I’ve had a few goes at getting a browsing pack for a Telstra pre-paid iphone, it took a while for Telstra to work out how to get it going, here’s how to do it. Continue Reading…
This post is obsolete now – Telstra have just launched great new iphone plans with the iphone 3G S release.
So your old laptop is a bit long in the tooth – working well but the hard disk space is all used up.
Here’s a few ways to get some extra space.
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MacHeist every year or so do a collection of software as a bundle, this year it’s a beauty. Check it out at macheist.com
I want a calendar that I can edit on my iphone, or on my home computer, or have one of my co-workers edit on their computer, and they all sync up. mobileme and ical shared calendars doesn’t let you edit each others calendars, only subscribe to them. After much experimenting I found the best way to sync your calendars with the iphone and other ical based co-workers is through Google calendar as follows:
Basically you:
1. Set up a new calendar in google, then use calaboration (a little application from google) to get the settings into ical.
2. Sync your calendar to the iphone using Nuevasync. You set it up in iphone as a Microsoft Exchange server that points to Nuevasync. You can sync directly form google to iphone but all the calendars come across as one calendar. Neuvasync keeps the individual calendars with their own colors.
3. To choose which colors the calendars are on the iphone, you need to enable them one at a time from neuvasync, checking the iphone calendar each time, and they will import into the iphone in order of the following colors: red (first calendar) , orange (2nd) , blue, green then purple. eg the first calendar you enable will be red, and so on.
Well as great as the iphone is, the software is laggign a fair way behind and calendar syncign is one example.
After many hours, here’s a solution I found to sync multiple calendars across different computers, with anyone being able to edit the calendars, and see them on your iphone as well.
1. SET UP A MASTER CALENDAR Your master calendar needs to be in google (not on your mac). So create a google calendar here. Because I wanted to share it among my colleagues and have them edit it, I created a special goggle account just for this calendar. After you create the calendar you can export your existing events from your mac as an ics file and import them into google calendar.
2. SYNC IT TO ICAL Download a little google application called ‘Calaboration’ from here which will add your google calendar to ical. You will need to enter your google id and password. You will need to run Calaboration on any mac you want to access the google calendar on.
3. SYNC IT TO IPHONE Your iphone can sync to google calendar via the Microsoft Exchange option on the iphone. Google is basically being an exchange server that your phone syncs to. The instructions are here.
NOTE: Even though google can have multiple calendars on one account, only the first calendar from the google account will sync to ical, so if you want 2 calendars, you need to make a separate google calendar and then sync it with Calaboration.
For a short time typinator is free. It’s one of many macro apps that allow you to have prefigured phrases that are automatically typed. You can get it from here.
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