Jourdein

I stumbled upon this article that got his article from some other article about the “interesting finding” he found.

Yahoo is still popular than Google
Friendster is more popular than Facebook
Blogspot is more popular than Wordpress
MalaysiaKini is more popular than The Star

While I did search for text highlighting for my project, I stumbled upon a website that discuss about the worse and wrong menu items in Windows. I like this paragraph from the author:

Apple in its wisdom has given Cocoa developers much more control over how menus are drawn in Leopard. You can in fact, draw anything you please in a menu now. Don’t do it. It was bad enough when you could clutter up your menus with blocky little useless icons, now the user can innocently click on a menu and be confronted with the Gates of Hell. Don’t do it. Resist the temptation. Put the NSView down. If you are porting a Windows app, do not let the pointy haired boss force you into porting the ugly menus. Tell him it can’t be done. Tell him you would lose Tiger compatibility. Tell him anything, but don’t mess with Mac menus.

Read more at his website: Chaotic nature of windows menus.

D90 Spec

Nikon releases D90 that claimed to be able to record Cinematic 24fps 720p HD movie with sound, with high definition LCD monitor and improved ADR (aka Adaptive D-Lighting).

Check out the details here.

Though iPhone dictionary keyboard is an innovative word suggestion but sometimes, I would like the keyboard to be turned off so that I would be able to write in my language. Actually, if it turned off, I would not mind. I think I would be typing faster if the dictionary is disabled.

Thus, I googled on how to disable the dictionary for iPhone 2.0. In iPhone 1.1.4 firmware, they have the tweak called KB that will disabled it. But in 2.0, none of it happened to be anywhere yet. The solution I found required SSH to some folder and renaming it language bundle.

The instruction requires terminal to connect to iPhone through SSH but I prefer using Transmit (FTP app).

So, what you require are:

• SSHed iPhone
  (I installed OpenSSH from Cydia. This mean that your phone is already jailbroken ‘ed’)
• FTP App (I use Transmit on MacBook)

Where to start?

1. Open FTP application. Connect to iPhone using IP address with username:root password:alpine
2. Point you FTP browser to /System/Library/TextInput/
3. Rename TextInput_en.bundle to something. I rename to TextInput_en_bak.bundle.
4. Create a new folder with original name which you have renamed TextInput_en_bak.bundle
5. Respring or reboot you iPhone to commit changes.

If you would like to see the source of website that I’ve referred to, visit:

http://n00.be/archives/724/

Tags: autocomplete, autocorrect, disable language, Hack, How-to, iPhone

For sometimes, I was using my iPhone without being able to download FREE application from AppStore because of me having to register with the credit card or paypal or visa or any other payment method. I just download iPhone apps from Cydia.

But, during that time, my friend who was able to download all that cool FREE apps from AppStore keep showing me the cool app he has and even blogging about it (read here). Ahh… I want that but I don’t want to put my VISA card there. Thus, I searched and found:

[link] How to get a Free Itunes Account (No Credit Card Needed) [link]

Actually I found 2 or 3 places that give the step on how to get the free itunes account and the one I referred is not the above one but, that link (i think) provide with steps. The basic is the same.

• Find where to find redeem code (get it)
• Redeemed it in iTunes
• iTunes asked to enter account (if already exist) or create new
• You create new (here you find out the added radio button “none” for method of payment
• After this point is just normal step. Put your information and eureka…

You may need to put “your” US city and postcode. Good luck.

Tags: free itunes account, iPhone

During searches for codes and examples for BriefCase, found out that (from my observations) the UI most implemented on the application is a source-view type. What is this? You can see this type in Mail.app, iTunes, iCal and many other software out there that implement this kind of UI. I think it is more simple yet intuive and show less crowded interface. I might be opt for that UI in my next BriefCase client for mac but who knows what will happen. Anyhow, managed to have that kind of interface but without functions yet. Hmm.. see here for some of screenshot of the application that uses that kind of interface.

http://www.marinersoftware.com/sitepage.php?page=104

Yesterday, I got the opportunity to attend a free seminar on introduction to Final Cut Server and Final Cut Studio 2. They explain how the system should work and for me, it was something but I don’t see it has any place right now for us. What attracted us most was when the speaker touch on Final Cut Studio. It’s really motivated me again to do video editing when seeing what they can do with Motion, Color and Final Cut Pro to the video. It seems sooo easy yet resulting in a professional end result. In the old days, I did try using Adobe Premier which known to be good but they have complicated UI (maybe because I didn’t have the opportunity to see people show it to me how to use, ;p). Anyway, the seminar yesterday was quite informative and inspired me to see by myself how I can do to my videos with those things.

Legal Bytes was visited by 2 representatives from Rumah Amal Limpahan Kasih (RALK); Alif & Akmal.

Alif and Akmal

I’ve been asked to do some research to see what is Documentum is. From my initial search, I found that Documentum is an engine for Enterprise Content Management. Documentum is owned by a company EMC² that provide high end hardware for enterprise data storage system.

The emc.com home page is your gateway to the vast array of EMC products and services to help you create, manage, store, and protect all your organization’s information.

http://malaysia.emc.com

It seems like large company are using them to reliably store organization’s information as they are well known for such services. To my astonishment, the company also owned VMWare (as of my reading and was told that) and many more products. In Malaysia, the company seems to have been giving services to vast majority of companies and I am not going to reveal the names as I am not quite sure of my memory right now and at this moment, and I don’t want to give false information on that.

Documentum support .NET framework, meaning that I can developed my application on ASP and Visual Basic. It also vastly support JAVA though I am not very into it but I don’t see (during this initial searches) of it supporting Objective-C programming in Mac. Mostly what I’ve seen until now is mostly project examples done in Visual Basic and Google Web Toolkit (GWT)

Here I found some information on what Documentum is http://d4d2.com/?p=29. His website has most of information for Documentum and mainly targeted to non-geek reader like the name suggested “Documentum for Dummies”. I’m not quite finished exploring the website thus I’m not in the position to summarize the content of it.

Oh.. before I forgot, here’s the link (http://developer.emc.com/developer/challenge/D6_contest.htm) for the previous contest for developers on Documentum 6. Here is where I found out some of the projects that were done with VB.NET and GWT. You may see there other applications that are used to the developed the front-end for Documentum 6 such as application from Adobe and Window Mobile. Anyhow, I am still not in the situation, again, to explain on their system because I’m only have covered two of them.

Till now, the information I have was not enough yet for me to conclude whether I will be developing the next application together with the support from Documentum or not. Thankfully, I have Saifuddin to help me during the Googling in this matter.

The photograph was taken during our visit to Ministry Office, Zaid Ibrahim for a meet up with one of the representative of Zaid Ibrahim. I went there with Azizi.