November 27, 2009
Syncing my iPhone with work (Microsoft Exchange) is great, but I still wanted a to view personal calendar from Google Calendar to be synced to my iPhone too. And yes, I know you can use ActiveSync to sync Calendar on the iphone. This can be done by adding the CalDev calendar sync!
First, click the settings button on the home screen, select Mail, Contacts, Calendars:
Select Add Account, then Other,
Now select Add CalDev Account:
Enter the following information:
Tap the Next button in the top right, and that’s it! I did a quick test, and added an items from both Exchange and Google Calendar, and within 1-2 minutes, it was on synced to my iPhone!
For Windows 7 / Server 2008 R2 only – Medo has created a great little utility that will attach (mount) or detach a VHD Hard drive image file. This is a wonderful time saver for those that use VHD’s on a regular basis!
[ VHD Attach ]
The Google Operating System Blog has a great post explaining why it’s not a good idea to send large attachments:
People who demand large message size limits rarely understand the limitations of the email transmission. Because of the MIME encoding used when sending binary attachments, your files expand 33% when sent via email.
In other words, a 15MB attachment requires 20MB plus the message text, plus message headers.
When you carbon copy 20 of your friends & coworkers, a separate message is sent to each. 20MB x 20 = 400MB. That’s half a freaking CD.If 5 of those friends are on the same small company email server, downloading those messages saturates the entire bandwidth of their T1 data line for nearly 9 minutes. Because each message has separate headers, it isn’t easily cached and gets completely downloaded by each recipient.
Compare this to uploading the same attachment to a web server, FTP server, file transmission service like YouSendIt, or video streaming site like YouTube. One copy is uploaded. The download is typically 8-bit so minimal expansion factor. The small business’ network can cache the content, so it’s only downloaded once then fetched locally from the web caching server.
Bottom line, sending a large attachment via email is relocating using the U.S. Postal Service as your moving company. It is painful, limited, and expensive.
As an email administrator, I couldn’t agree more…
