Ramin Hossaini (blog)

24Oct/09

Synchronize Google Calendar on iPhone

Note: This should also work on the iPod Touch

iPhone OS 3.0 introduced support for CalDAV and ICS - that means it's really simple to sync with your Google Calendar:

Start by going into Settings:

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Go into "Mail, Contacts, Calendars", then "Add account..."

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Add a CalDAV account and fill the details:

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If you check your calendar, it should sync

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You can also add all your other calendars by adding a "Subscribed Calendar"

Start by going to the settings for the calendar you want to add:

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Click on the "ICAL" link to get your Calendar's private address

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It's usually a really long link, so start by putting it under your drafts or email it to yourself. Add another Calendar account (not a CalDAV this time, but a "subscribed Calendar" Then copy-and-paste into the Server input box specifying URL to the .ics file)

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22Oct/09

Flickr adds people-tagging, finally joins the bandwagon

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A feature that many in the Flickr community have been requesting for years has finally been implemented.

What?! No @ sign in front of the names??

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19Oct/09

WordPress BlogInfo variables

bloginfo('atom_url');       //ATOM feed for site
bloginfo('charset');        //The character set
bloginfo('description');    //The description of the blog
bloginfo('html_type');      //HTML version of the site
bloginfo('name');           //Title of blog
bloginfo('pingback_url');   //The pingback URL
bloginfo('rss2_url');       //The RSS URL
bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); //The URL for the template's CSS file
bloginfo('template_url');   //The URL of the template
bloginfo('url');            //The address of the blog
bloginfo('version');        //Version of the WordPress installation
bloginfo('wpurl');          //URL for WordPress installation
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19Oct/09

Google Wave adds online-status indicator

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This was the biggest lacking feature in Google Wave (for me) for a while. Nice to see it added!

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15Oct/09

More Twitter tools

Favstar

Find out who's faved your Tweets

http://favstar.fm

ReTweetist

Find out who's re-tweeted/RT'ed your tweets

http://www.retweetist.com


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For even more tools, check out my previous post: Twitter Tools

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11Oct/09

Game: Canabalt

http://www.adamatomic.com/canabalt/

Press X or C to jump, 0 to mute the sound


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10Oct/09

New homepage design

I've redesigned ramin-hossaini.com. I've re-designed it to be a portal with links to my ever decreasing number of projects, and social-networks.

I've kept the design minimalistic and simple. Everything is on a single page with lots of AJAX and Javascript to go with it.

You might notice that there's a 'loader' too - I'm still contemplating keeping it or getting rid of it.

Update:Got rid of the annoying, buggy loader!


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