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Getting push email on your mobile is a must, but for some reason, if you’re like me, you don’t want a crackberry. I got a SGH-i600 HSDPA phone that I use exclusively for mobile emailing, it has a HSDPA unlimited access and a cool keyboard and thus (if it weren’t for the battery lifespan) it’s the ideal mobile email device.
Last year I spent a lot of time testing all those push email services, but did not find anythin up to my expectations, and ended up (lazy me) renting for 5USD/mth an ASP Mobile Exchange server - which finally was not that reliable as Activesync would sometimes drop the connection requiring a reboot of the mobile to solve that.
Anyway today I installed emoze and it was it ! Push email right from Gmail! Absoluely no configuration required - everything is done from the mobile client you download from m.emoze.com - no registration required - no nothing, it’s really the simplest and most effective service I’ve ever tried ! Works natively on a bunch of Windows Mobile / Symbian phones.

Technorati Tags: emoze, Gmail, push+email

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Technorati Tags: Second Life, sl-messenger, St Patrick

Was offered an Orange LivePhoto frame last week as a speaker to Broadband Thursday (btw, you ppl asking me to speak - I really love gadgets ). The frame itself is pretty cool but too bad I did not get to make it work, I had it join the WiFi alright but the photos.orange.fr website just won’t let me register it … and by the way this online service is really way below Flickr which I use. It’s too bad that potentially good devices which have a nice underlying hardware always suck when it comes to the software around - especially when this thing comes at 199€. This raise a more global issue which is that in the consumer electronics industry, the manufacturers really see no value to the software. Software which in my humble opinion is the most important part of such a product as this is what the users is really in contact with has to fit in less then about 2USD per unit, how can you build something decent with under 100KUSD ? That’s less then 10 man-month worth of work …
Dear CE industry - please listen to this - software matters, great hardware should only come with amazing software - learn from Apple !

Technorati Tags: LivePhoto, Orange

As I changed my Mac, I decided it was time to create a real BootCamp partition. Not that I’m a Windows fan, far from that, bumost of the early stage ventures tend to neglect Mac users (and imho they’re wrong, look at the bloggers conferences, the only one with PCs are the one working in huge corporations and who are stuck with it…). Anyway I moved to VMWare Fusion as it has a seamless BootCamp integration, just install Fusion, press play and it starts Windows in an eye blick.

Second Life looks so much better with a GeForce video card
My new MBPro really rox, only thing I did not appreciater is ordering a 200GB 7700rpm drive and getting a 186GB one… fell like being ripped off of 14GB which do matter…

Technorati Tags: macbook, MB+Pro, Second+life

This video is a little overview of what we are doing at wavestorm - turning dummy chessboards into web-enabled live broadcasting bi-directional devices, making simple light control systems accessible from any media (web, mobile, Second Life…) and same goes with our beloved Spykee !
The platform behind all this is called RiiMOTE and turns any kind of device into a web service accessible from any terminal everywhere.

Riimote-demo
Uploaded by ksso

Technorati Tags: chess, iPhone, RiiMOTE, second+life, spykee

Can’t wait for your new gadget to arrive ? With this dashboard widget you can track almost everything you order online (including Apple Store orders) and get live Growl! updates as your package gets closer ! A must have !

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Using E220 card + eeePC pack, thanks Alexandra for the howto on getting this thing up and workign with OSX !
Compared to my Free DSL connection, this is still mobile broadband 1.0 …

Technorati Tags: HSDPA, SFR, speed

Always wondered why Apple devices did not all implement Bonjour - like my AppleTV at home is not broadcasting the music libraries to my home network and neither is my iPhone letting near-by computers or iPods or whatever share its content… Things are changing though, firmware 2.0 and SDK seem to be a real improvement to what this device really is up to. Still missing 3G and a decent camera but hopefully we will get that this year !

Note : I wanna know Objective-C now
Note 2 : I know, bonjour is not DAAP - Bonjour only serves for discovering services, DAAP is the music service itself that lets itunes share its music OTA.

Technorati Tags: iPhone, SDK

At WaveStorm we really are WiFi geeks … so give us an electronic chess board, a Spykee spy robot and we will turn that noble chessboard into a WiFi-enabled and internet connected board. Fine. We’re geeks. Now to find a justification for the couple of hours we put into that project we need to find some reason to do that ;). Well the crazy idea we came up with is use RiiMOTE architecture to let the chess board be accessible from Second Life and hold real-time games in both real-life and Second Life. It’s just w00t ;).
In real life :

In Second Life :

Obviously my Second Life is less messy
To see it by yourself jump over on Messenger island !

Technorati Tags: chess, Second life, Spykee, WiFi