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Google released a calendar synchronization tool a while back and today i thought i’d give it a spin. Well, it turns out things aren’t that easy (with beta software). When installing the sync tool, the installer kindly informed me that i should close Outlook before proceeding. I closed Outlook and told the [...]

I just discovered that “a little ska band”, Reel Big Fish is playing in Tavastia next Monday. This information was provided to me by Last.FM, based on music i’ve played and “scrobbled” (RBF are there at artist #92). The Recommended events engine can also recommend me events based on my musical taste, i.e. bands that [...]

I was finally drawn to Google Apps for Domains, which basically is GMail, GCalendar and GDocs for your domain name. What finally got me interested was that “regular” GMail is filtered at her job.
I’m a great fan of integration. I think stuff should work well together or they don’t work at all. I [...]

Scott Hanselman describes the “synch software” in the following, illustrative terms:
Here’s the saddest part. The Desktop Connect Reader software is so profoundly bad, so poorly designed, so truly evil that there are not word to full express the breadth and depths of its unspeakable lameness.
It’s almost like Fish at work…
The sad part though is that [...]

My PC Suite broke. Or rather, the Synchronization bit, which was the one i needed and used the most. Having a telephone that doesn’t carry my calendar and my contacts sucks. Which is the same as having two calendars and two sets of contacts, which equally sucks.
Enter the Mail for Exchange, the Exchange synch plugin [...]

I’m a bit behind posts but let’s not make that a problem. A week or two ago, a new computer entered the family: a Slug, or properly, a LInksys NSLU2 NAS adapter thingy.
The Slug is basically an adapter between one or two USB hard (or flash) drives and a wired Ethernet. Or so it [...]

Disclaimer: i’ve been living under a rock for the last few months so this is probably old news to you die hard web2.0 geeks out there.
Google has a protocol, and an API to follow, that allows the coding user to access certain data from Google sites. Since that was pretty vague, let me concretisize. Half [...]

What i like: Having a fresh copy of Kubuntu 6.06 F7 installed on my computer, complete with my home directory rsync’ed from my previous installation. And it just works.
Actually, the installation just didn’t work as expected (though i was told that it would if i dowloaded the Nightly build of 6.06 instead — some [...]

I’ve used a PDA for a few years now and i’m quite happy with a gadget which works like a calendar that actually reminds me to look at it. I use it as a shopping list, a small surf board, a to-do list and a platform to play solitaire and sudoku on. Granted, there are [...]

OK, Nokia has done it. They’ve finally published the phone i want. The N91. Packed in stainless steel (yesh) and not decisevly larger than a 2 cm thick business card, it has, well, basically everything. 3band gsm, b/10 (e)gprs, edge, Wifi 802.11b/g, wcdma (for those returns to Tokyo), two cameras –one for pretty pictures, one [...]