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A new website for Mobile IQ launched this week. As well as a whole new look and feel, positioning and copy, it also is hosted on a new CMS to make new changes even easier.
You can check out the Mobile IQ Mobile Publishing and Content Platform Website now.
I’m currently using a trial copy of Versions by Sofa.
It’s a nice and slick client app, that is beautifully designed and looks and feels native on the mac. I’ve been using ZigVersion, which is free for personal use, and I’ve been pretty pleased with it, but Versions has a little extra bling. There’s only a 30 trial and no free version, so be prepared to pay the 39 Euros if you can’t help yourself when it comes to great UI.
You can download your trial of Versions here.
On a side note, if you’re more inclined to use simple and functional web applications for SVN, checkout the ruby on rails app warehouse, which is now available free.
I’m not stupid. But…
1. I should be able to compare mobile phone contacts and weigh up the benefits
2. Why are phone bills impossible to interpret?
3. I know 1 & 2 are done to confuse me and stop me asking questions, but why do we all put up with it?
The reason for this entry is that while I was trying to find out why I get cut off on some voicemail messages, I found that there quite a difference even in the basic voicemail service you are given on each major operator in the US.
The list is endless, but here are three ubiquitous features to compare:
AT&T
20 messages maximum
2 minute maximum per message
14-day retention
Verizon Wireless
20 messages maximum
3 minute maximum per message
21-day retention
T-Mobile
15 messages maximum
1 minute maximum per message
15-day retention
Sprint
20 messages maximum
2 minute maximum per message? (But I had to get this details from their forum)
20-day retention
Most offer a we’ll-nickle-and-dime-you upgrade for around $1.99 a month, but that’s pathetic!
Some of us rely heavily on voicemail and I’d have though it would be a commodity service, identical on each network. I would never even think to check out the specifics.
What else are we missing?
When you think of all the feature multiplied by all the plan variations multiplied by all the different handset capabilities, I’m surprised anyone ever buys a phone.
Is there a good comparison service out there?
The attacks in India served as another case study in how technology is transforming people into potential reporters, adding a new dimension to the news media.
The New York Times discusses how, as the story unfolded, news emerged from a new breed of sources – including Twitter and Flickr – as updates were sent from Mobile Phone.
What does this mean to the ever evolving news media? While there are benefits, I hope news cycles do not become further compressed.
Tags: Mobile, Opinion
There are some great guides for installing and configuring ImageMagick and RMagick on OS X for use with Ruby on Rails. In my experience, there’s always something missing.
I recently wanted to use the Gruff gem for generating graphs and my standard install failed. It turns out there are some font requirements, which I tracked down (but misplaced the link, so apologies for not linking back to the blog that helped).
Anyway, here is the end to end install that works for me (OS X Leapard, with XCode installed).
Get FreeType:
curl -O http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/ \ freetype/freetype-2.1.10.tar.gz tar xzvf freetype-2.1.10.tar.gz cd freetype-2.1.10 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local make sudo make install cd ..
Get LibPNG
curl -O http://superb-west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ \ libpng/libpng-1.2.10.tar.bz2 bzip2 -dc libpng-1.2.10.tar.bz2 | tar xv cd libpng-1.2.10 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local make sudo make install cd ..
Get JPG
curl -O ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz tar xzvf jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz cd jpeg-6b ln -s `which glibtool` ./libtool export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.4 ./configure --enable-shared --prefix=/usr/local make sudo make install cd ..
If you get the following error with the JPEG install:
install: /usr/local/man/man1/cjpeg.1: No such file or directory
...you just need to check the man1 directory exists. If not, add it then re-run the make install (from within the jpeg-6b directory):
sudo mkdir /usr/local/man/man1 sudo make install cd ..
Get TIFF
curl -O ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/libtiff/tiff-3.8.2.tar.gz tar xzvf tiff-3.8.2.tar.gz cd tiff-3.8.2 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local make sudo make install cd ..
Ghostscript fonts are needed, get the package
Download from here, then
tar vzxf ghostscript-fonts-std-8.11.tar.gz sudo mv fonts/ /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/
Get ImageMagick
curl -O http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ \ imagemagick/ImageMagick-6.3.0-0.tar.gz tar xzvf ImageMagick-6.3.0-0.tar.gz cd ImageMagick-6.3.0 export CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include export LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --disable-static --with-modules --without-perl \ --without-magick-plus-plus --with-quantum-depth=8 \ --with-gs-font-dir=/usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts make sudo make install cd ..
Now Install RMagick
sudo gem install rmagick