You can sync your Mac address book with Google, too.
We're still working on a plan, but so far it involves being sent to prison and becoming somebody's bitch.
Fred ,'Just Rewards (2)'
Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."
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Tom Scola - Feb 13, 2010 7:53:17 am PST #12831 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
§ ita § - Feb 13, 2010 7:58:44 am PST #12832 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
How? I'm not seeing instructions that don't assume I have an iPhone.
Tom Scola - Feb 13, 2010 8:02:07 am PST #12833 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
§ ita § - Feb 13, 2010 8:08:03 am PST #12834 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Yeah--I posted upthread ( ita "Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."" Jan 25, 2010 8:40:08 pm PST) about that. It's not exposing the Google option to me. I've tried with two different iPods.
Have you made it work?
Tom Scola - Feb 13, 2010 9:18:46 am PST #12835 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Have you made it work?
Google contacts has always scared me, even before Buzz.
§ ita § - Feb 13, 2010 9:38:44 am PST #12836 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Are you running Snow Leopard?
No, not yet. Next laptop, when I get that resolved.
I'm trying this now. Their command line instructions gave me the options within Address Book to choose Google, but iSync doesn't run because there's nothing for it to connect to. So I'm doing all the other steps. About to reboot.
§ ita § - Feb 13, 2010 10:21:57 am PST #12837 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Whoohoo! Something worked!
All my contacts are now in Google!
Which, sure, sounds weird given current shenanigans, but it's not an email address I send mail from, or anything. Just a conduit to get contacts and calendaring onto an Android phone from my Mac.
I'm pissed that iSync spoilt me so badly this whole time, and also sad that BluePhone elite is seriously neutered when it comes to this OS, though.
And I'm having a bitch of a time getting used to the touchscreen. I'm pretty good with my decision to get a device with a keyboard. It's possible that the touchscreen keyboard that comes with this in particular isn't good, but I try it, and I'm appalling. Trying to use the fingerpads and not the nails, though. Weird.
Jessica - Feb 13, 2010 6:21:58 pm PST #12838 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Google says Shit - um, sorry! We're working on it, I swear!. (New Buzz privacy controls to be added soon.)
§ ita § - Feb 13, 2010 6:45:37 pm PST #12839 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
They have a very important "Disable Buzz completely" option coming, because as far as I can tell, the instructions given don't do that--they just close off what your profile is currently showing and takes Buzz off your Gmail screen. I'm not sure if it stops people from following you, and I think there was some email address oversharing happening there.
Juliebird - Feb 13, 2010 9:25:24 pm PST #12840 of 25501
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
I have a Gateway laptop that is a month and a half old, and I got a warning that my hard drive was failing, back everything up, and don't turn the computer back on until I've fixed or replaced the hard drive. After panicking and disconnecting the internet cable so I could rush it over to the external hard drive and losing an hours worth of a journal entry, I've been deleting files just to make room and at least got the music backed up.
But, what the hell? A little voice inside my head is saying that it's got to be a really malicious trojan trying to get me to back up my info to their server by hitting okay. Another little voice is telling me my father got me a broken, bargain laptop like he did with my digital camera. But I'm sure the reality is it's my fault. In which case, how did I break a month and a half old laptop? I really want to know. I'm so glad I finished vidding.
Now to see if I have a warranty or whatnot.
eta it also said that I could choose to ignore the backup and cross my fingers that the failing/corrupted hard drive issue wouldn't pop again (paraphrased). So, is there a problem or not? So I drop 70 bucks on a diagnostic or what?
I knew I was tempting fate when I chose not to create a restore point this afternoon when installing an older version of Quicktime to make Streamclip run.