If you want to surf the net and view flash enabled websites for example, you simply upgrade to the plus service for $5 per month.

But don’t take my word for it, go check it out for yourself!

As soon as you upgrade to iCloud, your Apple address book will change. You will now have an “iCloud”. So far so good…however, as soon the synchronization between daylite and address book is turned on, the iCloud settings break. you will now have an “iCloud” and “On My Mac” set of contacts. Essentially they will be duplicates and if you make a change in one, it will not synchronize with the other. The way to get around this is to manually copy the cards from the “On My Mac” list into the “iCloud” list. This will update/merge the cards and keep your iCloud address book current. While not terribly difficult, it is very inconvenient.  I believe that simpler & easier solution is always best. But sometimes it is not as straight forward to setup “simple & easy”.

You can successfully manage you contacts in Daylite and sync them through to your iPhone/iPad by using Google Sync., with little effort on an ongoing basis. You will need to spend some time to make sure that it is setup correctly.  

Here is what you need: 1 new gmail account with no contact information. Alternatively, you can use your existing gmail account, but you will need archive your contacts & remove them from your gmail account

Step 1 – Turn off iCloud contact sync with your Mac.

Step 2 – Setup Google sync within your address book.

Step 3 – Setup Gmail on your iPhone/iPad.  Here is the trick, you need to set it up using “exchange” as the type of email account. Use your user gmail account password. Leave the “domain” field blank. Once validation begins, this screen will change and ask you for a server name.  In this field enter “m.google.com”. That’s it you are almost done. If you want, you can change the label for this account from “exchange” to something for better identification.

Step 4 – Once verification has completed, simply turn on contacts. You will now see “Google” as an entry in your iPhone/iPad address book.

This will keep in sync with Daylite, as long as your Mac is working correctly. While many of you had probably already figured it out, it was worth a mention.

Another example of our go getter work ethic. we don’t quit until the job is done!  Thanks to my team for all the long hours and hard work.

Being a gadget lover, I decided to go ahead and get it. I had no idea what I was getting my self into. Siri has changed the the way I interact with my phone. Accuracy of voice recognition has always been a challenge, but Apple seems to have solved that for most part with Siri. It is truly amazing, how fast and accurately words can be transcribed, not to mention extract your command from your spoken requests.

So while, there might be over 200 new features in the new iPhone 4S, Siri is the one that I am in love with.

If you don’t like to type or have fat fingers, like I do, you too will fall in love with Siri. What’s more is that’s he understands accents better than any voice recognition software, I have ever encountered. Many of my non-native American friends have think accents. While the voice activated system in their cars don’t understand them, Siri most certainly does.

My hope is that this sort of innovation has truly been woven into the DNA of Apple, and does not end with the passing of Steve Jobs!

Daylite

• Daylite will warn the user if the offline being used is overdue for a sync.

• If automatic background sync has been disabled, then this will be indicated in the offline sync status message in the main window.
• Daylite will automatically detect if its location on the disk has been changed and update the offline sync mechanism, so that background syncs continue to occur.
• If the current backup path is invalid, then the default backup path will be used for creating backups during database updates.
• Added a new Daylite Teacher template. This template helps teaching professionals to understand how they can customize and use Daylite in their profession to achieve their goals and objectives.

Daylite Server Admin

• If the current backup path is invalid, then the default backup path will be used for creating backups during database updates.

Bug Fixes

Daylite

• Fixed issue where Daylite was not reporting when an offline database was reset and needed to be re-created.
• Fixed issue where importing vCards was causing a crash.
• Fixed issue where Mail would not open and compose a new message when an email address is clicked.
• Fixed issue where entering a title after stopping the task timer was causing a crash.
• Fixed issue with Auto-Dialer crashes.
• Fixed issue with preference pane crashes.
• Fixed crashes in few sample databases.
• Fixed issue causing comments on new line items not being saved.

Daylite Server Admin

• Fixed issue with Touch Sync on Lion OS.
• Fixed issue with Daylite Server Admin concerning the resume feature on Lion OS.

Daylite Mail Integration

• Dropped support for collapsed conversation view in Mail for Daylite Mail Integration (DMI). The only way to use DMI is expanded conversation view while selecting 1 email at a time and non-conversation view.

Daylite is the premier customer relationship management (CRM) software for the Mac. Visit www.marketcircle.com for more info.

See you there!