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…
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Sunrise calendar app for iPad
Despite 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…
Click To Read Full PostSync Google Mail, Contacts and Calendar using IMAP, CalDAV and CardDAV
Recently 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…
Click To Read Full PostSync Yahoo Contacts, Calendar, and Mail to your Mac
{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…
Click To Read Full PostHow to setup Mail, Contacts and Calendar on OS X Lion to use an Exchange 2007 account
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…
Click To Read Full PostJustin Blanton questions the need for calendar apps
These days I throw everything into OmniFocus: projects/tasks obviously, birthdays, anniversaries, meetings, etc. Why split any of this stuff across two different apps if you can get away with using just one? Justin, for me, OmniFocus is powerful but difficult. Calendars and task management apps are easy. I'll take easy.
Click To Read Full PostHow to sync your iPad Mail, Calendar, & Contacts with Google Sync
Overview Recently my Director lamented that he could not sync his Google account services to his iPad without using iTunes. He had configured his iPad to use his Google mail and calendar but he could not add new entries to the calendar. The sync was one way from Google to his iPad. He was frustrated…
Click To Read Full PostSetup Google Apps (Mail, Calendar and Contacts) on the iPad
Google provides a method for accessing their Gmail service via the IMAP protocol. IMAP is a standard protocol for accessing email but unlike POP3 the email stays on the remote server. With POP3 you are limited to reading your email from one location. With IMAP the email stays on the server and you can read…
Click To Read Full PostUpdate : How to use iCal with Google Calendar
Some time last year Google updated their online Calendar service to support the CalDAV protocol. CalDAV is a standard protocol that allows access to web-based calendars from desktop clients like iCal. Now from within iCal I can schedule create calendar entries that appear in my Google web calendar and vice versa. Google provides instructions on…
Click To Read Full PostMobileMe ate my contact list.
After composing an email in Gmail yesterday, I went to the address bar and started typing in my wife's name. Normally Gmail would present me with a drop down of choices, but in this case, I was present with only her MSN account email. Strange? Until I read this on the MobileMe status…
Click To Read Full PostGoogle Calendar CL2
The Web 2.0 universe is abuzz about leaked screen shots of Google's skunk works web calendar application. TechCrunch broke the story which was picked up by the Ajaxian.
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