posted by Terri Morrin
Google just launched a revamped version of Google Calendar’s event page with a focus on simplicity and coordinating multiple schedules. It’s sparser and simpler than the previous iteration. More importantly though, it adds several new features for easier scheduling.
First, the repeating events interface has been overhauled. Instead of taking up a full block of space, the repeating event editor appears when you check the “Repeat…” checkbox at the top of the page. This will bring up a new repeat event editor where you can specify the parameters of the repeating event.
The other new addition is the “find a time” feature, which appears as a new tab on the event page. Here’s how Google explains the new feature: “When your friends or coworkers give you permission to see their calendars, you can click this tab to see a preview of their schedules and hover over their events to see what conflicts they might have.”
Check it out.
(Thanks to mashable.com for the details)
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posted by Samir
The whole time I was wondering, why do I have to install the entire Microsoft Windows in order to get IE6 or IE7 to run on my Mac. All I really need this for is to check for browser compatibility.
Sure solutions like Parallels or VMware fusion are options but if I really think about it: Windows does not allow to have IE6 and 7 run parallel, which means, I would have to install 2 virtual machines, with 2 copies of Microsoft Window, which amounts to 2 Virtual Disk Images of 2GB size each (minimum). In my Book this is overkill, just to have 2 programs.
BUT I found a very easy solution:
WineBottler this little program has everything I need. It installs even IE6 and IE7 for me, wraps it into nice little Mac app files, and I can run them just like I run any other Mac program. Parallel without having to switch back and forth of VMware and Development Environment.
IE6 works like a charm, IE7 is a tad buggy, but it does what it needs to do.
I thought I share this with all of you guys.
After so many birthing problems I decided that I post an update.
Once you click on the link, please make sure that you click on Winebottler (bottom of the screen) and not on the Darwine link.
Then, after all is installed and you start up winebottler, you might get an error message that IE6 can not be installed. Open up wine and try to install from there.
In case you just see the wineglass at the top of your screen, click on it and open up Winetricks.
There you should be able to ‘install’ IE6.
Once the install is completed or failed, open up winebottler, select IE6 again and everything should work fine.
If necessary repeat the steps for IE7.
I hope that this helps a bit better with the installation.
TAGS: ie6, ie7, osx, virtualizaton
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posted by Samir
Today I had an interesting conversation with Chad, and he came across the same problem that I had.
I now am a convinced Mac user and use my self build PC Powerhouse sitting and collecting dust. Except for Web QA, I rarely use it. Just yesterday I thought, what a waste, this PC has 5.1 surround sound so I should be able to blow some decent music out and entertain the neighborhood with some of my eclectic music tastes.
So the situation I was faced with:
How do I get iTunes libraries synced between the the 2 computers (Mac and PC) without recreating everything and thus having twice the work.
At first I thought the XML file within the iTunes library would do the trick… but that was a dead end.
So here is a solution, which worked for me:
First you want to make sure that you have iTunes set to “Keep iTunes Music Folder Organized” !! This is half the rent !!
All that needs to be done then is to copy the iTunes Music folder from the Mac to the PC (provided the Mac is the Master and the PC is the Slave).
Then all that needs to be done is rename “iTunes Library” to “iTunes Library.itl”.
To make things easier to automate (I love automating things), you can go ahead and rename the file on your Mac to “iTunes Library.itl”; it works just as well.
We could stop here and have everything going, but if you have a similar setup like I, all work and music is done on the Mac, changes to the library are inevitable and always copying the whole thing when changes are made is inefficient.
So we could employ the Mac rsync command and execute it after every change or in frequent intervals.
Here is the command I use:
rsync -avz --force --delete --stats --size-only -e ssh --exclude="iTunes Music Library.xml" --exclude=".DS_Store" ~/Music/iTunes/* user@PC:'~/My\ Music/iTunes/'
If you look closely at the script you will notice that I exclude the “Mac Turds” and the XML file, as the XML file will be automatically recreated by iTunes from the “.itl” file.
Also make sure that you change user@pc to your settings: user would be the PC username and PC would be the WINS name or better the IP as Snow Leopard has some issues with WINS to IP translation.
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posted by chad
For several years now I’ve used GMail along with Thunderbird (if you are a Thunderbird user and haven’t tried Thunderbird 3 and its tabbed email, then give it a spin. Its pretty sweet) as an email client and POP3 to access, read, and send email. Its been a nice solution for me and I’ve had little to no trouble. With the recent acquisition of an iPhone however, I had been itching to switch everything over from POP3 to IMAP. Afterall, accessing your email with POP3 on multiple computers/devices leaves you open to not only losing emails, but its a tremendous waste of time to have to sort thru emails on your desktop, then sort thru the same ones on your laptop, iPhone or whatever. Read the rest of this entry »
TAGS: Access Email across multiple clients, Emails, GMail, IMAP, POP, Thunderbird
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