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Backend comparisons: Exchange, Google, or MobileMe

September 5th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Whether you are a small business or a family, everyone needs the same three things:

Email ideally from your own vanity domain, whether it is myname@tongfamily.com or myname@igncap.com, while having a @gmail.com or @me.com is nice, we all want our own identity. And we need lots of disk space, at least 2GB per user. Have wireless [...]

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Contacts to Google hub and then down again to Address Book and iPhone

August 30th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Google actually has a contact system built into Google Mail. These are used just about everywhere, but most importantly you can use Google to synchronize contacts in Mac Address Book, iPhone and maybe even the Blackberry.
You unfortunately need third party tools to then take the contacts and push them to your iPhone (Nuviosync) and Address [...]

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iCal Dupe Deleter

May 26th, 2008 · No Comments · iCal

This is the single biggest problem I’ve found with Entourage to iCal synchronization. Entourage sync is incredibly slow on Leopard to the calendar, but more importantly, with the iPhone hooked in, you get zillions of duplicates.

The Mac Address Book has a built in deduplicator which sort of works, but is better than nothing. With [...]

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