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Google finally lets you push Gmail!
02 years ago
I have been a long time user of Google’s push support for Contacts and Calender entries. When I tested it for the first time, I ended up writing a blog entry with the title “I simply love it!“. The only bad thing with the solution back then, was that push support was not enabled for Gmail.
Guess what? Today that changed. Users have ran down Google with requests on Google’s popular Product Ideas page and Help Forum. Our cries have finally been heard, and people using iPhone, iPod Touch and Windows Mobile devices, can now use the new functionality. Users of old fashioned S60 devices, should consider running to the closest mobile phone store. Just kidding, I am sure you will soon get this much requested functionality as well!
For those of you that already are using Google Sync, simply go to Settings -> Mail, Contacts, Calendars and choose the Google/Gmail account. In the window that then comes up, simply activate the ActiveSync for Mail. By default Gmail will only push emails you have received the three last days and not your whole Gmail account. That’s it, that’s all the magic …
Moblogging from my iPod Touch
03 years ago
1-2-3 testing. It’s great fun to see how advanced the first versjon of the WordPress editor for the iPhone and iPod Touch is.
Working with it is straight forward and it couldn’t have bern much easier. My only complaint is writing longer articles sith the onscreen keyboard, AS writing with a thumb is nor fast or easy!
Adding pictures to an article is also in seconds, and tou can even take pictures that you add directly to the blog entry.
This blog entry was written on my iPod Touch and I can’t wait to upgrade my iPhone to v2.0.
Almost perfect: Last.fm for iPhone and iPod Touch
1And the hatch is:
First of all we are initially rolling this out in the US, UK, Canada, France, Germany and Spain. We’re looking at other locales but have to deal with licensing and a host of other issues. We assure you that we’re working on it.
Why, why, why? Norway is forgotten again 
Updated my iPod Touch to the latest iPhone 2.0 software
03 years ago
I couldn’t wait and upgraded the iPod Touch as soon as the upgrade was made available. The iPhone, bought in U.S., is still running the old ROM, as I guess I have to wait for a hack to be made available.
My first impression was that this software upgrade should have been free for those of us that already had bought Mail, Todo and Google Maps. But ok, 10 dollars are not much these days … . There were not many noticeable changes for me, as wireless was already working and I was already using the Installer. I guess I’m first to go wow Monday morning, connecting to the WPA Enterprise network we have at work. I change that I did notice at once, was the far better Norwegian translations!
One of the first things that I will do at work next week, is to write user manuals (in both Norwegian and English) for the inbuilt VPN client and the enhanced WPA support. I am looking forward to finally be able to use the iPod (and later the iPhone) at work, Mail has a close to perfect IMAP implementation. Far superior to any embedded device that I have tried, and that is quite a few!
But for now I will write some lines about my first impressions of the App Store and the applications you can find there today. But before I start, I should say that I have not tried any of the commercial applications available in the App Store, that I will first do when I have upgraded my iPhone with the latest ROM.
The first thing that I noticed was that the App Store was far better to navigate then Installer, and the integration with iTunes and iTunes Music Store is perfect. It just reminds me why most people still are willing to pay for software, most open source software have a not to user friendly interface!
Having said that, don’t rush in to upgrading to iPhone 2.0 if you are using many of the applications that were available on the Installer, as only a few of them are available on the App Store. All the applications that were available through the Installer, must be rewritten to work on 2.0, but I guess in time most of them will find it’s way in to iTMS.
I have started playing with some of these early applications, NetNewsWire, Express, Exposure, eReader, Evernote, iPint, NYTimes and Remote. iPint is “spamware” (I know, one of my terms) and will find it’s way out of my iPod fast …
I guess most Mac users will love having their favorite RSS reader available on their iPhone, and I can only hope that Vienna gets ported to the iPhone as well.
There is a few applications that I miss not having available on the iPod: RagingThunder, iChabber, Fring and not to forget MobileScrobbler. As many of you perhaps know, I am a great fan of Last.fm.
8000 songs on Last.fm
04 years ago
Yesterday my Last.fm user profile passed 8.000 scrobbled songs, and I will continue to scrobble my music. Now where did that word come from? Scrobble? Last.fm is one of the few web services (Flickr is the other one) that I really use. I have never taken part in the Facebook hype, nor do I plan to. This week I also read that the DNB (Den Norske Bank – Norway’s biggest bank) in Second Life had 2-5 visitors a day, my Second Life experience lasted for about 15 minutes. A classical “Been there, done that!” …
I love the idea of sharing the pictures I have taken and data about the music I listen to, and today most of the music I buy, I have gotten recommended through iTMS or Last.fm. Just that I rarely buy my music on iTMS. I guess I am a bit old fashioned and prefer having the CD cover in my hands. So once in a while, you can still see me visiting an old fashioned music shop. Yes, there is still a few of them around!
I don’t read that latest sales charts, I have honestly never cared about them. I see that the music industry in the future will have yet another problem to deal with, not just iTMS, but also the fact that artists don’t need them for marketing. Consumer’s listening profile will replace the expensive marketing. So, even my crappy music taste (profile) has an economic value. The Last.fm profile doesn’t stop with what music you should buy, artists have recently also started to list when and where they have concerts and tons of music video are now available for online viewing. Imagine Last.fm updating their software clients (players) to also play music videos in HD. What impact will that have on for instance MTV? Perhaps none, cause MTV these days rarely play music videos. But imagine a client that only play videos from your favorite artists?
Two major events will change the way I (and perhaps you as well) will be buying our music:
- With the “Free Music“ announcement Last.fm recently published, I am sure that I will be buying more music based on my Last.fm listening profile. It’s not available in Norway, but I am sure it will be within the next 6 months. Sadly, not many of friends have a Last.fm profile, and the ones that have, mostly have a “horrible taste of music”. Well, their music profile has a low match factor!
- Apple’s coming software update for Apple TV. Being able to buy your music directly from your home stereo system. Laziness will win. It will be to convenient. With Apple TV, a computer, iPod and a Time Capsule, you will also have the needed backup in place of the digital media that you buy online. That has perhaps been one of my biggest issues with buying music online so far.