Archive for July, 2009

Zyb.com import for android (updated)

Zyb.com is a great service, and I have been using it for a long time (nothing worse than loosing all your contacts or having to copy them to the SIM card when moving between phones) but unfortunately the doesn’t have an Android client, and I have been unable to make any other clients work.

There for I have been working on a zyb importer, which can import JSON files with your contacts, which zyb makes available from zyb.com/feeds, the project can be seen at code.google.com/p/zyb-import, I will try to make the application available via android market as soon possible, until then you can download the source and build it yourself.

See screenshots here.

Update: the app is released to android Market, search for “zyb”.

Update 2: the app only works with android 1.5 and 1.6, I was planning a new version supporting 2.0+, however, zyb has in the meantime announced that they will close down on the 31st of July, I will not make an updated version, I thus urge anybody with android 2.0 or greater to use the method described here: http://www.consumingexperience.com/2009/05/zyb-export-copy-mobile-phone-contacts.html for importing their contacts, before it’s too late! Thanks.

QR code for android market

QR code for android market, scan with barcode scanner or like

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Palm Pre Emulator

Exciting things are happening these days. I will try to capture and upload a video of the emulator later to day.

Update I have uploaded a video to youtube of the emulator (embeded below).

Palm SDK booting

Palm SDK booting

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Timezone in PHP 4

Need to set timezones in PHP 4? Use putenv() as described here, for example putenv(“TZ=Europe/Copenhagen”);

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Brother DCP-135C and ubuntu

I just used a few minutes getting the above mentioned printer working with ubuntu, normally most printers I have used works out of the box with ubuntu, but not this one. My solution seems to be quite simple, however it may be that it is not the correct way to do it, but it worked for me :)

  1. Install brother-cups-wrapper-extra
  2. In “Printer configuration” (System -> Administration -> Printing) click “New”, select “Brother DCP-135C”, click “Forward”, wait for search to finish, click “Provide PPD file”, select the file /usr/share/ppd/Brother/brdcp135c.ppd, click “Forward” and click “Apply”

You should now be able to print with your DCP-135C printer – however this is just the printing part, for the scanner to work, you probably want to look at http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/index.html

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