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Macworld | March 15, 2007
Glide Sync, Glide Mobile make Mac content work on phone
by Peter Cohen
TransMedia on Thursday announced the launch of Glide Sync and Glide Mobile services for Mac users. The technology enables you to synchronize the contents of your computer online and make it accessible through your smartphone.
Glide automatically synchronizes photos, music, videos, documents, iCal calendars, Address Book contacts, Safari, Camino and Firefox bookmarks on your Mac over the Internet.
Accessing Glide services from your cell phone makes all that content available in mobile fashion; Glide provides a “compatibility engine” that enables your phone to view that content regardless of its native format, at a bit rate the phone can handle.
The Glide service works bidirectionally, as well: It lets you compose documents on your mobile phone, save it and then access it from your Mac later on. Glide incorporates 75 different photo manipulation tools, and will also let you order prints online.
Glide goes beyond just file sharing with your mobile phone, as well. You can use it to send and manage large file attachments using small e-mails — 5K in size — limiting people’s access only to those files you want to share. You can create multimedia Web sites from your cell phone or Mac using Glide, as well, and edit it from either device.
Glide OS 2.0 beta for Mac supports the following phones, according to TransMedia:
* BlackBerry Pearl (8100)
* BlackBerry 8700
* BlackBerry 8800
* Cingular 8125 (Supports Streaming Media)
* HP iPAQ
* HP hw6510
* Motorola Razr V3
* Motorola SLVR
* Motorola ROKR
* Motorola Q (Supports Streaming Media)
* Nokia 9300
* Nokia E62 (Supports Streaming Media)
* Nokia 6102i (Supports Streaming Media)
* Nokia 6682 (Supports Streaming Media)
* Palm Treo 650 (Supports Streaming Media)
* Palm Treo 680 (Supports Streaming Media)
* Palm Treo 700P (Supports Streaming Media)
* Palm Treo 700W (Supports Streaming Media)
* Palm Treo 750 (Supports Streaming Media)
* Palm LifeDrive
* Samsung Blackjack (Supports Streaming Media)
* Samsung A707 (Supports Streaming Media)
* Samsung D807 (Supports Streaming Media)
* Sony Ericsson w600i
* Sony Ericsson w810i
* TMobile SDA (Supports Streaming Media)
* TMobile SideKick