Apabila Apple meng-upgrade Mac OS Tiger kepada Mac OS Leopard, features terbaru yang merasuk kami adalah iChat (1)  yang lebih mengujakan. Lantas baru – baru ini sempena dengan pra  annual meeting secretlab, (yang telah dibrandingkan dengan nama “Pre-Rejuvenate 2009″), kami telah menggunakan medium iChat untuk membuat simulasi perbincangan online  atau Online Meeting Simulation. Konsepnya adalah, berkomunikasi secara online (2) sambil membincangkan satu topik lantas membuat satu presentasi.

Sebelum anda dinikmatkan dengan kemudahan video chat terbaru ini, harus difahamkan dahulu :

a. Meeting online adalah meeting diantara 2 pihak yang berjalan di 2 lokasi yang berbeza
b. secara online
c. boleh kongsi file presentation seperti keynote / pdf / jpeg / video

Namun untuk simulasi ini, kami duduk bertentang mata. Berikut adalah contoh snapshot visual iChat diantara kami.

Ini pula snapshot semasa Azrai membuat presentasi menggunakan keynote. ( ala2 powerpoint )

Berikut adalah keadaan sebenar yang berlaku ketika presentasi. Sepatutnya secara simulasi ideal, kami harus berada di lokasi yang berbeza. Namun kesukaran untuk mencari kawasan WIFI menyebabkan kami berimaginasi yang kami berada diruang yang berbeza.

Hasil Eksperimen

Hasil dari perlakuan simulasi ini didapati bahawa iChat sangat efektif dalam melaksanakan Online Meeting. Namun beberapa hal harus diambil kira:

a. Paling mudah antara Mac user sahaja, kecuali anda install iChat dalam window. Bolehkah kita install iChat dalam windows?

http://forums.pcworld.co.nz/showthread.php?t=86311

Namun cara yang lebih mudah adalah mac user menggunakan iChat manakala windows user menggunakan AIM.

b. Boleh rekod perbincangan namun secara misteri, file yang telah direkod tidak dijumpai.

c. Perbincangan 2 hala sahaja ( Khairulazizi + Azrai ). Perbincangan 3 hala ( khairulazizi + Azrai + secretlab ) kami belum cuba sebab ketika ini tiada seorang staff secretlab pun di ofis.

d. Kadangkala connection failure akibat dari kerendahan bandwith provider di lokasi.

Bacaan Lanjut:
(1) http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/ichat.html

(2) http://www.mvldesign.com/video_conference_tutorial.html

http://www.zoosware.com/mhqiphoneoverview.html

Here are few steps to download for Jailbreaking iPhone

1) After jailbreaking, you should have Installer.app in your iPhone or iPod Touch.
3) Ensure that you update the Installer.app and dont forget to install the “Community Sources”.
4) The Mobile Holy Quran application installation can be found under the “Productivity” section.
5) Most of the Jailbreak software will preinstall the Installer.app software in your iPhone.
6) Please don’t ask us how to perform jailbreak, you can find a lot of instructions on the web. Remember, Google is your best friend.

More info :

http://code.google.com/p/iphoneebooks/

“People don’t read anymore,” said Steve Jobs last month. Try telling that to users of his company’s iPhone and iPod Touch devices, many of whom seem to be using the device as an eBook reader. Our network blog last100 theorized that what Jobs’ really meant was, who needs the Amazon Kindle when you’ve got an iPhone that does a lot more? “Will a developer write an app to read books on the iPhone or Touch?” asked last100’s Daniel Langendorf. Actually, a few developers already have, and at least one is doing very well.

The TextOnPhone app launched last August, and with strictly organic growth now has 50,000 registered users. This week they announced a partnership with International Thriller Writers to bring fiction from the organizations members to the app, including top writers like James Patterson and Lee Child. TextOnPhone gives readers access to over 20,000 books and is planning to expand to support other phones later this month.

Another application, Readdle, gives users 50mb to store eBook content in a plethora of formats, include Plucker, which is the defacto mobile eBook reader format for Project Gutenberg, which houses over 20,000 free eBooks.

There are other iPhone book readers, including Free iPhone eBooks, which houses a limited selection of classics, and Scrollbox, which has a large public library and allows uses to upload their own content. With 4 million iPhones sold, and baked in development platform on the way, that begs the question — why buy a Kindle when you could buy an iPhone or iPod Touch?

The Kindle does very few things with its black and white screen. It reads books, it checks some RSS feeds and gets the news… that’s about it. The iPhone, on the other hand, lets you do all of that, and pretty much anything else you can do on the Internet. And it’s a phone. And a portable media player. With sites like eBooks.com out there, which sells over 100,000 books, most in the PDF format that Readdle supports, theoretically the same content available on the Kindle is available on the iPhone.

The only things the Kindle has over Apple’s device is speed (books are automatically downloaded wirelessly), and cost (you’re not paying monthly for a phone service subscription but still get a constant EVDO connection). The former could theoretically be tackled by a company willing to sell eBooks directly to iPhone users, and the latter isn’t a big deal since most people are paying for a phone anyway.

The only other reasons I can think of why someone might choose a Kindle over and iPhone or iPod Touch is the form factor — is it easier to hold while reading?, the screen — is it easier to read on?, and the battery life — is it really that much better? Not owning either device personally, I can’t make a determination on any of those points. But clearly, what Jobs meant when he said “people don’t read anymore” was “if people want to read, they should just use an iPhone.”

What do you think? Is the iPhone the ultimate eBook reader, or is there room for the Amazon Kindle? Which would you buy?

LINKS:

http://www.textonphone.com/
http://readdle.com/
http://iphoneplaza.net/books/

1. Better to restore your iPhone using iTunes before you start Ziphone. They say the best fish in the market is the fresh one.

2. Make sure there is no simcard while running Ziphone.

3. Turn off iTunes & iTunes helper via the utilities > activity monitor before running Ziphone

4. If your iPhone stuck with the apple silver logo and you cannot turn off the iPhone, press the home button and power button together. It should be ok and restart after that.

5. To download ziphone, here’s the link.

Hope that will help you a lot. Smile.

Happy watching! And by the way, I love youtube.

Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) comes with both Apache 2.2.6 and PHP 5.2.4 preinstalled, but they’re not enabled by default. The following instructions should help you get up and running.

1. Open BBEdit or TextWrangler (a free, cut-down version of BBEdit available from www.barebones.com). From the File menu, select Open Hidden. In the Open dialog box, select All Files from the Enable drop-down menu. Then navigate to Macintosh HD:private:etc:apache2:httpd.conf, and click Open.
2. This opens the main configuration file for Apache 2.2.6. It’s a system file, so you need to unlock it by clicking the icon of a pencil with a line through it at the top-left of the toolbar, as shown in the following screenshot:

   

   

3. You will be told that the document is owned by “root”, and be asked to confirm that you want to unlock it. Click Unlock. This removes the line through the pencil, and readies the file for editing. Normally, when editing system files, it’s a good idea to make a backup. However, it’s not necessary in this case, because backup copies of all the Apache configuration files are in the original subfolder of the Apache2 folder.
4. Scroll down until you find the code shown on line 114 in the following screenshot (although the line number is likely to be the same in your version, it’s the code that’s important, not which line it’s on):

   

5. Position your cursor at the beginning of that line, and remove the hash or pound sign (#). It should now look like this:

   LoadModule php5_module      libexec/apache2/libphp5.so

   This enables PHP 5 on your computer.

6. Save the file. Because it’s owned by “root”, you will be prompted to enter your Mac password. That takes care of the basic configuration. In theory, you could now start Apache and PHP would be up and running. However, the default installation doesn’t use the PHP configuration file php.ini. You need to need to make a copy of a file called php.ini.default, and edit it.
7. Unfortunately, you can’t open php.ini.default in BBEdit or TextWrangler and save it with a different name. You need to go under the hood of OS X by opening Terminal in the Applications:Utilities folder. Similar to the Command Prompt in Windows, Terminal gives you direct access to the underlying operating system on a Mac.
8. With Terminal open, type the following series of commands, each followed by Return:

   cd /private/etc

   sudo cp php.ini.default php.ini

   This moves you into the private:etc folder, and then copies php.ini.default to php.ini in the same folder, using the sudo command. You need to use sudo because it’s a system file. Enter your Mac administrator password when prompted. Terminal should now look something like this:

   

9. Open php.ini in BBEdit or TextWrangler using Open Hidden in the same way as with http.conf. You should find php.ini in Macintosh HD:private:etc. Click the icon of a pencil with a line through it to enable editing.
10. How you edit php.ini is mainly a question of preference, but the most important change is to a command called error_reporting. The default setting (it should be on line 305) looks like this:

    error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE

    Change it to this:

    error_reporting = E_ALL

    This ensures that PHP reports all errors. Although no one likes error messages, it’s vital to eliminate any errors (even seemingly minor ones) before
    deploying scripts on a live web server.

    NOTE: There are several lines that look similar. Make sure that you edit the line that does NOT begin with a semicolon. A semicolon at the beginning of a line in php.ini indicates a comment, which is ignored by the server.

11. Save php.ini.
12. You can now start Apache by going to System Preferences. Click Sharing in Internet & Network. Then place a checkmark in Web Sharing. When Apache starts up, System Preferences should display Web Sharing: On.
13. Click the link under Your computer’s website. This should launch Safari and display an Apache web page.
14. Create a page called test.php, and type in the following code:

    <?php phpinfo(); ?>

    Save it in Macintosh HD:Library:WebServer:Documents.

15. Load the following URL into your browser:

    http://localhost/test.php

    If you see the PHP configuration screen, you’re up and running!

NOTE: If you did an upgrade install of Leopard, you cannot view pages stored in your personal Sites folder, because the necessary file(s) won’t have been copied to the correct folder for Apache 2. To copy the file(s), open Terminal and type the following commands, both followed by Return:

cd /private/etc/httpd/users

ls

You should see at least one file that uses your Mac username followed by .conf. For example, on my computer, it’s called davidpowers.conf. You need to copy this file for each user to a folder where Apache 2 can find it. Type the following command, using the name of the file on your computer instead of davidpowers.conf:

sudo cp davidpowers.conf /private/etc/Apache2/users

If there are several .conf files to copy, you can use the following command instead:

sudo cp *.conf /private/etc/Apache2/users

However, if you have previously installed the Mac PHP package from Marc Liyanage, do not copy entropy-php.conf.

For this (or any other) change to take effect, go to Sharing in System Preferences, deselect Web Sharing, and then reselect it. This restarts Apache and implements any changes made to the Apache or PHP configuration.

My thanks to Dan Brown for the additional information he provided for these instructions.

Well to let you off the hook (the first 30 seconds in forgetfulness limbo and the next minute in regression), it’s not enabled by default. Here’s how to go about enabling root.

1. Go to: Applications -> Utilities -> Directory Utility
2. (Be sure to click the padlock to allow you to perform edits.)
3. Click Edit -> Enable Root Password
4. Type a new password and retype to confirm.

The only one word I love to say to my friends that converting from PC to MAC is :

Welcome to club heaven!

As the recent success for me to convert 2 person in a day, which lead me to think, am I a Mac messiah? It was first my wife then Azrai. Later then comes Nad and yesterday I got a call from Kamal, “Do you have Apple Word Installer?”

Surely one thing about MAC is, it is not just the beauty of the design. It is a beauty of the brain too.

And so, below is the list of basic software that you need as you entering the first step to heaven.

iWork:
Keynote ( like powerpoint)
Numbers ( like excel)
Pages ( like words)

Widgets

Google : All google on Mac,  Google earth, Google Notifier,
Messenger : Adium
Web : Safari, Firefox
Handphone: iSync (Nokia)
Screen capture : Snapz Pro x
FTP: Transmit
CD Burning : Toast 
Serial : Serial seeker
Entertaintment : Apple quicktime , VLC , iTunes

I love to see the happy smiling of a new Mac User!

Finally they arrived, check out at the local store machine.