Switchers' Blog

Five Google Calendar Tips for iCal Users

I have been a heavy iCal user ever since I first purchased the PowerBook G4 and I still open it every day. However, after Merlin Mann mentioned how much he liked the Google Calendar in one of the recent MacBreak Weekly podcasts, I decided to give the online service a try.

Here is a few tips I found in the first few weeks:

1. Use Keyboard shortcuts

You will be surprised to find that navigating and editing Google Calendar entries in the web browser can be faster than using a native desktop application. For example, press "d/w/m" to switch between Day/Week/Month view, "n/p" to navigate to next or previous Day/Week/Month, "t" to jump to Today and "c" to create a new event.

1Passwd in Information Week

We're like a bunch of little kids whenever we see 1Passwd mentioned in magazines. That was the case today when we found out that Information Week chose 1Passwd as one of the 14 Apps it recommended in it's Complete, Unvarnished, Slightly Biased Apple Buyers' Guide.

Here's the direct link to the1Passwd part and the start of the software portion of the article.

Firefox: Where's my 1Password Icon?

One of the great things about 1Passwd is the multi-browser support. While I'm content to use Safari others have chosen Firefox, Camino, Flock, or Omniweb as their browser of choice. Lately we've received a bit of e-mail regarding the 1Passwd icon not being installed in Firefox and there does not appear to be one single solution for all cases. Therefore, I thought I would do a knowledge "dump" on the subject and cover all them here. So here is a list of solutions for getting the 1Passwd icon in added to Firefox.

1. Although 1Passwd works with Firefox 1.5 and later, we highly recommend that you use the most current version of Firefox. As it stands today the latest version of Firefox is 2.0.0.6. (Get Firefox Here)