Carl’s Blog

Today I saw this post on Lifehacker about color coding messages addressed to you in Microsoft Outlook. It made me think that I should share a slight modification in Thunderbird that I have been doing for quite some time. I reverse the method that is proposed in the post. I choose to ‘un-highlight’ messages that are not explicitly for me, by turning them a lighter color. This way I can scan my emails very quickly and see those are that more than likely something I need to pay attention to.

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After seeing the LiquidBlaze Desktop featured on LifeHacker, I was intrigued. I had been looking for a good way to have my wife’s calendar visible for me at work. As if reading my mind, LifeHacker had another featured desktop using Active Desktop. This was was by awhite and shows a calendar downloaded from the web. Unfortunately, I didn’t already use Yahoo! Calendar and I really wasn’t keen on making my calendar public. Besides, my wife already uses iCal on her iMac and I had it set up to synchronize via WebDAV to my web host. I had already been able to get PHP iCalendar (site seems to be down sometimes) to show her uploaded calendars. Thus I figured I should try to combine awhite’s idea with PHP iCalendar. The web host can have password protected directories so the whole world wouldn’t be aware of our appointments.
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