tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8171066010944545108.post8613279285551807946..comments2023-10-17T10:54:20.838-05:00Comments on Good posts for people who love bad blogs.: Bi-Directional iCal/GoogleCal Sync with BusySync!jonathansmith68http://www.blogger.com/profile/10028452726105922171noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8171066010944545108.post-61225486823617871062008-03-28T13:05:00.000-05:002008-03-28T13:05:00.000-05:00In regards to my post, "There's Nothing...": Yeah...In regards to my post, "There's Nothing...": Yeah, that was all original. I came back last night and was high on life, if I may call it that, and decided to write something. Glad you liked it though. I didn't even copy edit it. Whoops!<BR/><BR/>iCal/GCal Sync: OMG, I wish you wrote this blog 2 months earlier. I've used Google Calendar for years and when I got my MacBook, I really wanted it to sync with iCal so I could have something local. I went through all the motions that you did. I looked at SpanningSync and I just couldn't swallow the price tag and then I found GSync, took the plunge and have been utterly disappointed by it since. I've had two instances where I synced my calendars and ALL my "all day events" were duplicated. I had to go into the calendars and manually delete EVERY single duplication. It was not fun, to say the least. Another thing that bugged me about GSync was the customer service from Macness.com. I paid them my full 20 bucks expecting a key to be sent to me immediately. I waited for about a day and I just thought it was ridiculous so I e-mailed them and asked them what was up with my key. They replied lazily after several hours with my key and no apology. What took so long? Flickr only took 5 minutes to check that the purchase went through and to give me my Pro account. Ridiculous. Maybe I should just scrap GSync all together and suck it up and buy BusySync. By the way, do you need to launch BusySync manually every time you want to sync, like GSync, or does it just run in the background after you set it to launch at start up? Love the posts, keep it up!Lewis Leonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05977865790703457301noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8171066010944545108.post-66773534316796876892008-03-01T19:30:00.000-06:002008-03-01T19:30:00.000-06:00Okay, so this has nothing to do with Bi-Directiona...Okay, so this has nothing to do with Bi-Directional iCal...yadda yadda...but I thought I'd share.<BR/><BR/>If you're a command line geek, like me, you may want to spice up your terminal a bit. A couple cool apps to do that: cowsay,figlet,fortune<BR/><BR/>figlet - words in ascii art<BR/>fortune - just some quotes<BR/>cowsay - just ascii art cows saying things...<BR/><BR/>So, in your ~/.bashrc file you can add a line like this:<BR/><BR/>fortune | cowsay -n <BR/><BR/>Which will run your fortune quote through cowsay.<BR/><BR/>or something like:<BR/><BR/>cowsay Hello `whoami`!<BR/><BR/>Just thought I'd share. I just set that up on the office MacBook...you'll have to check it out! Oh yeah, and get MacPorts first...all these apps are ported...hartzdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14261334708255417890noreply@blogger.com