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[jvlgato]

Set Up Your Apple Device for Google Sync : Google Sync - Google Mobile Help

Edit: Maybe you were asking about Mac? Guess this is probably not an Exchange sync, but it gets the job done for me.

http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=99358#ical

[The Monkey]

Thanks, both are helpful. I'll be interested in how it works out for you. I didn't love the interaction between Calendar and the Google calendar, but I think I probably screwed something up. Regardless, this shouldn't be so hard.

[jvlgato]

Uh oh. What problems did you have?

I'll try to remember to put an update now and again. Feel free to ask in a few weeks, as well.

[The Monkey]

Mainly duplicate entries, which I've seen others mention. But I've also read reports of everything working fine.

[jvlgato]

Damn. That's what couldn't be resolved by MobileMe guy. We'll see ...

[MexicanDragon]

New iMac and MacBook Pros coming in 2011? -- Engadget

No one has commented on this yet today? Dan, you know what the weather will be, surely you know what the new 13" (or 12"/14") MBP will be? LMK.

**BRENT**

[The Monkey]

I will be getting one of them new Macs.

[Augsburger]

I do not use Exchange. It is my pvt office.

My wife and I use that for our personal calendar. I looked into Google for my office a year or two ago, but when I use it for personal use, it is not on a secure site, and in researching Google business or enterprise or whatever, I couldn't get a clear answer about security. I don't need an iron clad guarantee, but I need to show that I've done due diligence for security/privacy due to dealing with health care information. Might be time to look into that again.

My wife works at a health care facility and they will not use Google for work related calendering/scheduling. I on the other hand use Google for both work and personal but nothing confidential goes onto or is linked to the Google calendar.

[Currawong]

I had the duplicate entries problem, with every MobileMe sync resulting in an entry re-appearing 5 more times. I discovered it was duplicated a million times in GMail, so turned that sync off, nuked my entire GMail address book and that solved it.

For anybody who's fairly technical but not into spending the cash for an SSD quite yet:

A couple weeks ago I followed the advice in dropsafe : Addressing The Outmoded Swapping And Paging Strategy in OSX? to adjust some paging parameters and move paging to a separate (non-journaled) partitioned volume. The results have been extremely satisfying. In no way am I getting SSD-level results, but beachballs are now rare*, and things like quitting Firefox after a long session no longer take acres of forever while swap space is reclaimed.

In other words I can now use my (non-unibody, maxed-out-at-4GB RAM) MacBook Pro all day (in my usual mode of lots of apps running and lots of tabs open) without wanting to punch something. Rage-free (and free) is nice, even if it's not SSD-nice.

A few caveats:

1. This is a bit of work (and depending on your skillz, maybe a little risk) so it's not worth doing unless you need it or love tinkering. My wife has an 8GB unibody MBP and it runs so smoothly it's really not worth doing this on hers.

2. Really should not be attempted unless you are unixy enough to understand the entire article and infer the (very slight) missing pieces, or have ready access to someone who is.

3. Although Disk Utility seems to offer live repartitioning, it did not actually work the first time I tried it -- it crashed my Mac (hard, but completely harmlessly) when I was trying to shrink the main partition. In my case the path of least resistance was to boot off my nightly SuperDuper clone and do the partitioning from there while I got some work done, so I didn't pursue the live-partitioning thing further. (If live repartitioning doesn't work for you and you don't have a bootable external, you can always boot off your OS installation or upgrade DVD and go to the utilities from there -- assuming you still have that DVD.)

4. After you make your scratch volume, remember to exclude it from Time Machine and Spotlight explicitly so you don't get pointless extra activity on it. OS X doesn't automatically know to do this for you.

Also, a tip: I made my scratch partition a little bigger than I expected to need, so that I could move some additional application-specific caches onto it. That was a good call. A few days later I moved the caches for Firefox and one of my video games onto the scratch drive, making an incremental but welcome difference in the general smoothness and non-spasticness of both apps.

If I haven't made you afraid/reluctant/bored by now, then it's a good tweak that you might want to try.

*Well, rare except when I do anything in Safari, which just seems ridiculously prone to them, but even in Safari they're not nearly as long or plentiful as before.

I'm going to go the route of putting an SSD in my MacBook Pro and replacing the optical drive with another drive, so I might do this too. Would certainly fix some issues I've been having which I'm sure are related to hard disk access.

[jvlgato]

Looked into Google again and discovered calendar and contacts are now behind a SSL. I switched over to Google about a week ago, and sync to iPad via Exchange, and so far so good!

No duplicates so far in calendar. No duplicate entries in contacts, but some duplicate info in the notes section. Not a huge deal. Much faster and more reliable than MobileMe, but eats up battery life a bit faster on the iPad.

Reks, a week ago, I'd have considered giving up my right leg to have my data back! But not so much any more. But I did just send a small care package your way, based on a part of a food conversation we had here. Keep your eyes peeled!

[Absorbine_Sr]

Is it Italian chicken sticks?

Probably butter deep fried in lard.

[jvlgato]

Ruined the surprise, dammit!

[VPI]

I need some computer people to help me with an external drive. I bought a WD little passport drive that I need to format to work on the Mac and no matter how I try to format the drive it tells me one of the volumes on the disc is busy and cannot be unmounted. It is a brand new drive so I do not know why it would be busy.

[VPI]

I hooked it up to the desktop and it ran fine. I realized it was just me not paying enough attention as I had ignored a message that came up and clicked okay and the drive had mounted as time machine available.

[luvdunhill]

I've finally got around to moving my iPhone to my Mac. It's a clean iTunes install. I just "transferred purchases" and have a question. If I select "sync apps", a scary box pops up and says:

"Are you sure you want to sync apps? All existing apps and their data on the iPhone "marce's iPhone" will be replaced with apps from this iTunes library"

Ok, but how do I do this and not have the data associated with the apps get clobbered?

[crappyjones123]

what "data" do you have for apps? besides user and pass...

[luvdunhill]

what "data" do you have for apps? besides user and pass...

Game records for example for board games. I think I have it figured out it fact

[grawk]

back it up onto the new computer, then reinstall as owned by that library, restoring your backup. SHOULD work.

[Knuckledragger]

I ran Software Update, got the App Store ...app working, and now I'm giving it a go. I had to add a bunch of Little Snitch rules, set up payment info and []Agreed to the mile-long EULA, but now I'm in business. So far I've only tried free apps (SoundCloud, Telephone) but I might spring for Angry Birds if things work well.

[Sherwood]

No App store yet for me. I imagine I'll have it soon enough, but I cannot remember a time in the last 5 years when I wanted to purchase a piece of software and just wished it could be done more easily. I guess it strikes me as another solution to a problem I don't even remotely have.

[episiarch]

I actually have had the problem of software not being easy enough to buy -- specifically, that some of the small software vendors used various crappy payment systems or shopping-cart systems. Not only do I dislike giving my info to (yet another) poorly-written, seedy-looking payments processor on general principle, I had an incident a year or so ago where PayPal required me to go through an irritating revalidation process after they decided one of those payment processors was possibly not legit for some reason. I much prefer being able to just buy something and have my Apple account debited for it.

[Knuckledragger]

The App Store App is very nice, but the one-click purchasing is a bit disconcerting. I'd hate to accidentally click on purchase button (which is right next to the "share link" button) while and look at Aperture and be out $80 just like that. I spent most of the holidays binging on the Steam sale, so the pay-for-download model is now well familiar to me. I do wish Apple used a cart/final purchase paradigm. Not everything needs to be a one click operation.

It's a bloody good thing AAPL isn't a military contractor. Click here to launch warheads!

[Knuckledragger]

What is going on with Apple's line of displays? Currently the entire selection is the lone 27" LED-lit panel. That's a very nice monitor (technically superior to the now-discontinued 30" in many ways) but it's $1000 and bigger than many people want. I can't imagine they sell too many 27"s with Minis. Apple often has a late-January launch for new products (or at least they did when Macworld was still around.) I hope they have some new monitors pretty damn soon. Says the guy who's in the market for a new %$ display.)

[Dusty Chalk]

Why can't you just use any old thing? What is this "Apple" display, doesn't it just need to be HDMI/DVI/VGA/WEV?*

WEV == What. Eh. Ver.

[shellylh]

Apple displays are pretty so there. I was upset to find out that they had discontinued their smaller displays. I actually really like using two 20" displays. I am not sure that a single (or two) 27" displays would be as nice.