StyleTap has released a proof of concept for a Palm emulator. If this happens, one of my last reasons not to get an iPhone will be gone. I've been an avid Palm user for years and have a huge investment in software, eBooks, etc. Until I have a way to port them, I'll keep using my Treo (or Centro?).
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I've been playing with Office 2007 for work. However, my updated contact info is in OS X! It should be simple enough to export the contacts as vCards and import them into Outlook as contacts, right? Well...sorta...
Address Book thinks it's pretty cool to export all the contacts as one vCard. (It's part of the 3.0 spec, I think.) Outlook does not like that one bit. It wants one vCard per person, please.
Being the lazy person that I am, I knew there had to be a better way to do it. Google turned up some great choices, but they all involved me spending money for the functionality. I'm about as cheap as I am lazy, so I kept searching. If only there was a way to automate the process...
Automator to the rescue! I whipped up a quick workflow to export all cards as individual vCards into a folder on the desktop called vCards. In an effort to spread my laziness, you can download the workflow.
Here's a quick rundown of what it does:
1) Creates a folder on the Desktop called vCards.
2) Finds all contacts where the name is not "" (not null).
3) Export all cards individually.
Voila!
Of course, if you want the vCards saved elsewhere, you can change that part in Automator. For those that want to go with the flow, there's also an Application in the ZIP file.
Enjoy!
CrunchGear has an interesting post on a new version of the MacBooks coming out in October. The touch pad would support the multi-touch function. That would certainly be interesting. Of course, I’d be slutty and have to have one!
Source: [CrunchGear.]
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It’s only been a couple of weeks since Safari 3 came out in beta. We’re already to 3.0.2 for security upgrades. That’s pretty impressive.
From ArsTechnicaApple updates Safari and Mac OS X to fix security issues:
Apple has released Safari 3.0.2 for both Mac and Windows with lots of tweaks, including some security fixes. They’ve also issued Security Update 2007-006 for anyone who isn’t using Safari 3.
As most people know now, Apple's released a beta for Safari 3 for both Windows and Mac. It took me awhile to figure out why, since I've always preferred the extensibility of Firefox over Safari. I found it interesting to tout it as being faster on JavaScript rendering than IE 7 or Firefox. That wasn't enough of a reason for me to switch.
This morning, I realized it was to gain developers for the iPhone. Now that developers can harness Safari on iPhone for widgets and other applications, it makes sense having a score of new developers that might not own a Mac but do develop for the iPhone. These could be free (like so many OS X apps and widgets) or commercial (also like so many OS X apps).
I'm guessing, if it works on Safari 3 (either platform), it'll run on iPhone's Safari.
UPDATE: Crave agrees with me.
Yes, I drank the Kool-Aid and switched to a Mac. Well, switch isn’t the right word. Boot camp allows me to have both.
One thing that too me awhile to get right is SSL mail from Dreamhost with both Mail.app and Thunderbird without getting error messages all the time.
A couple of things need to happen:
1) The Dreamhost SSL certificate needs to be added to the keychain.
2) A change must be made to the /etc/hosts file.
3) The E-mail apps must be configured (for new and existing accounts).
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