A little while back I had an issue when trying to sync my iPhone with my mac. Any calendar entries made inside iCal would sync across fine to the iPhone, but when done the other way the new entries wouldn’t appear in iCal.

I went through various solutions last time and the only way to make it work again was to reset the iPhone and re-sync everything. This morning I had the exact same problem and didn’t particularly fancy having to reset my phone again and go through the rigours of setting it up how I liked it again.

I came across many posts detailing different fixes but none of them seemed to work for me. I tried resetting the sync history using the button in iSync preferences, but a restart later and I still had the problem. Looking at the Apple support document for resetting the SyncServices folder showed another way to reset the information. Open terminal, copy and paste and then hit enter:

/System/Library/Frameworks/SyncServices.framework/Versions/A/Resources/resetsync.pl full

When re-opening iTunes and the iPhone plugged in you’ll initially see no calendars, no email accounts and no address book groups. Select the options you want to sync again then click sync and that information should re-appear.

I have no idea why the calendars stopped syncing correctly, but I did notice that some old calendars that have been deleted still showed under the sync list. They weren’t being synced, but could have been a contributor to the problems I’ve had.

Nial’s set up a very cool mac only software torrent search portal over at iTorrent.co.uk.
If you like things simple, this is definitely the site to use. It’s fast and helps the end user by combining identical torrents. It’s also mac specific so you won’t have to root through windows stuff.

NetNewsWire 3.1 is free!

By free I mean both that we’ve released it from its cage and that it costs no money. Zero dollars.

NetNewsWire is a great news reader and the fact that it’s now free will surely entice lots more mac folk to use it!

When it comes to writing on this blog, I used to use the default WordPress web interface, which was great. I then stumbled upon MarsEdit, which is now called MarsEdit 2.

I’ve been using it religiously for just under a month now and I’m finding more and more to like about it.
Up until today I didn’t know how I could edit a posts date so that I could write posts which would then appear a day or two later. This meant I would be going back and forth between MarsEdit and the cumbersome WordPress write screen.

A simple but odd shortcut, Apple + cmd + L, pops up the edit timestamp option you see to the right. I now have no reason to use the WordPress write screen unless I’m away from home.

I also found out another useful option “Save Default Window Size“, which enables you to drag out the required size of the write post screen and get the application to remember that information.