Tales of the ordinary » Tech Tip http://piskeris.dk/blog Emotions, books, outlooks on life....and maybe a few helpful tips Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:03:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 How to get your contacts birthday to appear in the calendar of your iPhone http://piskeris.dk/blog/2009/03/19/how-to-get-your-contacts-birthday-to-appear-in-the-calendar-of-your-iphone/ http://piskeris.dk/blog/2009/03/19/how-to-get-your-contacts-birthday-to-appear-in-the-calendar-of-your-iphone/#comments Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:13:06 +0000 peter http://piskeris.dk/blog/?p=54 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!

What you need to do is open iCal on your Mac (you do have a Mac right?), enter preferences and check the “Show Birthdays calendar” option under “General”. Now sync your iPhone again and tada!

]]> http://piskeris.dk/blog/2009/03/19/how-to-get-your-contacts-birthday-to-appear-in-the-calendar-of-your-iphone/feed/ 0 How to install Subversion to a DS207+ http://piskeris.dk/blog/2009/02/26/how-to-install-subversion-to-a-ds207/ http://piskeris.dk/blog/2009/02/26/how-to-install-subversion-to-a-ds207/#comments Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:23:55 +0000 peter http://piskeris.dk/blog/?p=34 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.

Turns out I was not the only one with that idea. It was even described on Synologys own wiki. Therefore, all you need to do to get Subversion running on your DS207+ is follow the simple steps described on Synologys wiki. Have fun!

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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?

No of corse not, and after some pokin around, I managed to find a recipe that worked like a charm.

To enable back up is fairly simple (when you know how of course!). Only two things differs from when you’re just using an external harddisc for Time Machine backups:

  1. You need to enable NAS support for Time Machine
  2. You need to create a sparsebundle file locally on your machine and then copy it to your NAS server

And the good part is….it’s all explained on the blog linked to above, so go on, click the link, follow the instructions there, and get even more from your NAS server.

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