Google calendar is the new "Cool" in the calendar world. Or at least, the guys at work seem to think so. For me, a 100% online calendar is not always a good solution, because I can't take it with me. Getting Google calendar to sync with iCal would help, because that syncs to my phone and iPod. I tried …

Always forgetting how to do accents on characters, or where the euro sign (€) is? Use the on-screen keyboard and see where the special characters are while holdin down the option key, or the shift-option combination. Read the small tutorial on HackAddict.net on How to Get an Onscreen Keyboard in OSX. Orange highlighted …

In my last post, I wrote about how I got HomeZone to detect my bluetooth phone, and automatically start iSync. While I was playing with it, I noticed how HomeZone opens the Address book application and iSync, and doesn't close them. To make it more seemless, I used a script I found at The Technocrat to start and stop …

Recently, I installed "Do Something When" and use it to start rsync scripts when I plug in certain USB devices. By doing this, every time I plug in my USB memory stick containing my Password Gorilla password databases, it gets backed up (Apple style, with timestamps). Needless to say, it then gets backed up …

In a previous post on this blog, I indicated that the 10.5.1. update of Apple's OSX did not fix my network and SMB problems with my Iomega drive. In the comments underneath, some readers kindly pointed out that Iomega's K104w11 Firmware update is available for the Iomega drive I have. Now that 10.5.2 is out, I …

Hi, I just wanted to share with you that I actually recovered a mail item which I had written in Thunderbird for Windows with Time Machine. Yes, Apple's Time Machine. At work, we use Windows XP machines. Because I hate to wait 4 weeks for my mail program to load, I use …

Hi, I've read the writeups on Steve's keynote this year, and listened to some podcasts of people who were in the audience. Personally I'm a bit dissapointed by the features introduced at this Macworld. Surely it's hard to live up to the ever rising expectations every year, but I do have some comments to make on the …

A little heads-up for Apple OSX users who have lots of images to resize. There's a free tool available to do this at http://www.eagle-of-liberty.com/resizeemall/. It's donationware, if you like it you can send the author money by paypal. I've used it, and it works as advertised. Drag a bunch of images on the …

Today I listened to a podcast called "For Mac Eyes Only", in which people were complaining about how Time Machine does not work "the way they want it to". I think this is utter crap, and I will explain why. To start off, I think I am safe to say that 99% of the people complaining about Time …

I was browsing YouTube the other day, and noticed that there are some "Get a Mac" commercials which are not on the usual getamac website. These commercials are in the original setting with Justin Long as the Mac and John Hodgman as the PC, but ony published through YouTube or as Flash commercials. [![PC …