Comments on: If I ran the internet… http://nicholsonrecords.com/paul/2009/12/if-i-ran-the-internet/ Random musings. Mostly about geek stuff, movies, and of course, the Nashville Predators Fri, 21 Oct 2011 02:56:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Garrett Bartley http://nicholsonrecords.com/paul/2009/12/if-i-ran-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-634 Garrett Bartley Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:24:38 +0000 http://nicholsonrecords.com/paul/?p=579#comment-634 On the iPhone, it uses the Mail app and Calendar app and they "just work".<br><br>I'm pretty sure you can view attendees and accept/decline/maybe, but I've only really used it with Exchange/Outlook. I would check, but my iPhone only keeps 2 weeks of Exchange data stored locally (it's a configurable setting). My last calendar thing with multiple people involved was back in September. I haven't played with the Google Calendar integration explicitly as most of my events are birthday and holiday reminders. On the iPhone, it uses the Mail app and Calendar app and they “just work”.

I'm pretty sure you can view attendees and accept/decline/maybe, but I've only really used it with Exchange/Outlook. I would check, but my iPhone only keeps 2 weeks of Exchange data stored locally (it's a configurable setting). My last calendar thing with multiple people involved was back in September. I haven't played with the Google Calendar integration explicitly as most of my events are birthday and holiday reminders.

]]> By: Paul Nicholson http://nicholsonrecords.com/paul/2009/12/if-i-ran-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-633 Paul Nicholson Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:19:17 +0000 http://nicholsonrecords.com/paul/?p=579#comment-633 2) follow-up: Can you see who is attending an event on the iPhone view of the Calendar? Who has accepted, declined, etc? I use Google Calendar Sync with Outlook as well, but none of that data gets transferred. Just the subject, description, and "place" data from what I can tell. I guess that's an issue with the very very simple Google Calendar Sync app more than the Google Calendar app itself. 2) follow-up: Can you see who is attending an event on the iPhone view of the Calendar? Who has accepted, declined, etc? I use Google Calendar Sync with Outlook as well, but none of that data gets transferred. Just the subject, description, and “place” data from what I can tell. I guess that's an issue with the very very simple Google Calendar Sync app more than the Google Calendar app itself.

]]> By: Paul Nicholson http://nicholsonrecords.com/paul/2009/12/if-i-ran-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-632 Paul Nicholson Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:15:34 +0000 http://nicholsonrecords.com/paul/?p=579#comment-632 2) Does the iPhone even have a dedicated GMail and google calendar app? My understanding was that they are basically webkit customized webpages. I can get to those on my Android phone just fine too, and they work pretty well. That's what I meant by "I can do it from the web". The odd part is that if I click on an invite in the GMail app, it doesn't open that nice webkit interface. It opens what is a little closer to the full web interface, but awkwardly rendered for a small screen. So the features are there, just hard to work with in that interface. No reason it shouldn't just open the Calendar app on the phone directly.<br><br>3) That's what I thought. But this is the only site that I know of that sets the cookies in Flash. Tons of other heavily flash-based sites (YouTube, Hulu, flash game sites, etc) all set an HTML cookie then load a flash app. I agree that creating another OS profile would fix it, but I don't want to have to create a duplicate OS login just to handle Pandora's bad code. 2) Does the iPhone even have a dedicated GMail and google calendar app? My understanding was that they are basically webkit customized webpages. I can get to those on my Android phone just fine too, and they work pretty well. That's what I meant by “I can do it from the web”. The odd part is that if I click on an invite in the GMail app, it doesn't open that nice webkit interface. It opens what is a little closer to the full web interface, but awkwardly rendered for a small screen. So the features are there, just hard to work with in that interface. No reason it shouldn't just open the Calendar app on the phone directly.

3) That's what I thought. But this is the only site that I know of that sets the cookies in Flash. Tons of other heavily flash-based sites (YouTube, Hulu, flash game sites, etc) all set an HTML cookie then load a flash app. I agree that creating another OS profile would fix it, but I don't want to have to create a duplicate OS login just to handle Pandora's bad code.

]]> By: Garrett Bartley http://nicholsonrecords.com/paul/2009/12/if-i-ran-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-630 Garrett Bartley Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:57:08 +0000 http://nicholsonrecords.com/paul/?p=579#comment-630 1) Yes, please!<br><br>2) Calendaring and invitations work great on the iPhone. I have mine syncing with Google Calendar and Outlook.<br><br>3) This is a Flash thing. All browser-based Flash usage uses a single cookie store outside of the browser profile path. SilverLight does the exact same thing. I think they both store their cookies and local PC data within OS user directories. If you set up separate user profiles within your OS, I think this would get around that annoyance. 1) Yes, please!

2) Calendaring and invitations work great on the iPhone. I have mine syncing with Google Calendar and Outlook.

3) This is a Flash thing. All browser-based Flash usage uses a single cookie store outside of the browser profile path. SilverLight does the exact same thing. I think they both store their cookies and local PC data within OS user directories. If you set up separate user profiles within your OS, I think this would get around that annoyance.

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