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I should say that the situation of the internet in NZ is out of date: very slow and very restricted.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 14th, 2009
Writing
The figures show that four out of five countries increased their total CO2 output during the selected period. The total amount of CO2 emittion in the US, which produed most during the five countries, increased significantly from 4,817.5 in 1990 to 5,834.5 in 2002. In India, which was the lowest producer in 1990, it sharply increased, rising from 677.9 to 1,218.9 during 12 years. However, it decreased slightly in Russia, from 1,984.0 to 1,430.6.
In perspective of per capita metric tons, the figures show the same trend as the total. In every countries except Russia the amount of CO2 emission per capita increased slightly during the measured period, whereas it fell dramatically in Russia.
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.