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SyncMyCal Mobile - Update w/2-way Sync

Thursday, June 26th, 2008 Posted in Technology | No Comments »

Well I was able to get everything working with SyncMyCal and now I have a perfect sync setup IMHO.  Here's what I've done: Google Calendar (all three of them) are my master.  I've used that for over a year to enter every event/appointment/etc. so I wanted to start there to grab all events. I grabbed the latest copy of SyncMyCal Mobile and installed it on my phone I first had to Download Only my three calendars from Google (Personal, Work, Travel Schedule) to ...

SyncMyCal Mobile

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 Posted in Technology | 1 Comment »

I've been using SyncMyCal Mobile now for about 4 months (paid the $20 something for the Pro version) and it's been satisfactory.  I've had some issues here and there but overall it does the trick -- gets my Google Calendars downloaded into my AT&T (HTC) 8525 Windows Mobile 6 phone.  The biggest issue I've had with the software, though, is that it takes all 3 of my Google Calendars (Personal, Work, and Travel Schedule) and puts it into the single ...

Home Backup Policies

Thursday, June 5th, 2008 Posted in Technology | 1 Comment »

At my house, we have about 8 total computers running at any given time: a Media Center PC (media) a storage server (luna) 5 personal computers 1 or 2 work laptops I needed a way to backup all of the data that is spread out over all of the computers, but I also couldn't dedicate a single machine to only be for backups. The following system works for me, but it definitely could be improved, so keep that in mind when designing your own ...