Installation

1. I’ve setup Dropbox to share my Things database betweeen my laptop and a computer at home which is always online.

2. Buy and install Prowl on your iOS device.

3. On the home computer/server, install things-rb:

   $ (sudo) gem update --system # if you're on an older RubyGems version
$ (sudo) gem install things-rb

4. ..and the prowl gem to talk to the Prowl API

   $ (sudo) gem install prowl

5. Save this file somewhere (like ~/bin/prowl_things.rb)

6. Setup a cronjob to run the script as often as you’d like. Mine runs every weekday at 8:45 am.

   45 8 * * 1-5 /usr/bin/ruby /Users/me/bin/prowl_things.rb

A couple of weeks ago our official iPhone application for CopyPasteCharacter.com finally became available on the App Store. The project itself isn’t too complicated but was my first “real” Cocoa and iPhone app so it took some time to get everything together and learn how to do things.

The application basically lets you find and easily copy symbols, characters and letters which otherwise can be hard to find on a regular keyboard. On the iPhone, many of these characters aren’t available at all by just using the system keyboards. Just touch one or many symbols to automatically copy them into your clipboard and paste them into any application (SMS, Facebook, Twitter, Mail etc).

I was happy to see that the app was approved by Apple only two working days after I submitted it. I had, however, waited about 2 months to hear from Apple on how we should solve a problem with my iTunes account.

Hint: You can’t use the same Apple account to upload/sell music in the iTunes Store as upload upload applications to AppStore. Create a new account before buying the iPhone developer program to stay out of trouble.

Please check out the product page with a video walk through or go directly to the AppStore.

After trying almost every possible solution I found in various forums and google, I finally came up with a fix that works for me. Like many others, I suspected the subscribed calendars were the problem and the iPhone synced fine after removing the subscriptions (including the built-in Birthdays calendar). But I have some subscribed calendars I want to have in iCal and found out that the cannot live in a group. I used to have a calendar group (File → New Calendar Group) for my “noisy” calendars so I could hide them easy with just one click. Looks like iCal/iPhone/Sync/OSX/whatever doesn’t like this and syncing stops working when using the group.

Doesn’t work:

Works:

Read more in the OmniGroup forums and/or download the latest version here.

Update: On request, here are some screenshots of how the todo list looks like: