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Missing Sync
Well, as promised, I sprung $40 for The Missing Sync for Palm OS. I’ve installed it, set up sync with iCal and Address Book, and tried out the internet connection sharing feature. My initial impressions are good. Setup was painless. The iCal sync seems to work very well. The initial sync resulted in some duplicate…
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Phase One Calendar Plan
It turns out, from my readings on the net, that iCal is a little limited with regards to publishing remote calendars and subscribing to them. You can either publish, or subscribe, but not both. That knocks iCal down a few pegs in my book, but it still seems to be the best option going for…
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Fun with the National Student Clearinghouse
Can I just say that I hate configuring passthrough authentication to outsourced sites on remote web servers? Rule 1: The company’s step-by-step setup instructions will not apply to your particular system configuration. Rule 2: It never works the first time. Rule 3: See rule 2. Rule 4: Debugging is impossible, because the error logs are…
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Initial Impressions of Sunbird
Just spent a bit of time playing around with Sunbird. I would call it “not quite ready for prime time.” It’s got a nice interface. I was able to subscribe to my iCal-published calendar without a hitch. It can auto-reload remote calendars on startup. I can also create local calendars and publish them successfully. However,…
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More on publishing and sharing calendars
I did some more research on calendar sharing over the long weekend. The first thing I tried was using iCal to publish a calendar to my new WebDAV server. It worked without a hitch. However, all this does is upload the .ics file to the web directory. I can then subscribe to the calendar with…
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Can’t forget the Palm
The final piece of the puzzle is the Palm. I need to get the Palm syncing up with iCal. Apple provides an app called iSync which can do this. However, I tried it and was not impressed. iSync is an intriguing application, but it seems mainly geared towards cell phone type devices. Its support for…
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WebDAV Server
No secret now that I’m looking to iCal as my calendaring app of choice, so I’m continuing to put it through its paces. Next up is to try out its publishing feature. Supposedly, I can publish the calendar to any WebDAV server and then access it using a web browser (or subscribe to it using…
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More on exporting and importing
Playing around some more with Oracle Calendar’s export feature, and the resulting data file, to try to get my all-day events to show up properly in iCal. First off, Oracle Calendar can actually export into two different formats, vCal and iCalendar. iCalendar is actually a newer spec that grew out of vCal. Apple’s iCal can…
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iCal seems promising
iCal is the calendaring app that Apple includes with MacOS X. It comes bundled with another app, iSync, which handles synchronization with the Palm. On MacOS 10.4 (Tiger), iCal’s app data lives under $HOME/Library/Application Support/iCal. It appears that the calendar data itself is stored in iCal format (.ics), while the metadata is stored in XML format.…
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Palm Desktop – The simple solution?
Palm Desktop is, of course, the app that Palm produces to do desktop integration with its handhelds. All in all it’s not a bad little app suite, and you certainly can’t beat it for integration with the Palm. It supports all of the Palm’s features and synchronization (via the bundled HotSync manager) is flawless. Palm…