For those of us who use OS X in an enterprise environment, it can be difficult to make our Exchange calendars sync with our iPhones. There is an excellent workaround, however. All of the updated versions of Office for Mac include a synchronization service that makes it easy as pie.
In Entourage, go to Entourage > Preferences > Sync Services.
There you have an option to sync your address book, calendar, or both with Apple’s built-in software. This works great for synching the iPhone.
For those of you who use Windows Mobile, you’re likely no stranger to battery life issues that sometimes come up, especially if you are a power user, spend a lot of time on the telephone during the day or connect to your Exchange email via ActiveSync for “push” email. A Microsoft employee who runs a blog on the subject has a great write-up to get you started on preserving your battery life and getting through the day on your Blackjack, Treo 750, Motorola Q, etc.
In a move that will make potential iPhone customers happy, Yahoo Inc. announced that they will be providing unlimited storage on their free e-mail service. This is good news for existing customers, who will see their limit go from 1GB, past limits set by Google and Microsoft to an unlimited mailbox. In other words, you’ll never need to delete another e-mail if you use Yahoo.
Despite the FoxNews.com’s hilarious claim that floppy diskettes can hold 144 megabytes (they really meant 1.44 megabytes) of data, the article is an interesting read. It appears that online storage is finally getting cheap enough for this to be a good business model for Yahoo Inc.
For iPhone customers, this is great news because they can have unlimited, push e-mail synchronization on their Yahoo Mail account.