How to use Leopard’s iCal with Google Calendar

Some time last year Google updated their online Calendar service to support the CalDAV protocol. CalDAV is a standard protocol that allows access to web based calendars from desktop clients like iCal. Now from within iCal I can schedule create calendar entries that appear in my Google web calendar and vice versa. Google provides instructions … Read more

How to setup Leopard Mail.app to use Gmail

In last month’s post I mentioned that I had already configured my Mac to use some of Google’s free services and how I felt that this was a cheap way to get some of the same features offered in MobileMe. Namely, I configured Mail.app for use with Gmail, synced my Address Book to my Gmail … Read more

Why Apple will get your money

To followup on yesterdays conversation. The vision I have for the IT infrastructure of my home ( yes, I used IT infrastructure and home in the same sentence ) revolves around Apple product. No surprise there. My vision is one where the computers in the house automatically and seamlessly backup on a regular basis without … Read more