Text:
Me: Why don’t you understand
Siri: My understanding of your language is still somewhat imperfect. My Apologies.
Siri makes me smile #5: Understanding
Siri makes me smile #4: favorite color
Siri makes me smile #3: What are you wearing?
Siri makes me smile #2: Update Facebook
Siri makes me smile #1
Siri makes me smile #5: Understanding
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Siri makes me smile #4: favorite color
Text:
Me: What is your favorite color?
Siri: My Favorite color is… well, I don’t know how to say it in your Language. It’s sort of greenish, but with more dimensions.
Siri makes me smile #3: What are you wearing?
Siri knows how to seduce a geek.
Text:
Me: what are wearing?
Siri: aluminosilicate glass and stainless steel. Nice, huh?
Siri makes me smile #2: Update Facebook
Apparently a lot of people wonder why there isn’t Facebook integration.
Text:
Me: update my Facebook status
Siri: I can’t help you with Facebook, Brad. Sorry about that!
Me: why not
Siri: I don’t know. Frankly I’ve wondered that myself.
Me: Siri you make me laugh.
Siri: I can’t. I always forget the punchline.
Siri makes me smile #1
This was most of my day yesterday but now Siri is up and running pretty good.
Funny screenshots to follow. Send me some if you have them.
Snow Leopard: New Airport Icon
Apple’s Newest OS Release Snow Leopard has many new features… Most of them talked about all over the web. A small update has been made to the Airport Icon which doesn’t provide any new functionality but is still a slight change. The New Airport Icon shows when it’s scanning for a network. (see video)
Note: Video made using the New Quicktime Screen Recording Feature.
MacCurious Tweets from this week (2009-09-01)
- And now it's official – Apple holding 'rock and roll' themed event, September 9th http://bit.ly/oOlNj (engadget) #
- 20 best new features in OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard TechRadar http://bit.ly/KGlj8 #
- Good thing to look at for New Mac/iLife Users – Top tips and tricks for iLife beginners http://bit.ly/3jHqMl (Techradar) #
- Using the kindle app for the iPhone & enjoying it. http://bit.ly/LX2Ua
Not a real kindle but free is good at least til a Mac Tablet is out # - If you haven't ordered already amazon is now offering Snow Leopard discounted for $25 – http://bit.ly/13xEsz #
- Gizmodo Review of Snow Leopard looks promising: http://bit.ly/p7TPI
Ships tomorrow, but you can still order on Amazon: http://bit.ly/13xEsz #
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MacCurious Tweets from this week (2009-08-25)
- Want a cool way to customize your desktop? Use GeekTool (free) – Tutorial on getting started http://bit.ly/eFt8K #
- How to use GeekTool to Monitor Time Machine Status – Mac 101 http://bit.ly/7GDd3 #
- Blood on the Cover of Apple's New OS Photoshopped Out http://bit.ly/16Npya #
- Snow Leopard has grabbed the top two sales slots on Amazon. http://bit.ly/7jS8K from (PC world) Get yours – http://bit.ly/13xEsz #
- Snow Leopard is shipping out in 4 days. Place your pre-orders on Amazon to get it when it comes out. http://bit.ly/13xEsz #
- Sync/Backup your iCal Calendar using Dropbox… Just like MobileMe but Free… http://is.gd/2wE7v #
- Mac-Curios.com:: Sync your iCal Calendar using Dropbox http://bit.ly/aJVkZ #
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Sync your iCal Calendar using Dropbox
In this month’s issue of Wired Magazine they give a tip on how to use Dropbox to sync your iCal across multiple macs. Sure you can do this with MobileMe and pay $99 a year which gets you other features but Dropbox is Free (up to 2GB of Storage). Here is how to do it.
NOTE: Make sure you backup your Calendar Files and everything before you do this.
- If you don’t have Dropbox already you need to Download, Install and Setup an account. You can sign up Here.
- Once you have dropbox setup on your Main Machine Open Terminal which is located in your Applications/Utilities Folder.
- First you want to move your iCal File into the Dropbox Folder. Do this by entering or copying the following text and then hit Enter:
mv ~/Library/Calendars ~/Dropbox/
- Next you need to tell iCal to look in the dropbox folder when it opens. Do this by putting in this text and hit Enter:
ln -s ~/Dropbox/Calendars/ ~/Library/Calendars
You have now setup your Main Machine. Next thing to do is setup your 2nd computer. Since you already have moved your iCal folder to Drop box you can skip the first step… So on the 2nd Mac:
- You need to Delete the Calendar Folder from your 2nd Mac. It is located in your User Library (User/Library/Calendars)
- Then Open Terminal and Enter or Copy the following text and hit Enter:
ln -s ~/Dropbox/Calendars/ ~/Library/Calendars
This tells your 2nd Mac to look for the iCal File that should already be in your Dropbox Folder.
Now your two macs will sync with the same calendar File. Just make sure you are not changing both of them at the same time.
You can sync other Databases as well like Address Book. www.tipsfor.us shows a similar tutorial for the Address Book.app.
Dropbox has even setup an Automator workflow to help create these types of links (called Symlinks or Symbolic Links). Check out the Dropbox Tutorial (pdf). The Automator Action & Workflow can be downloaded here.
MacCurious Tweets from this week 2009-08-18
- All about the Mac menubar http://bit.ly/2T5mHI #
- Don't know why but now that the rumors are saying a mac tablet could be out sep 7, I am finding it hard to believe them http://bit.ly/pT2Bg #
- New MS Office coming in late 2010. Best news: They are adding Visual Basic/Macros back. Thank you Microsoft. http://is.gd/2fz5A #
- WSJ.com gets in on the tablet speculation – http://is.gd/2eAkA #
- Clever way to store hard drives (or if you are gizmodo action figures) on the back of your iMac. http://is.gd/2e7mp #
- Run your Mac Software Update, There's a Security and a Safari update. If you don't know where it is, it's in your System Preferences. #
- RT @mactip: in iTunes… hold down "option" while clicking the green zoom widget to make it zoom instead of it going mini. #
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