Apple released the long anticipated iPhone OS 3.0 this week. Having just downloaded it today, I love the improvements they’ve made; again displaying an uncanny ability to know what their users want. Some of my favorite upgrades are the copy & paste feature, universal search (apps, contacts, and even emails!), and landscape mode for keyboards [...]
Tweaking around with the location detection mechanism of MyCal (combining Yahoo’s Local search results with that of Yelp’s), I was able to improve its ability to locate the correct store/restaurant/bar you type in.
Now you should see for areas that have multiple locations (such as starbucks, petland discounts, etc) MyCal will automatically select the location closest [...]
You can now send your events to mycal via email. Simply type in your event info into the subject line and send it to ‘mycal@nihaargupta.com’ and that’s it.
For example:
To: mycal@nihaargupta.com
Subject: cooking session with raekwon tonight at 9 at the clan kitchen @ 123 Pine Street, Staten Island, NY
and MyCal will create the following event in [...]
I’ve recently been working on a way to text events to my google calendar that would automatically add location information (cross streets and subway info) to them. Tired of having to constantly find and type it in each time (yes, I’m lazy), I wrote an app that would do it for me each time I [...]