[OSX-Users] Re: syncing home mac cal with work via ipod?

[mc schraefel]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 11:59:44 +0000, Tim Chown <tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> For 60 quid a year MobileMe seems pretty decent.   Though it seems a lot
of
> people don't like it...
> 
> Tim

i guess for me i'm not keen on sharing my calendars with a corporation 
to my knowledge the data is not encrypted with a client only set of keys if
it's encrypted at all.

y'know. 

that sort of thing??

thoughts?

mc
> 
> On 20 Jan 2011, at 11:45, Jules wrote:
> 
>> Note also for Exchange users.
>> 
>> You can now automatically publish your Exchange calendar as an webcal://
>> URL without having to jump through any hoops involving webdav servers.
>> 
>> The secret is that you can only do it in Outlook Web App (i.e.
Exchange's
>> web interface).
>> Select your calendar, then click on the "Share" button at the top centre
>> of the page.
>> 
>> It will show you the URL you need to give to people, and you can select
>> what level of detail is made public. Note that this doesn't yet work on
>> all the different web browsers that OWA supposedly supports, so don't
>> bother trying Safari for this task. :(
>> 
>> Perfect for sharing your calendar with other Soton non-ECS people!
>> 
>> Jules.
>> 
>> On 20/01/2011 11:31, Hugh Glaser wrote:
>>> I know this doesn't help you, mc, as you are on imap, but for others:
>>> For those who don't know, both iCal and Address Book now sync quite
>>> happily with Exchange.
>>> So I run them and Mail and Outlook (and Sunbird, etc when I feel like
>>> it) on the mac, and all the syncing happens to my iPhone and iPad on
>>> all mail accounts and calendars etc..
>>> So it sort of Just Works.
>>> Good job, as I am too tight to fork out for .Mac :-)
>>> 
>>> On 20 Jan 2011, at 11:18, mc schraefel wrote:
>>> 
>>>> ok update:
>>>> just tried syncing for the third time - changed no settings
>>>> it worked.
>>>> 
>>>> not sure what the difference is.
>>>> 
>>>> just fyi...
>>>> 
>>>> mc
>>>> 
>>>> On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 11:13:16 +0000, mc schraefel<mc at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 11:08:52 +0000, David Tarrant
>>>> <davetaz at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> There is an option in iTunes which specifies which way the calendars
>>>>>> are
>>>>>> synced, e.g. from mac to iPod/iPod to mac or merge. You probably
want
>>>> the
>>>>>> last one.
>>>>> wow
>>>>> 
>>>>> didn't get that
>>>>> 
>>>>> just a message that i can choose to have info on the ipod overwritten
>>>>> by
>>>>> the computer or merged.
>>>>> 
>>>>> am looking for this direction flow in the "info" tab of itunes...
>>>>> 
>>>>> anyone?
>>>>> 
>>>>> thanks david.
>>>>> 
>>>>> mc
>>>>>> The options in under one of the sync tabs for the device when it
>>>>>> appears
>>>>> in
>>>>>> iTunes I think.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Dave T
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 20 Jan 2011, at 11:04, mc schraefel wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> So is it possible
>>>>>>> once one has synced ipod with home computer
>>>>>>> to bring ipod into work to update work computer?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> i have just tried this and failed, but hope that is because there
is
>>>>>>> a
>>>>>>> solution i just don't know...
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> with thanks
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> mc
>> 
>> Jules
>> 
>> -- 
>> sysjkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk
>>