I've just spent the weekend tweaking my workflow to deal with the over abundance of information that my job generates. OmniFocus is my key app since that's where I keep all my tasks. To complete the picture, I started comparing all of my information managers - Yojimbo, Evernote, DevonThink Pro and even the good old … Continue reading Productivity with OmniFocus and DEVONthink Pro 2
One of the problems with ditching Exchange and moving to Google Apps has been the lack of public folder functionality. Public folders are those folders that your Exchange admin would set up where they could give multiple users the right to view content and other users the rights to add and edit content. They are … Continue reading Replacing Exchange Public Folder Functionality with Google Apps
Recently the folks over at Panic announced a cool new way to display critical stats on your desktop - Statoo. Like GeekTool, Statoo can put the weather, date, time, disk space, current song, and so on on your desktop. Unlike GeekTool, they do it all in a few clicks. Even more interesting was the ability … Continue reading Put GMail on Your Desktop with GeekTool
I snagged a copy of Drive Genius 2 in the recent MacUpdate Promo bundle. If you have never bought into one of the promos, I recommend that you check it out the next time it comes around. You get a lot of great software at a significant discount. Drive Genius alone was worth the price … Continue reading Journaling Disks using Drive Genius 2
Well, its that time of the year again when I revisit the state of iCal syncing. This time there is a lot of progress to report. First up - who could miss the announcement that Google Calendar now officially supports CalDav - the same open calendar standard that iCal speaks. This means that your Google … Continue reading iCal, Exchange, GCal Sync Update
Today I was looking for a way to execute complex queries in Apple's Mail to create a "smart mailbox". You may already know that Mail has some of the power of Spotlight's search syntax. You can read about some of the details of searching in Mail at the excellent Hawkwings blog. Basically you create a query … Continue reading Mail.app – Using Advanced Search Logic in Smart Mailboxes
I can hear you asking already, "Why would you want to do that?" Well, the problem is if you use shared calendaring and you want to migrate your organization off of Exchange on to Google Apps, everyone has to get moved over to Google Apps at the same time, and in one weekend. Not too … Continue reading Use Google and Exchange Calendars in the Same Domain
Resolve GMail Undefined Issue - Firefox I'm fickle about browsers. Safari has some very nice features such as the ability to resize text boxes in forms. It also syncs bookmarks to my .Mac Mobile Me account to my other Macs and my iPhone. On the other hand there is much to love about Firefox 3. … Continue reading Resolve GMail Undefined Issue
With the recent non-event of the release of Entourage 2008, we haven't seen much of an improvement in the Mac calendar landscape. Apple has released the iCal Server as part of Leopard Server. But Outlook doesn't work with the iCalendar standard. So I'd like to hear from all of you Mac users that work in … Continue reading Hear from the Readers – How Do You Do Mac Calendaring
User cash7c3 over on modmyifone noticed this very interesting job posting on Apple's website: Requisition Number 3161520 Job title iPhone Windows Outlook/Exchange QA Eng Location Santa Clara Valley Country United States City Cupertino State/Province California Job type Full Time Job description The iPhone Quality team is looking for a motivated, highly-technical Exchange test/sync engineer with … Continue reading Exchange Support Coming to the iPhone?
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