Awesome AJAX multi-platform app: Kompass for Basecamp

Posted by Erixun in Hosted on September 2, 2010

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Basecamp is one of the best hosted collaboration and project planning apps available.

Featuring a slew of awesome options and available in a variety of plans and prices, Basecamp makes planning and project management a snap. With the public premise lurking that everything worth doing has been done on the App store, I have been disappointed in the iPhone and Android offerings for mobile access to Basecamp.

Enter Kompass: the Ajax solution that spans all mobile devices and works elegantly. User avatars, functioning todo lists and overviews work nicely and efficiently. Since its built in Ajax it scales nicely on the iPad with no problems. The only thing missing is file access (even just for viewing).

Its currently in Beta testing, so signup if you would like to participate.

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iTunes 10: Turn on Ping

Posted by Erixun in Apple / Mac on September 2, 2010

I guess Apple have learned from giant peers Google and Microsoft about the ire forced social networking can create. Just as blogs exploded with hate at Googles decision to turn on Buzz by defualt in its new updates, Microsoft faced similar fire at its Bing SN integration.

Apple launched its new iTunes 10 today with some general design updates, music library album grouping (quite nice actually) and other sundry items, it has its new social network integration, called “Ping” turned off by default. Click on Ping for the first time and you are faced with a turn on and set up page. While I am not  huge fan of SN’s I won’t go through that rigmarole.

In any case, Thanks Apple for discernment.

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Compass iPad stand: Pure class baby

Posted by Erixun in Accessories on September 1, 2010

TwelveSouth has unveiled a brilliant foldable stand for 40 bucks that is portable, medium weight, and classy. Definitely worth checking out if you work a lot on your iPad.

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Adium – Push to iPhone with Remodium

Posted by Erixun in Communications on September 1, 2010

I finally found what I have been looking for…. a mobile solution for chatting. I have BeeJive and IM+ but this requires I log off my desktop sessions and re-login to my portable. If I forget to do this, sometimes Adium tries to renew lost sessions when I force interrupt by logging on my portable while logged in to my Desktop. I have mulled getting 2 separate accounts, one for desktop and 1 for portable, but thats insanity to match chats and who knows where I get my messages. Another time is when Im in bed away from my desktop, it would be pointless to have a separate account just for bed.

Enter Remodium: An awesome and soon to be elegant solution to my problems. It acts as a remote control to my current Adium session and after pairing on Wifi it works over 3G as well. It requires a plugin on Adium to work.

I say soon to be elegant as its missing a few features to really make it the shiznikle:

  • No iPad version
  • No unread message counter on iPhone homescreen icon
  • Push sequence is highly latent (can be 20 minutes…)
  • No buddy icon support
  • No status switching utility

But for a work in progress it rocks hard.

 

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iTunes account with no credit card

Posted by Erixun in Apple / Mac on August 31, 2010

I set up an account on iTunes for my mother, but it only allowed me to add a CC to verify the account. I thought that was odd as there is a lot of free content offerred by Apple.

After some digging I found this awesome guide by Matthew Guay at How-to Geek explaining the procedures from top to bottom complete with images. After going through the steps Matthew details, you are allowed to choose “none” as billing option. Awesome tip, thanks Mat.


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Epad 7: Looks familiar

Posted by Erixun in Internet tablets on August 30, 2010

Apple released the iPad, then there was the Wepad, and now there’s the ePad (7). I wonder how many of these blatant trademark infringements will get bombarded by Apples legal team.

DHgate is selling it cheap, but it only runs Android 1.xx so I would be careful in running to grab this just yet. An image shows a dongle with a LAN and USB ports…. now that makes it interesting.


(image from dhgate | link to image)

Specs aren’t too shaby:

Performance
Operating System: Google Android OS 1.6
Memory: 256MB
CPU: Rockchip 2808A 600MHz / 500MHz DSP (Dual-Core)
Screen, full-screen: 7-inch 16:9 wide-screen 800 * 480 high-brightness TFT LCD
Touch: full-size touch operation, sliding menus, icons and drag
Storage: 2GB
Direction sensor: automatically rotating the display screen
Wireless: 802.11B/G/N WI-FI CERTIFIED
Audio: Supports stereo speaker unit, built-in microphone
SD card: MAX 32GB can support
Desktop: Android automatically change the desktop wallpaper (like win 7), update frequency can be set to 1 hour -6 days
Language Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Spanish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Chinese (If you need any other national languages, please contact customer service)
Web browsing: Google chome-lite Browser UCWEB Browser
E-mail: Mainstream web mail service gmail / yahoo mail / hotmail / sina mail/163 mail
Communication Software: Fring, skypeout can call local phone, long distance, international telephone and mobile phone, QQ MSN SKYPE GTALK fly letter. China Mobile, send and receive messages free of charge to know
camera yes
Touch Games: Guerrilla (iguerilla) similar to the CS, Assassins Creed (Assasin`s creed)
Auto rotating screen: Four-way rotary screen
Scratch Paper: Desktop Gadgets, analog clock, support skin change
Audio/Video 1x 1/8″ (3.5mm) Headphone/Line-Out,1x 1/8″ (3.5mm) Microphone
Weather: Desktop Gadgets, support custom size (large, medium optional), support the replacement of the skin
Color white sliver black
Explorer: Android task killer Andexploret
weight about 1KG
Accessories: USB Cable,
AC Adapter,
Limited Warranty
Package size: 190.5*118.5*14.7 mm
Net Weight 1.32KG
What’s in the Box
  • 1 USB Cable,
  • 1 AC Adapter,
  • 1 Wire line USB adapter
  • 1 Limited Warranty

 

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Hello there cutie… whoa

Posted by Erixun in Humor on August 29, 2010


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Black Death: Surprising

Posted by Erixun in Movies on August 28, 2010

My buddy who referred me to this movie said it was an extreme “B”  so with that mindset I was pleasantly surprised and enjoyed the movie. It moves along and while the content is very blah blah (church and god and hell and demons) it held my attention throughout. The action is passable, the ending is not bad and overall for a B flick – not too shaby.

4 on the ERMS.

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Copy music from iPhone without iTunes

Posted by Erixun in Media on August 28, 2010

Apples iTunes desktop application is both a godsend and pain in the pootaki. For managing music and movies on your iPhone/iPod/iPad it does not get better or easier. Everything works and is simply enough for my mother to administer.

However, if you have any kind of configuration that falls outside of the iTunes religion (custom playlists, custom locations, 2 devices, 2 PCs, some sync / some not sync etc..) iTunes is not very nice to deal with. Upgrading your PC/Mac or iPhone is very difficult unless you specifically use the migration assistant (which is not the answer 2 out of 3 times).

On my last trip away from my desktop I encountered another problem: I needed to make some space on my iPhone to record some meetings and there was no way on the iPhone itself to delete some songs. Bummer big time!

I have the option of filling up my iPhone with music automatically enabled and so I had to check the “manually manage music and videos” in iTunes. This gives me the freaky warning of losing ALL my music. I was not sure if I had it all somewhere on my Desktop.

Enter Senuti. This application enables you to copy your music to your desktop outside of iTunes. Nice one! I had used this proggie last year when it was free (it costs 18 deers now) and it copied the music files to the desktop using their iPhone names (8 alphanumeric mumbo jumbo combos). The new version has a demo mode (30 days and 1.000 files) and they have fixed that bug. Senuti works very nicely and I highly recommend it to anyone facing similar problems.

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I still love my iPad

Posted by Erixun in Mac / Apple on August 27, 2010


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Following up on my first iPad report, I must report I still love my iPad and have used it as a laptop replacement for 3 international trips since the first post.

Adding to the points covered in that first report, Im happy to say there have been no major additions to the drawbacks. The lack of Ethernet support bit me in the ass again as the hotel I stayed in had no wifi coverage on my floor. I guess I will start hunting for a tiny wifi AP that I can plug in to the ethernet that supplies my devices with life.

I lost 25 minutes of work due to the WordPress App (read my hateful tirade) which ticked me off a bit. The bluetooth keyboard support is still a little lame (some of the modifier keys don’t work which really screws me over when using SSH apps) but word is that iOS 4 for iPad should address that shortcoming.

I used these guides (gizmodo and Joels report) to get some movies on and had enough juice to watch about 5 HD movies/TV shows back to back on the long flight stretches.

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