How To Subscribe To Internet Calendars In iPhone OS 3.0
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Personal on 17. Jun, 2009 | View Comments
On close examination of iPhone OS 3.0, I have discovered how to enable direct over-the-air subscription to Internet calendars!
Iomega Grows Up and Moves Out of the House
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Terabyte home, Virtual Storage on 16. Apr, 2009 | View Comments
Iomega’s StorCenter Pro ix4-200r sports iSCSI and NAS plus VMware ESX support – it’s a small business or lab monster!
Iomega has been a staple of the desktop computing environment for decades, but the company’s products have never been quite at home in even small corporate data centers. That changes today with the introduction of the [...]
Can the iPhone Sync With Multiple Exchange Servers?
Posted by Stephen in Apple on 26. Feb, 2009 | View Comments
One of the major advances introduced in iPhone software version 2.0 was the ability to sync over-the-air to Microsoft Exchange servers using Microsoft’s ActiveSync protocol. This was introduced to much fanfare with the iPhone 3G and is available on older updated iPhone and iPod Touch units, too. Google and NuevaSync also offer over-the-air calendar and [...]
Clean Up Your Mac! Essential OS X Tidiness Tools and Techniques
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Personal, Terabyte home on 19. Jan, 2009 | View Comments
Do you really know what is taking up all of your disk space? Unless you have a good tool, the answer is probably not. You might think that your “Documents” folder takes up most of the room, since you use it all the time and it has so many files in it. But even the bloated files produced by Microsoft Office pale in comparison to multimedia photo, music, and video files. And it is usually the folders that you don’t actively manage that are the worst space-wasters!
iPhone: The Frustratingest iPod Ever!
Posted by Stephen in Apple on 15. Dec, 2008 | View Comments
Apple may think that the iPhone and iPod Touch are the “funnest” ever, but I’d like to give the “touch” iPod implementation in these devices a new name: When it comes to controls, it is the frustratingest iPod ever! (Ok, maybe the Shuffle is slightly worse…)
Seriously, the simplicity of control was one of the prime factors (along [...]
The Future of Home Storage
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Computer history, Terabyte home on 12. Oct, 2008 | View Comments
Consumers demand friendly, flexible solutions. They don’t want to fuss with their media, and they don’t want simple shared storage. They want integration with multiple devices and flexibility to access their content on any device.
iPhone Cannot be Synced Because of an Unknown Error: 13014? Restart!
Posted by admin in Apple on 03. Oct, 2008 | View Comments
If iTunes 8.0.1 says your iPhone “cannot be synced unknown error (13014),” just quit iTunes and restart
iPhone and Exchange: Push Email? Great! Switch to Mac? Priceless!
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Personal on 11. Aug, 2008 | View Comments
Here’s a surprise benefit from the iPhone 2.0 Exchange ActiveSync ability: I was able to finally move my iPhone’s “home” sync from the PC to the Mac!
For the most up-to-date information, see my iPhone Exchange ActiveSync Guide!
This post is part of my series focused on integrating the iPhone with Microsoft Exchange using ActiveSync:
iPhone OS 3.0 [...]
Restore Your iPhone’s Performance and Stability
Posted by Stephen in Apple on 05. Aug, 2008 | View Comments
If you’ve been getting frustrated with your iPhone’s pokey performance and frequent hangs and crashes after upgrading to 2.0, you’re not alone. In fact, everyone I know who upgraded their original iPhone to 2.0 has been complaining about these issues! But I found a fix that brings back the stability and most of the performance [...]
How To Set Up iPhone Exchange ActiveSync
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Personal, Terabyte home on 10. Jul, 2008 | View Comments
It’s finally here! The iPhone now has most of the functions of the BlackBerry – over-the-air push and sync of Exchange email, contacts, and calendars! Apple let the 2.0 OS out of the bag earlier today, and intrepid souls (and me) have taken the plunge and installed it.
While most people, including me, headed to the [...]
