This is a great opportunity for a decent, follow-through programmer to put out something that works properly, especially with Entourage, and especially able to properly sync selected categories. I hate the "free" deal for PocketMac. It seems to have been a guarantee that it will get little or no further attention, of both the bug-squashing or promised functionality variety.

I'd gladly pay $50 or even more for something that WORKED. As it is, I don't have my BB synched with my Mac, and I don't have a backup of my BB either, thank you not very much. PocketMac and RIM aren't making it happen and probably won't. Notice how both of them are conspicuously absent in responding here to any of these funtionality complaints, despite it being an open forum.

In fairness I should mention I did (after an inordinate amount of wrangling) get them to send me a beta version of 4, but the instructions were so poorly written - it doesn't even indicate if a new category on the BB (that's not already present on the Mac) will, if selected for synching, back up to the Mac and vice versa, or whether for it to work, an empty category of the same exact name must first be created on the target device. So without a simple, real backup of all the data on my BB - especially the contacts of the 700 entries I've painfully typed into it over the last seven months while waiting for the release of the vaporous version 4.0 - I chickened out and haven't actually tried it.

I have given them the courtesy of sitting silent here for over half a year to get their stuff together before my commenting on this application, but it appears it was in vain, and I'm beginning to think there will never BE a full, working version 4 release. Nevertheless, hopefully, they'll address the problem and we can all have backup and symc like real people with real uses for real data do. If there's any other option out there, I'd love to know about it.