Tuesday, January 31, 2012

New blogsite

Decided to move my blogging activities to Tumblr.com. The content of this blog will stay here and are also imported to the Tumblr blog

Monday, January 16, 2012

Charice iPhone App updates to version 2.4

Charice PempengcoCharice Pempengco App, All the news about the famous singer / actress from The Philippines. Apart from news, you can check her Twitter feed, Facebook wall posts, read lyrics of songs she performed, check out her latest photos and last but not least you can watch popular videos of Charice. And all this in one fantastic iPhone App!

To view the videos, tap a video image and the player will start the video. To view the photo slideshow, go to Photos and tap a photo, next tap the play button or if you like to view at your own pace, just swipe left or right.

When reading the News, tap the title to show a snippit of the article, tap the snippit or the date/source line and you will be presented with the original website that reported the news.

When reading Twitter or Facebook feeds, tap a Tweet or Facebook post to see the original on either the Twitter or Facebook webpage. You can also swipe a Tweet or Facebook post, this will give you sharing options: tweet, post to facebook, email and more!

We are updating the information on a regular basis. You can use the reload buttons to reload twitter, news, videos, photos, lyrics and facebook.

Push Notifications are send when there is news about Charice or new videos, photos or lyrics are available.

new in version 2.4:

Added Spotify support, tap the action menu button from the main screen and choose 'Charice Songs'.

new in version 2.3:

Bugfix for re-sharing Twitter and Facebook messages (when you swipe a tweet or Facebook message)
New App icon
Bugfix for weird notification badge text

new in version 2.2:

iOS 5 ready

new in version 2.1:

bug fixes
Improved support for iPhone 3G
Improved support for devices running IOS 3.1

new in version 2.0:

Push notifications for news, pictures, videos and lyrics
Rearranged Tabs to more logical order
Small fixes in the user interface
Fixed crash bug on closing and saving tabs
Saving tabs in user specified order works again

Friday, October 14, 2011

How to get to your iDisk after move to iCloud


If you are wondering where your iDisk went after the move to iCloud, go read Apple's support article

But what if you do not see your iDisk in Finder ? Well that's easy, open Finder and press ⌘K and enter 'https://idisk.me.com/yourMobileMeName' as the Server Address. Without the quotes of course and yourMobileMeName should not include @me.com, just your name. Click the Connect button and your iDisk will open, it might ask for your credentials first.

Saturday, July 02, 2011

iOS Apps

Check out my iPhone and iPad Apps that I have been creating the past 2 months.

Charice Pempengco©15 juni 2011

versie 1.0

Charice PempengcoCharice Pempengco App, al het nieuws over de beroemde zangeres / actrice uit de Filipijnen. Afgezien van nieuws, kun je haar Twitter-feed, Facebook wall posts bekijken, songteksten van liedjes die ze heeft gezongen, bekijk haar nieuwste foto's en last but not least kunt u kijken naar populaire video's van Charice. En dit alles in één fantastische iPhone App!


Om de video's te bekijken, tikt u een videobeeld en de speler zal de video starten. Om de fotoslideshow te zien, ga naar foto's en tik op een foto, vervolgens tikt u op de play button of als u de foto's in uw eigen tempo wilt bekijken, swipe links of rechts.


Bij het lezen van het nieuws, tikt u op de titel om een snippit van het artikel te tonen, tikt u vervolgens op de snippit of de datum / bron dan zal originele webpagina die het nieuws gemeld heeft, getoond worden.


Bij het lezen van Twitter of Facebook-feeds, tik op een Tweet of Facebook post om het origineel te zien op Twitter of Facebook. U kunt ook de swipe gesture over een Tweet of Facebook post doen, dit geeft de opties voor delen: tweet, post naar Facebook, e-mail en nog veel meer!


De informatie wordt op een regelmatige basis bijgewerkt zodat u altijd beschikt over het laatste nieuws over Charice. U kunt gebruik maken van de reload buttons om Twitter, nieuws, video's, foto's, teksten en Facebook te herladen.


iTunes link om Charice Pempengco App te downloaden


Nassen©31 mei 2011

versie 1.0

NassenNassen is een App om lekker eten in de vorm van recepten te vinden en zelf te bereiden. Met de Nassen App kun je recepten van andere gebruikers bekijken en deze natuurlijk zelf bereiden. Handig met een iPhone of iPad, die leg je zo naast je op het aanrecht om het recept te volgen. Van een uitgebreid hoofdgerecht tot een eenvoudig ontbijtje of lekkere hapjes, u kunt het allemaal vinden met de Nassen App.


U kunt de recepten delen via e-mail, Facebook, Twitter en nog vele andere sociale netwerken.


Heeft u zelf een recept van een lekker gerecht, ga dan naar www.nassen.nl, meldt u aan en plaats uw recept met foto's en deel het met anderen. Uiteraard is het recept direct zichtbaar in de Nassen App.


iTunes link om Nassen te downloaden


Kwaaak©25 mei 2011

versie 1.0

Kwaaak©Kwaaak© is een spel voor jonge kinderen. Ze zien 20 plaatjes van dieren en objecten. Door het plaatje aan te raken, wordt het geluid van het object gespeeld. Maar dat is niet alles! Swipe naar links en er verschijnen nog meer plaatjes met geluiden! U hoeft het maar één keer aan uw kind te laten zien en hij of zij heeft door hoe het werkt.


U kunt zelf 5 foto's uit uw eigen foto bibliotheek toevoegen en daarbij via de iPad microfoon geluiden opnemen. Deze 5 eigen foto's en geluiden zijn op het eerste scherm te zien en te kiezen. U kunt de foto's en geluiden in het instellingen scherm kiezen, u navigeert hier naartoe via het instellingen icoon rechtsboven in de Kwaaak© App.


Het instellingen scherm kan beveiligd worden met een pincode zodat uw kind niet per ongeluk allerlei instelling kan veranderen. Vergeet de pincode niet, want dan kunt u zelf niet meer bij de instellingen komen. Bent u uw pincode toch vergeten, dan kunt u de app opnieuw installeren op uw iPad door deze eerst te verwijderen en vervolgens via iTunes sync weer naar uw iPad te kopiëren. Of als u uw opgenomen geluiden en gekozen foto's wilt gehouden, stuur dan even een mailtje naar info@yellowdice.nl dan helpen wij u graag met een oplossing.


iTunes link om Kwaaak© te downloaden

Monday, January 03, 2011

I am now IPv6 Certified Guru !

Hurricane Electric IPv6 certification

Soon the world will be out of IPv4 addresses. The IT world is busy working on solutions to make sure the internet will not come to a halt. One of those solutions is implement IPv6. Because of my interest in networking, I started reading about IPv6 and tried to setup the basics for IPv6. I'm in the process of IPv6 Certification and are now at the IPv6 Certified Guru level. One more step to go to become IPv6 Certified Sage. But I need IPv6 glue records for this at my DNS provider but they do not support it yet.

What I have running at the moment (as test for now) is Apache2 on IPv6, Bind9 on IPv6, Postfix on IPv6 and the Ubuntu 64bit server is pingable (ICMP) on IPv6. I used Ubuntu 10 Server edition with the Ubuntu dekstop environment installed to configure the whole IPv6 stack and the mentioned applications. The server is running in a virtual machine hosted by VirtualBox 4.0, which in turn is running on OS/X Snow Leopard. That made things a little bit more complicated :) but not too much, afterall I am a Guru ;).

My internetconnection is through a cable provider. Cable modem is a Cisco 3925. I turned on DMZ mode forwarding 'all' traffic to an internal IP address, that of the Ubuntu server (duh!). This als forwards (apparently, nothing the Cisco documentation) Protocol41 which you need for tunneling IPv6 in IPv4. Regular port forwards configured on the Cisco 3925 just forward over IPv4, so I can have my IPv4 webserver running on port 80 as well as have the IPv6 webserver running on port 80. Nice!

I use a IPv6 tunnel provided by tunnelbroker.net.

IPv6 Certification Badge for Ludolphus

Starting Nmap 5.00 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2011-01-03 13:47 PST
Interesting ports on [REMOVED].tunnel.tserv11.ams1.ipv6.he.net (2001:470:[REMOVED]):
Not shown: 997 closed ports
PORT STATE SERVICE
25/tcp open smtp
53/tcp open domain
80/tcp open http

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 29.85 seconds

Sunday, December 12, 2010

WatchTREK XBMC Add-on now available through a repository (YaarFX)

Repository created for WatchTREK XBMC addon, now allows for automatic updates of the addon.

The Star Trek episodes are not hosted by me, but on the site mentioned. This script just does some website scraping to make the episodes viewable in XBMC. Give it a few seconds for an episode to start.

Check out the repository here at YaarFX

To add the YaarFX repository to your XBMC install, first download zip archive located at http://yaarfx.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/repository.yaarfx.xbmc-plugins/

Then go to XBMC / System / Add-ons / Install from zip file. Browse to the location where you downloaded the YaarFX zip file and click OK. The repository should now be available under XBMC / System / Add-ons / Get Add-ons / YaarFX Add-on Repository. From there you can install the WatchTREK add-on. If in the future updates are made to this XBMC add-on, you will see a notification in the XBMC Add-ons menu and will be able to update by simply choosing the Update option there.

In the future I will add new add-ons to the YaarFX repository.

The wiki at http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Add-on_Repositories helped a lot on getting this to work, especially the automatic updates part.

Saturday, December 04, 2010

WatchTREK add-on for XBMC (watch Star Trek episodes)


XBMC Video add-on for WatchTREK (allstepisodes.com)

The Star Trek episodes are not hosted by me, but on the site mentioned. This script just does some website scraping to make the episodes viewable in XBMC. Give it a few seconds for an episode to start.

download link

Update 0.3
Changed the way of packing the addon to a zip file, it seems that newer versions of XBMC Dharma do not allow more than one directory in the root of the zip, also files are not allowed in the root. Just the directory name naming the plugin should be in the root. Now on version 0.3, the previous version did not work with the 'install from zip file' XBMC option. (how to package / zip / distribute xbmc addons).

Please help me test this add-on, I did not have the time to test all Star Trek episodes (28 seasons!) yet. This means that the script could have some errors still, the episodes I tested play just fine. Sometimes it might happen that you will see a 20 second video displaying a notice that the episode has been watched too many times. Unfortunately I have no influence on this, as the Star Trek episodes are not hosted by me but on a third party website.

Tested on XBMC Dharma RC2 (SVN-35567)

Please leave your comments on what you think about this XBMC add-on and also please inform me of episodes that might not work so I can make some improvements to the script. Thanks !

Monday, November 23, 2009

XBMC 9.11 beta 1, Introducing Confluence

Confluence is the new theme for XBMC. Version 9.11 is still in beta, now at beta 1. It seems like maybe a small update, but this theme is more than just nice! It's fabulous and makes operating XBMC that much more easier. I am running it on my AppleTV and it works great already for a beta. Just having some trouble getting the movie/tv library up to date with all movies on my storage. I'm doing something wrong for sure.

Read all about the new XBMC 9.11b1




Wednesday, November 04, 2009

Virtu-Al VESI & PowerGUI PowerPack

As you can see from the screen shot on the left, this is a first attempt at providing most of my scripts in one PowerPack and adding to the already great management that VESI and PowerGUI give you.



So what do I need to do to install this ?
  1. Install PowerShell V1 or V2 (if you do not already have these installed) V2 Recommended
  2. Install PowerCLI
  3. Install VESI or PowerGUI (VESI Recommended for Virtualization management)
  4. If you have PowerGUI installed you will need to add the ‘VMware Infrastructure Management’ PowerPack which can be downloaded from here.
  5. Click the download button at the top of this post to download my latest PowerPack, and rate the PowerPack while you are there if you like !
  6. Import the PowerPack into VESI or PowerGUI

Car Finder Uses Augmented Reality to Find Your Car

Car Finder is an iPhone application that uses augmented reality to find your vehicle.

You can use Car Finder to locate your car anywhere you are. Once you load the application it uses the camera viewfinder to see an overly of where your car is, the direction it is located, and how far away it is.

The application uses the iPhone camera and compass and thus an iPhone 3GS running at least 3.1 will be required.

You can purchase Car Finder for $.99 from the App Store.

Get it in the App Store

AppleTV 3.0 installed with patchstick applied

Yesterday I installed the 3.0 upgrade for AppleTV. After that I used the patchstick I used last time, containing SoftwareMenu frappliance. Unfortunately SoftwareMenu does not work yet on 3.0. But ssh is available again, so installing NitoTV, XBMC and Boxee was straight forward. To install XBMC and Boxee I needed to install Launcher first. Installing XBMC and Boxee via Launcher somehow doesn't work for me so I copied the apps to AppleTV and then created a symbolic link:

ln -s /Users/frontrow/Applications/XBMC.app /Applications/XBMC.app

So far everything works and the new AppleTV interface looks nice again, it's sort of a mix of the 1.0 and 2.0 GUI.



Sadly, AppleTV still does not support renting/buying movies and tv show in The Netherlands and a lot of other countries all over the world...

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Couchsurfer 0.4 for AppleTV 2.1 firmware

Yeah, although not officially announced yet, it looks like a new version of Couchsurfer that works with the 2.1 AppleTV firmware is available. Check here for the download, you will want the file called couchsurfer-0.4-2.1-bin.tar.gz. I tested it and so far it looks like it is working just fine. With the 0.3 version I had crashes and the bookmarks & history did not work. That's all fixed. What I did not test yet is add the flash plugin, but I guess that will work also (will update you on that later).

Update: installed flash (and other plugins), tested youtube.com and as expected it works.

Sunday, July 13, 2008

What does your iPod touch / iPhone home screen look like

Thought it would be nice to share my iPod touch 'desktop' or home screen. What I did is try to group functional apps next to eachother:



You can make your own screenshot this way:

hold the 'Home' button
press the 'Power' button
the screen will flash
screenshot is saved in Photos

Put a link to your home screen in a comment if you like.

Saturday, July 12, 2008

AppleTV 2.1 update - patchstick applied


Yesterday Apple released the 2.1 firmware of AppleTV. Like many others, I have my AppleTV patchsticked (jailbroken, hacked, or whatever you want to call it). So I hasitated to do the update (was still running 2.01). But after reading at the awkwardtv.org wiki I thought to give it a try.

The updated went just fine, within about 10 to 15 minutes the new firmware was downloaded and installed and working just fine. The biggest new features are MobileMe support and the new remote control from an iPhone or iPod Touch support. I had already updated my iPod Touch (grrr no iPhones left yesterday in my store) to the 2.0 software, which enables it to use applications from the App Store. On of the apps there is the 'Remote' app by Apple and its free. What this does is give you the ability to control your AppleTV or iTunes on Windows or Mac machine. Really cool and for AppleTV very nice to listen to music without having to turn on your TV.

Now for the patchstick part. I had a USB stick still lying around with the patchstick software on it, just a simple one that installs sshd (secure shell access). That worked just fine and after the patch I restarted it and everything is ok. Now ssh is available on to installing the plugins nitoTV, ATVFiles and Couchsurfer. Had to do the first two by hand and Couchesurfer installed through the nitoTV 'install software' menu. Also did all the other nitoTV installs (perian, mplayer codecs, kext load, smartUpdater). What's missing is afp. Had to install to that throught the commandline. The patchstick did some wrong copying of a Kerberos framework, so had to fix that. Setup the mounts to my movies, music and tv shows (hosted on a linux server running netatalk which gives you afp access to linux).

But not everything is working for the moment. nitoTv already issued an updated version for the 2.1 release which runs perfectly. But Couchesurfer and ATVFiles have some problems. Couchesurfer crashes a lot when leaving the page you're viewing and my bookmarks and history don't show up. ATVFiles works for music, but when starting a movie (m4v h.264) or a tv show (divx/xvid) the Finder restarts. So for now I have to use nitoTV to watch this type of content. For TV shows that's fine, but for movies there is a little problem still in nitoTV. When a m4v file has an ac3 stream (and that's how I convert all my DVDs) you loose the AC3 output when you pause or skip through the movie. On startup it's outputting AC3 just fine. This did not happen in ATVFiles on 2.01 and also does not happen when playing through AppleTVs own 'Movies' menu (using synced content).

Hope this little article helps some of you. Leave a comment if you have any questions, maybe I can be of help.

update: The ATVFiles problem has to do with AC3, if you turn off AC3 passthrough in the settings movies will play fine, but without the nice dolby digital sound track of course. Found the problem description in the AwkwardTV forum.

update 2:
Good news on ATVFiles, the developer is working on fixing the AC3 crash problem, there's already some new code checked in, now we wait for the compiled update :-).

update 3:I fetched ATVFiles from svn (build 440) and compiled and installed it. The AC3 problem is fixed with that build. The official release for ATVFiles 1.1.1 is not there yet, but it looks like this will be the one.

update 4:ATVFiles 1.1.1 for AppleTV 2.1 has been officially released. Build 444 is the one being released.

Friday, July 11, 2008

iPhone arriving at Rotterdam late night

It's 12:00am in The Netherlands and there comes the truck at the Rotterdam T-Mobile store:

http://twitpic.com/3h7l

http://twitpic.com/3h7t

http://twitpic.com/3h7v

And this is the guy that got the first one:




















Hope I can get mine tomorrow during normal daytime hours :-)