Today as usual I put my iphone into my pocket. After I passed through a desk and accidentally hit with the desk’s corner (does not hit too much), I found out the iphone’s glass is broken.
Though I heard iphone’s glass is very hard, it turned out not to be the case. I will need to pay $250 to get only the glass fixed! Bummer!! That’s more than half the price!
Here are the picture for my broken iphone:
Writing ajax is a pain in the ass. But GWT allows you to create ajax pages in java language. Although Java Script has similar syntax as Java language, several inherent features (such as no strict type…) in Java Script make it more prone to error and difficult to debug. The incompatibility between different browsers also makes ajax pages more complicated. GWT uses Java as the base language and recompiles it to HTML and Java Script, which can solve the above mentioned problems and make the development processes much easier. The followings are the quotes from GWT homepage:
Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is an open source Java software development framework that makes writing AJAX applications like Google Maps and Gmail easy for developers who don’t speak browser quirks as a second language.
GWT lets you avoid many of these headaches while offering your users the same dynamic, standards-compliant experience. You write your front end in the Java programming language, and the GWT compiler converts your Java classes to browser-compliant JavaScript and HTML.
I have been using my current macbook for about a year and nothing seriously has happened on it. But yesterday afternoon it randomly shut down while on battery. There was no warning signs at all. I lost all my unsaved stuff. After its shutdown, it could not be turned on until I plugged in the power. It happend again yesterday evening in the exactly the same situation.
After these happened, I did two things and hope they will solve my problems.
(1) Reset SMC (System Management Controller) by following this article.
(2) Recalibrate the battery
I will give update on this issue.
GrandCentral beta (acquired by google in July)
The central idea is very cool: to become the gateway for all your phone services. The customer can get a number for the whole life[1]. The phone number is free and can be redirected to any of your current phone numbers (you can choose to redirect to different number depends who are calling you). You can make calls through the website. You can also place a small widget on any of your webpages to let use call your grandcentral number (while your number stays private).
You can reach me by using this widget! Please don’t call me if you don’t have questions.
[Note 1]: After google acquired GrandCentral, previous customers were reportedly removed the number they had owned
I have heard ecto as a great blogging client. But today’s experience is frustrating. I tried to get ecto working with my Wordpress(version2.2), but kept getting the error message:
“A list of blogs could not be retrieved! Please verify the account you created. “
In the FAQ session of ecto forums, an article explains the possible way to get around the same problem. The article gives several suggestions (note: not solution). None of these suggestions works!
BTW, Ecto looks really great! And it works seamlessly with blogger.
My wordpress recently had an annoying problem: whenever I submitted a new post, it would complain the errors with the xml-parser stuff. So I decided to upgrade my wordpress system. The upgrade process turned to be very easy and took me only 5 minutes.
Step 1: I need to download the newest version from the website: http://wordpress.org
Step 2: Copy the new files into the old wordpress direction. Since I installed some plugins on my old system, I need to keep the wp-content directory.
Step 3: Run /wp-admin/upgrade.php and follow the instructions.
That’s all!
