Archive for the ‘Tech Tip’ Category

How to get your contacts birthday to appear in the calendar of your iPhone

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

OK, so you’ve bought an iPhone and you love it (disclaimer: of course I love my family more than my iPhone). You’ve imported all your contacts from your old phone (I did it manually). Next you’ve added birthdays for all your contacts so that you will never forget their birthday again. And now you expect these birthdays to appear in the calendar of your iPhone…but they don’t!
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How to install Subversion to a DS207+

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

After the success with getting TimeMachine to back up to our NAS server I was eager to see if the NAS server could be used for something else, say a Subversion server for instance.
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How to get Time Machine to back up to a DS207+

Sunday, January 11th, 2009

Recently our little family became the happy owners of a Synology DS207+ NAS server.

After setting up and getting the basic services running (which didn’t take long…great job Synology!) I started wondering wether this new toy could be used in conjunction with Time Machine for backing up?

Surely I could not be the first person in the world to get that idea now, could I?
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