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iPhone, Outlook, iCal and Google Calendar bliss.

Ok, so we use Outlook with Exchange, my phone is an iPhone and with the 2.0 update I can now sync to Exchange for mail and calendar (and contacts which I’m not doing).
The cool thing is that when you link to your Exchange calendar, you can view add and edit and changes (almost) immediately show [...]

How I fixed the SMS on my iPhone

So this all started with my previous post, the one about the HiPhone on the way to my house.
Well it came (no I haven’t done the review yet), popped the SIM out of my iPhone and popped it into the HiPhone to play with it.
I put in the settings for SMS, WAP, etc… but it [...]

Install OSX updates from command line using softwareupdate.

Ok here’s the deal, I wanted to update my machine to 10.5.2 from work today, but I had put it in a state where I couldn’t use VNC anymore (I logged out of one of the user accounts).
Anyway, I stumbled across some info on how to list and install updates from the command line.. SWEET!

Share your Bento database between users and / or computers

I just downloaded the trial of Bento the other day and it’s really pretty good.
I’m using it to track recipes and some real estate property we’re looking at.
The only thing I really DON’T like about it is the fact that you can’t specify a location for the database so you can’t share it between users [...]

Display dashboard widgets on your desktop.

I personally love Dashboard widgets, but don’t like Dashboard.
I much prefer a sidebar view like the one in Google Desktop (Sidebar only works in Windows though). I just don’t like having to hit a key to look at some of my common widgets.
This may be old news, but I found a way to move widgets [...]