How to sync your iPhone with MULTIPLE google calendars

January 22, 2011 – 2:05 pm

Here’s one that took me ages and ages to work out, so I hope you find it helpful. When I first set up my google calendar on my iPhone, only one google calendar was being shown. I use my google calendar at work, my colleagues share their calendars with me and we all know who’s available when, it’s great - but only my default calendar was being synced.

I’ll describe the whole process here, it really is very simple, if you know how.

  1. Open Settings on your iPhone
  2. Go to Mail, Contacts, Calendars
  3. Click Add Account…
  4. Choose Other
  5. Choose Add CalDav Account
  6. Enter the following:
    - Server: www.google.com
    - User Name: Your google account user name (in my case that’s my gmail address)
    - Password: Your google account password
    - Description: Up to you, this will be for you to identify the account, I entered google

Ok.. and that’s when you’d think you’d be done, but no, there’s one more step.

To sync multiple calendars, point ANY web browser (can be on your computer or on your iPhone) to https://www.google.com/calendar/iphoneselect. On this page you’ll see a list of all the calendars you have set up in google calendar, including any calendars that are shared with you. Simply check the ones you want to sync to your iPhone calendar.

And that’s it, you’re done. Your calendars now sync both ways and you can pick which calendar you publish to when creating your calendar entry on your iPhone. Naturally you can only enter events for calendars you have publish/edit rights for, this is configured in the google settings. It really works just as expected.

This will only work for iOS 3.0 users and above by the way.

Finally, thanks to online-tech-tips.com for writing this article and to Joel for leaving the comment in the thread that eventually pointed me to this google support thread that provides the instructions.

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Plupload: Uploads for everyone

January 19, 2011 – 10:48 am

Maybe this is old news to some of you, if so I apologize, but I just stumbled across this.

Plupload, by the developers of the popular html text editor TinyMCE, allows you to upload files using HTML5 Gears, Silverlight, Flash, BrowserPlus or normal forms, providing some unique features such as upload progress, image resizing and chunked uploads.

If you use it, let me know what you think. The site/feature list definitely looks promising.

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Testing popup

August 24, 2010 – 2:18 pm

Here’s another approach, not quite as integrated but a bigger viewable space. Also cool.

onsync_playRobert’s personal meeting room
Start time: 24. August 2010, 14:15 GMT+2
Duration: 60 mins

Do you want to try OnSync yourself? Sign up for free to the world’s best web conferencing service.

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iframe test

August 23, 2010 – 3:42 pm

This is a test of embedding our new OnSync app into websites. Pretty cool to be able to embed a meeting room directly on a website, don’t you think?

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Baby steps. The first week with my new site.

August 5, 2010 – 8:09 pm

Ok, so here’s an update on how the site http://www.thebestburgerinbarcelona.com is going and some things I did to it. Read my previous post to see what it’s all about.

I found a cool plugin called Sexy Bookmarks. It inserts these nicely styled buttons I have at the bottom of every page allowing people to tweet, facebook, digg, whatever. You can choose which services you want to allow people to spread the word with. This is essential for creating a viral effect.

I also opened comments even though I initially thought I wouldn’t. Dialog is good.

Google analytics was installed. Naturally the stats are rather depressing at the moment but that’s fine.

My adsense account was approved after a few days, I think it was wednesday. Actually this might have been earlier but they didnt send me a mail to notify me. I immediately started google ads. I set up three horizontal blocks on my homepage. They were great in the beginning but now since I launched the multilanguage plugin the ads show up in different languages, not in relation to the language you’re reading. That’s pretty lame and I want to get to the bottom of why.

The coolest thing so far is that I reached the first page on google on first day for term “the best hamburger in barcelona”. This was immediately followed by the rather mood dampening revelation that hardly anyone looks for that. According to google’s keyword tool there are less than 10 searches per day for this term. WTF, maybe I should have checked that out BEFORE I started the project. Oh well..

In any case, here’s a link to the tool in case you dont know it. It’s pretty awesome. I found out that loads of people in spain search for humbuger. Not sure how to optimise my keywords for that.

Google keyword tool.
Keyword Tool - Google AdWords - Online Advertising by Google
Enter one keyword or phrase per line to see what related word searches your ad will show on.
https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

I also added keywords to my template. They are  hardcoded into the header.php file of my wordpress template for now and only in english so not ideal. I’ll get that fixed.

Re: Internationalization. I tried out some modules, have not found perfect one yet. qTranslate looked promising but autoconversion did not work. Global Translator doesnt allow me to keep some words from translating. E.g. it translates my number on rated restaurants name from Bacoa to Baccus. NOT ideal :( And I want to show up on the first page of google for “la millor hamburguesa de Barcelona” as well as “la mejor hamburguesa de Barcelona” just like I already do in english.

Bonus. I made 44cents for two clicks thanks to some friend clicking I suppose. Not bad. Only 9.50 until I break even. I invested around 10 bucks into the domain name. I read that to make 10 bucks a day i need about 10.000 pageviews. Per day. Right now I’m getting about 10. You gotta start somewhere I guess but I get the feeling this project is not gonna get me rich quick.

I really need to work on content!

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The best burger in Barcelona.com

August 2, 2010 – 4:50 pm

Ok, so I’m trying a little experiment. Check it out here:

http://www.thebestburgerinbarcelona.com

If you have not worked it out from the URL, its a ranking page of the best burgers I can find in Barcelona. I truly believe burgers are like one of the cornerstones of our society and I’ve decided to turn this passion of mine into a social experiment/business. burger5_770px I’m gonna keep the site simple and to the point. Reviews will be written by me, the ranking is by me and the pics are done by moi aussi. Then I’m gonna trickle in a couple of google ads and link the places to google maps as well as post on blogs throughout the web and see if I can generate some traffic and hopefully end up making some pocket money (yes, in the end its all about the benjamins).

If you’re in BCN, definitely make sure to check out BACOA, number on burger spot in town. For the adress, go on and visit the best burger in barcelona dot com. I’d be happy to join you if you drop me a line.

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Apple’s web designer

March 3, 2009 – 2:47 pm

Here’s something I always wanted to know: Who designed apple’s website?

Today I came across this information by chance, while researching on skinning flex components (the results of this research will be another post).

So, turns out the guy is called Jason Wilson and you can check out his rather impressive porfolio here: http://wilson.tv/

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Happy New Year 2009

January 2, 2009 – 1:20 pm

It’s been over a year since my last post and almost exactly 3 years since I launched this blog on 31.12.2005.

I have just upgraded to Worpress 2.7 which has a much more powerful admin than 2.0 which I was using previously. I’m still experimenting with some themes so don’t be suprised if the pages look & feel changes over the next days and weeks. If you find any issues, please use the comments.

Wishing everyone all the best for the upcoming year!

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New blog about how to make money with a blog

October 6, 2007 – 11:22 pm

My friend David has started a new blog, in spanish, about how to make money with a blog. It’s only a couple of days old and he’s already added loads of useful information about how to get started, choose the right topic, quality assure your content, target the right audience, driving traffic to your site, measuring success of your activities and keeping the community alive.

David documents every step he takes throughout his experiment very thoroughly and provides a step-by-step guide you can follow to monetize on your own blog - It’s useful for both novices and experienced bloggers.

I wish David the best of luck and loads and loads of money!

Go check it out at www.monetizando.net.

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Make VoIP telephone calls straight from your Flex app

September 7, 2007 – 11:37 am

“The Ribbit Phone Component will give Rich internet application developers the ability to make and receive calls, record/send and receive voicemail, as well as add and manage contacts.”

http://developer.ribbitphone.com/

This sounds exciting, I have not tried this yet but if this component keeps what it promises it could have an immense impact on the way people communicate. I’ll update this post if/once we get access to the pre-release/beta.

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