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My calendar nirvana May 1, 2006

Posted by James Webster in : web, google, apple , 1 comment so far

I’m somewhat late to the party I guess, but I have been bitten by the Google Calendar bug. I think it was being able to type “Bill’s birthday party this saturday at 6pm for three and a half hours” into the Quick Add box and IT JUST WORKED. Wow.

For some time I have been using iCal for all my appointments. I have been successfully sync’ing it with my mobile phone (Nokia 6600) and publishing the calendar to my host where I can also read it (but alas, not edit) using PHP iCalendar. Events created on my mobile phone are successfully synchronized with my iCal store, thanks to iSync.

All I need now is synchronization with Google Calendar. Its easy enough to subscribe to .ics files created by Calendar in iCal. But when will I be able to enter events into iCal and have them synchronized via the Calendar API? I have a feeling that Syncbridge might solve this problem sooner rather than later. Then my calendar synchronization nirvana will be complete. Oh, apart from a voice recognition interface to the Quick Add feature!

A word on Boot Camp April 6, 2006

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I don’t know what upsets me more about the announcement Boot Camp (Apple’s solution to XP dual-boot on Intel Macs); the fact that so much of the the blogosphere is ranting about it being the best thing since sliced bread (my opinion on this, dear reader, I believe you already know; virtualization yadda yadda yadda) or that AAPL jumped 8% on the announcement and I don’t own any!

Windows XP virtualization for OS X coming from Parallels April 5, 2006

Posted by James Webster in : apple, virtualization , 4 comments

UPDATE: As per the rumour, Parallels have made a beta download of Parallels Workstation for Intel OS X. Now where’s my credit card…

Via virtualization.info; Techworld is reporting that Parallels, a competitor to VMware (albeit on the desktop end of the virtualization spectrum), will be announcing the details of a product that will support virtualization of Windows XP, Linux and presumably other x86 operating systems under Intel Mac OS X. W00t! Time to put in an order for a revision D MacBook Pro methinks?

The question remains; will this spur on VMware to produce a similar product for OS X? The more I think about it, I consider it less likely to happen. Although VMware are still making big money out of Workstation they are focusing on the enterprise space and sales of ESX Server. Intel-based Xserve’s and OS X Server have yet to be announced by Apple. The general view is that Apple (read: Steve Jobs) is increasingly uninterested in the enterprise market and focusing purely on the consumer.

So no free VMware Player for OS X then? Well, there is still Q, which may add true virtualization soon, and the rumours that Leopard will include virtualization support.