Archive for the ‘Training’ Category
July 14th, 2009
Today, an announcement had released by Vodafone NZ. That was about the FREE mobile data usage for limited period, saying that they will give free 100MB for first 3 month to new OnAccount (Post-pay) users.
By now, using the internet by mobile was not so common. As far as I know, many people in NZ have a simple mobile phone, just with calling, txting, and alarm etc. But nowadays, many smartphones like iPhone or BlackBerry or moble phones that have a connectivity to the net have released, giving the demand of data connection.
But the problem is, in NZ, there is no unlimited data usage plan. This means that, of course, the connectivity to the internet have a restriction and it seems to be critical especially for iPhone or BlackBerry.
I should say that the situation of the internet in NZ is out of date: very slow and very restricted. Even 100MB per month must be not enough for power-users, and may be for usual users, it is still meaningful because of its freebie. I hope it become the first step of the unlimited internet connection.
July 11th, 2009
Macintosh has a lot of features. There is no complainment that Apple Script, a programmable script language for Mac, is one of them. With Apple Script, you can automate some tasks, like sending messages on Mail or managing informations of songs on iTunes.
Although Apple Script is designed to understand and use for developers, it is not easy to guess that is even difficult to use for non-developers. Don’t need to be disappointed; Apple is offering alternate solution, which is called Automator.
Automator is able to be considered as like Graphical Apple Script. It is consisted by a lot of operation unit blocks, like “Select a file” or “Copy a file” etc. Users can arrenge these unit blocks sequencely by drag & drop. For example, you can create an operation such as “selecting all files in a folder”, “filtering by the name”, and “moving proper files to another folder” by just arrenging these suitable blocks graphically and easily. I think Apple Script and Automator are the two greatest advantages of Mac.
There is another feature on Macintosh. That is called Folder Action. This is the feature that you can run your Apple Scripts or Automator operations whenever you put file(s) into a folder. With these features, you can make an automated operation to upload a photograph to your online album just putting it into a specific folder. This Folder Action seems to make an extra load for Finder, but it is worth using; you can save your operations, or of course your time.
July 9th, 2009
Yesterday, Google had announced an aggressive project, called Google Chrome OS. Google finally has stepped into the OS.
In the truth, this is not the first time Google release the OS. They already had released gOS, an Ubuntu based linux OS. But Google Chrome OS will be completely different from gOS; Chrome OS will be an web OS. Chrome is integrated to the (maybe linux) OS and the functions or applications of the OS itself are minimized, with that users can get the benefit of instant access to the computer and the internet. And for applications like e-mail or PIM, users will use some web services like Gmail or Google Calender. We don’t know much about the new OS because they have not announced the detail, which comes later of this year.
Don’t you be excited? Of course, I’m one of you. But to watch what Google will do, I can’t help feeling that this is a very similar model Microsoft used to approach with their OS and the browser, Windows and Internet Explorer. Nowadays users can uninstall Internet Explorer,but it is truth that it was difficult or even impossible, that led Microsoft to the court. It is apparent that Google is not Microsoft in the OS market, and the Web services are not as they were. But with ignoring them, I’m not sure Google will success with the way once Microsoft had failed.