I never thought it would happen but here we go. I, Marina, have a problem. I live by my calendar.
It's true.
When I was in highschool, I went through these phases of what I'd do when I grew up. In one such fantasy (something I now realize was more of a narrowly avoided nightmare or sorts) I'd be a busy body running from meeting to meeting, checking my calendar and carrying a briefcase. For a time when I got my first job working in an office, I even played out that dream a little by buying an expensive Kenneth Cole lap top bag which I filled with all sorts of useless bits. When I started figuring out what I needed to carry with me the bag started to get heavy and I switched to a back pack. The problem here is that I started filling that to the point of ridiculousness. I'm digressing already - we're talking about calendars.
For many a year I tracked appointments on sticky notes stuck to the inside of my wallet but when a year into my love affair with my N95, I figured out how to sync my GCal with the on board calendar, my life changed. I started scheduling everything. And now, my calendar looks like this:
I'm sure you've noticed the calendar in the sidebar (or maybe you haven't, I don't know for sure) but it's only when I flip over to schedule something new that I notice all the black. Those are all appointments and mind you, it's not like I'm running to a due-or-die million dollar meetings but they appointments I need to keep.
Never thought "I'll need to check my schedule" would be a part of my vocabulary without being facetious but here am I, scheduling appointments three weeks in advance. Can you imagine what my wallet would look like if I was still using the sticky note method? Yeah, I'd rather not think about it either.
I spent the better part of the night trying to get some video off of my phone, a Sony Ericsson W819i. I finally had to resort to tracking down the USB cable that goes with the phone, downloading the software and trying to navigate through a load of folders but I was successful. What I uploaded you ask? A very poor quality video, also from Saturday.
I'll have to see if I can figure out how to increase the quality of the video, if at all possible. We'll see how that goes.
Now, then I tried to set up the built in calendar with Goosync which is a service that syncs your Google calendar with nearly every phone...for free! The result was NOT good. I tried doing a manual set-up which also didn't go well. I'll have to wait until tomorrow to re-attempt a one-click set-up. Hopefully that will run a little more smoothly.
Also on the docket for tomorrow: trying to talk to Rogers about upgrading to an N95. I'll keep you posted on the ongoing drama.
I've tried it all: paper organizer (OK for a few weeks and then I fall out of the habit of using it), PDA (also OK but I always forget to recharge it and/or sync), my head (a little shady when it comes to remembering dates and times). Playing around with my iPod the other day, I noticed that it has both a tasks and Calendar feature but I haven't figured out how to make either one work. I've been searching around on-line and discovered that there are ways to sync the iPod with Google calendar (the one calendar I've managed to keep updated, mostly because I can export from a variety of other online sites directly into it.
Since I always have my iPod with me and since it seems to be the only thing I charge and sync regularly, I figured that using the on-board calendar would be the ideal thing. Apparently you can sync the iPod with Google calendar through Outlook but I have an adverse reaction to using Office on my home PC so I thought I'd put it out there: does anyone else know how to sync the Google Calendar with the iPod? I've tried this handy tool but it doesn't seem to work (I'm running Windows XP and have an iPod nano. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
