Archive for November, 2006

Creating a shared calendar: iCal, Google Calendar, Outlook

Here’s a quick tutorial on how to create a calendar of events that you’d like to share with others, specifically users of Apple’s iCal, Google Calendar or Microsoft Outlook.

My winter basketball league recently released the schedules on their web site. We like the web site, but it’d be nice to be able to view the events (each game) in our own calendar applications.

Creating a shared calendar

Photo migration: SmugMug to Flickr (and why Flickr is far superior)

As a 2 year SmugMug “Standard” account holder, I built up a large collection of photos, painstakingly uploaded, organized and annotated.  Since 2004, the online photo sharing service market has changed considerably.  I’ve had a Flickr account for nearly as long and have always been impressed with the features, speed, and ease of use, but I also felt locked-in to Smugmug because of the large collection I’d amassed with SmugMug-specific metadata (that is not easily transferable).  Des

Give Democracy Your Write-In Vote

On this day, Americans around the country will take part in Democracy by casting their votes for candidates and platforms. What most Americans don’t know is that another kind of Democracy exists, a kind you write code for, a kind you contribute documentation to, a kind you use to discover great video content that is delivered through the Internet. You may be sick of phone calls and mailings asking for support, but I can assure you that you’ll support this platform (provided you’re running Windows, Linux or OS X).