Sync Outlook with Android Through the Cloud
If you use an Android device as your PDA, you can sync your Outlook calendar events and appointments to your Android device. You can do this using software provided by your device maker or third party sync software, or you can sync through the cloud.
There are a few options for cloud-syncing your Outlook calendar with Android. The most obvious one is through Google Calendar with the Google Sync client. However, if Google Calendar is your main personal calendar, you may not want to mix your work calendar with your personal calendar. The Google Sync client also has a few nasty bugs and one of it is that it will not sync all your Outlook events to Google Calendar. The best non-Free option I have tried is gSyncit but obviously, it’s not free.
Enters Funambol. It’s free and it works! Follow these steps to start syncing.
- Search for Funambol in the Android Market and install it.
- Open Funambol in your Android device and sign up for free account.
- Using the browser on your PC, navigate to myFunambol and log in. You can see a Windows/Outlook sync client download on the right side of the myFunambol Portal page.
- Download the Windows client and install on your PC.
- Configure the Funambol to start automatically and sync your Outlook Calendar at a set interval. The lowest interval is 30 minutes but you can edit it elsewhere.
- When you have set it up, click Calendar in the Funambol Windows Sync Client.
- After the first sync is complete, you can close the Funambol window. You do not need the window to run all the time as Funambol uses the Scheduled Task of Windows to run the scheduled sync.
If you want to make exact changes to the sync schedule, use Windows Scheduled Task.
Funambol free account gives your 150Mb of storage — enough for your Calendar. If you want to also sync other stuffs like pictures, files, etc., upgrade to their other packages.
Goodbye Nokia. The 6710 was such a shame.
Finally, after struggling with the 6710 Navigator, I’ve ditched it and got myself a Samsung Galaxy S. The Galaxy S is not a perfect phone but you don’t need to open up the phone and cut wires to make it perfect (unlike a Nokia). So, my next few entries will probably be about the Galaxy S and how I made it perfect (for me)… because the truth is, getting a Galaxy S feels like falling in love.
Happy happy happy happy happy me! 
Dexpot 1.5 – Virtual desktops just got better!
I wrote quite some time ago on Dexpot 1.4. It was such a useful utility. At about the same time, I was also on Ubuntu and I was loving the cube desktop. I tried various software and the most workable cube desktop for Windows at the time was DeskSpace by Otaku. But DeskSpace 5.4 was buggy back then and just plain destroyed my PC. Don’t know about the newer versions, though. I don’t dare.
Dexpot 1.4, on the other hand, was a very stable and well-built software. It was the best virtual desktop software I’ve ever used. Now Dexpot 1.5 is available and the features are just impressive! Not only we get the virtual desktops like in Dexpot 1.4, but also 3D cube desktop and Expose-like feature too.
And best of all, it’s free for personal use! Here, go and read about the features and download it.
Update:
On my notebook (Lenovo 3000 Y410, Windows 7 32bit), the 3D cube and Windows 7 taskbar thingy has a bug that you can’t turn it on using the Dexpot plug-in settings. The workaround is very simple. Browse to the folder Dexpot plug-ins are installed (typically, C:\Program Files\Dexpot\plugins). Then, double-click Dexcube.exe and SevenDex.exe.
When you open Dexpot plugin settings, you’ll see them now selected. Just don’t disturb that. You can click Configure for Dexcube though. Just don’t remove the check marks.
When you close and relaunch Dexpot, even after a reboot, the plug-ins remain selected and will be loaded by Dexpot anyway.
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