Salling Software - Salling Clicker for Mac. This is one really nifty software. It allows you to wirelessly control your Mac/PC via a bluetooth enabled cellphone.

With the Treo, I could for example browse my iTunes collection and select an Playlist/Artist etc on the iBook. It can even suport DVD controls so you can control the movie you are watching from a distance.

Groovy...

Wake up when my alarm clock goes off on 43 Things

On the top of my New Year resolution. Pretty hard for somebody nocturnal.

Wake up when my alarm clock goes off on 43 Things

On the top of my New Year resolution. Pretty hard for somebody nocturnal.

Palm Presentation. Slick! The next age of mobility.

Mobile Indie! Independently mobile!
- nox

Animated Weather for PDA's. Too bad it only covers the US. Wala bang PAGASA to have something similar for the Philippines?

For the meantime am relying on Yahoo's weather forecast via http://wap.oa.yahoo.com synced daily via Avantgo.

Weather, weather lang yan...

Apple's SF keynote was finished at last. Drool on the new intel based macintosh(es). That magnetic power cord is a really nifty and practical touch as well as the built in iSight. its the simple things like these that makes macs one of the best bang for the buck machines.

Loving the Treo 650. No wifi and around 23mb or usable memory. But really a kick-ass convergent device.

Mobile video is definitely the trend of the year. I managed to watch an entire season of CSI Las Vegas whilst riding the MRT. Currently halfway thru Bob Dylan's No Direction Home dvd directed by Martin Scorsese. Highly recommendable. That man really has the pulse of the younger generation during his time.

Also managed to find the much sought after sony ericsson mp3 headset (priced nicely at P400) that is compatible with the Treo. The only minor gripe was my ear wasn't designed for those regular earphones, so I can only use the headphones when not mobile. For now am looking around for those in-ear silicon caps that you can plug into your ear canal :D.

Hula on FreeBSD. Not much luck making it run on our dev server yet. Tried both the gethula script and manual patching method. Will take another stab at the weekend.

Beastie is having a hard time learning to hula.

The shape of things to come

Checking out Engadget's coverage of this years CES at Las Vegas.

Those huge plasma and lcd dijavascript:void(0);splays certainly makes me drool. But my modest means are still light years away in the possibility of owning one.

To a certain degree, I do hope we have something like those nationwide highspeed data networks they have in the US. That could really boost countryside development and finally bring the internet to those that need it the most.

Its only 8:30am. And am on my second cup of coffee. Am plowing thru last year's codebase. Since monday mundane, managed to get up early (5am!) as a part of my new year resolution to do some lifehacks. Early bird catches the wiggly worm. Riding the wild elmo before breakfast would be a nice too, and should be done often. But still fairly nauseated by the whole waking up early thing. I still can't let go of sleeping at 3am, or at the very least 1am. There's something about the nocturnal nature of us software engineers that is so damn hard to change. As if doing all nighters were the sine qua non. Lets see where this goes.

New year again. Whew! That was fast!

Looking forward outside the room inside my mind.

Pwede ba, itigil muna...
Ang pag-ikot ng mundo..
- Eraserheads (Spoliarium)

nox @ work! again! happy 2006 everyone! enjoy life!

LibriVox ? LibriVox Catalog: Acoustical liberation of books in the public domain.

Just what the world needs.

Spread the love.

Merry Christmas! Everybody! Happy new year too!

Gmail Mobile!

Been using gmail a lot using an email client and rarely do I use a regular browser to access my mail. So was surprised that it now has a mobile page specially designed for mobile devices -> http://m.gmail.com

Just in time for the holiday season. Thanks Google!

BeJUG - Transactional J2EE Apps with Spring


Wicked use of flash. Instead of just having a powerpoint download, this uses flash to present both the slide and the speaker to a web audience.

Imagine a world where the best teachers would make their lessons available for everyone! Opensource based education! Pancit-eating promdi's like me has now access to the same type of lessons as their Fetuccini-eating metro manila counterpart.

Of course the Internet as it is, has more or less has the features I described above. The problem is how do you bring the Internet to the poor or bringing the poor to the Internet.

Linux successfully installed on Treo 650 - Engadget - www.engadget.com.



It would take a while before it would become usable. Elsewhere Palm announced the move to Linux for the Palm OS. Hopefully they follow nokia's path and opensource the sdk like what they did for maemo.

Found the download link at last -> Google Earth for Mac OS X Beta. Lazy web at its finest.

Ganda talaga ng mansion ni Mang Hefner. :D

Google Earth for Mac OS X: it's here

Cool! I can once again drool over Hefner's place.

Btw, The download link given has exceeded its bandwidth allotment. Bummer... Can't find the official link on earth.google.com either.

get-visibility.com, unlimited gprs plans for globe. their answer to pldt's weroam service.

the weroam wireless sierra card have no xp 64bit driver. so our mobile executive is using a spare bluetooth enabled phone to act as a conduit for dialup networking. this works well if you have other gadgets that can also take advantage of the unlimited gprs connection. frustrating if the laptop was your only device.

hopefully sierra could come up with the drivers soon. checking lazy web if those sony erricson pcmcia gsm modems have 64bit xp support.

LBS again...

Wouldn't it be nice if we could have an RSS feed of all points of interests (POI) in the Philippines (with location information). This can be arranged via categories.

Next step is to find a decent vector map that can be overlayed perhaps on top of Google map.

The RSS feed can be voluntary and for free. Meaning establishments could register their location and maybe a bunch of other metadata.

- Name
- Category (Pre-defined? Restaurant, Motel etc)
- Website!
- Contact Person
- Contact Numbers

This would fit nicely into the scheme of things since POI's aren't mobile. Maybe we could place shotcode stickers there or a code of some sort where you can send the code via sms to indicate where you are. That way your social network could be notified of your location. This eliminates the need to triangulate your location or require the user to have a GPS device of some sort.

This would enable you to perhaps ask a bartender at a new bar what their Location Code is and send it via SMS indicating you want to send the an MMS map to all your friends on the way to there. Maybe business cards would perhaps include your Location Code so that your associates can know the locatino of your office. Nice isn't it? The Location Code can just be a simple concatination of your latitude and lontitude to make it easy to decode.

This could immensely change the way you search things on the internet. Radius can be included as a search parameter.

Or maybe hire somebody with a GPS reciever to go to POI's and record their metadata.

Now to find somebody to fund this idea.


Everywhere you go, you shout it!
There's no need to be shy, about it now...
- U2 (Original of the Species)