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Get your life organized 1: One calendar in all your devices

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This is my first post in my “Get your life organized” series…dsc_0140

First of all I must point out that i am not organized when it comes to personal appointments and such but I’m really working on it. I think it is more interesting to find out solutions that make it impossible for me to not organize. These posts are the result from my investigation in some tech that will make it easier for you to organize your life…

Today we have lots of devices around us. Mobile phone and at least one computer. It should be able to control your calendar items in all of them. I think that the web-page-calender-solution is not good enough and want to use calendar applications and sync them all together.

This is possible by using one mother calendar that all your devices sync from. My choice is Google Calendar or Yahoo! Calendar because of their syncing abilities. There is a standard called CalDav that is supported right out of the box in many calendar software and mobile phones . Both Yahoo and Google calendar supports CalDav.

Mac OsX: iCal sync out of the box with CalDav. guide

Windows and Linux: Mozilla thunderbird or Sunbird (calendar only). They support CalDav.

Mobile device: I use goosync and it works great with my SonyEricsson G900! Another solution to use googles own google sync that should work with many different mobile phones.  Iphone supports CalDav right out of the box.

Widgets: Many widgets are available for google calendar or yahoo calendar. I use an Opera Widget at work to check the upcoming activities.

All the calendars will be in sync. If you change in one device, all will change the next time you sync them with your online calendar. Hope this was helpful for you.

By the way .. this solution does not require any cables.

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May 31st, 2009 at 9:01 pm

Must have applications in Windows, Mac OsX and Linux

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1646Hi again!

I have been thinking a lot about preparing a list like this. When i started to use a Linux based netbook i suddenlly realised that this kind of list does not exist.  Yes. .. .now…..

My main OS is MacOSX for private usage. I use Windows XP at work and have Linux Ubuntu installed in my Netbook. My goal is to give you a complete guide of applications for the all thre operating systems that has the same functionality and is needed for your daily computer usage. Read the rest of this entry »

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March 2nd, 2009 at 2:20 pm

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Dropbox, the digital moving firm. . .No boxes required

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  • Do you have more than two computers? Maybe one at work and one at home.
  • Do you use your USB memory a lot?
  • Do you send e-mails to yourself?
  • Do you think it’s hard to send large files by e-mail?

If you answer yes on one/several of the questions above, then dropbox is definitely something for you. Read the rest of this entry »

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December 1st, 2008 at 2:34 pm