Exchange Support Coming to the iPhone?

December 21, 2007

User cash7c3 over on modmyifone noticed this very interesting job posting on Apple’s website:

Requisition Number
3161520

Job title
iPhone Windows Outlook/Exchange QA Eng

Location
Santa Clara Valley

Country
United States

City
Cupertino

State/Province
California

Job type
Full Time

Job description
The iPhone Quality team is looking for a motivated, highly-technical Exchange test/sync engineer with excellent problem solving and communication skills. You will join a dynamic team responsible for qualifying the [...]

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Information Organizers for the Mac

November 20, 2007

In my job I have to do a lot of research and I usually have multiple simultaneous projects. What this means is that when I come across information that I need, I have to store it in a way that I can reliably find it later. Storing is not the hard part, finding it later [...]

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"Sync" Journler across Macs with Automator

November 20, 2007

A possible way to perform something similar to a sync using iDisk or some other storage is to create two Automator actions.
1) Quit Journler Automator Application This workflow has three actions
a) Quit Application – Journler
b) Get Selected Finder Items – select your Journler folder
c) Copy Finder Items – in the to box, select [...]

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Phone in Your Tasks to Remember The Milk with Jott

October 4, 2007

Remember the Milk is the very popular online to do application. With Remember the Milk you can manage your tasks online and from anywhere with your internet enabled mobile phone. I’ve previously written about how to use Twitter and Quicksilver to add tasks to your RTM inbox.
Today I was introduced to an amazing and free [...]

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Google Apps – a Viable Replacement for Exchange?

September 28, 2007

Google Apps is a collection of online services from Google aimed at small to medium enterprises. Google Apps consist of GMail (which includes spam filtering), GoogleTalk, Google Calendar for communication, Google Docs, Start Page and Page Creator for collaboration and a control panel, access to APIs as well as 24/7 support for managing your Google [...]

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Audible – Either Your User Name or Password are Invalid

September 25, 2007

Recently I’ve been having trouble with my Audible content – that is it stopped showing up in iTunes 7.4.2 on my Mac. SInce I had changed a few other things I thought I was having trouble with Audible authorization. So I tried to deauthorize one of the other computers that I had authorized for Audible [...]

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Entourage 2008 – Still a Second-Class Exchange Citizen?

September 21, 2007

Microsoft has posted a sneak peek site for Office 2008. After viewing the movies I can say that I am underwhelmed. Office 2008 on the Mac looks more mac-like. There is extensive use of templates. Graphics become easier to work with. The new Office 2008 interface reminds me in many ways of the iWeb interface. [...]

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Calendar and Clock on Your Mac Desktop

September 17, 2007

One thing that has been missing from the Mac OS is a readily accessible calendar. Since I can *never* remember the date, I frequently need to be able to glance at a calendar. While I use Mail as my email client, because there is no integration with Exchange and iCal, I use Outlook for calendaring. [...]

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QuickSilver Reference Library

September 17, 2007

QuickSilver is arguably the most useful application on the Mac. I have replaced much mousing around with a few keystrokes. I no longer use the Dock. Long live the command line.However, because of its complexity and inscrutable interface, it is also arguably one of the most difficult programs to learn how to use much less [...]

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Still No iCal-Exchange Sync

September 13, 2007

Occasionally I revisit my quest to have my Exchange calendar accessible on my Mac. This past week was one of those times. I spent a lot of time with Google looking for any decent solution. No Luck.
I revisited GroupCal. I downloaded the latest version, and in the process of installing went through all the gyrations [...]

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