Making good progress with IM on E90

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Aug 172009
 

Hey, I’ve made good progress on E90’s IM (jabber client).

There are two threads that I’m currently working on, one is UI stuffs that I got everything from a book, the other one is XMPP protocol that I got information from xmpppy project’s sample (and yes, I’m using this project now as it seems to have minimum external dependencies). UI goes well, though I haven’t done anything in real yet, and I just made some good progress with XMPP protocol – I’ve been able to log into my test accounts and send/receive messages.

Now I need to speed up the UI progress as I need some basic UI so to make things working smoothly (such as now I have to shutdown my handset to quit the test program, which is SUPER ugly). I will check around and if there is nothing useful than that, I will register a new project on sourceforge, and wish this becomes my second product-level project (1st one is the mail alert but I’m no longer using it).

GarageBand, OS X, and PowerBook

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Aug 172009
 

Some guy showed me how to use GarageBand to create fancy music thing during a open house event of a piano school, it was pretty impressive and he told me the software is free from Mac, so I decided to give it a try.

Pity once I got home, after checking the PowerBook (but it’s running the latest Leopard), I found no GarageBand at all. It seems it’s part of iLife, which is not free – It could be free for new Mac buyers but obviously I’m not.

Then someone post a review on Apple’s new Snow Leopard, there are only two things I got from the article – 64-bit support, and office usage. I don’t think my old PowerBook qualifies to either of them, so most likely it will run current Leopard forever.

Unlucky, again

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Aug 172009
 

I believed the old video card from the HP desktop I purchased last year has no use at all so I threw it away about a week back just after I came back from vacation, but obviously I did something wrong.

Today I got a mail from HP saying that I can get that one replaced, pity I don’t have it any more, and have to mention – I did this while I kept telling myself “be patient”.

Unlucky again, but I will be more patient in the future to make sure I won’t make similar mistakes again, in other more important pieces of my life.