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Death to Outlook and Exchange: two-way, over the air Google Calendar to Blackberry sync!

April 12th, 2007 · Comments

If I could sync my Blackberry with Google Calendar over the air, bidirectionally, I'd be able to dump Outlook forever. (Though admittedly Google doesn't have a particularly robust contacts system for Gmail yet and it would be nice to sync contacts too.)
One blogger reckons he's done it. I haven't had time to try the method [...]

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Now this is what I need… car charger double adaptor

March 4th, 2007 · Comments

How's a man to charge his Blackberry and GPS navigation device at the same time otherwise?
A steal at $25.95.
And yet I wonder if my little 1990 Honda Civic could cope with it.
http://www.expansys.com.au/p.aspx?i=135885

I'm now the proud owner of a Honda Civic
I rode the Google staff shuttle bus!
Getting closer to the perfect internet mobile
Bug in Firefox 3 [...]

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Video of a guy blending an iPod

January 13th, 2007 · Comments

Amazing… this company sells blenders and to demonstrate the power of its machines it blends things on camera… like iPods.

Contact details for sale
Why Sony can't compete against Apple (or why you should always say no to compromise)
It's official: cords are taking over my life
Internet shopping scammers strike again
Brushing shoulders with the PM

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