Hey look a new design.

Well, I made a new design, pretty good if I do say so myself.

Might need something else, but don't quite know what.

Anyway, more to follow.

iPhone to iCal sync issues.

After trying mobile me for the past 2 weeks and giving up with the calendar and address book syncing instantly, not that they weren't working, just didn't need it, I was having trouble with the iPhone calendar not syncing up to iCal. iCal was syncing down to the iPhone however. After trying everything I could think of, such as deleting all calendars, resetting sync history, nothing was working. I also had a lot of deleted calendars showing up in iTunes. Today I found this post:

iphone-to-ical-sync-issues

By running a 1 line terminal command:

/System/Library/Frameworks/SyncServices.framework/Versions/A/Resources/resetsync.pl full

(apple doc)

As far as I can tell it does a full sync history reset. Removed all the deleted calendars didn't actually delete the real files though and allowed syncing again!

Along with this today google have added caldav support for google calendar so now can have proper syncing with ical and google calendar. However I did discover that the iPhone does not add events to that calendar, which is slightly annoying, but can't be helped for the moment. Google just need to add some exchange service to allow over the air syncing and everything will be fine!

Mighty Muggs - Darth Vader

Thought I would test out my new camera (Canon IXUS 950 IS) and offer a small review of the Darth Vader Mighty Mugg which I got from Firebox.com.



It's about 6" tall, good detailing and a new and interesting style for Star Was characters. His helmet and cape are removable, but that just looks stupid.



I don't really like the extra big white dots on the eyes. They are a bit too big, too white and unless you put them helmet down a bit they make it look silly. These appear to be gray or not there in other pictures and on the box, but oh well, what can you do.



There is something slightly off centre with the eyes or the helmet or something and this makes Vader look a bit shifty, but I like it, its comical.



He also comes with a lightsaber. If he didn't, I'm sure someone somewhere would riot.



His arms can move up and down, which allows for a death grip pose.

Overall, I like it. Its a very cool thing to have sat on your desk.

Now with style switching

I have added a snazzy style switcher (the nice coloured squares under the menu). I still need to change a couple of images.

See this tutorial for how I achieved this amazing feat! (sarcasm btw, its not that amazing, but it is very snazzy).

About Twitter

I decided to see what all the fuss about Twitter was at the beginning of summer. I have come to conclusion thats its fun if you know lots of your friends on twitter, or you are trying to communicate with a fan base or customer base that will happily read your posts.

At first I did find it quite fun and mildly addictive, but only a little. I then preceded to get bored as I knew no-one was actually reading it and now I have stopped. (I also realise that no-one is probably reading this.)

Its also difficult if everyone you know is on Facebook and would not really want to use twitter so there is no point in trying to force it on them.

So twitter is good if you know people will read it.
It is also quite interesting reading about a few of the geek celebrities that use it and what they actually do.
Its bad when you know no-one is reading it, and all you end up doing is reading when someone who you don't care about is going out.