ok first off: Apple and coexistence with other vendors are mutually exclusive? Not that iCal is _the_ best example but that line is getting quickly outdated. About tying iCal into another calendar, well im not exactly sure what your trying to do but it seems to at least halfway work (and thats always a good sign). the one thing i can recommend that worked for me before the magic of iSync (please apple get this out of beta) is writing or recording an applescript to do it all. Yes applescript (R) the most gosh darned useful thing about the mac that no one ever uses. Recording your actions doing it "the hard way" turns it into a double click operation tomorrow (or no-click activate on login if your anal-retentive like me;)
Can GWAR save the world long enough to destroy it themselves?
Essiac: the cure for (many types of) cancer. The fight against cancer has been won, now its a fight against pharmecutical companies. http://www.sumeria.net/health/essiac.h tml is a good recap of the story so far. You can doubt all you want (I sure did) but i have seen it work. Since Essiac isnt patentable there is no real marketing budget behind it, so i guess im just trying to do my part. oh yeah off topic again! (but honestly folks ill take the karma point hit on slashdot to increase my karma points in the big picture)-
and here are just a few reasons why: gateway, dell, hp and sony. all announced in the last year that they are beginning to bundle various forms of corel office with new computers. a wonderful way in itself to renew the user base; hook em while they're young! for a first time pc buyer (read: gateway) get the software in their hands even if you have to lose money. as opposed to say MS[sometimes]Works im sure that liscensing costs are less for the pc distributors which will definately give corel some legs (oh yeah and that article thing we are supposed to be talking about, i think it said they found a way to save a few dollars somewhere....). plus it seems they have a niche in a niche market (osx) that will still pay some of the bills. they did a very wise thing by being one of the first developers if not the first into every product market they have on macOSX when the big boys (read: adobe) were taking a wait and see approach. as much as i personally use their software (none) im not sure why i always keep up with their camp but i think all you naysayers will have a long time to write the obituary yet.
with danny devito as mr. nezu! i just said this yesterday watching 'death to smoochie' (good movie)- he would be perfect. ok thats one down, how about the rest?
Needs a little work? well yes for starters RTFM and you wont have duplicate entries (its ok i did it wrong the first time as well, a breeze to fix). Aside from not having a cell phone to try this out with I was utterly blown away. I have been doing the manual shuffle between OSX address book.app - my handspring visor - and an ipod for some time now knowing that it couldnt be THAT hard to create a real synch procedure. when the old iCEO steve first demo'd iSync it just didnt seem to be anything behind the hype besides vaporware and strange folders popping up on my ipod. well i was wrong, like they say "It just works." Of course your main fear is that in this magical sync that all important address would go back into the ether and be replaced with ancient incorrect versions thereby alienating you from your friends/family/jobs etc - I was amazed that apple managed to program something just the way i would ask for it "OK sync everything, use the newest version to fill in the blanks in the old ones, and if you run into anything sticky just ask me and show me my options." wish granted in beta form. apple just gave the world quite a big reason to switch and really solidified their version of the 'digital hub experience.'
now if only they had waited and 'fixed' ical first and released this all at once as a real show stopper.
'set up us the bomb'
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ok first off: ;)
Apple and coexistence with other vendors are mutually exclusive? Not that iCal is _the_ best example but that line is getting quickly outdated.
About tying iCal into another calendar, well im not exactly sure what your trying to do but it seems to at least halfway work (and thats always a good sign). the one thing i can recommend that worked for me before the magic of iSync (please apple get this out of beta) is writing or recording an applescript to do it all. Yes applescript (R) the most gosh darned useful thing about the mac that no one ever uses. Recording your actions doing it "the hard way" turns it into a double click operation tomorrow (or no-click activate on login if your anal-retentive like me
Can GWAR save the world long enough to destroy it themselves?
Essiac: the cure for (many types of) cancer. The fight against cancer has been won, now its a fight against pharmecutical companies.h tml is a good recap of the story so far. You can doubt all you want (I sure did) but i have seen it work. Since Essiac isnt patentable there is no real marketing budget behind it, so i guess im just trying to do my part.
http://www.sumeria.net/health/essiac.
oh yeah off topic again! (but honestly folks ill take the karma point hit on slashdot to increase my karma points in the big picture)-
and here are just a few reasons why: gateway, dell, hp and sony. all announced in the last year that they are beginning to bundle various forms of corel office with new computers. a wonderful way in itself to renew the user base; hook em while they're young! for a first time pc buyer (read: gateway) get the software in their hands even if you have to lose money. as opposed to say MS[sometimes]Works im sure that liscensing costs are less for the pc distributors which will definately give corel some legs (oh yeah and that article thing we are supposed to be talking about, i think it said they found a way to save a few dollars somewhere....). plus it seems they have a niche in a niche market (osx) that will still pay some of the bills. they did a very wise thing by being one of the first developers if not the first into every product market they have on macOSX when the big boys (read: adobe) were taking a wait and see approach. as much as i personally use their software (none) im not sure why i always keep up with their camp but i think all you naysayers will have a long time to write the obituary yet.
with danny devito as mr. nezu! i just said this yesterday watching 'death to smoochie' (good movie)- he would be perfect. ok thats one down, how about the rest?
Needs a little work? well yes for starters RTFM and you wont have duplicate entries (its ok i did it wrong the first time as well, a breeze to fix). Aside from not having a cell phone to try this out with I was utterly blown away. I have been doing the manual shuffle between OSX address book.app - my handspring visor - and an ipod for some time now knowing that it couldnt be THAT hard to create a real synch procedure. when the old iCEO steve first demo'd iSync it just didnt seem to be anything behind the hype besides vaporware and strange folders popping up on my ipod. well i was wrong, like they say "It just works." Of course your main fear is that in this magical sync that all important address would go back into the ether and be replaced with ancient incorrect versions thereby alienating you from your friends/family/jobs etc - I was amazed that apple managed to program something just the way i would ask for it "OK sync everything, use the newest version to fill in the blanks in the old ones, and if you run into anything sticky just ask me and show me my options." wish granted in beta form. apple just gave the world quite a big reason to switch and really solidified their version of the 'digital hub experience.' now if only they had waited and 'fixed' ical first and released this all at once as a real show stopper. 'set up us the bomb'