The initial form shows the names of the two files being compared, with a red box next to one, and a blue box next to the other, to indicate the colors that will be used to highlight the differences between the two files. It's not a terribly great tool, and I'd rather have WinMerge or Beyond Compare, but it's good enough.
The end result was that I did indeed fix it, but the journey to that point was kind of ridiculous, so I thought I'd write it up.ĪX has a built-in compare tool, for comparing different versions of code in different AX layers, or in source control. Well, I had some spare time yesterday, so I decided to see if I could fix it. It wasn't big enough to spend any time on, but it was a bit of an annoyance. I had a small issue crop up in AX a couple of weeks ago. Or maybe so I can say I'm not 100% tied in to the Apple ecosystem. I honestly have no good reason to do this, except "just for the hell of it". So, I'd keep using the default iOS apps, but would keep things in sync with fruux instead of iCloud. Fruux is just a sync & backup service for contacts, calendars, and tasks. I played around with the app a bit, and, while I think it might be useful for a salesperson tracking leads and/or customers, it's not really useful enough for me to justify both the price and the inconvenience of keeping my contacts and calendar outside of the normal default iPhone apps. The app has several user-defined fields available, so maybe there was a way to map those and import the birthdays and notes into them, but it wasn't obvious how I could do that.
In particular, it didn't import birthdays or the free-form notes field from contacts.
But, I found that it did not import all the fields. The app imported my contacts from the main iPhone contact app with no problems. So I thought I'd start out by trying the iPhone app, and see if it was worth going any farther with it.
Right now, the iPhone and iPad clients are free, the Mac desktop client is $30, and the sync service that I would need to subscribe to is $45/year. It's a program for managing contacts and calendars. I installed the vipOrbit app on my iPhone this week. So, since everything's working so well, of course I'm starting to mess around with it. There's really only a small set of people who I e-mail regularly, and they're all in my Google contacts, so there's no problem there. And, while I use Gmail for most of my mail, I don't really feel a need to keep my Gmail contacts fully up-to-date either. I can always look anything up on or on my iPhone.
On the PC, I really don't bother trying to keep a full set of contacts in Outlook anymore, nor do I keep my calendar there. Nowadays, I've got an iPhone, and I've found that iCloud does a fine job of keeping the iPhone, iPad, and Mac in sync. I went through a few less than perfect options, which aren't worth going into at this point.
Back then, I had a BlackBerry, and I was hoping to find a good way to keep things in sync between the phone, my PC, and my Mac. A few years back, I wrote up a couple of blog posts on my search for the "holy grail" of contact and calendar management.