Brian Dusablon

So there’s this app, called Spanning Sync, for Mac. If you use Address Book and iCal on your Mac, and you use Google Calendar and Google Contacts (part of Gmail), this just might be the ultimate app for you.

You can read more below, but if you just want your $5 savings, use this code: D8BYCM when you buy Spanning Sync ($20 for a year with this coupon, or $60 forever).

On top of that, when you buy a license, you are automatically part of their Save 5+Make 5 deal, allowing you to make money off of referrals. How cool is that? I’ll make $5 if you use my code. It could end up being pretty lucrative, as Aaron has shown. Heck, if you use my code, all you have to do is refer 4 friends and Spanning Sync is entirely FREE for you.

Spanning Sync synchronizes your Google Calendar with iCal. It also (in the upcoming version – releasing very soon) syncs your Google Contacts with your Address Book.

This app basically fills the void that Google hasn’t yet. I love Gmail, and I love Google Calendar, but I was often frustrated by the fact that my contacts were not in sync. Now they are.

I’m also doing some tests on using iCal versus strictly Google Calendar, and this app has been great while I perform my tests, allowing me to use Google Calendar at work and iCal at home.

The only thing it doesn’t do is sync tasks from iCal to Google Calendar, but that’s Google’s fault, because they don’t have a task feature in their calendar, for some ridiculous reason.

More on calendars, tasks, and productivity in the VERY near future.

If you’re on a Mac, and you’re a web designer, developer, coder, etc…you need to check out Coda from Panic.

They just released the newest update (free for v1 owners), and they’ve added Subversion version control…this app has almost everything now, it’s insanely wonderful.

• Source Control using Subversion
• Local multi-file search and replace
• Add a new book that can point to your favorite reference material on the internet or locally
• Improved syntax coloring, including accurate coloring and completion when one language is nested in another (such as JavaScript and CSS within HTML)
• Scriptable editor and document management
• Tab Status Icons tell you if a file is local or remote at a glance
• Sites are now sortable
• New “Reverse Publish” action performs a folder-hierarchy-aware download of remote items

This app is incredible. I love it, and it has saved me countless hours of productivity by having everything in one place.

Gruber reviewed it last year, and his review still holds true.

Coda 1.5 Released

I’ll try to add a more detailed review, but it’d be easier for you to just go download the demo and see how wonderful it is for yourself.

So I’m leaving Plaxo, thanks to Aral and others for notifying me about this screwup. I was probably going to leave anyways, because Plaxo is being acquired by Comcast – and I’ve had plenty of issues with Comcast (just have not posted them yet, ha).

I went to Plaxo help, and of the Top 25 articles, how to delete my account was #1!

So, unless you really, really love Plaxo and don’t mind them sharing your email address with the entire world, then I would go delete your account.

Update: Plaxo has a history of screwups.

Update 2: Officially deleted.

Just received my private beta email from Realmac. I’m excited to test out the new version of RapidWeaver.

I’ll post my experience up here when I get a chance to build out some sites (maybe Duce Enterprises will be my first RapidWeaver project!)