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Ditching Plaxo

I tell ya, this sync thing needs to work or it’s just a pain in the arse. I’ve gotten rid of Plaxo because I had the same problem I had with Zimbra – it was silently deleting my data. As far as I can tell, if there were two “Home E-mail”s (or any type of…

Plaxo

Now that I’ve got my calendar sync set-up solved by switching to Google Calendar, I just needed a sync solution for my contacts. Matt pointed to Plaxo for this a little while back, so I set up an account and was all sync’ed up a few minutes later. Very nice. So now I’ve got a…

Contact Sync Revisited

Here I am about to pay $100/year for contact sync. I tried hard to avoid this, having tried pretty much every other solution out there, but none of them worked properly across several Macs plus a BlackBerry. In the end I just need contact sync that works, and so far MobileMe is the only one…

Contact Sync

I wrote the following draft blog post in December 2008: I’m closer than ever to never having to plug in my BlackBerry to a computer to sync it. The exception is still contacts, which I can get away with syncing once a week or so. My calendars are synced with Google Calendar. This is handled…

Redundant E-mail

I wrote about setting up redundant e-mail services a few months ago. Since then, FastMail1 has had some ups and downs with another rough patch and then rolling out their own replicated systems to help avoid future problems. I’m still with FastMail. The combination of laziness on my part (I’m really quite happy with the…

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War’s Critics Abetting Terrorists, Cheney Says – I saw part of this interview, had to turn it off as Cheney continued to assert that there was a link between Iraq and Al-Qaeda. Long Term Contracts The Olbermann factor | Salon News – I had to look up a few of these clips… YouTube – Olbermann…

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Sucking less, on a budget: Camino Goodies ~stevenf: WebDesktop 2.5 – I’ve heard from a number of customers using this with Tasks. Doonesbury 2006-03-19 Eclipse Foundation, Zend Technologies, and IBM Announce the Approval of the PHP IDE Project / 03 / 2006 / Announcements / News / Company / Zend.com – great timing for me.…