Posts Tagged osx
Thunderbird 3 Beta 2
Posted by LAV in Contact sync, EMail on March 24th, 2009
I know I said that I would switch to Mail.app, but somehow I still use Thunderbird from time to time… Anyhow, Thunderbird 3 beta 2 was released a few weeks back, so for those who thought that beta 1 sounded too unstable, maybe now it’s time to give Thunderbird 3 a try? As I’ve said before, for me the main reason for updating is that Thunderbird 3 natively supports the OSX Address Book!
3-col vertical view in Apple Mail (OSX 10.5)
When I made the switch to Mac and OSX, for some reason I stayed reluctant to trade my old trusty Thunderbird for OSX’ native Mail.app. But unfortunately Thunderbird doesn’t support the pesky Outlook calender invitations my company always spam me with, and I heard a rumor that Mail.app does, so I thought I had to give it a try then after all.
It turns out however, that I really, really, really, miss the three column vertical view from Thunderbird (and Outlook for that matter). For some strange reason Mail.app sports the older 2 column split mode… Fortunately, as always, Google has the answer. I quickly found WideMail by Dane Harnett, a modification to Mail.app that enables a three column view just like in Thunderbird. Also has many options to further customize the appearance. Thanks Dane!
Two iCal feeds you need
Posted by LAV in Calendar sync on February 18th, 2009
iCal in OSX makes it easy subscribing to external calenders, and two such feeds you will definitely want to have are holidays, and (at least if you live in Sweden) week numbers! However, it turns out that at least most Swedish holiday calenders over at icalshare.com were pretty crappy, as none of them seemed to have been updated for 2009 yet…
But luckily I stumbled upon this nice feed generator over at Oops.se! They have customizable holiday feeds for Finland, England, Denmark, France, Sweden, US and Norway, as well as week number feeds for Sweden and US. Best thing is, they are automatically updated so next year you will automatically get next years holidays! (Remember to set iCal auto-refresh feature to Weekly.)
(For the lazy swedes out there, here is the current Swedish holidays iCal feed as well as the week number iCal feed.)
Thunderbird 3 beta 1 supports native OSX Address Book integration
Posted by LAV in Contact sync on February 17th, 2009
Well, it has been out for a while, but I just noticed that Thunderbird 3 beta 1 actually supports native OSX Address Book integration without any hacks! Just open the Address Book in Thunderbird and activate “Use Mac OS X Address Book” in the file menu. Let’s just hope beta1 is stable enough for every day use.. I’ll be using it from now on anyway, so we’ll see!
Syncing OSX Stickies
Posted by LAV in Notes sync on February 17th, 2009
I’ve been missing the ability to sync notes since I abandoned my last Palm… I used the Palm/Outlook synchronized notes for everything from remebering song lyrics to keeping track of how much money my friends borrowed to buy ice cream.
In OSX there is bundled program called Stickies which displays lots of colored post-it-like notes on the screen. It’s not really what I want since you have to have all your notes on screen at the same time (if you close one, it counts as deleting it!), but I guess it will do for now. At least as long as I can sync the notes between my OSX machines!
And, it turns out its pretty simple. The notes are stored in ~/Library/StickiesDatabase, so all I needed to do was to add this file to my OSX-prefs Unison sync profile! Of course, you can’t go around editing your notes on two computers at the same time without syncing, but most of the time I’m only using one computer at a time, so it shouldn’t be that much of a problem.
