Geek is chic.
The New York Times recently published a story profiling a dying breed — the paper planner user. What was once a traditional holiday gift for the New Year is now often replaced with the convenience of digital calendars and apps on smartphones and tablets. Many paper advocates quoted in the article fear the breakdown of technology in their carefully planned lives. While the digital adopters Read more
Sugar HQ is now using iCal more than ever, so it's totally out of selfishness that I bring you today's tip. Instead of starting up iCal to view your appointments, you can use Cover Flow! Cover Flow is one of my favorite ways to browse music and photos and search for files. Mostly 'cause I just like the sleek scrolly-ness of it. A great tip I found on Tekzilla suggests typing "kind:ical" Read more
My best friend uses iCal, but my sister uses Google Calendar. How do I keep up with their invites? I recently found the Spanning Sync application, which synchronizes Google Calendar and iCal and allows you to share calendars between multiple Macs. It also connects Google Calendar to your iPod, iPhone and other devices. All you have to do is download Spanning Sync, share your Google Calendar, Read more
iTunes can automatically transfer calendar data stored in your iCal, Entourage, Microsoft Outlook or Palm Desktop so that you have all of your important dates with you any place you bring your iPod. I thought I would never use this, but I actually ran into an old friend at the gym and was able to look up a date we met up for dinner on my iPod. It may have been the geekiest move of my life, but it Read more
I don't normally recommend expensive app downloads for your smartphone or otherwise, but I'm making an exception for Fantastical ($15). Yes, you read that right, the app is $15, but in my world, this app is magic. Fantastical is a "natural language event creator" that allows you to type out event details as you would say them, then the app automatically populates your calendar details. Working Read more
In the age of Facebook, it's kind of hard to miss a birthday. But for your really good friends, a simple "Happy Birthday!" on Facebook may not be enough. Instead of going through your entire friends list to mark their birthdays on your smartphone's calendar, you can make things much easier by exporting the dates from Facebook. Just head to the "Events" section of your profile, and click the Read more
On Wednesday afternoon, Kim Kardashian changed her Facebook status to "Ok now heading to a fragrance meeting. I need a name for my new perfume! Any cool ideas?" Three hours later, more than 8,000 people had responded with suggestions ranging from the rather usable to the patently absurd. I slogged through the responses to find the 20 most hilarious. Here's hoping Kim doesn't pick any of these Read more
