Updating to the latest nightly builds of Omnifocus is neccesary for us who want to sync our iPhone’s and iPod Touch’s with our task management lists.
Everytime the new omnifocus is dragged into applications under Leopard, the error message omnimailmessageserviceenabler is in use, pops up, here’s how to solve it.
Quit Mail
and try again! That’s it!
What makes this Green is beyond me, but, Parallels INC has jumped on the bundle bandwagon that has usually been done by MacUpdatePromo and MacHeist, it’s a pretty good deal on some well known software (and some not so well known, take a look and grab it if you like (no proceeds from this go to AuburnCom).
The Bundle sells for $50 and includes:
http://www.crmgroupusa.com/crm_emails/parallels/GreenComputing09292008/webGreen9Apps.html
What makes this Green is beyond me, but, Parallels INC has jumped on the bundle bandwagon that has usually been done by MacUpdatePromo and MacHeist, it’s a pretty good deal on some well known software (and some not so well known, take a look and grab it if you like (no proceeds from this go to AuburnCom).
The Bundle sells for $50 and includes:
http://www.crmgroupusa.com/crm_emails/parallels/GreenComputing09292008/webGreen9Apps.html
The iPhone turns on right out of the box, in fact, Apple ‘Pre-activates’ the Phone when you buy it from them in the US, they transfer your number from your old phone (usually) and you walk out the door bumping into people and trees as you gaze at the gorgeous screen full of colorful icons.
But the first real step to claiming the phone is connecting it to iTunes on your Mac or PC, when you do this, you’ll personalize your settings, most likely the default settings will be good, but you can go through the menu’s and tabs that show up in iTunes and select exactly which and how much music, video and podcasts are synched with your iPhone.
You can also turn on Contact, Calendar and email synching, which is really great, though, if you are a MobileMe (formerly called .Mac) user, then a far superior way to sync this information is through the “Cloud”, essentially through the Air or Internet, where no physical connection has to happen between your iPhone and computer. When using MobileMe to sync data, contacts and events you enter while on the road will be sent straight to the “Cloud”(technically speaking, an apple server on the internet) and then down to your various Macs, the data is in fact accessible through http://me.com, meaning you can always fetch your contacts phone numbers through a website that’s available 24 hours a day from any computer around the world.
If you have your own email server, say ‘billdavies@auburncom.com’, then you’ll be able to configure your iPhone to connect to this email account very easily, you’ll need to ensure that you are taking advantage of IMAP on your mail server though, IMAP (Internet Mail Access Protocol) replaced POP(Post Office Protocol) about five years ago but is still rarely implemented on many web hosting plans, ask your service provider about it, or call us at AuburnCon for a meeting to evaluate your needs., IMAP allows your mails to be delivered to multiple devices and keep those multiple devices in Sync, this is so very essential when you have more than one device for checking email, receiving mail in two places and having those two places both know when a message has been Read, Flagged, Deleted or Replied To is both wonderful and absolutely essential, Read more about IMAP on www.imap.org/
Okay, now that the configuration and hard work is done, it’s time to have fun and get some great Applications from the App Store, here’s what we at AuburnCom like so Far:
Monkey Ball (entertains a child for ever!)
Enigmo (Entertains anyone for ever)
OmniFocus (Serious location based List making)
Things (Cool easy list making)
Shazam (Identify any song you hear playing around you!!!)
Midomi (Sing a song into the Mic to identify it!)
Texas Hold ‘Em (Apple Made Poker Game, enough said)
Inspired’s Karmic Cookie (Fun and Funny Fortune Cookie game)
NetNewsWire (Great News Reader)
Hanoi (the famous Hanoi Tower Puzzle, 64 discs is really hard)
Pandora (Wow)
Remote (Wow!)
Scrabble (Great)
YouNote (Good)
iWant (Good)
And that’s a good start with the iPhone, if you’ve comments about your own iPhone experience, leave a comment or email me.
Again, AuburnCom provides expert consultations at our spacious and very internet connected offices at 660 Alabama Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94110, Call us on 415-871-9683 to make an appointment.
Hey Brendan,
Am I right in believing that one of the features of Leopard is that I can run Windows on my Mac. I would love to be able to sync up my Blackberry with my Mac. Could I run windows on it, and sync it up that way?
In a perfect world I’d have an iPhone, unfortunately AT&T does not have a North American plan (as Verizon does) and if I switch then I have to pay 20 cents a minute to Canada (about 25% of my calls) and 35 cents a minute roaming when I am there (about 5-6 times a year). Not cool.
Does your screensaver kick in while you’re watching a video on hulu.com? Or your screen go asleep while you’re watching twitlive.tv or the AuburnCom office camera?
Get Caffeine, a tiny Mac only program that puts an icon in your menu bar, before you click play on the big lebowski, tap this and it’ll keep your Mac awake for you, no visits to the system pref pane for you!
Have you tried the NetNewsWire application for the iPhone?
It’s awesome.
Subscribe to your favorite sites using RSS through an online (free) version at Newsgator.com, use the (Recently) Free Mac Desktop version of NetNewsWire and NetNewsWire on the iPhone will synchronize your subscription list and pull all those stories from all those sites (my iPhone is currently displaying 2367 stories unread!) to your iPhone for local reading, you can switch off all your wireless functions, put the iPhone in Airplane Mode and go into a nuclear bunker, the playa, or an airplane, and all those stories are there in full glory waiting to be read.
If you’re new to RSS here are some great RSS feeds to begin with:
“iPhone” ads on Craigslist RSS Feed
Why did I feature these feeds? One very big reason, all three offer ‘Full’ Syndication, the posts that come through the RSS feed are the entire subject, uncut! Other Rss feeds like the Nytimes, BBC and even our own SFgate offer only short clips of stories in the RSS feed, avoid those, stick with good full feeds and embrace papers and journals that offer such RSS feeds, my favorite paper and electronic journal: Wired
Try out NetNewsWire Today
P.S. When you start getting too many feeds to handle on your iPhone, go to the newsgator website. Settings->Edit Locations->NetNewsWire iPhone/iPod-Touch — you can edit the feeds you get there! (thanks to davidbro)
