Michael's Thoughts - Latest Comments

Re: Am I Trying Too Hard?

mridley — Fri, 01 May 2009 17:04:52 -0000

You want what? A CRM system?

-m

Re: Am I Trying Too Hard?

Ashe — Fri, 01 May 2009 02:29:55 -0000

Not excessive - I want one too.

Re: Wiki as Document Management System

hosted document solutions — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 00:17:18 -0000

I never tried this one out, anyway thanks for the heads up.. I will definitely give it a shot.

Re: Wiki as Document Management System

budgets — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 03:27:22 -0000

I've never thought of using a wiki as a project management tool - I may have to give it a try.

Re: Tweets on 2009-01-30

malatmals — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:31:37 -0000

its not that bad - good spam prevention. maybe people who wont friend you don't want to hear you anyhow....

Re: ID Cards to Travel to Canada

Marion Rossi — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 06:20:24 -0000

This ID card system will help to those who do travel frequently

Re: Why Second Life Has the Wrong Architecture

Kyle G — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:38:16 -0000

http:opensimulator.org allows you to customize each sims "ini" file as far as physics engine, scripting engine etc and whether they are on or off. It has been designed in a very modular way to allow for all the things you suggest above. Great article!

Re: Why Second Life Has the Wrong Architecture

Mo Hax — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:30:24 -0000

You will want to follow the work of the Architectural Working group and many others working toward that goal. OpenSim, as alpha and buggy as it is, for example, does allow modular physics engines. Standards for representing 3D content, like COLLADA are emerging and we are on our way to the dream, but still a long way off.

Re: Why Second Life Has the Wrong Architecture

mridley — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:55:12 -0000

Yup! Of course I meant homogeneous. Thanks for catching the typo! Fixed.

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Re: Why Second Life Has the Wrong Architecture

Tarnak — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:29:19 -0000

"Second Life is a heterogeneously scaled environment" -- do you mean homogenously?

Re: Wireless Over the Air Sync Between iPhone and Google Contacts

mridley — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:06:41 -0000

Trent-

Thanks for the comment. I'm not sure exactly what the problem you're having is but I'll drop you an email privately and we'll see if we can figure it out. Sync in a Blink is awesome once you get it working!

-m

Re: Wireless Over the Air Sync Between iPhone and Google Contacts

Trent Armitage — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 20:09:37 -0000

I bought Sync in Blink and it still isn't updating correctly. My Google contacts isn't adding contacts I add to my I-phone. Sync in a blink has a bunch of conflicts, do I have to resolve these in order to get it working properly.

Re: ID Cards to Travel to Canada

ForestFronds — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:30:22 -0000

It's interesting to see how things are changing. Pretty soon we may even need these cards to travel from state to state.

Re: iPhone 3G Sync with Google Contacts

mridley — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:45:06 -0000

You can definitely do it that way. But I would suggest using Sync in a Blink instead. It rocks! And then you don't have to bother with that at all. For more information see here.

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Re: iPhone 3G Sync with Google Contacts

Graham — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:41:02 -0000

Perhaps a good idea to put a fake (unique) email address for each contact without an email adress. For example, my grandmother (let's say her name is Jane Doe) is never going to get an email address and I'm never actually going to want to send her an email but I might want to update her details on my iphone and have them sync back.
Based on this it would be a good idea to create a fake email address for her to allow the syncing to work. Maybe something like jane.doe@fake.email.com.

I haven't tried this as yet although I was wondering why some syncs weren't happening in both directions so I'm now going to work through my contacts and do this to see what happens.

Re: iPhone 3G Sync with Google Contacts

mridley — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 05:57:36 -0000

Owen-

Thanks for the comment. I installed the application and it rocks. I've written up my thoughts here.

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Re: Local Ballot Measures

L. Ridley — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:50:38 -0000

What?!

Re: iPhone 3G Sync with Google Contacts

Owen Cooper — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:16:11 -0000

Check out the app Sync in a Blink on the AppStore. It's a lot better than the iTunes sync. It handles two way sync properly (without the email problem) and lets you sync over the air.

Re: FireGPG Firefox Plugin for GnuPG

Paul — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:32:35 -0000

Although I will admit to being a bit late in hearing about it, the revelation that Hushmail will roll over and provide decrypted e-mails when presented with a court order (as published in November 2007) makes them or any service that has custody of your private key suspect and vulnerable to LEO access. Since IBE *relies* on a third-party server providing the private key to allow decryption of the e-mail, it is NOT secure. IMO, it's probably *less* secure than Hushmail, which *admits* that they are subject to and will comply with court orders.

Voltage may have the best of intentions, but I have issues with the IBE model they are selling. PGP/GPG, while a bit more difficult to set up, you are the only one that should have access to your private key *and* the passphrase required to decrypt or sign messages. And you're right, you can't make people use PGP/GPG. Like the old saying goes, "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink."

Re: iPhone Feature Request: MMS and Video Recording

Drew McManus — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:25:40 -0000

TOTALLY agree with you on MMS. Apple needs to add the feature, or at least improve the terrible user experience you get today. I make my case here: http://blog.mcmanus-family.com/2008/09/the-case...

Re: iPhone 3G Sync with Google Contacts

mridley — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:51:48 -0000

Yeah, that would be nice! I looked into that, but there doesn't seem to be a reasonable way to do it. It could be possible to access the groups using the Google Contacts API, however there's no way to sync that into the iPhone contact list.

It would be nice if the iPhone SDK would allow access to the phone contacts, as then you could create a web service that would sync Google Contact Groups and even do it over the air. But, with the current iPhone SDK/API that's not possible.

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Re: iPhone 3G Sync with Google Contacts

Sonia — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:48:55 -0000

Strong work! Thanks so much....it worked great. I just created dummy addresses and it synced perfectly with Google contacts. Now if I could only find something that would let me choose the groups to sync with instead of all of them!

Re: iPhone 3G Sync with Google Contacts

johan spriet — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 04:25:37 -0000

Many thanks for this information, it works perfectly

Re: iPhone 3G Sync with Google Contacts

Roland — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:21:06 -0000

Very nice find. Thank you very much. I was wondering what was going on as some of my contacts seemed to update FROM my iPhone, while others did not.

Re: iPhone 3G Sync with Google Contacts

Craig Sanders — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:00:17 -0000

This explains what was happening for me, thank you. I'm going to fill in the email field with a bogus and obvious placeholder address just so that Google Contacts functions right with the iPhone. This will also let me assign photos to those contacts in Google, which can't be done when they don't have an email address. Now if we could only get those pix to transfer to iPhone.