A personal website (blog) by Khürt Williams, with inchoate ramblings on Apple technology, photography, and geekery.
Enabling Family Share in iOS 8 turns on a shared calendar function that provides busy families with a way to stay organized and on schedule. Everybody in the family can add events to one calendar while keeping personal calendar events private. Technically a Family Share calendar is no different that setting up a shared calendar…
Continue ReadingDespite its iPhone-only availability, the free app has grown to become one of the most popular third-party iOS calendar apps, consistently ranking in the App Store's top 100 productivity apps in the final quarter of last year. Almost a year on, Sunrise developers Pierre Valade and Jeremy Le Van have decided it's finally time to…
Continue ReadingRecently Google announced that it would no longer support Microsoft’s ActiveSync for syncing Google services — Gmail, Calendar, and Contacts — with new mobile devices. Current users would not be affected but newer user would not have the option. This will have an impact on iPhone and iPad users who are used ActiveSync services for…
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{EAV_BLOG_VER:58ff1b81f38fa2c9} I'm a big Google Services user but some of my friends and colleagues prefer Yahoo! I've written about how to integrate Google Services with my Mac, iPhone and iPad but I've remiss in writing anything about Yahoo! Enabling Yahoo! Services on Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) is fairly straight forward. #System Preferences# The direct…
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With each iteration of the OS since Leopard, Apple has made it easier to integrate Exchange Messaging Services with OS X native productivity applications — Mail, iCal and Address Book. Apple's latest Mac operating system, OS X 10.7 Lion, has been out for some time and Apple has made significant changes to some of the…
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