Archive for the ‘Mac’ Category

Sync Google Calendar (in a good way) with iPhone (iCal and Outlook)

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

I have had quite some trouble getting my calendar in sync on all my devices. I want to use Google Calendar in Apple iCal (my home/work computer), Microsoft Outlook (work computer), iPhone (in my pocket) and through web based Google Calendar.

Outlook sync is solved with Google Calendar Sync for Outlook.

My headache were then Apple iCal and the iPhone. I know one commercial solution but I don´t think I should have to pay for this.

So I started to test Google’s guide with CalDAV. This got iCal in sync with Google, but my iPhone could not add new events in this calendar (oddly enough). It created a new calendar on the fly. Not a good solution for the iPhone.

Today, I found NuevaSync! Their service exposes Google Calendar as a Exchange ActiveSync service. It’s still in beta but seems to work quite nice.

Get a mac ad + iPhone = no go

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

I am not able to play Apples new Get a mac ad on mac iPhone!?
It says wrong file format This movie format is not supported.

Come on!!

iPhone applications updates freeze

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

What is happening with application updates done on the phone?
My updates get stuck in limbo mode.

DizzyBeeFree have two icons. I have to sync the phone and add remove the applications a couple of times to get rid of the problem. Annoying!

Countupdown as Dashboard Widget

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

Someone found a neat way to utilise my countupdown application as a Web clip widget in OS X’s Dashboard.

Use Make Text smaller (cmd -) in Safari before using Web clip feature to make it smaller.

Spotlight on steriods

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Great article in Macworld.

Example:

name:.sh
Finds all files with filename “*.sh*”

name:.sh AND kind:Doc
Finds all files with filename “*.sh*” that is of type Documents.