David Fredh : Blog and Pictures » Mac http://david.fredh.net David Fredh, Bilder, Blogg, Technology, Sweden, Malmö, Teknisk Matematik, Opinions, Things that amazes me, Meaning of life Wed, 04 Aug 2010 12:55:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Get your life organized 1: One calendar in all your devices http://david.fredh.net/2009/05/31/get-your-life-organized-1-one-calendar-in-all-your-devices/ http://david.fredh.net/2009/05/31/get-your-life-organized-1-one-calendar-in-all-your-devices/#comments Sun, 31 May 2009 20:01:36 +0000 David http://david.fredh.net/?p=349 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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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.

App type Windows MacOSX Linux
Web Opera, Chrome or Firefox Opera, Safari or Firefox Opera, Epiphany or Firefox
Skype Skype Skype Skype
E-Mail Thunderbird Apple Mail Thunderbird or Evolution
MSN, ICQ, GTalk etc. Pidgin Adium Pidgin
Music ITunes, Spotify, Last.fm ITunes, Spotify, Last.fm, Synergy Rhythmbox or Songbird, Last.fm, Spotify (emulated in Wine)
FTP FileZilla or Total Commander Cyberduck FileZilla
Application launcher Launchy Quicksilver Gnome DO
Office suite Openoffice Openoffice Openoffice
Rss RSSOwl Shrook Liferea
Editor ConTEXT Smultron gEdit
System tool CCleanner OnyX -
Video viewer VLC VLC VLC
Image viewer Picasa IPhoto Picasa
Communities Twitter plugin for pidgin and yahoo widgets Moodblast, twitter plugin for Adium Twitter plugin for gnome-do and pidgin
File sync Dropbox Dropbox Dropbox
Archive app 7-zip EZ 7z Archive manager with 7z plugin
Eye candy Yahoo Widgets Growl Compiz

I have all these programs installed in my computers and find them very helpful.

Cheers!
David

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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. Dropbox gives you 2GB for free and creates a folder on locally on your computer. Everything you store in your local folder will be automatically uploaded to your dropbox storage on the internet.  If you have 2 computers, you will have the same content in your dropbox folders. All your content is also available everywhere through the dropbox website.

    If you want to send a big file to someone, just copy the file to your “public” dropbox-folder and simply right click to get a web-link to the file. Send the link and you’re done!

    There is an introduction-movie available at: Dropbox website

    Oups. .i forgot to tell you … it’s free . . .and for windows/mac/linux!

    You can read a interview with the founder of DropBox here: 7 Questions with the founder

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