![]() My initial thought was "Awesome, since the iPhone has this dock connector, I should be able to use all the sweet iPod accessories out there, right?" - WRONG! While they are all the same physically (the device will fit any ipod cord or accessory) you are not guaranteed that it will work. These are things that came as a surprise to me after I've bought itĪpple completely screwed up the dock connector thing. However, there are a few quirks you should be aware of that they don't tell you when you buy an iPhone. Come on, Nokia hasn't done a useful phone since the 5110 and I can't remember (Sony) Ericson ever producing a useful phone. Besides, the crap that comes out of both Nokia and Sony Ericson these days are so pathetic that it's not even fun anymore. Yeah I know it can't do MMS and that the battery life sucks but it's awesomeness of the user interface and amount of fun and useful stuff in the app store more than compensates for those issues. IsakI bought myself an iphone the other week. I've not yet created a proper release, do you'll have to compile from source for now ( VS2008 needed). The code is open source (GPL v2) so feel free to try it out. Outlook only have the Location field, so Room is silently ignored by CompanionLink which is very annoying when you're on your way to a meeting and forgot to check where it is. What it does do that you can't get with CompanionLink is merging of Lotus Notes' "Room" and "Location" fields so that they appear on the iPhone. It has also never been tested outside my own setup, so your milage may vary. ![]() It only supports one way sync (this is mostly all I need anyway) and lacks some basic configuration options, like setting timespan, and turning on/off reminders. It's still very rough, and has some annoying limitations (like no support for repeating events) but it works fairly well for me. Introducing: TieCal Synchronizer, your one-stop tool to synchronize Lotus Notes to the iPhone. Apart from companionlink, there are no tools out there that can help me get my calendar to the iphone (without going through a 3rd party) Being a software developer, and driven by interesting code challenges, the obvious solution to this problem is of course: to write a tool myself. It also doesn't sync everything the way I want (more on this further down). I'm not a big fan of CompanionLink, since it is both expensive (50 bucks) and pretty buggy. IsakAs I mentioned in my previous blog post, I'm currently a proud owner of an iPhone and needed a way to synchronize my Lotus Notes calendar with it. well well, the goodies end up in ubuntu at some point anyway. Too bad, because I think the work red hat employed hackers are doing with free software is awesome and it would be nice to run the distribution where it happens. Update: and seems to contain what I need to be able to use my computer again. This rant is about the attitude of that page. ![]() I know I will be able to get everything to work eventually. You stupid user, you choose the wrong hardware. They are considered harmful by many kernel developers." "Proprietary drivers are not included in Fedora. I would love to live in a free world, with all free formats and no software patents, but were not there yet and somehow I doubt we will ever get there. I have an nvidia card (and a good one) and lots of music in mp3 format (not every device or player in the world speaks ogg) and movies in a variety of formats. A quick googling on "fedora 11 restricted formats" gave me this page: Īre they out of their f***** mind? I agree in principle to the stuff on that page, but in the real world, that page is just rubbish. The first thing I always do on any linux distribution is to install support for all the non-free stuff like mpeg codecs and nvidia drivers. I finally got sick of Ubuntu (lets see how long that lasts) and wiped by root partition to put fedora 11 preview on it. Isak(Warning: this post is just an angry rant, feel free to skip it)
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