Actually yes - it's in active beta stage right now. As soon as all the wrinkles are ironed out (not too many to go) you'll finally see the new release. Sorry, it's still not possible to give an exact date for release (as is true for any beta), but it's definitely progressing nicely.

(BTW, just to avoid any confusion, I do not work for MarketCircle).

Andy, I am also very interested in Mac syncing as I have just acquired an iPhone. However, with Leopard's release fast approaching in October, I am concerned that Marketcircle may decide to hold out until then before introducing true syncing. So can we expect syncing to be introduced before October?

Isaac - iPhone - man I'm jealous!

As for waiting for Leopard, let's hope not; let's reeeeealllly hope not!

I figured that a mac, daylite, billings and a blackberry (or iPhone, obviously) would be an invincible set up. Sadly, the weak link in it all is Daylite, and what should be an awesome PIM set up is just annoying me becuase it just doesn't work like it should.

Frankly, I'd be happy to do some of the beta testing - I back up daily anyway, so what's the worst that can hapen, right?

See http://www.marketcircle.com/blog

thanks for the link Adam, that's very helpful. Itsoundslike version 3.5 is exactly what I'm looking for.

Thanks Adam, have signed up - looks promising

Awesome!! This is good. Works really well. Major step forward. Thanks! So far no issues encountered, syncing well and holding all data together. Great stuff!

I assume tasks aren't sync'd with the iPhone because there is no application to view tasks on the iPhone.

Currently, I'm either "printing" all my tasks for the day to a PDF, copying the tasks to an ICal event and then syncing. Either that or I use Tada lists. Anybody have any better ideas on getting tasks onto the iPhone?

Eric, correct, you cannot sync tasks with the iPhone, at least not yet. A lot of people are hoping the iPhone is updated to include this capability.

Any word on whether or not Sync Services fixes the problem with address and phone types - i.e. direct in DL becomes other in AB and fax in DL becomes ?? (sometimes home fax, sometimes other) in AB.

I have a lot of contacts with three phone numbers: other, other and . . . other!!

I also have an iPhone but I haven't put my contacts on it yet because I can't figure out how to sync with the Address Book so that I can tell which phone number is which.

I've never used Address Book for anything before, and I can see why. It's clearly not designed for business.

This is very, very problematic. If there's another workaround, please let me know.

It is completely ridiculous that Apple would release a phone in the PIM Market that does not have a Taks List! That is the one reason I decided not to purchase the phone. Otherwise, I went to purchase the phone on the first day of the release. What business person can survive without a Daily Task List! I believe that this was a serious marketing flaw for Apple.

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Originally posted by K Radeka:
Any word on whether or not Sync Services fixes the problem with address and phone types - i.e. direct in DL becomes other in AB and fax in DL becomes ?? (sometimes home fax, sometimes other) in AB.

OK - here is my own workaround. The first two steps only have to be done the first time.

--Use Smart Lists and Bulk Edits to change all Directs to Work and Mobiles to Cell.

--Delete anything that's not a Main number from the Organization records. If a Main number exists, make sure it's not duplicated in the Contacts record.

--Export all contacts as vCards.

--Delete all contacts from the AB and iPhone.

--Import the vCards into AB.

--Sync the iPhone.

Since Daylite is my system of record, the iPhone is read-only and the AB is just a conduit as far as I'm concerned, this works for me.

How do you do a bulk edit? I searched the manual and couldn't figure it out.

Thanks!

Its under the FILE menu, and if you enable it, in the contextual menu.

Can anyone give an update on how the beta is going? Thanks.