The workaround is horribly painful and it took me a while to find it on various discussion forums. In essence, backup iCal, export each calendar, delete all your subscriptions (after recording the URLs!), delete ~/Library/Application Support/ical and ~/Library/Calendars (and maybe any iCal-related preferences), reset your sync history (in iSync), import the calendars back into iCal and re-subscribe to everything. Ta-da!
Mind you, while doing this, my mail accounts disappeared from iTunes for syncing. The fix for that is to modify a mail account configuration in Mail. That forces the mail accounts back into the iTunes sync list.
I use Gmail a lot on my iPhone and one of my clients has standardized on Google Mail/Docs for their communications so I'm constantly reading mail and documents on my iPhone. Gmail was OK on the iPhone and Google Docs was bearable but Google Reader was a nightmare. At the weekend, I noticed Gmail suddenly got a lot nicer with a very iPhone-style UI, sliding panels between labels and mail. Great... now what about the other apps?
Tuesday night, I got home from said client's site and eagerly updated my iPhone firmware. The new "location" feature in the Maps application is very sweet (and seems sufficiently accurate for my needs). Then I started reorganizing my home screen. Screens. That's when I noticed that Google had updated most of its apps to be iPhone-friendly. Google Docs makes a great reader now, even for fairly large spreadsheets. Google Reader is a huge improvement!
So now my iPhone has:
- 43actions - a great little GTD (Getting Things Done) task manager
- Calculator
- Calendar
- Clock - with 10 cities
- Maps
- Notes
- Stocks
- Weather
- Google Docs
- Google Mail
- Google Reader
- Belfry Scientific Calculator
- My client's Google Docs
- My client's Google Mail
- ColdFusion 8 QuickDocs
- IMDB - I'm always looking up movies and actors so I need that accessible!
- Phone
- Safari
- Settings
- Bejeweled
- Code Breader - a simple take on "Mastermind", a childhood favorite
- InARow touch - aka "Connect 4", another childhood favorite
- Mahjong
- Camera
- iTunes
- iPod
- Photos
- Text
- YouTube
Anyway, a big thank you to Apple and Google (and those games companies) for making my iPhone an even more lovable and addictive little toy!
Smart woman, my wife!
So I just ordered Leopard, a car charger for my iPhone and a 750Gb USB 2.0 HD that I can stick on my Apple BaseStation as a network drive. 750Gb for just $230... amazing... and scary how cheap storage has become...
The question is: can I resist upgrading until all the software I use has been updated?
