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Finding a coach and Removing a coach from a team

September 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

This really shouldn’t be this hard, but to find an existing coach from a team you have to:

  1. Click on the league you want (e.g., 2008 Fall Rec)
  2. On the Quick Clicks in the top left of the screen, look for Find Participant
  3. Click on Coache and type in the last name
  1. You will see [...]

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Using CalDav to bidirectional sync Google Calendar and iCal

September 2nd, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Well it isn’t perfect yet. Seems to work great for one calendar that is read/write on Google Calendar and also to have lots of read-only calendars (iCal calls these subscriptions) while read/write calendars are called accounts. (The bigger issue is that iPhone sync with Nuevasync doesn’t seem to work).

There is also much confusion about how [...]

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Eureka! Google Calendar to iPhone and iCal hub

August 29th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Well, I’m testing it now, but looks like we might finally be able to get off of Exchange. Here is how to use Google Calendar as the hub of all your scheduling:

Upload your calendar to Google Calendar. This is confusing because the Google Calendar user interface has been changing so radically but Google Help. The [...]

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Tascam TR-1 and Fission rock!

July 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Had a chance to record a concert with the Taxcam DR-1 highly recommended. It is quite a bit bigger than the iPod, but has really high quality builtin microphones. I was amazed at the quality. The user interface is primitive but it lets you record in real time in MP3 format and most importantly [...]

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Music Galore

June 25th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Spent a day thinking about nothing but music in the US. Strange to just have a meeting about music in China and then go directly to the US. Interesting sites:

lala.com. Spirit of full disclosure we are investors, but what the heck kind of cool
nutsie.com. Ditto

Pandora. I haven’t played with it in a while. Same basic [...]

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