Since I’m already being paranoid with my backups, I figured a little additional offsite backup for the really critical stuff couldn’t hurt. The simplest solution is often the best: Amazon S3 JungleDisk rsync I’m storing a copy of my important MySQL data (my Tasks Pro™ data, the data for this site, the King Design site,…
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Yes: by ‘two-way’ I mean ‘you can edit the same calendar in either place and the changes will synchronize.’
I knew this was just a matter of time with the Google Calendar API – I actually wondered if Apple would add it to iSync now that the Google CEO is on the Apple board. Combine this with the BlackBerry OTA sync and you’ve got a pretty solid solution.
(Thanks Kerim)
Knowing I’m an interested party, Brett1 sent me a link to the article on LifeHacker that explains how to use ScheduleWorld as a sync hub for your PIM data. It all looks really good, including supporting over the air (OTA) sync of BlackBerry devices. I tested the sync with Google Calendar and it worked. So…
I finally got my calendar (in iCal) syncing with my BlackBerry via PocketMac. The solution is ugly, but it works. Here is what I did: Back up all my iCal calendar data on my Mac, in several formats just to be safe. Export my calendars in iCal format. Write a little script to split the…
Syncing data between machines hasn’t been an issue for me over the last 3 years because my PowerBook has been my primary development machine. Now that I’m back on a desktop as my primary machine, it’s something I have to deal with again. Let’s take browser bookmarks as an example. I still want to keep…
Last February I started looking at using my old PowerMac G4 (dual 500mhz, gigabit ethernet model) as a live backup server since I’d moved to the PowerBook full time for development. Nine months later, I’ve finally done it! I know several people that have recently had drives fail on them; it was time to move…
I upgraded to the latest versions of iCal and iSync (including the iSync Palm Conduit). iCal is improved but still needs work. Surprisingly enough, everything worked right the first time. 🙂 This may be due in part to the fact that I carefully read the instructions that tell you what order to do the upgrades…
TIL: If you leave it to run overnight, Dropbox really will finish syncing 250k+ files to a new machine.
I’ve been having trouble with Dropbox on my laptop. No matter what I do (reboot, pause and resume, etc.), it keeps syncing away saying “20 files remaining”. The process continually eats CPU which destroys my battery life and constantly makes my machine hot. I finally dropped a note to Dropbox support to see if they…
I’ve been a Mac user since 1984 and a 
power user 
since the late 90’s. I use very little of Apple’s software because I’m not their target audience. In many situations Apple’s software breaks when you push it hard enough; in particular the “it just works” part breaks in some way that cannot be fixed/addressed.
Apple makes software for most of us, not all of us. TextEdit doesn’t try to be BBEdit and that’s OK. Where things break down is when Apple purports to solve a difficult problem and does so in a way that leaves aspects of it opaque and un-fixable by end users/developers. The initial iCloud/CoreData sync is a great example of this.
I love Apple hardware. I love the OS. I love the apps that developers create for the platform. All software and all platforms have bugs and problems and I’m OK with that. I don’t think that Apple has any more problems than anyone else. However through 20+ years of experience I also have taught myself to discount and avoid certain Apple features because I have a hunch they will be problematic.
Nice rundown by Justin. I’m still not using a “digital junk drawer” app – they all seem too laden with navigation to make getting to what I want efficient. I’m content with my NVAlt + Dropbox sync + Mobile apps and an “all text all the time” solution for now.
I recently got an email that asked: Do you ever question whether WordPress is the correct CMS for something? I am a big WordPress fan too and I’ve solved some really cool content management challenges with it but there are times when I think, this site would probably be faster and more efficient if it…
I decided I wanted an outliner I can use on my iPad to organize discussion topics for WordCamp Denver panel this weekend. I ended up finding CarbonFin which so far does everything I needed: hierarchy easy reorganization mark things “done” without removing/hiding them import and export sync with a web app (the web app is…
Michael Tsai curates and excerpts a damning collection of posts outlining developers’ problems trying to use iCloud.
I trust iCloud with my contacts because that’s one part of MobileMe that actually worked, but that’s all I use it for (by choice). I tried using Notes with iCloud sync once. I typed out an email draft for 35 minutes in it on my iPhone, then launched Notes on my iPad and watched everything I had typed disappear. I cringe whenever I see other people using Notes, I hope they have better luck than I did.
There are two kinds of people, those that have already had a hard drive failure and those that will have a hard drive failure. I lost hard drives and data back in 2006 and I’ve been properly paranoid about backups ever since. I care about my data. I care about my photos, about my code,…