iPhoned: a story of shiny new gadgets and lousy customer service

07/13/2008 01:23 am by Aral Balkan in General

Yes, I actually lined up yesterday at 7.30am in front of the O2 store on Western Road. Yes, after enduring my current hacked iPhone for close to a year at GPRS speeds, I was craving the promised 3G broadband speeds. The built-in GPS wouldn't hurt either. Yes, I had no clue that I was setting myself [...]

Real reflections in Papervision3D!

07/11/2008 07:37 pm by Seb Lee-Delisle in General

You know I’m a fan of the Papervision BasicView, it’s just such a good entry point into Papervision - so easy to work with, and you can even extend it for your document class. But how cool would it be if you could have something as simple as a BasicView, but that automatically created a [...]

Awesome branding experience done partly in Flex!

07/10/2008 10:05 pm by Matt Chotin in General

Normally you think of high-end marketing sites being done in pure AS3 and Flash, but the Bombay Sapphire experience was a combination of fantastic Flash design and great Flex architecture. The folks at Gugga did the development and Shift Global...

Glow stick voting system!

07/10/2008 06:09 pm by Seb Lee-Delisle in General

Last night was yet another fantastic FlashBrighton / Bang Carnival ‘O’ Fun. (Perhaps the longest, and most gratuitously obscure name for an event) It’s essentially a film night that showcases the best Flash animations, and there’s usually a top industry speaker (last night was the fascinating and talented writer Bob Swain). There’s also a segment [...]

T-Mobile USB stick connection issue workaround on OS X

07/09/2008 10:58 pm by Aral Balkan in General

Sometimes, when I connect using my T-Mobile USB stick, I can't get Safari or other apps to recognize the Internet connection. I believe this happens with apps that had previously connected to the Net using another interface (e.g., WiFi/en1). The way I get it to work is to try to load a page in Safari. [...]

wapedia.mobi

07/09/2008 10:03 pm by Manish Jethani in General

Thought I’d put in a word for Wapedia. I’ve been using this site to browse Wikipedia on my Nokia N95 for a couple of months now, and it’s quickly become indispensable. It’s the second link in my bookmarks menu, right after Google Search. For users in India, Wapedia is also available in Hindi.

Confirmation that I kick ass

07/09/2008 03:40 pm by Peter Elst in General

Nice one, found out a week or so ago that this blog has been aggregated on the Rich Internet Applications category on alltop.com, Guy Kawasaki’s latest project. Its quite an accomplishment and am rather proud to be sharing the stage with several of the big shots in the community, better keep the quality of my [...]

Floorplanner, a cool Flash and now Flex/Papervision app

07/08/2008 11:49 pm by Matt Chotin in General

I saw a demo of this a few months ago, but the next beta is now out. Floorplanner is an online tool for creating, you guessed it, floor plans! Something I know I wish I had used when setting up...

Smart URLs in WordPress 2.5

07/07/2008 10:49 pm by Manish Jethani in General

I’ve discovered a couple of cool features of WordPress 2.5 lately. One of them is what I call “smart URLs”. I don’t know the offial name of this feature, nor if this is really a feature or just an unintended side effect, but I love it. You may have used URL shortening services like TinyURL.com or [...]

Locking up Twitter

07/07/2008 05:27 pm in General

Last week I pulled the trigger and clicked the “Protect my updates” box on the Twitter settings page. This means that unless I am following you, or specifically let you follow me, you won’t get my twitter updates. I did this when I realized I had something like 448 “followers”. Now, I may be popular, but [...]

2010: Web 3.0

07/07/2008 09:04 am by Manish Jethani in General

An interesting video I found via Ethan Eismann’s blog: Nova Spivack of Radar Networks and Twine talks about “Web 3.0” and the semantic web. It’s a great introduction to these concepts, and something I would highly recommend as a starting point to anyone interested in further exploring these areas. Nova Spivack at The Next Web Conference 2008 from Boris Veldhuijzen [...]

Tata Indicom sucks

07/06/2008 10:25 pm by Manish Jethani in General

“Tata Indicom sucks,” says Atanu Dey. As an aggrieved customer, I concur. I got back from my Europe trip last Monday only to find that my broadband internet service wasn’t working. On calling up Tata Indicom’s customer support, I was given a complaint no. and assured that the matter would be “looked into” within the next 24 hours. So [...]

Update on SWF Indexing Issues

07/06/2008 12:09 pm by Peter Elst in General

After Tuesday’s announcement about SWF now getting fully indexed I thought I’d do a little experiment and put up a few test SWF files. Its difficult to accurately deduct what exactly is happening but thought I’d write down what I’ve tried and what the results are thus far. What did I use? I created a Flash 9 [...]

Open Pandora’s Box

07/03/2008 09:20 pm in General

Yahoo! to fix GeoPlanet JSON API today

07/02/2008 10:50 pm by Aral Balkan in General

As I posted last week, a backwards-incompatible API change to the JSON version of Yahoo!'s excellent GeoPlanet API caused the new teaser site for the Singularity web conference to fail. Today, I got an email from Eddie Babcock from the Y! Geo team informing me that this was due to a regression and that they will [...]

The Love/Hate Relationship with Twitter

07/02/2008 06:44 pm in General

I love Twitter. Some people don’t get it, but once you get hooked, you can’t live without it. I hate Twitter. It’s down half the time. You get me hooked and then, just when I need a fix, you’re gone. I just got onto the private beta of TweetDeck, installed it, gave it my username and password, [...]

Saving Twitter in Three Easy Steps

06/30/2008 05:13 pm by Peter Elst in General

I don’t think I’m alone in seeing Twitter’s service deteriorate to the point where euthanasia seems like the only humane option. Without any obvious intimate knowledge of how the service is architected, these are my three easy steps to hunt and kill the fail whale. 1. Stop accepting new registrations In the current situation I can’t [...]

On online security and password policies

06/27/2008 12:41 pm by Aral Balkan in General

Writing the post on del.icio.us's password policy got me thinking about passwords and online security again. Having a strong password policy such as "passwords must be longer than six characters and must contain a number or a symbol and a mix of uppercase and lowercase characters" is great in theory but let's take a moment to [...]

Two ways to change your business’s name on PayPal…

06/27/2008 11:55 am by Aral Balkan in General

First way: Call their premium 0870 support number and pay £??? to be told that they will send you an email with instructions on the procedure which involves sending them a fax then proceed to wait several days for said email without success. Second way: Sign in to your PayPal account, go to the Contact Us - My [...]

DSMidiWifi on Leopard. Anyone get it to work?

06/25/2008 03:51 pm in General

I’ve been trying to play with some of the cool new homebrew music apps on the Nintendo DS. Check the page below for a sampling: http://remaincalm.org/index.php/ds-music-apps However, for the life of me, I have been unable to get DSMidiWifi to connect to my Mac Book Pro, or Mac Book. I’ve followed the instructions here to the letter, and [...]

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