Cleaning up the mess Thursday 2010-01-14
I have finally made backups on everything I think I’ll really use, killed lots of old install batches and moved lots of gia bytes worth of images and project files. This all as a preparation for installing windows 7. I got it from my employer in in an ISO image and burnd it twice on DVD:s to be safe.
None of them were bootable in the end, and I the reading was too slow och none. So I just mounted the ISO as a disk and copied it to a fresh directory. Then I took the dare devil approach and launched the setup from within Win XP. I know ther is no upgrade from XP to Win 7, so that was a scary step. From there I did a fresh installation selecting the XP boot partition. I knew that would kill it all 
It all went very smooth and the Win 7 installation process took its proper time and restarted a few times during the process. It went out and fetched some update. After that I installed the AVG free virus protection.
I went on to install Firefox and the MozillaBackup utility, that I had used to backup the firefox and Thunderbird data with earlier. I run the utility to restore my bookmarks, plugins, settings and saved passwords. Somewhat to my surprice it was all there, so when I logged in to my blog to write these lines, Firefox rememberd my password even better then I did.
This is really how it should work.
Now I’m going to install Thunderbird and do the same on that. Hopefully I’ll bet my mail login and all thousands of mail in all my boxes back. Well if not, I have a separate backup on the mail boxes.
If I like Win 7? I don’t know yet, but I surely like the smooth and fully automatic installation process.
Sandy 3D a Fine Release Monday 2009-12-07
Hi all! I’m happy to say that we now have a bug fixed release of the very useful and well documented Sandy 3D Engine. Back in March came the long awaited upgrade to 3.1.1 and the goal was to release a bug fixed version fairly soon. However very few people had the time to work on it. After persistent work, mainly by Makc, we now have the a hopefully bug free version 3.1.2, so go get it!
Sadly enough this seems to be the final release, if nothing exceptional happens. This doesn’t mean that the engine cannot be used. On the contrary. It is working well and it is well documented and indeed it has a very friendly and helpful forum that works for newcomers and skilled developers alike.
Then there is the future bound haXe version, with which it is possible to compile for Flash as well as other targets, e.g. JavaScript for the browser canvas.
On a cleaning rampage Friday 2009-11-06
After installing WP 2.8.5, I can create a QuickPress post and this is the first. Now it seems that I got into a cleaning mode, which is fine, now that my computer nearly grinds to a halt. I have decided to backup and reinstall.
But you know how it is – I don’t have a terabyte disk for backup, so I’ll only backup the most important stuff. And I’m bound to forget something, oh well, nothing new there. Usually ( lucky me ) I succeed in formatting and installing on my primary partition, and find that all the others survived.
But oh my – all that good programs and tools I have to reinstall. Will I find them and will they work on Windows 7? Scary stuff! And will I find working drivers for all equipment, that hangs in the end of cables, bluetooths and IR connections?
Will I even get on the net again to search for what is missing, to chat with friends and make may status updates on facebook.
If not see you later!
Shutting Up the Meeting Bully Thursday 2009-04-23
A really funny iPhone application was added to the Apple App Store today. When you sit in a meeting and the ordinary dictator takes over the show, to let his well modulated voice be heard, and to tell everyone how well he knows the matter of today, and what decisions have to be made.
Then you discretely pick up your iPhone and press a button, that will shut him up, at least for this meeting.
This is what the designer of the application says on his site “The Meeting Nazi“:
Nearly everyone has experienced the frustration of a business meeting gone awry. Lost productivity cost corporations millions and impact personal growth and success.
For those frustrated masses concerned about productive meetings, we have the app for you. Harnessing the knowledge of 100’s of books and training seminars on running effective meetings, we have boiled it down to one simple approach inspired from the “Seinfeld” TV classic Soup Nazi.
As usual, you can download the app from the app store using iTunes.
Do that and have your laugh at the next meeting!
AR is in the AIR Sunday 2009-03-22
This is a real beauty. AR is coming to the ART.
World Builder
Mosnaps Goodbye Thursday 2009-02-26
We put a lot of work into that mobile image site, but it really didn’t catch on. Harish tried a variant with paying visitors and simplified the maintenance by restricting the mobile phones to BlackBerry only. After some time the project silently died. The site may still be there though.
Lots of work and a bright idea, but poor marketing, I guess.
Well S.H. and you always learn something
Slowing Down Sunday 2008-07-27
Well. For some reason, the Mosnaps didn’t catch enough attention. After a few weeks we had some 400 users, and quite a few were only “experimental”, i.e. the didn’t really use the upload and share capabilities of the site. Now the concept is under scrutiny and harsh reconsideration.
I’ll be back with more news at a planned relaunch in the future. The idea is a healthy one but competition is hard, not least from the old established image storing sites, like Flickr and Youtube.
For the moment I’m working on an adaption of a semi commercial Gallery viewer, that can present all a users albums in all their glory. It even uses full screen mode.
Let’s see what happens.
Mosnaps is Picking up Speed Thursday 2008-05-15
So finally Mosnaps is launched albeit in beta. This is not to deter you, as all web 2.0 sites are in beta, seemingly for ever. What you can do at this nice community site is really fun. From your mobile smartphone, you can upload images from its directories or directly from the camera. The images are immediately accessible by your friends and family, or for anyone if you make them public.
They are automatically presented at you Mosnaps public page – mine is http://mosnaps.com/petit.
You can also copy and paste code form your account to include one of the Flash based Mosnaps viewers on you own site or on Myspace or FaceBook.
You can have a look at the FaceBook viewer right here. So go to the Mosnaps site and sign up. If you have a supported phone, you download a small Java application directly to you phone and start mosnapping.
If your phone is not yet supported, you can upload images through a web interface. On your account you can also reorganize your images, edit your descriptions and get comments from other members of the community.
Using a nifty drag and drop applications, you can create slide shows by dragging and dropping images from your different albums. The slideshow is saved and can be shown at any time at any site using a Flash based slide show viewer.
Join and make your friends know what you are doing right now.
Mosnaps Presented at AT&T Fast Pitch Thursday 2008-04-03
Harish and Amit presented the Mosnaps applications and community at AT&T Fast Pitch session at the CTIA Wireless conference in Las Vegas. The Fast Pitch is a way for AT&T not to miss any new good inventions in the mobile arena. Above all, it is a way for small innovative companies to get their applications shown to the world, using the muscles of a giant. “Standing on the shoulders of giants”, is an expression that comes to mind. Some hundred companies get five minutes to present their technical idea and business model before a panel of AT&T experts, and some few get rewarded with some money and a promotion vehicle. The the great job to get it working starts.
Hopefully the presentation went well and hopefully the jury was impressed. All that could be said from the mobile snapshots uploaded to Mosnaps so far, is that the guys ar good looking.
Mosnaps on the run Monday 2008-03-31
I’m working hard with Harish, Amit, Alexandre, Brandon and others to get the Mosnaps site afloat. Hopefully it will happen soon now.
Not everything will work and it will still be beta, but the site is getting nicer and cooler for each day. Some nice flash viewers, which is my contribution, will be ready to present your mobile snapshots. Work is done by the Indian group to get Java uploaders for different Java enabled phones, but they are not ready yet. Until that works, people with other phones than the Blackbarry’s can upload images over the web. It is also possible to organize already uploaded images over a web interface and to view and comment your friend’s images.
It will be a lot of fun on this new social site. Is that web 2.0? You bet
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