If you own and iPhone, or iPod Touch, or just fancy playing with the Develop menu in Safari, then you may notice that DomBarnes.com now looks a bit different on your iPhone. Thanks to the iWPhone plugin from ContentRobot, you can now view this website in a easier version for your device.
Let me know if you like it, or prefer reading the full version.
So you may have heard a few weeks ago that the Address Book in Leopard now syncs with Gmail contacts. I heard this and thought GREAT! I can keep it all together, up to date with gmail, and have a handy backup.
After firing up Address Book I got it all in sync, and as expected, had a few duplicates which I sorted out.
Unfortunately, as the title suggests, I received a text from my girlfriend but it didn’t come up with a name, just her number. So after a visit to the contacts I noticed that ALL her details were gone, except her work email. I had a look at other people and there were more missing people.
So now I have lost faith in the contact syncing. I made no changes at all but somehow lost everyone. I did of course make a backup, but that doesn’t seem to import back into Address Book. Thank GOD for my second backup at Mozy.
Right now I’m downloading a backup from a few days ago and will give this stuff another shot. Glad I have my backup in hand in case Google poops on me again.
Meet Flargle. He’s my brand new Moshi Monster. Moshi Monsters is a new social networking website, thats really more about making cool monsters and playing games. So what is he like? Well his favourite food is Mr Tea, he likes the colour Cyan, R&B music, and dislikes lemurs. And he’s only 1 years old.
So far we’ve played some cool games, and been shopping. How do you like his windows? He’s also got some more fun stuff at home. Why not pop over and visit him for a bit. You can even be his friend so he has some company when I’m at work.
If you can find one, pick up a beta code from a few lucky people online, or go to Firebox.com and pickup a MoPod for your own special invite code. Moshi Monsters should be open to the public in a few weeks hopefully, so keep checking back.
Special Thanks to Michael at Mind Candy for hooking me up with a beta code, and congrats on the lovely website!
Update: I have a few beta codes thanks to Michael to give out. If you’re interested, leave me a comment. Working on first come, first served.
So I’ve moved house. Last weekend was the big day and we got a whole house moved in one day, that included picking up keys and going to Ikea.
Now the biggest problem is connectivity. And it explains why I’m in Starbucks doing this. We got out BT line connected last tuesday. Then I called Virgin to get Broadband ordered. And then it stopped, cos they didn’t have our new number on they’re system. So I called back the next day, and tried again, with no luck. So I tried a third time on Friday and had success. So our broadband will be active next thursday. THURSDAY! Thats a year away when there is an Apple Event between (New ipods, lots of them, and a cheaper iPhone YAY!).
But the real problem is the router. I had to switch back off my Linksys WRT54G using DD-WRT to my old Netgear DG834G as its phoneline broadband, not cable/dsl. And the problem is my Macbook Pro seems to struggle staying on or even finding the wireless network. And I don’t know why. Its plain as day there. Only one other Wifi box nearby, which is on channel 11 and I’m on 1 or 2. But I can’t get it to connect.
I can’t figure out why. It doesn’t matter too much now since there is no interweb connection but when that bad boy starts, I will wanna use it.
So if anyone else has an idea, or a similar problem with their DG834G, let me know. Where is my SSID!!!!
Update: Turns out the problem seems to be with the channel my DG834G was broadcasting on. I had it running on 1, which didn’t work well. After some browsing the Console and trying it out again, I noticed the problem. I’ve switched up to 6 and it works perfectly now.
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