Today I installed Ubuntu on my Asus EEE PC 1201HA netbook. Because I’ve got really good experiences with installing Ubuntu on the computers of my family and friends, I was determined to install Ubuntu Netbook Edition on this one too before passing it on to it’s next owner. ( I just bought it for a temp. side project ).
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Soocial is the latest kid on the syncin’ contacts block. You can use it sync contacts across Mac, PC, phones, Gmail, … It seems to work ok for me across OS X and Vista – I synced Gmail, Outlook and Address Book.
One problem for some people are pictures. Contacts with pictures can’t be synced for the moment, but that doesn’t affect me.
People on Tweakers.net are a bit scared about the privacy issue; who gives you the right to store other people’s contact information online at a third party’s server? That’s a valid point.
The upside of Soocial is the cancel button. You can cancel the account any given time. This makes it perfectly possible to create a big backup of all your contacts using their tools and then cancel the account again. So, no privacy issue there, given they actually destroy all the data off course.
One counterattack could be to make their software open source or to make it possible for people to install the package on their own servers. But is using your own server safer? Sometimes it could be, but a lot of times it isn’t.
Before I pressed the cancel button I took this screenshot to show you the clear cancellation policy of Soocial.
Give it a whirl. Maybe you’ll like it. A lot.
After using some obscure workarounds, Google has released Calaboration. A nice tool to sync your google calendars to iCal. Setting up is a breeze and have yet to find issues ( using it for a couple of hours, so did not have much time to screw up right? ).
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Nice evolution: Processing with JS
Never feeling totally at ease with Apple’s way of doing stuff ( besides product placement / development ), I find this particular article quite disturbing.
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A few moments ago I decided to finally install “some server” on OS X so I can watch media ( movies, … ) residing on my Mac, on my PS3 in the living room.
After doing some research I ended up with mediatomb.
This is how I did it and what went wrong along the way.
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Only released earlier today, but there is allready an update.
” The update replaces the Debug and Release versions of Flash Player 10 browser plugins, standalone players, and Test Movie players that are included in the initial release of Flash CS4 Professional.”
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Update 2: after some tech support from VMWare it turned out that my method was the only one that could restore my original installation. Snapshot 00003 has become corrupted and at this moment there was not much they could do about it. So I re-activated the older snapshot, connected to the Exchange server and pulled in all my mails, tasks and meetings. In the end it all works again.
Update 1: be carefull, the problem with my solution is that my vista has gone back in time. So don’t use it unless absolutely necessary! I’m going to try something else.
Yesterday I started to run into problems with VMWare Fusion. I use it daily to fire up Outlook ( to use with our Exchange server ) on Leopard and to test our development efforts.
Windows wouldn’t boot and the message said something about “Windows Vista x64 Edition-00003.vmdk”. That looks like a copy of an original file, right? So I went into the Virtual Machines folder under Users/myUserName/Documents/Virtual Machines/.
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The Roomware Project is an open-source framework for interactive spaces. It allows developers of multiple origins to enhance any venue or event using technologies such as BlueTooth and RFID.
The Roomware Project.
While IE8 is still in beta it doesn’t look to good at the moment.
Several problems have popped up in projects we are developing atm but this one says it all.
If you try to use Live Maps with IE 8 you get this … Ouch!
