Christmas in Te Awamutu & Athenree - a great family time - but NO 3G

Brung my Vodem with me - but GPRS access available only :-(

[ Sent from my mobile phone using the Blogger widget from www.bluepulse.com ]

Imaging a Dual-Boot MacTel!

To find out how, have a look at http://www.bombich.com/mactips/dualboot.html, and download the free OSX app 'NetRestore' from the same site - the same author as CarbonCopyCloner!

Study on 'What [US] College Students want from their Education'

Interesting article:

Study on 'What [US] College Students want from their Education': "

http://www.eduventures.com/about/press_room/

12_12_06.cfm?pubnav=about

Via Jim Farmer's eLibrary feed, an ongoing treasure trove of documents on patents and elearning (amongst other topics), comes news of this report by Eduventures, a Boston-based consulting firm. You have to pay for the full report, but even the short precis has some interesting nuggets from a student perspective. According to this summary, the study of 6,200 enrolling freshman in the US found 'Professional Preparation,' 'Academic Strength' and 'Affordability' (in that order) as the top 3 things incoming students are looking for. And around the notion of 'Academic Strenght,' apparently

students value 'close interaction with faculty' and 'experiential learning' more than 'honors programs' and the development of smaller 'learning communities.'

"

(Via EdTechPost.)

Bluepulse

Bluepulse is one of the best social software hubs for mobile i have come across. http://www.bluepulse.com

[ Sent from my mobile phone using the Blogger widget from www.bluepulse.com ]

PageFlakes

PageFlakes is an interesting Social Software hub for your fav SS right inside your web browser (Firefox is best option currently). Worth checking out & playing with.

Blogged with Flock

New Flickr Mobile

New Flickr Mobile: "New Flickr Mobile
Flickr recently rolled out an updated version of their mobile site at m.flickr.com. When I first reviewed Flickr Mobile I found it limited but useful. This update removes most of the limitations I mentioned. Photos are now searchable by tag or description and new links give you more options for viewing your contact's photos.

One of the best features of Flickr Mobile, the ability to upload photos directly from your browser, has been retained. Browser uploading only works from certain phones, mainly Nokia's, but if you have a compatible phone and an unlimited data plan it makes uploading photos essentially free. For the rest of us, Flickr also supports uploading by MMS. The new version of Flickr Mobile even uses access keys for every link making navigation very efficient.

This is generally a nice upgrade but there are issues - mainly centered around logins. There are a couple of different issues with logins. Flickr has two types of logins, users who signed up before August 15, 2005 and haven't upgraded still use their old Flickr login, which can be any email address. Anyone who signed up after that date has to use a Yahoo id which in the case of users of Yahoo partners like ATT is also an email address. The Flickr PC site accepts either type of login but the new version of the mobile site only takes Yahoo logins. This is a change from the previous version of Flickr Mobile which accepted only Flickr logins. I had a Flickr login so I had to do what Yahoo calls 'merging' my Flickr and Yahoo accounts which turned out to be a rather frustrating process. When I tried to merge the ATT-Yahoo account whose email address I had always used to login to Flickr, Yahoo couldn't complete the process saying that my login was invalid. To get it to work I had to change the email address that my legacy Flickr account was tied to. Once I did that I was able to merge my ATT-Yahoo account to my Flickr account.

A more serious login problem is that users of phones with the Motorola MIB browser may not be able to login at all. I don't have one of these phones so I can't be sure, but it's definitely broken using Motorola's MIB emulator. Clicking the login link just brings up a blank page. I think the url to the login page is too 'complicated' for this rather brain-dead browser to handle.

The screen shot shows yet another issue with Flickr Mobile and the MIB browser. That blue rectangle next to the Flicker logo is a link labeled 'Login'. You can't read it because Yahoo tried to change the links to Flickr's special shade of blue. The same thing happens to other links when they are selected. It's risky trying to change link colors on mobile pages as several popular browsers have bugs in this area. For mobile web developers, there's more on this issue here and here.

Except for the login issues, this is nice upgrade to Flickr's mobile functionality. Flickr mobile is a great way to entertain your friends and acquaintances with your vacation photos anywhere, any time. Flickr Mobile is on the Yeswap.com mobile portal in the Entertainment folder.
Flickr Mobile: xhtml-mp
Content: Usability:


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Planet Mobile Web 12/7/06 9:13 AM Editor http://wapreview.com/blog"

(Via Planet Mobile Web.)

GapMinder

this is a really interesting statistics tool:
http://tools.google.com/gapminder/

Feedback on Opera Mini 3.0

Opera Mini 3.0 and The Ajax Phone: "

1. Feed Reader: I’ve let this replace the native feed reader I have on my phone. The UI is better than what the Sony Ericsson M600i offers, and it actually supports a multitude of formats, including Atom 1.0


2. Photo upload. My phone has no camera, but here it is, direct photo upload from within Opera Mini.


3. Support for secure connections: You can finally use secure services and stay safe all the way.


4. Since most web authors have no regard for mobile usability (and no, dotmobi won’t help), Opera Mini 3.0 has content folding, where long navigation lists and other filler fluff is collapsed so you don’t have to scroll past 323 pages to get to your actual content.

"

I must say that I have found the same on my new SE M600 - Opera Mini3 has some nicer features (& uses less data) than the full Opera8 built into the M600!

(Via Planet Mobile Web.)

Opera Mini v3 for Mobiles

Opera Mini v3 is now available - with some cool new features:

Features

Download

Online Simulator

M600 video overview

From http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/

type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
flashvars="file=http://mediafiles.allaboutsymbian.com/aasvp3.flv&showdigits=true&autostart=false" />

Multimedia from All About Symbian

blogging from M600

TriaIing Kablog,a java blogging application

KERRANG! the weekly rock magazine goes QR Code

KERRANG! the weekly rock magazine goes QR Code: "

Photo: Robert Price



The new Kerrang, the english weekly rock magazine, hit the newsstands yesterday. We are proud to announce that the mobile tag below made it in the magazine*.







Short Code: 20207331 / Download the Kaywa Reader / Supported Phones





So if you want a Free Fightstar Video download, you should probably try it out.



By the way - if you know some german, you can read a review of FIGHTSTAR's Grand Unification over at Bandsmagazine



* See our other mobile tag projects.



Related: And see Emily's post about QR Codes for Food Traceability in Japan."

(Via Planet Mobile Web.)

MobileYouth: Introduction

MobileYouth: Introduction: "Children don't know the rules we set for them; this is why they defy convention. SMS grew thanks to young people 'breaking the rules'. MMS was an attempt to increase per-message fees. Some real views from youth follow, highlighting social value of mobiles for youth (duh).

Lifetime value of a young mobile customer in the UK is $20,000. This decreases as they get older."

(Via Planet Mobile Web.)

eLearnz Workshop 15 Nov 2006

A successful use of our wireless laptop set!

Wireless Laptops

Mobile phone statistics

Mobile phone statistics:

Here's a new round of statistics from Gartner for the mobile phone market. Gartner estimates that 986M phones will be sold this year, which is 21% more than last year. It doesn't look good for BenQ.

Provider	Sold units Q3 2006	Share Q3 2006	Sold units Q3 2005	Share Q3 2005
Nokia	88.1	35.1	67.2	32.5
Motorola	51.9	20.6	38.6	18.7
Samsung	30.6	12.2	25.9	12.5
Sony Ericsson	19.4	7.7	13.8	6.7
LG	15.0	6.0	13.5	6.5
BenQ	6.1	2.4 !!!	9.8	4.7
Other	40.2	16.0	37.9	18.3
Total	251.3	100.0	206.7	100.0

(Via Abiro - Mobile News.)

Vodafone 3G Broadband and DSL speedtests - from Picasaweb

Vodafone HSDPA speeds 11/23/06 4:03 PM

VMC software available for ALL Macs!

Vodafone Mobile Connect software for Mac users - v2.06.05

This version of software is fully compatible with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and Apple Macs with Intel processors, as well as supporting all the previous Vodafone Mobile Connect PC data cards, plus:

* Huawei E220 3G+/3G/EDGE/GPRS USB 3.6 Mbit/s
* Option 3G+/3G/EDGE/GPRS "Icon" USB 1.8 Mbit/s (VF-DE "EasyBox")
* Novatel XU870 3G+/3G/EDGE/GPRS Expresscard 3.6 Mbit/s*

You can use a Vodafone Mobile Connect USB device with any Mac that has USB support and Mac OS X 10.3.5 or newer, including:

* Intel MacBook
* Intel MacBook Pro
* iMac
* Mac mini
* PowerBook
* iBook
* Mac Pro
* G5, G4 and G3 PowerMac.

Please note that the oldest supported Apple Mac OS X system for this version is now Mac OS X Panther 10.3.5.

Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.8 or newer is recommended.

New Zealand DSL :: New Zealand Broadband and DSL Speedtest Page

New Zealand DSL :: New Zealand Broadband and DSL Speedtest Page: ""

Will have to check out my new Xtra ADSL connection speed!

Welcome to Flickr!

Welcome to Flickr!: "http://m.flickr.com"

New mobile version of Flickr now working!

SmartPhone Emulator Developer Edition 6.0

SmartPhone Emulator Developer Edition 6.0: "Multiple Handset Support covering major manufacturers: Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola, Sharp, Siemens, Samsung, NECMulti-emulator environment with one key synchronization between emulators of the same groupSimple 'Demonstration Mode' for presentations and %u201CDevelopment mode%u201D for building and testing servicesSupport for XHTML-MP, WML 1.2 / WMLScript (where appropriate) and i-modeSecure Sockets Layer (SSL) support (requires Java 1.2 or higher)Enhanced view source with syntax highlighting and HTTP statusVariable/context viewer/editorEnhanced user interface features including on-line help Multi-platform support: Windows, Mac OS X and UNIX-based systemsPowerful scripting system for programmatic applications testingCustomisable User Agent String"

Includes a Mac OSX version! - but costs $299US