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Reliably Sync Google Calendar with iCal on Your Mac

KyleHayes.info — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:42:47 GMT

Ever since I have converted over to using Gmail's online interface, I have also been using Google Calendar ever so frequently. The workflow Google invented for these products is very efficient and I enjoy using both of them. While Google Calendar is great in that I can view and edit it anywhere, it's not so great, when I am not somewhere there is an Internet connection for my computer, or for my iPod Touch. One way I attempted a while back in keeping the these calendars in sync, was to use the private iCalendar address that Google provides for my calendar. The issue I quickly found was that is a read only link of course, I needed to be able to add events via my iPod Touch or iCal. I stumbled upon a little product known as Spanning Sync, which at the time was in private beta. After a couple of weeks of signing up to be notified when they were opening more beta spots, I garnered an invitation to the beta. I have been a loyal user ever since. Spanning Sync does an incredible job at syncing your Google Calendar with any of your Mac Calendars (iCal, Entourage, etc.). It uses a centralized syncing engine that is always being improved on that is extremely accurate and very efficient. I have my preferences set to sync every 10 minutes. When I add an event on Google Calendar, I can be assured that when I go home, that same even will be sitting in the iCal database waiting for me. You don't have to keep iCal open all the time either for all this to work. iCal actually reads it's data from a centralized user account database that is stored on your Mac. Spanning Sync, syncs with that very database even when iCal is closed. In addition, they give you many options for which you can choose the calendars you would like to sync from iCal to Google Calendar. I highly recommend you give them a try by signing up for a 15-day trial. And, if you click through my site, you'll save $5 on the annual subscription (which is normally $25, which I find to be more than reasonable if it means having my life synced up so well). One final note, they are a company built off of great morals. They really respect their user's wishes and are very attentive to the customer support they offer. Leave comments below if you have tried them before, and what your experiences were or are. Click here to save $5 on Spanning Sync!

Use Applications Full Screen in OS X Leopard (Hide the menubar)

IdleTogether — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:08:01 GMT

The problem Well, before Leopard I used this app called Menufela. It was good, but it died with Leopard and that’s that. Since then it’s been frustrating. I like to program fullscreen, with textmate, coda, flex builder etc. So anything that takes screen real estate has to go. I love the approach of Writeroom for writers and [...]

Call for ColdFusion developers in Singapore!

expertria — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:18:22 GMT

Singapore is infamous for the lack of CF developer. Almost every person I met tried to find one, and ends up have to get one oversea. Either something is wrong with the education system (Java is still the main topic) or on how it is marketed in SEA. Vishnu Prasad, a Coldfusion developer from Indian who [...]

RIAForge Updates

Raymond Camden's ColdFusion Blog — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:45:38 GMT

Tonight I released a major new update to RIAForge. The change allows project owners to specify other RIAForge users as admins. Right now these admins can't do much. They can only edit project details (the text attributes). But the idea was for me to ...

Do you have a facebook application for your service?

expertria — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:20:35 GMT

Earlier this year before I join my current job at Seesmic, me and my co-workers are brainstorming ideas for the next web 2.0 trend. One of my belief then is “regardless of how the roadmap might be, we will need to have an equivalent Facebook application” Over the past two weeks, I have been researching [...]

New Semester Begins... Time to Get To Work.

Visual Rinse — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:56:08 GMT

Bradley is back in session. I have two classes I’m teaching this semester, so it’s going to be a busy one. MM365 Designing with Web Standards, this is one I have taught for 3 years now. It’s focused around CSS, XHTML and some simple JS, with an emphasis on using best practives and writing [...]

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Adobe Flex cookbook — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:30:37 GMT

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Wo !! Adobe will give out free Flex Builder licenses to everyone who attends their upcoming Flex developer event

Rags to Riches — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:08:31 GMT

Raghu has announced on his blog that Adobe will give out free Flex Builder licenses to everyone who attends their upcoming Flex Developer event in Bangalore. The dates of the event are still being decided, so if you want to stay informed signup on Raghu’s little flex app … he promises not to spam but trust him at your own risk

I’ve been very vocal in the past about the problems Adobe needs to address to help the Flex community grow in India and one of my biggest concerns has been the problems relating to buying Flex Builder in India. Although, those problems still stand, I appreciate Adobe’s efforts to tackle them in whatever way they can. I hope they’ll enable an online store in India soon, but until then I appreciate Adobe for trying to provide new developers all the means that they need to get started with Flex development.

A special thanks to the Adobe Evangelism team in India, who I know have worked really hard towards making all this possible.

See you all at the event.

Flex Data Binding Performance Pitfall

James Ward - RIA Cowboy — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:29:07 GMT

A friend of mine recently asked me to help him troubleshoot some performance problems with his Flex application. In his scenario he had a large list of data and wanted to filter the data such that each time the search string grew by a character the complex filter would only be run on the [...]

Flash Player 10 Mobile for iPhone?

OnRails.org — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:04:35 GMT

I was viewed the video of the Day 1 Keynote by Mark Anders at 360Flex where he made a reference to a mobile Flash application build in Flex. Mark just skinned a desktop app which turned in into a very iPhone like application which just happen to have the iPhone screen dimensions and behavior. It's 56 minutes in the presentation. Check it out and let me know what you think. I've included a video extract here after (without the sound):

That's when he changed the skin:

That would be cool if we could soon start coding in Flex for the iPhone. Enjoy! Daniel.