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news of 2005-02-03

'Synching' incompatible phones

I've talked about Apple's iSync not supporting newer phones a while ago (and again and again). Apple's just slow in this aspect, you know. Quite unable to keep up with the pace of mobile phone makers, it seems. But there's a solution, although it's not quite as comfortable as iSync. Still: A good one. It's called mobical.net. Chances are, if you can't use iSync with your smartphone (or even just mobile phone), you can still use a SyncML server. The service at mobical.net does that. You get an account there and initialise the sync from the phone. You can then check your calendar and contact information on the web, too. You can even export and import from and to iCal and Address Book - but not automatically. But for people who want to use a Nokia Communicator 9500, it's a great, great service. Because instead of typing all those calendar items and contacts into your phone at first, you can simply import them this way. Cleanly. And you can still "synch" to iCal and Address Book at later times, although you'd probably only do so once a month or every two weeks, since it involves importing and exporting files on the web, on your computer and on your mobile phone. Great looking site, good service and right now it's still free. (Get an account before they go to version 3 from version 2, because the free version will be limited soon...)

[ written by fryke™ on 2005-02-03 at 12:43 CET ]
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Not so sure: Irony?

There are a lot of people who don't grasp what irony means. But this is not about that problem. This is about this article on the Mac mini. Either the article is a fake to make fun of Windows users or the writer's really that dumb. And if so, he says as a conclusion about the mini: "So is the mini a maxi value? For me, clearly, no. When I consider that a good deal of my time is spent running applications like Disk Defragmenter, Scandisk, Norton AV, Windows Update and Ad-Aware - none of which are available for the Mac platform - it doesn't make sense for me to "switch" to a Mac at this time."
(Hint to Windows users: Mac OS X automatically defragments, there is a Disk Utility included (and others are available), there are no viri for Mac OS X and you use Apple's Software Update instead of 'Windows Update', of course.) - Like I said. Either it's just a nicely written joke by Mac-heads - or there really are people out there who already can't see the good world because of all the Windows. That guy's got his MCSE certification. He probably has nanoversions of Bill Gates in his blood. ;)

[ written by fryke™ on 2005-02-03 at 11:34 CET ]
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iPhoto 5.0.1 Update

It's available through Software Update. The iPhoto 5.0.1 update corrects problems involving upgrading iPhoto 4 libraries, according to Apple, and also addresses issues dragging albums into folders, importing MPEG-4 movies and includes a number of other minor fixes.

[ written by fryke™ on 2005-02-03 at 03:02 CET ]
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