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iCal to Exchange before Snow Leopard

September 5th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

So Vyshemirsky found another solution to this problem called at http://ww.snerdware.com/groupcal and they have another than does the same for contacts to the Address Book. Although Judi found it buggy and it deleted appointments in Exchange and iCal (so backup before trying any of this!). And some think they are out of business.
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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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Appigo

August 27th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Appigo ToDo was recommended by John. He is right. It is a terrific To Do list manager and it syncs up into the cloud. I’ve normally used Outlook’s Notes to do this between PC and Blackberry (for free!), but iPhone doesn’t support notes nor does Mac Mail and so there is no sync into the [...]

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Google Calendar CalDAV let’s you replace Entourage with Mac Mail, iCal and AddressBook

July 28th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Geek

Another piece of the puzzle. We are still using an Exchange backend but it sure would be great to have an alternative that hooks into an iPhone 3G and the Mac applications (Mail, iCal, Address Book) without dreaded sync.
Right now we use a hosted Exchange and then Entourage on Mac for Calendars and Contacts [...]

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Kerio vs. Exchange for Entourage, Mac OS X, iPhone and Blackberry

April 19th, 2008 · No Comments · Entourage, Exchange

Well we’ve narrowed down choices to two choices, two hosters against one of three desktop and two mobile clients. Here are the parameters:
Support for either of, in order:

Mac OS X application. That is Mail, iCal and Address Book that are native to OS X and which is fast.
Entourage 2004 or 2008 from Microsoft and typically [...]

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