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Thank you all for sitting through my simple presentation.  You can download the source code for the final app: here.

Seeing as we run an iPhone centric website at return7.com, I thought it would be useful for awstats to report on the percentage of iPhone/iPod touch users browsing our site.  In order to do this, you need to make a few changes to your browsers.pm file (on ubuntu it’s at /usr/share/awstats/lib/browsers.pm).

First, in @BrowsersSearchIDOrder add the following lines before ’safari’:

'ipod',
'iphone',

Next, add these lines in %BrowsersHashIDLib:

'ipod','iPod',
'iphone','iPhone',


Finally, add these lines in %BrowsersHashIcon:

'ipod','safari',
'iphone','safari',

This will add both an iPod and an iPhone to your browser listings.  If you only want one new entry for both iPods and iPhones, then only use the latter of the two lines and all matches will be listed under iPhone.  Enjoy.

So I finally got around to adding my company’s Exchange server to my iPhone.  The whole process was fairly painless until I get to a screen asking me which facets of Exchange I would like to sync: mail, contacts, and calendars.  Seeing as I have no need for thousands of contacts in my address book, I choose mail and calendars.  This selection presented me with a warning, all my current calendars were about to be deleted!  Upon further investigation I discovered the iPhone does indeed support contact and calendar syncing, but with one MAJOR caveat.  The address book and calendar on the Exchange server can be the ONLY ones on your phone.

While multiple mail accounts are supported, this is not the case with contacts and calendars.  I have read scarce reports that subscribing to MobileMe may be a solution; but as this costs $100/yr, that is not something I am likely to try any time soon.  So until Apple decides to fix this obvious issue, the only meeting reminders I will be receiving from my phone are the ones I enter manually.

As you can see, this site has changed.  It is now hosted outside of my office and is now using wordpress.  If all goes as planned, I will actually start posting stuff regularly.  Stay tuned.