The new Blackberry 10 devices support CalDAV as well as CardDAV. With a bit of modifications of your Owncloud installation, it is possible to synchronize your calendar with CalDAV and your contacts with CardDAV.

Based on Nicolas Vivien’s modifications, I implemented my own patched Ownloud server. Nicolas helped me a lot tracing down the various problems and stumbling blocks.

First of all some important Blackberry limitations

On the current Blackberry 10 OS (10.9.10.35), CardDAV only works with a server which supports HTTPS. On the other side, CalDAV also accepts an insecure HTTP server (but first tries HTTPS).
Hopefully Blackberry will fix this in the near future.

My Workaround

Since my hoster only provides HTTPS at an extra cost, I had to look for another solution.
Luckily, my Synology DiskStation als has a webserver and even provides HTTPS.
So I moved my OwnCloud installation to my local DiskStation which is accessible through HTTP over the internet.

Required OwnCloud modifications

To keep the server addresses of the Server short, I added some htaccess RewriteRules to the root directory of my webserver:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule .* - [env=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^carddav
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/apps
RewriteRule .* /owncloud/apps/contacts/carddav.php/$1 [L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^caldav
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/apps
RewriteRule .* /owncloud/apps/calendar/caldav.php/$1 [L]

This will redirect any call from https://carddav.DOMAIN.ch/ to https://DOMAIN.ch/owncloud/apps/contacts/carddav.php and https://caldav.DOMAIN.ch to https://DOMAIN.ch//owncloud/apps/calendar/caldav.php.

You then should see pages similar to this:

and

Note:
Due my modifications, A direct call to the redirected URLs will lead to a Sabre_DAV_Exception_NotFound exception! How ever this doesn’t matter in normal operation since you can always use the much shorter and nicer sub domain call.

Blackberry configuration

CalDAV account

Description: [What ever you want]
User name: Your Owncloud user name
Email address: [Blackberry requires a valid emailadress. How ever Owncloud will ignore it]
Password: Your Owncloud password
Server address: carddav.DOMAIN.ch/calendars/USERNAME/defaultcalendar [add the /calendars/USERNAME/defaultcalendar, where USERNAME has to be replaced by your real user name, else Blackberry will not list the account. If you only have HTTP, you will heve to append a http://, else it uses implies https://]

CardDAV account

Description: [What ever you want]
User name: Your Owncloud user name
Email address: [Blackberry requires a valid emailadress. How ever Owncloud will ignore it]
Password: Your Owncloud password
Server address: carddav.DOMAIN.ch [omit the HTTPS://]

Required OwnCloud modifications

Jet to be documented…

For now, have a look at Nicolas’s patches: http://www.progweb.com/2012/05/playbook-pret-pour-le-cloud/

Nachdem sich das Schweizer Radio DRS ja schon seit längerem zu SRF umbenannt hat, habe ich nun endlich auch die Links auf die Philip Maloney Streams angepasst.
Die Streams können nun wieder mit einem einzelnen Klick heruntergeladen werden: MP3-Liste.
Zusätzlich gibt es jetzt auch einen direkten RSS-Feed.

I have a virtual Windows XP system running in VirtualBox. Is uses VMWare VMDK hardisc file because it originally run it in VMWare. Since the 10 GB harddisc got too small, I tried to increase its size. But all my trials with the VMWare converters, Qemu tools and so failed. Either they just didn’t work or Windows failed to run afterwards.
But now I finally found a way to success:

1. In VirtualBox, add a new virtual hardisc with the desired space.
2. Add it to your virtual machine and run it.
3. Windows will not be able to use it since it has no partition on it, but that doesnt matter.
4. Now, install a partition cloning tool in your virtual Windows. I use Acronis Disk Director.
5. With it, you can copy (clone) your existing system partition to the new virtal harddisc. (Note: keep the sice of the partition even there will be more space).
6. After the cloning, remove the old virtual harddisc and boot Windows on the new virtual harddisc.
7. To my big surprise, this worked without issues.
8. Now you can use again Acronis Disk Director to resize the partition to use the whole harddisc.