Those of you having problems syncing calendars, have you tried resetting Sync History?
There are two ways to do this:
- From within Missing Sync
1) Choose "Reset Sync History" from the Help menu.
2) Select the calendars checkbox
3) Then click the "Reset Sync History" button
- From within iSync
1) Launch iSync
2) Open iSync Preferences from the iSync menu
3) Click the "Reset Sync History" button
4) Read the information about resetting the Sync services. Then choose the "Reset Sync Services" button.
Reset the Sync History and then connect your device and try to sync just Calendar for now. Choose "Show History" in Missing Sync and also enable "Verbose Logging" so you can send us the logs to help figure out what's going on.
I did both resets to be sure, then got an error about tazks which I was able to solve on my own -- yay! The following sync after that was finally error free.
Update
So the above steps didn't work for me after all. I posted the above, then started getting errors again.
So I gave up trying to track down the events in my calendar that were preventing the sync from completing.
I printed out my calendar for 2008, deleted all the calendars in iCal, and reentered the recurring events (mostly birthdays) and handful of other events coming up this year.
I didn't want to lose my calendar history, but at this point, it was more trouble than it was worth to keep it. I had already deleted events from very early such as meetings and other items from when I was still working at Archer/Malmo. But some of the birthdays were damaged recurring events from that far back, and no matter how many times I deleted and recreated those, I was still getting sync errors.
Keeping paper printouts for archive looks like the only real way to go, still. Yay, technology.
I really like FriendFeed. FriendFeed is like a comprehensive record of all my online footprints.
Now I find SecondBrain. SecondBrain is also very cool. It aggregates, it allows you to organize and categorize. It has a better interface than FriendFeed, which is to say it HAS an interface.
Unfortunately it doesn't support all the services that FriendFeed supports.
I'm hoping SecondBrain will be adding more services, and if it hopes to survive in this highly competitive category, it had better do so quickly.
And can these social sites PLEASE support LinkedIn?
When working on my Mac, I sometimes minimize windows to get them out of the way. I'll go work in another application, then want to command-tab back to that app. But with the window minimized, nothing much seems to happen. (The menubar change is usuallyl the only visible change.)
This video from Tekzilla shows how to switch apps and maximize a window at the same time. This is the coolest Mac keyboard shortcut I've found yet!
It’s funny to me that the two guys I work with were huge Palm fans and had Treos for a couple of years. When I upgraded from a flip phone to a smartphone, I choose a Blackberry. Both of them insinuated, if not outright stated, they thought I made a bad choice. One of the two used Documents to Go to edit Word files on his Treo. (I thought that was insane, since he’s older than I am and has worse eyesight. But hey, it blew his skirt up, so he was happy, right?) But I had used the Palm OS before and wanted something different. I liked that the Blackberry had a full keyboard and was NOT Palm OS — I was intending to use it for e-mail and SMS. Within just a few months, both had dropped their Treos for Blackberries. Who uses Palm? The people who prefer it. As for me, I love my iPod (for music and some video viewing) and MacBook Pro, and want the full integration with my MacBook Pro applications (Address Book, Tasks, iCal, etc.). Yes, I’m an Apple fanboi, but I’m also a pragmatist, and I like what works. My Mac just works. I like the interface design. So as I evaluate the features and benefits of my Blackberry vs the iPhone, I see a swtich to iPhone as soon as my Sprint contract is up for renewal.
Another article on the subject of younger workers in the IT field written by the same author states:
The not-so-good news: Many of them lack basic written and oral communication skills. A survey by placement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas found basic tech skills lacking in 5 percent of college grads, vs. a worrisome 27 percent with deficiencies in critical thinking skills and 50 percent whose writing abilities were not up to snuff.
The values of Gen Y are different even from the Gen X crowd. Smart (and esp. older) managers would be wise to stay on top of this shift, and have a plan in place for how to recruit, train, and retain such employees.
My gut tells me that the concept of Results-only Workplace Environment (ROWE) is on the right track for businesses and careers (higher paid management, consulting, and knowledge worker type roles) that aren't as place and time dependent.
So be ware the Gen Y. They have a set of values that make them peculiar.
Personally, I find ROWE extremely attractive in this hyper connected universe.
I'm really liking the added oomph that FriendFeed adds to my FaceBook page. It pulls the disparate footprints I leave on the Web into one coherent list / thread. Very cool.
You can tear out the radio player in my Durango -- I just don't listen to local radio anymore at all, with the exception of NPR on my drive home to catch the news headlines. Between the several podcasts I listen to, and the playlists PandoraJam has created in iTunes, I have my own audible driving listening covered. In fact, I don't desire a satellite radio anymore the way I did for a while. The music I'm getting through Pandora -- via stations I have configured to match my tastes -- is better than the preprogrammed stations on Sirius or XM.
After playing with Twitter for a couple of weeks, I've had a bit of fun microblogging about the things I'm doing, thinking, reading, or otherwise experiencing.
Unfortunately, now Twitter has become unreliable. The service is swamped.
So at the risk of being completely recursive, I have set up a FriendFeed account. Through FriendFeed, you can view all kinds of aggregated information about me from sites like Twitter (my tweets), LinkedIn (business contact information, Flickr (photos), Pandora (artists and songs I've bookmarked, for instance), GoodReads (books I have reviewed and rated), and even this very blog (sucked in through RSS).
I am a big fan of one-trick-ponys. Sometimes it takes a little application that does one thing really well to accomplish a task or make life a little easier.
Well here is a great little one-trick-pony that takes your iCal events and tasks, then shows you only the current day.
Today from Second Gear is a small application that gives you a nice slice-of-life view of your iCal, so you don't have to run iCal all the time if you don't want to.
I find that Today fits nicely on the right hand side of my 15" laptop or 1600x1200 desktop monitor beside my browser window. I like Today so much, I paid the $15 shareware fee. Love it!
Over the weekend, I discovered this very cool application that allows Mac users to listen to Pandora without having to keep a browser window open. So I'm bogging here to tell you about PandoraJam.
I love Pandora. I've been listening to some very cool music thanks to the music service, and I'm going to be subscribing to Pandora at Home in the near future (i.e. when my subscription trial runs out) to the tune of $36 per year.
What I don't love about Pandora is having to keep a Web browser running, since the player is in Flash. It never fails that I'll be at work or doing something else when my browser will crash, or I'll accidentally close the tab with Pandora in it, and I'll lose my music.
With PandoraJam, I don't have to worry. This little application loads the Pandora interface in it's own application, presumably using the WebKit engine built into the Mac OS.
In addition to that, PandoraJam has some very cool features. For one, it will capture the music streaming into your computer and save the music files directly into your iTunes complete with album art!
PandoraJam is also completely compatible with the Apple Remote, a huge plus for us Mac users.
Some users have had a problem with PandoraJam after the service made some changes to their system last week. But so far, I'm not having any problems at all. It is even updating my AdiumX status to display the song and artist I'm listening to at the time.
A few months ago, I bought a Squeezebox from SlimDevices. I hooked it up and dinked around with it a bit. But for the most part I was kind of disappointed. The Squeezebox is very dependent on the SlimServer software to be running on a computer, typically the computer that holds your digital music collection. For me, that would be the Macbook Pro I use for work, which has my entire MP3 collection.
Unfortunately for me, that MPB reboots often. I have Boot Camp installed to run WinXP for games such as Second Life and Quake 3. I could install SlimServer for Windows under Boot Camp, but my MP3 collection is on the Mac partition that Windows can't see.
Too much trouble to deal with, I put the Squeezebox away and let it collect dust.
But this afternoon, I hooked the Squeezebox up to my home entertainment center and converted my Pandora account to a 30-day subscription trial. This is where the Squeezebox is really starting to shine.
I have blogged about Pandora before. Pandora is a lot of fun. And with my custom stations streaming into my living room, I'm going hog wild creating new stations based on a few different criteria.
Pandora in the Home is looking like a better option than I had expected. I have a feeling I'll be a paying subscriber really soon.
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After playing with Twitter for a couple of weeks, I've had a bit of fun microblogging about the things I'm doing, thinking, reading, or otherwise experiencing.
I am a big fan of one-trick-ponys. Sometimes it takes a little application that does one thing really well to accomplish a task or make life a little easier.
