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Location based reminders

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Just realized the usefulness of location based reminders that’s going to be released with the launch of new iOS 5, and that i felt the need to write something about it.

Well, for me, I often forgot something what interests me on certain places. Or even if someone asks me to grab something for them if I visit a place, town or province the next time. This app, if it works, should alert me of what stuff I need to grab while I’m at some place. This is one the reasons I am excited with the launch of iOS 5.

I wonder though, if it’s ever going to be of a purpose to remind “when you leave from a location”, as it would be triggered when you already left, or yes, it may serve some – for you to go back. If I remember correctly, there are triggers for that and “when you arrive at a location”. Or is there another one for “when you’re at a location”? But generally, it has a purpose.

They’re just my thoughts.

On an unrelated note, it’s quite a pain writing on wordpress for iphone, really! I actually updated this app just an hour ago. The cursor always returns back to the end of the content if you position to edit on other parts of the text. Neither it loads auto complete on words. And pressing space twice should add a period, but it doesn’t do that. Why?

Anyways.

The Best Picasa for iPhone so far

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Finally, I found an app for Picasa on iPhone that saves the entire EXIF data on upload. And has the tabs for showing the map from your iPhone as well. Here’s the excerpt from the publisher.

Piconhand – Picasa Web Albums On Your Hand for iPhone

Enjoy your Picasa web albums and photos on your hand!

Multiple accounts
You can see the albums of multiple accounts in one list

Batch upload
You can add multiple photos in the upload queue and also can preview. The time and geo info (if available) of photos is also included while uploading.

Slide show
You can set the songs in your iPod library as the background music of the slide show. And also can set the transition effect and time as you want.

Passcode lock
You can lock the app with password to protect your privacy.

Features
Multiple Picasa accounts
Create and delete albums
Share album links via email
Create and delete photos
Batch upload
Slide show
Passcode lock
Tag editing and browsing
EXIF available
Send photos via email or save photos in your library
Favorite photos
Sort option for album & photo list (can be set in separate by album)
Search photos in cache
Quality set for photos to be dowloaded/uploaded
Account filter for albums
High-res options for iPhone4/iPod 4th gen
Map view based on photo’s geotag
Album and photo property editing

Video stream from your iPhone

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Here’s how you can do video streaming without pain on iPhone.

What you need are:

  • iPhone 4 (not tested on 3G or 3Gs but probably will work)
  • Justin.tv Account
  • WiFi network with Internet

And here’s what you do

  1. Download and install Justin.TV for iPhone
  2. Run it and login with your account (gear icon on the upper right of Justin.TV on your iPhone)
  3. Click the camera icon on the upper left, then press ‘record’ button

That’s it! You can view your stream on your Justin.TV badger page – http://www.justin.tv/username

You do not only stream videos actually, they’re recorded. Your channel will list the previous streams right below your current stream. Here’s a link of the first stream I did, or the recorded stream.

And there’s also a Justin.TV for Android of course!

Ruby on Rails on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx

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Just need to keep this for reference. Quite important when playing around with RoR. Thanks to the source

marvin@marvinmarcelo:~$ su
marvin@marvinmarcelo:~$ apt-get install build-essential
marvin@marvinmarcelo:~$ apt-get install ruby rdoc libopenssl-ruby
marvin@marvinmarcelo:~$ wget http://production.cf.rubygems.org/rubygems/rubygems-1.3.7.tgz
marvin@marvinmarcelo:~$ tar zxvf rubygems-1.3.7.tgz
marvin@marvinmarcelo:~$ cd rubygems-1.3.7
marvin@marvinmarcelo:~$ ruby setup.rb
marvin@marvinmarcelo:~$ ln -s /usr/bin/gem1.8 /usr/local/bin/gem
marvin@marvinmarcelo:~$ gem install rails