I’m yet to find an explanation for the absence of a proper To Do functionality on an Apple platform.
Whatever is available out there seems more like an after-thought.
We have a To Do functionality built within the iCal app, it works great, syncs between multiple computers via Mobile Me, but there’s no iPhone app front end of any kind. Third party applications are also restricted from accessing it without installing any plugins.
Ability to create a task within Mail app is great, but the To Dos now are stored within Mail in a Note form. That is somewhat akin to having a separate RSS aggregator in Mail instead of Safari. The rationale for it is somewhat not clear.
Finally there are third-party apps, some of them quite great. But you are either limited to using your iPhone as the only mean of entering information, or you have to visit a website or install a plugin.
With a release of an iPad and its gorgeous Calendar application, an absence of a To Do functionality streamlined across the full platform seems awkward at best.
Once in a while I run into an issue where I need to access a website local to the VPN I connect to.
When Parallels is running, I can access the internet, but the DNS for a named host local to the VPN can not be resolved.
Windows under Parallels is configured to use automatic DHCP.
The solution is to use two DNS servers: one that is obtained automatically and second coming from the VPN.
To determine the address for the DNS server that is already obtained run in Command Prompt:
ipconfig /all
This will produce the following output:
Notice that the output indicates we have auto-configuration enabled. The DNS server used in this case is 10.211.55.1.
The second DNS server will come from the VPN setting, this is an internal IP address: 192.168.3.1.
You will want to put the VPN DNS server first and the automatically obtained DNS server second. If your VPN connection is established, the first DNS server will take precedence. If not, the alternate DNS server will kick in.
Domain suffixes
If you do not want to keep adding your domain suffix in the URL, you can configure for it to be added automatically by going to “Advanced” options:
