The Syncing Macintosh

2003-02-02T23:58:00.000-05:00

Hey, I've moved this to my new MT blog: www.dillernet.com/apple. See you there!

2003-01-27T22:30:00.000-05:00

Greg Westin has a great guide for installing PHP iCalendar on your mac. This will allow you to make your iCals viewable as web pages, served from your Mac. He also has some good pointers to other iCal and iCalendar resources on the web.
If your getting confused; iCalendar is an IETF standard., iCal is an Apple application. PHP iCalender is a set of php scripts for viewing iCalendar data on the web via a browser.

2003-01-27T22:20:00.000-05:00

Rob Pegoraro reviews Addressbook, iCal and iSync integration and operation for the Washington Post. He gets the open endedness of it, but is down on the features and speed. Sure, iCal and Address book are slow, but that's because they are keeping their data in open formats, not some proprietary and closed backend. The speed will come. I only wish that the standards based data stores were pointed out in his piece.

2003-01-26T14:24:00.000-05:00

two good movies

Both of these movies I like and found to be very bizzare- bizzare in that good don't-know-quite-what-to-expect-next kind of bizzareness. This is lacking in 95% of the movies today. Adaptation and an older movie, Frailty. Both are worth seeing, and described and reviewed in many places. Here is an Adaptation interview over at the Onion. Can you see the deamons?

2003-01-25T14:24:00.000-05:00

Wow. The worm took out most of the Major University that I work for. They are still putting the pieces back together. It wasn't so much infected servers as the traffic killing routers.

2003-01-20T16:25:00.000-05:00

So i started the SyncingNewton also
I'll put my more Newton centric findings over here. I get to use another template! Cool.

2003-01-20T13:10:00.000-05:00

I'm really not in China.

sites near Syncing_Macintosh and within 500 miles
There's not much here yet! Follow the directions and add your site. See the alternate view.

[ recenter | map ] Syncing_Macintosh is 0 miles E (about 500 miles NE of Kabul)

[ recenter | map ] ZIM is 12 miles SE

[ recenter | map ] IceHeart.Org is 332 miles NE

recenter | map ] Deliberations of a Digital DBA is 449 miles E

I guess the sign is important in latitude. Thanks YardBoy.

2003-01-18T23:43:00.000-05:00

Newt And nHTML
The more I use this newton with Dashboard, BB Editor, nHTML and of course nBLOG I the more amazed that let this MP 2100 sit in a drawer for these past years as I struggled with the Pocket PC and briefly, the Palm. Only this time, the Palm at least was a Clié, from SONY.

2003-01-18T20:26:00.000-05:00

Who Controls The Hub?
Apple's Digital Hub

If iSync is the center piece of Apples new Digital hub, Why isn't anyone beside them writing conduits for it?

Of the two major syncing packages (f0r the Newton and Pocket PC ), nSync and PocketMac, neither use iSync to hook into iCal or the Addressbook.

Is Apple going to open isync up f0r Open source developers to Use? I hope so. Meanwhile I'll have to find out why PocketMac and nsync are not pluggin into isync.

2003-01-18T17:15:00.000-05:00

I'm not crazy

This just came thru the lists. I wasn't going crazy with the ipaq and the CRL bootloader. I guess you have to go back to Parrot if you want to use wince on an ipaq.


From: Goetz Bock 

Date: Sat Jan 18, 2003  2:50:37  PM US/Eastern

To: Johnny Cheng 

Cc: ipaq@handhelds.org

Subject: Re: [iPAQ] bootldr 2.18.54 trashes

                the DRAM





On Sat, Jan 18 '03 at 01:29, Johnny Cheng wrote:

>I had installed bootldr 2.18.54 in my iPAQ H3630

> with Pocket PC 2002 and EUU3 running.  

>Whenever I do a soft-reset, the data and programs

>in DRAM would be trashed.  Is it normal?



Yes, that is normal, and it's a bug in WinCE

(lake of dokumentation).



The bootloader changes some registers, it does 

NOT touch the RAM, still WinCE thinks it has to

erase the whole RAM before it can continue to

boot. 



As it is not known how the registers must be set

 to avoide this, there is no fix.

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iPAQ mailing list

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irc://irc.openprojects.net #ipaq

2003-01-18T14:07:00.000-05:00

Safari.
I picked a new theme for this blog, and since it looks nice in Safari, I'm keeping it. I still hate having to use IE (mac) to mess with the innards of this log, but at least I don't have to resort to IE on windows. Safari is so fast on my ibook that I still am being amazed every day. Now I just need iPhoto2.

Newton Browsing
So I've been newton surfing (on ibook) and trying to get a nice stable of interesting newton links. Here is what I've enjoooyed finding and catching up on:

Newton Wiki
Eckhart's Mottek (Hammer) - hacking newt irda
Padilla's NewtDose
Slorp from G hutchinson

IPAQ resurrection.
Bill would be so happy. I have three ipaqs. Two are for playing with Familiar Linux, the third keeps its PocketPC2002 and was used as my main PDA for the past few years. It worked very well with W2K and Outlook 2000. I never had any problems with ActiveSync, though many did. Lately, I've synced it a few times with my ibook with PocketMac, which is a very good product for this sort of thing. I purchased PM when it first was beta and have been very happy with it.

I haven't been playing with one of the ipaqs with linux, and I thought my wife could use it and dump her clunky Palm IIIc. I decided to put Wince back on my original ipaq. Its one of the first, with only 16M for the Wince image. It came with PocketPC2000, which I hate. 2002 is ok. Compaq had released an upgrade, but I never got it since I had linux on the ipaqs. I knew that I needed a special rom image that they made for the 16M ipaqs to run PPC2002- it left some of the apps out. I also knew that there were pleny of images on the net to be found, but only for the older PPC2000 images.

I scoured the HP website and finally located what I thought was a PPC2002 update for the 16M ipaqs! I grabbed it and installed cygwin on my Win2k machine to get the tools I needed to rip the image apart and install it back on the ipaq.

It worked out well, I followed and added my findings to the authoritative Wiki Page on the subject. The install went flawlessly, except for the bootloader. This is the most critical piece-- it loads the image that runs your ipaq. There are two out there -- the parrot loader which is what came with the PocketPC, and only loads wince images, and the CRL bootloader, which is an amazing piece of code. It can load almost anything. I wanted to leave the CRL bootloader on, with wince. And while this did work, for some reason the persistant ram (where wince stores all the data-- the device never really shuts off) would be corrupted, and the ipaq would be wiped clean and act as if it were just turned on. It was no problem getting the data back on it, ActiveSync did that on my wife's XP machine, but this wasn't what I wanted. I relucktantly installed the parrot bootloader overtop of the CRL bootloader (a scary thing) and crossed my fingers and reset the ipaq. It's working fine now. So I got my upgrade to PPC2002. My wife likes the ipaq.

2003-01-15T19:39:00.000-05:00

fully developeds&~/*'s
DillerA@Isc.Upenn.Edu
"What" .,1/16/
03Byte-Size Software

.... ahh more crazy newton HWR that accidently got published. A wireless newton with nBlog is embarrassing sometimes.

2003-01-15T19:30:00.000-05:00

Reflections On Newton
So now i'm trying to use nsync and sync up my newt0n and My ibook-ical and Addressbook are supposed to be supported withthis version of nSync. Of course ,to do this ,I've got to get my old powerbook working and transfer nsync over via IR. I wonder What Bl0gger will make Of this NewNu diagram.

2003-01-11T01:43:00.000-05:00

Keep Newton nSync

Wow, I was dreaming of using the Newt with iSync, and its there. nSync allows just that, and the software is coming right along.

2003-01-10T22:12:00.000-05:00

iSync + Newton

Newton + Keyboard = better readin.
OK, So I'm Cheating. I know the MP2100 has great handwriting recognition, but tell my hand that. I am glad I saved that newton keyboard.

Enough about only the Newton. The site is going to hold my notes, thoughts and discoveries about Syncing on the Macintosh with OSX. With the release of iSync, Apple has made it very interesting to see how far they are really going to push this digital hub thing.

When will iSync sync with the Newton?

2003-01-10T21:42:00.000-05:00

iSync + Newton
Newton + Keyboard = better readin. OK, So I'm Cheating. I know the MP2100 has great handwriting recognition, but tell my hand that. I (MOHAA break) am glad I saved that newton keyboard. Enough about the newton. The site is going to hold my notes, thoughts and discoveries about Syncing on the Macintosh with OSX. With the release of iSync, Apple has made it very interesting to see how far they are really going to push this digital hub thing. When will iSync sync with the Newton?

2003-01-10T08:55:00.000-05:00

2nd Newt Posting
OK now this is working. ¥The hardest thing on the Newton is to stop trying to Use gestures to edit text-YOU need to directy manipulate the text itself. Thats hard to overcome after all my recent grafitti use.

2003-01-10T08:47:00.000-05:00

Newt0n Post
First Post-from Newton This is my first post from the Newby. Man, its been awhile since I've written anything using Rosetta. I'm too used to graff; Hi. We'll see how this posts up in a second.

2003-01-10T08:44:00.000-05:00

Alright, I attempted to post a note or two from the Netwon, but nothing appeared up here. Hopefully the the forums can help. Meanwhile, the new WaveLan driver from Labo works really well with my Newton and my wirleess network here at home.

2003-01-10T01:58:00.000-05:00

OK, this is my first post. Its coming from IE. Soon to be from my MP2100.

How? With help from nBlog of course.