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?

Have you made it work?

Google contacts has always scared me, even before Buzz.

Are you running Snow Leopard?

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.

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.

Google says Shit - um, sorry! We're working on it, I swear!. (New Buzz privacy controls to be added soon.)

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.

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.

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.

I'm glad to hear it. I really like Google products and I hope they learn a lesson from all of this.

They have a very important "Disable Buzz completely" option coming

Good. I don't, frankly, see the point of Buzz at all, but for people who dig it, rock on for them. I do, however, have a problem with a company as large as Google getting so pumped about their new thing that they unleashed it upon everyone unasked, without (apparently) consulting their legal team first. Sheesh.

I have a question about OS upgrades. If I were to get an unlocked Android phone from a different vendor and OS upgrades are pushed out by my carrier, would TMobile be sending them to me too? Anyone know?