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Highrise SMS notifications

Petros — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:44:38 +0000

I really love Highrise. It is a 37signals service that helps you organise your contacts, your conversations with these contacts, cases, deals and tasks. Highrise also sends task notifications using SMS. Unfortunately it only supports specific providers for certain countries only. My country (Greece) as well as many other countries all over the world are not included in that list. Nevertheless, I managed to make Highrise send notifications to my mobile phone through Google Calendar.

Step 1: Find out your Highrise iCalendar URL

You do that by navigating to Tasks and looking at the bottom of the page for a link that says “Subscribe to your iCalendar task feed”. Clicking on that link will take you to another page where you can find your iCalendar URL. You copy that and you go to the next step.

Step 2: Go to your Google Calendar

Locate your “Other calendars” panel and click Add, to add a new calendar. Choose “Add by URL” in order to enter the iCalendar URL you found in the previous step.

Google Calendar Add By URL

Enter the iCalendar URL in the “Public Calendar Access” field and press “Add”. That’s it. This calendar will automatically contain all your Highrise tasks. You can go to the calendar settings and add a default notification setting for SMS. That way, every Highrise task will end up in your mobile phone.

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Android

Petros — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:27:41 +0000

Nowadays, I use C# to write code most of the time. I don’t have the time I used to have for researching and learning new languages/frameworks/etc., but I try my best to learn something new, at least once every 8-12 months. My last try was Ruby on Rails. Still trying to tame the beast.

A couple of days ago, I stumbled upon Android, and I have to admit it looks really interesting. I would like to learn more about it and even develop a small application on my spare time (is there any?), although I would have to remember my Java along the way.

There is also an interesting competition going on for the best apps written for the platform, that could win quite a large amount of money.

Now, what is more difficult? Thinking an idea about a mobile app or implementing it?