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Sync Google Calendar 2-ways with Your iPhone Using Nuevasync

Sunday, January 18th, 2009 Posted in Technology | No Comments »

Nuevasync provides an easy, hassle-free 2-way sync between Google (contacts and calendars) and your iPhone.  Simply create an account at Nuevasync (step-by-step instructions here), grant them access to your Google accounts, choose your calendars to sync, add an exchange server to your iPhone, and bam, you're done!  Create an event on Google and it shows up on your phone in seconds. Add a friend's e-mail address to your phone and send them an e-mail in Gmail before you can say syncronize 5 ...

Samurize

Monday, September 29th, 2008 Posted in Technology | No Comments »

I recently started using a program called Samurize on my work PC.  Samurize is an incredibly versatile program that lets you setup desktop configurations to do just about anything.  You can install plugins to pull data from various sources, write your own, or customize the installed plugins to get whatever you want out of it.  I've tried various configurations before I settled on the one I use now.   I originally set one up as a Google Desktop sidebar replacement, including a ...

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 ...