People using a laptop often want to download all their email to their laptop before starting a journey so they can work with their email without a connection to the Internet. Microsoft Outlook’s “Offline” mode allows Outlook to be used without an Internet connection, but it doesn’t automatically download all your email to your laptop [...]
Howto: Use Outlook in Offline mode
HowTo: Synchronize iPhone with Facebook Events
It’s surprisingly easy to get your Facebook Events to appear in your iPhone Calendar, and much the same method works for other iCAL compatible applications such as Microsoft Outlook. Step 1: Go to you Facebook page and click on “Events” (Green Circle) Go to the bottom of your Events list and click on “Export Events” [...]
Review: SYNCING.NET 2.8
SYNCING.NET enables data from multiple Windows PCs to be kept in perfect sync. As well as handling normal data files, it’s also an excellent option for sharing Outlook calendars and folders. It works over LAN and internet, and automatically connects with your other PCs without needing an IT expert to configure firewalls or VPN links. [...]
Gmail Delivers Push Email Very Slowly
In September Google announced the availability of its Push email service for iPhone, iPod Touch and Windows Mobile devices. The idea behind the Push service is that notifications of new email messages are sent, or pushed, directly to the phone as soon as an email arrives at the Gmail server. This is in contrast to [...]
First look review: iTunes 9
Apple today launched the new version of its iTunes software for Mac and Windows PCs. The new software is available as a free download and will be installed automatically provided users allow the automatic update feature to function normally. In The Hypervisor tests the first thing that most people noticed was the Snow Leopard style [...]
Review: gSyncit 1.15
gSyncit is a plugin for Microsoft Outlook that synchronizes Contacts and Calendars between Google’s free Gmail service and those in Outlook. In The Hypervisor tests we found gSyncit could handle multiple Outlook calendar and contact folders and offered a wide range of flexible configuration options. For example, calendars and contacts are configured separately, and for [...]
Free iPhone app syncs contacts and calendar
The iPhone gained another free sync option following news from web based sync specialist Soocial that it has finished the first version of its sync app for the iPhone. Stefan Fountain, Soocial chief executive officer, told The Hypervisor, “We submitted our iPhone app to Apple’s App Store so it might take a few weeks before [...]
HowTo: Synchronize iPhone with Gmail
Synchronizing the calendar and contacts information between your iPhone and a Google Gmail account is free and easy to setup. As an added bonus, the synchronisation happens virtually in real time and “over the air” using the iPhone’s WiFi or cellular data connection to the Internet. This means if you change something on the iPhone [...]