August 24th, 2008 @ 4:10 PM
I’m always curious what 3rd-party apps other people are using on their iPhones. I tend to cycle through apps a lot—if I install something and don’t use it for a while, I’ll usually get rid of it and replace it with something else. Anyway, here are the apps I currently have installed (in alphabetical order):
August 18th, 2008 @ 3:30 PM
Apple released v2.0.2 of the iPhone software about an hour ago. As usual, they don’t say much in the release notes about what’s been fixed (other than the generic “bug fixes”), but supposedly it includes fixes for dropped calls while on the 3G network and better switching between 3G and EDGE.
August 13th, 2008 @ 1:48 PM
Note: The original article is no longer available. This post exists to provide a summary of the original post.
I haven’t used or even tried Evolution since the early fall of 2006 (I switched jobs shortly after writing the original post and was able to use Mail.app with Exchange so I’ve had no need for Evolution or Entourage). The build of Evolution linked to below worked for me when I tried it back then.
Download the latest version of Evolution for Mac OS X.
You may also want to read the comments on this bug for some tips and instructions.
Good luck!
August 4th, 2006 @ 12:23 PM
A few days ago, I picked up a Palm Tungsten E2 to try to get myself a little better organized between home and the office. The main reason I went with the Tungsten instead of the Z22 is that the Tungsten has Bluetooth support, which allows me to sync with my laptop wirelessly.
Being a Mac user, I wanted to use iCal and Address Book and handle syncing through iSync instead of using the ancient (and supposedly dead) Palm Desktop.
I also wanted to be able to sync both with the USB cable and wirelessly over the Bluetooth connection, so I hit up Apple’s iSync Support to look for help in getting things configured. Luckily for me, they have articles explaining how to do each (Setting up to sync your Palm OS device and How to sync a Palm OS device over Bluetooth).
Following the instructions there, I had USB syncing set up in about 15 seconds. It worked great. I had my calendars from iCal and the contacts from Address Book on the Tungsten, and all was good. The next step was to set up Bluetooth syncing. That’s where things started to fall apart.
The first problem I ran into was that the article was telling me to choose the bluetooth-pda-sync-port option in the Palm Hotsync Manager, but I had no such choice. I tried a bunch of different things to make it appear, but none worked. Eventually, I ended up resetting the Tungsten to it’s factory settings and removing the Palm Desktop software completely. Then in a fit of brilliance, I installed the Palm Desktop software from the CD instead of from the download from their site. Once I had the software installed from CD, I reinstalled the download to make sure I had the latest version. When that finished, I went back through the instructions again. This time I finally had the bluetooth-pda-sync-port option and was able to choose it.
The next step was to get the Tungsten to pair with my laptop. No problems there, and it only took a few seconds. Once it was paired, I tried to do a sync with Palm Desktop (as the article suggests), but kept getting an error telling me the port was already in use. After searching for what seemed like hours, I came across a post in the Palm Mac forums that suggested rebooting might fix the problem. I had already tried everything else I could think of, so I rebooted. When the laptop came back up, I tried syncing again and:
It worked!
I was able to sync with Palm Desktop! Since that worked, I opened up iSync and enabled Palm OS syncing. I set it overwrite data on the Tungsten with what was on the laptop and clicked the Hotsync button and, after a short delay that I expected to error out, it synced! I tried it a few more times to make sure it wasn’t a fluke and everything’s been working peachily (I think I just made up a new word) since the first time. So, to summarize:
Note: Keep in mind that if you’re syncing a lot of files (or a large one), you might want to consider using the USB cable to sync since it will quite a bit faster than the Bluetooth connection.
Overall, I’m happy with the Tungsten E2 and it’s really helping me to keep track of to-dos and meetings at work. I’m actually somewhat surprised that I’m using it as much as I am since the last time I had one (back in 2000ish), I never really used it very much. I think a lot of that was due to not being able to sync without some crazy contraption plugged into my computer—an issue I don’t have now :-)
By the way, if anyone’s got any Palm software recommendations or things they can’t live without on their Palm, please leave a comment and let me know about them.
Jim Mock is a web developer living in Portland, Oregon with his girlfriend fiancée wife, 3 dogs, and 2 cats. He has been a Boston Red Sox fan for as long as he can remember, is addicted to video games and web standards, and thinks you should be, too.
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