Okay, so yesterday I realized it has nothing to do with updating Tiger for Mobile Me. I could just go on using the .mac service like I always had. The only thing I had to do was open the settings on the iPhone and activate synchronization for the calendar and contacts on the .mac account. It now works fine. I think Apple has been a little evasive regarding this piece of information, don’t you?
Well, it was easy enough when I realized what to do. … tsk… and I call myself a geek…
LATER NOTE: Despair not! There is no problem using Mobile Me on Tiger. Read more here
Is it just me or is there not a Mobile Me update for Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)? Everywhere I read it says that an update can be found that will replace the dotmac icon in system preferences with a new Mobile Me icon, but I can’t find any such update. Thus I cannot sync my calendar and contacts with my iPhone without plugging it in and doing it via iTunes.
It works but it annoys me. That was one of the things I was really looking forward to when I was standing in that long dorky line waiting for my iPhone 3G. Being a travelling consultant it has it’s advantages being able to sync the phone while not at the office.
Any news on the progress there would be highly appreciated.
Long had I waited, and when it appeared I rejoiced. It came to me in splendor and bliss. And I was glad because it had showed itself to me and I had seen the light. And thus it was mine.
Being a computer nerd I love the gadgets and clothing found at ThinkGeek. My most recent fascination is with the interactive T-shirts. Can it be cooler? I want them all! Just haven’t decided which one I’m going to buy 
This guy seems quite happy with his shirt:
Update Jan 24 -09: The Flash Tracer that works with Firefox 3 has to be downloaded from the creator’s own site. The one at Mozilla Addons doesn’t work with 3.x (yet). In the instructions below I have therefore used the link to his own site.
If you’re developing for Flash/Flex the FlashTracer can be quite a nifty plugin. It lets you see the flash player trace output directly in a sidebar in you browser. Outputting debugging info is something I use all the time while developing and I have tried several times to get FlashTracer to work, but haven’t managed, so I usually have a textarea inside my flash/flex project with a custom debug output. I guess I have been too impatient before but today I sat down and read through some posts about it. This is how I eventually got it to work on my Mac:
1. Make sure you’re using the latest Flash Player Debug version. Download it here
2. Install the plugin (of course)
3. Open the FlashTracer sidebar in FireFox. Click the Preferences button.
4. Under the area named “Select output file” click browse and point the plugin to the flashlog.txt file your debug player outputs. In my case (being on a mac) it was here:
/Users/{username}/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/Logs/flashlog.txt
The plugin will ask if you want to replace the file, which is stupid because you will want to read from the file, not write to it, but that’s just how it is. Don’t let it scare’ya.
5. Save/close preferences.
6. Restart FireFox.
That should do it.
