webdevmatt

So the iPhone’s been out for a couple weeks, and what’s the dilly? Review’s are good I would say. Pretty good consumer phone, with some istars I guess:
1. I can’t use hotmail except on the web (workaround = redirection)
2. I need an SMTP open relay or more desirable SMTP relay using SMTP auth (comx.com is great on the edge network, but will fail if you are using wifi. cwmx.com will only work on the at&t network)
3. When will I be able to truly sync w/ my enterprise server

In the spirit of good and pure tech, I make a point to ask Apple lovers or just iPhone users what they like, don’t like or what’s new w/ the iPhone every day. I will say my best source is a couple of 3d guys from mediaillumina.com who put out the best photo realistic interactive 3d modeling I’ve ever seen, I’ll talk about that in another post :). Anyway, here are few things I’ve got from my research or from our boys at mediaillumina.com.

1. Appmarks.com - check it out, in short a web app dashboard that you customize to provide you with the apps your gonna use. Find the ones you like and put them at the tip of your finger.
2. Keyboard tip - if you only want to input one number or symbol, put your finger on the symbol button and drag your finger to your desired character. When you take your finger off the screen your symbol will be on the screen, and the normal keyboard will be back on the screen.
3. Wifi - when connecting to wifi make sure you are using the appropriate entry type for your secure key. Are you using a pass code or ASCI / HEX key

This is just the tip of the iceberg, I’ll try to give you info as it comes in.

Hey all, if you know me I love the purity of whatever it is I do. Technology is one of the “things” that I do and I do my best to learn something new every day in this area. Today’s new bit is something I should have known about the Mac as it’s a part of the purity of their OS.

Here’s the scenario. A client came home from a trip and had lots of updates to download and install. Like a good user he did these updates, but something went wrong. The Mac “Crashed”, it does happen, in the middle of an OS update. From then on whenever he booted his machine he got a dreaded panic message (Kinda like the blue screen of death, on a PC, with a bunch of numbers letters etc…). WHAT TO DO?

Pinged a Mac buddy for some advice, and being in target disk mode, I was half way there. My buddy Mark said, “well, not looking good, but download the 10.4.10 combo update, push it to the targeted disk and cross your fingers”. DING, DING, DING, DING Mark you are the man, and THANK YOU APPLE for being pure.

To sum it up, I just patched the Mac without booting into it. For all intent and purpose, the “bad” computer was just hanging off the other machine as storage. SWEET CRÈME BUTTER.

I’m a fairly new runner, ~1year seriously, before that a 5k a year for breast cancer and occasionally from the PoPo ;). This last weekend, Sunday, was the Boilermaker, The Largest 15k, and after party in the USA, and some of the people in the running group I belong to took part in it.

As I woke up in the morning I felt those old feelings of a gladiator before battle, and the feeling I more often get now when it’s time to “compete” on a cerebral level :), man is it exhilarating. As I walked up to the starting paddock that they put me in, the feeling got buried as my mind kicked in to what I was about to do. I’m not an elite athlete, I’m a regular guy who runs for salvation,and this isn’t the Largest 15k in the country it’s the largest after party, where are your priorities.

So the race starts with a cannon fire and my mouth goes completely dry, it’s fight or flight time, and I want to fight, but there are so many people in the way, so the fight gets suppressed again. My mind is racing (fast, fun, damb all the people I want to go fast, all these people are here to have fun, what are you here to prove ….. ), and my body is just on autopilot, the legs just follow the crowd.

5k pass and my pace is nowhere near what I said I’d do (they took that number and put me in a paddock on it), and I am a man of my word, so it was go-time, just in time for the hills to get steeper and the sun to break through the clouds. The body’s still on auto pilot, but the mind says go faster or your going to let Bob, the race director for the last 6 years with this being his last, down, and the gray paddock runners are going to hate you because you lined up before them cause you reported a certain time.

Before I go off on a tangent about the story of my race, I go back to my original blog about blogging and will conclude with a moral of this story and something I’m dying to get perspective on:

Once a competitor is there more to life than competing? Once a champion can you ever give less than your best? Where is the line drawn? Can you co-exist? When do you let it go?
I don’t think I have much of an answer to any of these questions except for Yes or No depending on specific state of mind. That being said, I can’t say Yes or No to these questions without qualifying statements so do I have a problem, a mental block, or just a competitive spirit, that I’ve tried incessently to suppress, just won’t die.

More to come……

Everyone has their own definition of sport, weather it’s your occupation, your hobby or a physical activity that you just love. This weekend I was reminded what I love about sport, and in my case it’s running (this week). How does an afternoon jog turn into complete salvation of an unstoppable downward spiral? What is sport to you?

Sunday morning 11am, the weather is beautiful, the route is set, but the body feels like it’s been rolled by a truck, and starting the route seems like a chore. To boot, I have just recently run over my nano w/ my car, so no tunes or Nike+ data. About a quarter mile down the road it hits me. All physical and mental ailments have disappeared, I can’t feel anything. All I know is that my legs are moving, my mind is clear, and I’m free to observe nature around me. Is it the silence of road or the meter of my own footsteps, I don’t know, but I like it.

Simple day to day motion elongated to an hour long activity of body, mind and natures synergies. And now as I write this I feel as if I’m doing the activity an injustice by putting more words to it’s purity and simple elegance. On that note, do what you love so that you may love what you do.

I must say not being able to use Live Writer to put my musings up is sure holding me down :(. Anyway, I’ve been working w/ the iPhone for a few days now for my clients and I will stick to my guns that it is not a business machine. I will save my, what I like and dislike about it, for next time, but I wanted to get a couple of tidbits out to the community that has to support the iPhone on an enterprise network. I’m sure there will be more to come.

Integration with entourage is a bit tedious. You must have iSync as an intermediary to get it to work (entourage -> isync -> iPhone and viceversa). This probably won’t be bad for peeps with small amounts of data, but my clients have, for example, many thousands of contacts, appointments, etc. This makes lots of room for sync issues (duplicates etc.) and it takes a good deal of time for not only the initial, but also subsequent syncs. My note here is be patient, and tell your clients the same. There is more grief in rushing.

Email works great if you have imap and or pop open and SMTP relay. You will need to at least open imap or pop for your users to receive mail, but if you don’t want to make your server a relay use At&t SMTP relay cwmx.com (very handy to have around).

Until Next time.