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Soocial: sync that contact

Soocial is the latest kid on the syncin’ contacts block. You can use it sync contacts across Mac, PC, phones, Gmail, … It seems to work ok for me across OS X and Vista - I synced Gmail, Outlook and Address Book.
One problem for some people are pictures. Contacts with pictures can’t [...]


Tagged as + Categorized as Mac, Software

Google supports iCal through Calaboration! Hurray!

After using some obscure workarounds, Google has released Calaboration. A nice tool to sync your google calendars to iCal. Setting up is a breeze and have yet to find issues ( using it for a couple of hours, so did not have much time to screw up right? ).


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Processing ported to JavaScript

Nice evolution: Processing with JS


Tagged as , + Categorized as Inspiration/Installations, Software

That makes for a bad Apple

Why is Apple so nasty?


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Watching media on PS3 from OSX

A few moments ago I decided to finally install “some server” on OS X so I can watch media ( movies, … ) residing on my Mac, on my PS3 in the living room.
After doing some research I ended up with mediatomb.
This is how I did it and what went wrong along the way.


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Flash Player 10 Released - euhm, updated

Only released earlier today, but there is allready an update.
” The update replaces the Debug and Release versions of Flash Player 10 browser plugins, standalone players, and Test Movie players that are included in the initial release of Flash CS4 Professional.”


Categorized as Flash, Flex, Software

Scary moments with VMWare Fusion

Update 2: after some tech support from VMWare it turned out that my method was the only one that could restore my original installation. Snapshot 00003 has become corrupted and at this moment there was not much they could do about it. So I re-activated the older snapshot, connected to the Exchange server [...]


Tagged as + Categorized as General, Software

Roomware Project

The Roomware Project is an open-source framework for interactive spaces. It allows developers of multiple origins to enhance any venue or event using technologies such as BlueTooth and RFID.

The Roomware Project.


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Microsoft, you’ve (almost) done it again!

While IE8 is still in beta it doesn’t look to good at the moment.
Several problems have popped up in projects we are developing atm but this one says it all.
If you try to use Live Maps with IE 8 you get this … Ouch!


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When Apache ( Xampp ) refuses to start

You got to open the command promt on WinXP and type ( with quotes )
“C:\Program Files\xampp>xampp_start.exe”
If that doesn’t work you can drag the xampp_start.exe from your installation folder onto the command promt and press ENTER. ( this works for other stuff to, try it )
This will give you more information on why things fail, it [...]


Categorized as General, Hosting, PHP, Software