<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Jim,<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Your comments just drove home something that REALLY peeved me yesterday. I subscribe to pdr.net, and occasionally get emailed links to free software for coding, etc. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Just yesterday, I saw what looked like a nifty medical coding (ICD-9) program that is available for both Palm and PocketPC. Unfortunately, the installer is an .exe program that "automatically installs the right files for you." No .zip file or other options available for Mac users. And no contact info to contact the developers...just a <A href="mailto:no-replay@foo.com">no-replay@foo.com</A> email address!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Why, oh why would you make an installer Windows-only for a Palm OS program??</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Michael</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Apr 5, 2006, at 12:55 PM, Jim Robertson wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">I'd envision doing almost all my work in the Mac environment whenever I have</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">my desktop or laptop computer available. I'd use an Intel MacBook to update</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">the databases for PocketPC-only handheld applications such as ePocrates and</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">UpToDate (THE best handheld OR desktop medical information source currently</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">available). I'd use ActiveSync and Windows XP on the MacBook to keep my</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">contacts and calendar current on the Windows Mobile device, assuming I could</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">then get the data back into Entourage in the Mac OS.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>