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“Untamed Va-Jay-Jays?”

August 20th, 2010 · No Comments

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Configuring which Google Apps Calendars are Sync’d to iOS 4.0 via ActiveSync

July 7th, 2010 · No Comments

If you’re using the “Exchange” method of synchronizing calendars and notice that not all of your multiple calendars from your Google Apps for Domains setup are being sync’d down, follow these instructions:

http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=139206

Basically, for those in the know, it’s the usual m.google.com/sync stuff, but there’s a link in the fine print at the bottom for Google Apps for Domains.

Also note: if someone directs you to a url with “iphoneselect” in it, that’s only when accessing calendars in a non-push way through the iphone’s “Gmail” setup.  If you use the Exchange setup for getting push calendars, follow the url I posted above.

 

 

 

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Configuring which Google Apps Calendars are Sync’d to iOS 4.0 via ActiveSync

July 7th, 2010 · No Comments

If you’re using the “Exchange” method of synchronizing calendars and notice that not all of your multiple calendars from your Google Apps for Domains setup are being sync’d down, follow these instructions:=

http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=139206

Basically, for those in the know, it’s the usual m.google.com/sync stuff, but there’s a link in the fine print at the bottom for Google Apps for Domains.

Also note: if someone directs you to a link with “iphoneselect” in it, that’s only when accessing calendars in a non-push way through the iphone’s “Gmail” setup.  If you use the Exchange setup for getting push calendars, follow the link I posted above.

 

 

 

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Applescript to reload a web page in DevonThink Pro via Harvard’s EZ-Proxy

April 15th, 2010 · No Comments

Whipped this up this morning.  The Error -128 exception is from one of DT’s own scripts, so I’m not sure what that error is, precisely.  Feel free to comment as I’m a novice at AppleScript.

 

 

tell application id "com.devon-technologies.thinkpro2"
  	try
 		if not (exists think window 1) then error "No window is open."
  		set old_URL to the URL of think window 1
  		set pat to "'s@(https*://[^/]+)@\1.ezp2.harvard.edu@'"
  		set new_URL to do shell script "echo " & quoted form of old_URL & " | perl -pe " & pat
  		set the URL of think window 1 to new_URL
  	on error error_message number error_number
  		if the error_number is not -128 then display alert "DEVONthink Pro" message error_message as warning
       end try
end tell

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New guest, new Posterous

November 16th, 2009 · No Comments

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NPR podcasts

September 10th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I accidently figured out that some of my favorite weekend (and daily) NPR shows are now available as podcasts and indexed in iTunes.

If you have iTunes for such things, click here!

Otherwise, figure it out yourself :)

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Spanning Sync for Mac

September 10th, 2008 · No Comments

I’ve been using Spanning Sync for a while to have stable bi-directional sync between iCal and Google Calendar. If you choose to do the same and want $5 off, try this:

Basically, it works and has the simplest possible user interface: choose which Google calendars map to which iCal calendars and let it go.

One downside: It doesn’t map reminders, which doesn’t bother me. If I do reminders, I just do them on iCal so they are synced properly over to the iPhone. See the FAQ here: http://spanningsync.com/faq.html

Best of all, if you buy via that link, then *I* get $5, too :) . Or just use Spanning Sync code UAHBCQ

Good times.

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Tag, you’re it

September 4th, 2008 · No Comments

I’ve been tagged to list ten things which I love and that begin with the letter A. I’m not that creative, but here it is:

  • APPLES. My favorite fruit.
  • ARUGULA. Seriously. I love that stuff.
  • APPLE Macbook Pro.
  • A certain someone’s ASS. Sorry, had to say it.
  • ABSOLUTE TRUTH
  • ACADEMIA
  • ABILITIES
  • ADVENTURES
  • AIRPLANES. I hate the TSA’s version of air travel, but I love flying in general.
  • ADHESIVES. Glue is awesome.
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    I couldn’t resist…

    August 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment

    …posting a photo of E and J:

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    Read

    July 31st, 2008 · No Comments

    Comparison of Obama and McCain’s tax plans here.

    Analyze: Obama’s plan costs $160 per family. McCain’s costs $1,195. Obama’s helps those families making less than $66,000 the most, while McCain focuses on the ultra-rich with whopping tax cuts for those families making over $2.81 million dollars/year.

    Consider: If you believe that Bush’s strategy of giving tax cuts to the ultra rich has actually trickled down and helped the poor and middle class, then vote for McCain as he’s proposing precisely the same strategy. If you believe is more directly helping families making less than $200,000/yr., then you should be interested in Obama’s.

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