Viewing Exchange Public Folder Calendar in iCal

If you have an Exchange account with your company & are a Mac OS X Snow Leopard user, you are likely to have found the advantages of using Mac Apps (Mail, iCal and Address Book) with exchange delightful. The one down side was not being able to view Public Folder and at least for me, the ability to not view our Corporate Calendar.

Through the use of a Windows PC and full OWA capabilities (only available through IE at the time of this writing, it is coming in Exchange 2010 if your company has already upgraded) you can access your companies Public Calendar.

Once you have logged in to your Exchange OWA account via IE on a windows machine (or Windows VM), you can then go to the bottom left corner and click on public folders. Once you click the plus next to the domains main folder, all of your public folders will appear. Right click your Public Calendar (probably named something else) and then click copy. You will then be presented with a list of place to copy the folder. Copy it to your personal Calendar (Probably just called Calendar) and then wait (you shouldn’t have to wait too long.)

Now, race back to your Mac and open iCal. Assuming your Exchange account is already set up as your Exchange folders refresh you should see your Public Calendar appear. Once it does you can right click and “Get Info” and change the calendars color to your liking. That’s it.

I haven’t experimented with other Public Folders yet, but will in the near future. I will also try to upload a tutorial video, if the above is confusing.

Also know that if you are an iPhone user, this calendar will now show up in your main calendar without the option of turning it off.

WordPress wins 2009 Best Overall CMS award!

I definitely agree with this award. I use WP almost exclusively for design and build. Easy to use and great open source community! Way to go WordPress! Keep up the good work!

Read Article Here.

Entourage and Exchange

Note to self: Wait until evening time to clear cache and sync Entourage/ Exchange if you have tons of email in all of your boxes, that way you can let it run overnight and not miss any emails…

I thought Twitter Spam was supposed to be getting better…

Apparently the “Terms of Service” update that Twitter “updated” has done nothing for stopping Spam. Mine is actually getting worse…

Anyone else?

This is where the web is heading…

and I like it!

Mozilla Labs Ubiquity

While I was nosing around on Mozilla’s website, I can across this. It is a cool feature and I can’t wait for this sort of functionality in full!

Great Compact FireFox Theme

Vfox3 has instantly won me over. With a Safari like feel, it places your tabs up top and minimizes the real estate taken for browser necessities.
Check it out here.

If you’ve been thinking about making a Mac purchase…

now is the time. MacMall is having a great 4th of July sale on Macbooks, MacBook Pros and iMacs. There regular price beats Apple’s educational price, plus a bunch of freebies (all after mail in rebates).

Check it out here.

iPhone OS 3.0 on a 3G with video…

OK, so I got video by cheating, but it works pretty well…

You can get redsn0w here.

Tech Tip – What if I can’t empty my trash in Mac OS X?

If you find that you keep getting stopped with errors when you try to empty your trash in Mac OS X, try to relaunch Finder.*

You do this by going to the Apple in the upper left hand corner of your computer screen, click it, go down to Force Quit and click that.  This will bring up a list of currently running programs, scroll down to “Finder” and highlight it.  in the lower left hand corner of the window you will see a “Relaunch” button, click it.  (See pic below) Finder will relaunch and then you should be able to empty your trash.

*If the message reads that the file is in use make sure that all your programs that could be using the file(s) is closed first and then try to re-empty the trash before you try the “Relaunch.”

If not there are more instructions from Apple here.

iPhone OS 3.0 so far…

Well, like millions of others yesterday, I meandered my way through my iPhone upgrade to OS 3.0.  I use the word meander because at launch the servers were extremely bogged down.  No worries, a little patience and clicking update, clicking yes I really want to update, watching bar progress of backup, watching contacting activation server bar, pop up activation server temporarily unavailable, clicking OK, starting the process over about 20X got me my spiffy new 3.0.  So what’s cool about it?

First of all SEARCH FUNCTIONALITY! Besides all the wrangle about iPhone not being enterprise friendly (deployment, background services, blah, blah, blah) the piece that has been missing since the launch of the iPhone is being able to search and especially email.  As one who relies on email for info, I keep about a months worth of emails on my phone, which for me averages to around 600 emails in my phone inbox.  Without search, that was a lot of scrolling.  So, email search finctionality, top new feature for me in 3.0.  Not to mention, you can actually search your whole phone, which is “pretty OK too”, to quote Mr Miagi.

The other new feature, that isn’t really a feature, just a refinement, is the seeming speed increase.  There doesn’t seem to be the lag in switching between screens and typing letters that there used to be.  Very nice!

What I am awaiting is the new “push notification” to catch on.  What I would especially love to see is an RSS reader with badges.  That would be cool.

Anyway, just a few thoughts, as I have delved into the world of iPhone OS 3.0.