Showing posts with label MobileMe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MobileMe. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

How to stop google sync asking outlook profile.

I’m been a regular user of Google Calc sync for a long time. It allows you to sync events between Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook Calendar. You'll be able to determine the direction of information flow, as well as the sync frequency.

However, one of the problems the user community has found very annoying is that every time it syncs, it asks to select the outlook profile, even after selecting the default checkbox, making it not really “background and automated”, leaving the profile box open until someone manually clicks on it.

The user community has tried several ways to work around this issue as Google doesn’t seem to come out with a fix, until today one of the users suggested trying MobileMe from Apple. Here’s the instruction suggested.

“Install MobileMe (free Apple syncing software).  You can download MobileMe from softpedia without signing up.  You don't need to configure anything or even run it after installing MobileMe (I installed MobileMe Control Panel 1.6.3)

After installing MobileMe, I no longer get the "choose profile" window when I sync and Outlook 2010 is closed.

Both of my computers (Win 7 64 bit with Outlook 2010; Win XP 32 bit with Outlook 2010) had this same issue, and after installing MobileMe, they both are syncing flawlessly between Google Calendar and Outlook 2010.”

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Without hesitation, I tested the solution and it works! Until Google comes out with a fixed release for this issue, this would do the job. Try it out for yourself.

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

MobileMe services no longer available

Coincidentally on the same day, June 6, 2011,  Apple announced the new iCloud together with the termination of MobileMe. If you had an active paid or trial MobileMe subscription as of June 6, 2011, your service will automatically be extended through June 30, 2012, at no additional charge. However, if you choose, you can cancel your subscription at any time for a pro-rated refund. For those that might want to cancel the subscription, below are the steps for backing up and canceling.

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How to Backup :

Data that you might be considering backing up are Mails, Contacts, Calendars, iDisk. After reading their detail instructions, it seems Calendars seems to be the most trickiest. Details of how to backup each data sets before cancelation can be found here

How to cancel :

To discontinue the free Find My iPhone service, turn off the application on each ofyour iOS devices (iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch). You can do this by tapping Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > MobileMe > Find My iPhone.

For more information visit

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2174