SyncServices Disk Utility: Spanning Tools for Mac

Disclaimer: I’m not affiliated with the product. I’m just a satisfied user. I just heard about it when it was in public beta, tried it and immediately liked it, but as with anything, your mileage may vary. Spanning Tools for Mac is a set of utilities that have been created by the authors of Spanning Sync. The tremendous potentials of Sync Services are obvious to all. Being able to share data between applications, between computers or with additional devices (iPhone anybody??) is wonderful, but for a lot…

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Entourage for Exchange EWS

A couple of days ago, Microsoft posted on their site an announcement about the availability of a new beta for Entourage. This new version allows Exchange 2007 users to access their e-mails through Exchange Web Services (EWS for short). This has serious advantages over the previous method (using WebDAV). Much faster You can now sync categories, tasks notes, etc, Now be careful. This update is not for everybody. It cannot connect to an exchange server through WebDAV, so if you have an account on Exchange…

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Antidote RX v8

(in French since the application is mostly directed at people who at least understand French) Antidote RX vient d’être mis à jour en version 8. J’avais parlé précédemment de cette excellente application permettant de corriger le français en s’intégrant dans de nombreuses applications (dont Office). Au menu, de nombreuses nouvelles locutions, des corrections de bogues divers et une intégration améliorée à de nombreuses applications. Les notes de la mise à jour sont ici.

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PocketMac iCalScreenSaver

The PocketMac folks just gave me access to their latest app: PocketMac iCalScreenSaver. I must admit that I like it 🙂 It’s a MacOS X Screen saver that will display your calendar for the day, then the week, then the month. You can select which calendar to display, and they offer a few themes. One limitations though: The application only works with iCal. If you manage your calendar in Entourage, you will have to enable SyncServices in the Preferences to let Entourage sync your calendar…

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Silence…

(en français plus bas) I’ve been rather silent lately. It’s a bit sad since there was a lot of things to talk about. It’s just that I’ve been really overwhelmed and I just could not find the time to sit down and post here everything that was going on… One of the most important news is that VBA is coming back in the next version of Office. That means that everybody who relies on VBA (and I know quite a few) will benefit from a…

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