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How are you with iPhones and Outlook contacts? I was using Google sync to keep my Outlook calendar and my Google calendar ( which is shard with several other family Google calendars) updated. Hubby gave me an iPhone, saying that it would really help me be more productive when I was away from my laptop (i.e., driving kids all over town). Because I was already syncing Google email into Outlook, I was getting three copies of each message on my iPhone. Fixed that problem by discontinuing the download from Google mail into Outlook. I dumped my Outlook contacts into gmail, but can’t get either my Outlook or my Google contacts to synch with my iPhone (using iCloud). 
Any suggestions?
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Lise Embley
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Tevya
I’ve got another iOS app for somebody to review. Who wants it? It’s this one: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quiet-hands-lds/id485208306?mt=8
Sorry all. I’m really excited about this site and I think a lot of LDS people are really going to enjoy it. I’ve just been slammed and haven’t had time to put together a post to announce it. Hopefully you’re all still with me. I’ll get to it soon.
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Jeff VanDrimmelen
I’m game. I have two kids learning to read right now.
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Tevya
One last question & some info:
Do any of you have/use iOS and would be willing to review an app (and maybe some in the future) for me? If more than one of you want to volunteer, then are any of you also traveling now or soon? It’s an app to find the nearest meeting place/time, so it’ll be better tested and reviewed if you’re traveling at all.
Hope you all had a great Christmas. I’m excited to announce Ask MLH and let people come here to ask us all questions. I’ll probably do it the 2nd week of Jan. Looks like Guru Panel has won (unless any other votes come in), so I’ll just leave that. Happy New Year all!
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curtisross
I have an iPad and I also travel quite often for work
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Tevya
Are you traveling anytime real soon?
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Jeff VanDrimmelen
Yes, I have an iPad 1, and a iPhone 4S and would love to help you review apps, but I am not travelling right now. Just let me know what you need tested and I’ll send you my ID.
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Tevya
If Curtis is traveling soon, I’ll let him do this one, but I’m sure there will be many more in the future. I’ll make sure you get the next.
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Tevya
Vote in the poll for the panel name. This is just one last test question, to make sure you all get the email. And also to encourage you to vote for the name of the panel, in the poll on the right =====>
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Jeff VanDrimmelen
Got the email and voted.
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Sheila
LOL I voted…..
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curtisross
Got it and voted
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janell
Got it, haven’t voted yet though, can’t decide
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Tevya
Should I share MLH’s ThinkUp data? If you’re not familiar, ThinkUp is a cool new webapp that downloads your data from Twitter accounts, Facebook pages, etc. I’ve installed it for MLH here: http://mormonlifehacker.com/thinkup/ and just now made it public for you all to see. I’m big on openness and transparency, but just wanted your feedback on this:
- Should I leave it public?
- Should I write about it?
- Should I showcase it?
- Should I write about (or make a screencast) on how to setup ThinkUp for your personal accounts or blog?
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Tevya
I meant to clarify: the numbers on MLH’s social stuff isn’t spectacular, but I’m not concerned about that. I’m more concerned about people being offended if they find themselves under Who You Follow>Deadbeats, or something like that?
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Jeff VanDrimmelen
Hmmm… never seen this. My LDS Spiritual is one of the deadbeats, but I’m cool with that. So I say go ahead and make it available. Nice find Tevya as always.
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Tevya
Thanks @jeffvand exactly the kind of feedback I needed.
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janell
That is a pretty nice program. I would say to go for it, writing it up, or teaching how to set it up. I think most deadbeats know who they are and will laugh about it, I’m like Jeff…
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Tevya
Cool. I’ll put it in the list of upcoming articles.
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Tevya
Hey all. I’ve been MIA (the non-Mormon version) for a few days as we had our 2nd child on Thurs. morning. We’re super excited.
So tell me if things are working? When somebody posts a new question (like this one), do you get a once-daily summary email notifying you of all questions done that day? Also if you subscribe to the comments, do you get followup comments in your inbox?
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Jeff VanDrimmelen
I got the email about the other one, which is why I came here. I did not get this one though. Congrats on the new arrival!!
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Tevya
Does this mean that nobody else got the update and therefore hasn’t seen my messages? Or just to busy leading up to Christmas?
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mdjensen
I got the other one as well but not this one…
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janell
By the way, congratulations!! That is great news. How are your wife and baby doing?
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angelonawing
Congratulations on the New Baby!
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Tevya
Thanks to both of you. Baby and wife or both doing great. The baby’s only been waking up once at night to eat. So she’s been real easy so far!
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janell
Here’s my question. I’m looking at publishing an e-book. And *maybe* eventually an app to go along with it. What are the best resources to do it? And would you suggest that someone without a programming background (beyond simple php) even consider looking at creating an app, maybe with something like buzztouch.com? Or should I find someone else who might be interested in working on it to partner with?
I suppose I could give a little more detail – I manage the Mormons on Google+ page, and after I started putting up the “13 awesome things you can do with your LDS Account” posts, I thought it would be great to make it into an e-book. Now I’m trying to decide if I should even dip my toes in the water for an app. The app would be fairly simple, with similar functionality to the LDS Lists app but with pictures and a news feed to go along with it.
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mdjensen
I’d go with an e-book first, personally, and perhaps a website to go with it if you want to list resources, news, etc. Put the e-book up on Amazon (for Kindle) or have a download from your website, and then go from there. If it grows like you want it to, maybe it becomes an app then. For me an app has to have some value beyond just what a webpage will do, even if the app is free.
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Jeff VanDrimmelen
I’m with @mdjensen, start small. Publishing on Kindle is real easy. Then from there you can decide. I recently did my first app and it was very expensive. I probably won’t do that again for a while unless I have a real good reason. Websites are much easier and sometimes reach a larger audience anyway.
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janell
Great, that helps, thank you! I wasn’t sure how complicated it would be, sounds like a lot more than I would want to bite off right now.
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Jeff VanDrimmelen
Question from me. How is this different than LDS Tech forums? Are we duplicating something that is already out there? I didn’t think of this earlier, but thought I would throw that out there.
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janell
I would guess so that people who aren’t technically inclined have a place to go to ask questions? Do you get many people who aren’t technically inclined in the LDS Tech forums?
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Tevya
You’re probably more experienced than me in this, Jeff, but my experience with LDSTech is that it’s a long, difficult sign-up process, and somewhat clique-ish. I’ve tried posting questions, etc. there and seem to get mostly ignored. I think it’s a great thing, but as Janell says, not necessarily for everyone.
I’d originally seen this as just a group of people I could pass-on questions emailed to me. But based on everyone’s feedback, etc, this seemed a better solution. It eliminates the need for things to go through me, makes the content public and searchable, and hopefully asking a question is so easy anyone can do it.
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Jeff VanDrimmelen
I suppose we can always see what happens. It’s sad to me that the other can’t work for this. I think that is, at least in part, what it was designed to do… If only they would create a wordpress multi-site instance. Now that would be awesome.
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Tevya
Yeah, with a simple existing-account sign-in!
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Tevya
This question submitted via email by Michael:
“Where do I find the LDS scriptures in French for the iPad?
I have one version but there are lots of mistakes.
If you can help it will be appreciated.”-
jeffvand
I’m surprised there is not an app out there for that. I would think there would be. If you can get the source code for it somewhere then you could use Stanza and upload it there. Not ideal though, but it would work. You could also contact the developers of the big LDS scriptures apps and ask them if they have French versions. I have found them to be very responsive.
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mdjensen
We (LDSScriptures.com, the golden plates one) have it almost finished (there’s a placeholder in the app already actually). Our goal is this month to have it available!
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Jeff VanDrimmelen
How’s that for responsive.
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Tevya
Thanks @mdjensen! I know you answered it previously, but it made a good test question. I sent it to the guy who asked it.
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Jeff VanDrimmelen 7:57 am on 02/02/2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Hey Lise. Yes, I have some suggestions. I’d highly recommend using google as the main point of syncing (unless you have exchange, which most folks don’t unless they work for a business or something). To get it all set up to sync down you contacts from google, and your email pushing, and you calendar you will need to set it up a little different.
1) Go to Settings – Mail on your iphone and just delete any email accounts you have on there. You will pull them all down again, so don’t worry about it.
2) In Mail, add a new account. When it asks you what kind and you would normally select Gmail… dont. Instead select Exchange. That’s where most folks get confused (because it doesn’t make sense). But just trust me.
You can see the rest of the documentation here: http://support.google.com/mobile/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=138740. Just follow this procedure and you will have your contacts, mail, calendar syncing in no time.
Hope this helps. Let us know if you run into any snags.