Today I applied for a quite interesting summer job. The company is called Mobile Vikings and is a virtual mobile network operator. The job concerns assisting the helpdesk. Thanks to my interest for technology I could not pass this opportunity.
I am really excited about the job and hope I will be recruited for a month. The competition is though tough. A girl applied and wrote an ode about the summer job. Which I find quiet creative and I can only applaud such initiatives. I hope I have an edge with my current studies and technical background. The selection is tomorrow so fingers crossed!
My old cellphone was long overdue and I wanted to make the switch to a smartphone for a couple of reasons. For instance I want to be able to check my e-mail everywhere I go preferably with the possiblity to use WiFi. Furthermore I am also a big fan of the potential of Twitter and in lesser extend Facebook. Therefore connectivity to the social platform was an advantage, but the main reason was to organize my activities and tasks and sync them with my laptop.
I made a choice and preordered a Samsung Wave. Which combined the organizing aspects and great multimedia specs with a 1 Ghz processor and a super amoled display. Thanks to the preordering I am one of the first proud owners.
But it is not all a bed of roses as an early adopter. The new operating system Bada requires conform applications, but the varity in the app store is still quite limited. Therefore there is no application that synchronises your calendar with iCal. Furthermore you cannot find handy information of prior users. That’s the reason for this current post.
I found a way to sync your calendar on a Samsung Wave with iCal on Mac OS. The solution uses a detour instead of syncing directly. The first step is to sync your iCal with google calendar.
- Select preferences in iCal
- Accounts
- Insert username and password
- Server: www.google.com & path: /calendar/dav/YOUR@EMAIL.COM/user/
- Use SSL
Now you can sync in two ways to the google calendar. The next step is to sync your Samsung Wave with the google calendar.
- Go to calendar app
- Settings -> Calendar sync
- Add -> Exchange ActiveSync
- Username & password
- Domain: google
- Server URL: m.google.com & use SSL
Now you are all set to sync your events from your phone to laptop and vice versa. Happy syncing!
Edit: below you can find the transition of screens you are suppose to see.
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Edit 2: New firmware is released. With this update you normally all can sync google calendar now.
Don’t you hate it when you click on an embedded little youtube movie, but then decide to continue reading the webpage and it keeps on downloading. Well there is this handy trick that few people know. You can richt click on the youtube player and select stop downloading. The download will stop and you can quietly continue browsing the rest of the website. It’s not world breaking news, but a nifty trick that comes in a handy once and a while.
Since I installed Windows 7 on my MacBook pro I was not able to get the audio to work. The problem lies with the audio drivers. Windows 7 automatically installed generic drivers which do not work. You can easily verify this by the output of the audio channel. If it lits up red, it means it is not configured correctly.
The problem can be solved, but depends on type of MacBook you own. The audio card in your MacBook varies with the type. There are three different drivers for the different audio card vendors:
- Realtek
- Cirrus
- IDT SigmaTel
All drivers can be found on the installation disc of Mac OS under the directory bootcamp/drivers. Depending on the audio card that is in your MacBook you have to install the correct driver.
The setups of the drivers might give a problem. This is due to the compatibility on Windows 7. You can solve this by a right click on the setup and select compatibility troubleshoot. Then you have to select Windows Vista as compatible version. After installing the right driver everything should work fine.
The world today shrinks by the minute. The key to this phenome is connectivity. The fact that the internet is expanding rapidly is well known, but it is also almost everywhere avaible lately. Smartphones, handheld devices, wireless hotspots and similar devices are all devices who contribute to this world we are evolving to. A world where everybody is connected twenty four seven and can be in touch with everybody else.
A step towards that direction is to search people on the internet. A friend of showed me a dutch website where you can find people in a way you normally search the internet. They list all hits on different kinds of social networks. Furthermore they also search for different types of media and list normal relevant search results. While the world became smaller when you read this, it was surely nice to meet you!
A couple of weeks ago I watched some interesting videos. They were presented by professor E. Duval in the class user interfaces. Where he was talking about the history of human computer interaction (CHI). To round up he showed us a couple of views on the future.
One of the videos I found really amusing and cool is the video below. The concept is called siftables, but the video will explain everything.
The slides of professor Duval are also publicly shared on slideshare.
Unfortunately I wasn’t able to write the tutorial on Samba & OpenVPN on Arch linux. So instead I am posting a short intermezzo. It’s a picture with a nerd alert, but I have to admit I found it funny. 
Via B.R.
I always start with good intentions, but after a while I end up posting nothing for weeks. The reason why? I never really figured it out, but it seems to me I get excited and try to write a good post every day. This task might not be that hard for people who write fluently. For me it is not that easy and I think I get bummed out by the fact that I cannot uphold the goal to write every day.
So to face this problem I’m not going to be so hard for myself. For instance, I’m not going to make any promises on how many posts I am going to do. However I will try to write at least once a week. Another change is that from now on the main language will be English. It is not my native language so I am sorry in advance for my spelling and grammar errors. Let the games begin!