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iPhone users able to build a shinier world, one turd at a time
Posted by Chris Danielson in Apple on May 25th, 2010
This blog usually focuses on software development, but I can’t resist sharing this with all of you out there. Have a good laugh!
MaxPowerSoft Puts a New Polish on an Old Adage: You Actually Can Polish a Turd
‘Polish It‘ now available at the iPhone App Store
SAN DIEGO, CA (May 24, 2010) – MaxPowerSoft (www.maxpowersoft.com) today announced the release of Polish It, an iPhone application designed to facilitate “a shinier world, one turd at a time”. Available for $0.99 at Apple’s iPhone App Store, ‘Polish It’ is both a literal and cute/comedic take on the old and well-known phrase “You can’t polish a turd”. Your goal is simple: Choose a turd you like, and polish it! Utilize the touchscreen and your finger for polishing, tilt the phone to maneuver, and snap a photo at anytime to share.
“We wanted to reach out and give frustrated workers, students, and really all curious people in general, the powerful ability to truly polish a turd,” says Nic Danielson, Director of Marketing. “MaxPowerSoft has created an innovative new technology that allows one to therapeutically accomplish the task of polishing turds in the palm of your hand, no matter where you are, and on a whim to boot – most importantly, it can be done without the need for any sanitization processes. There really is nothing else like it in the market, or the world for that matter.”
Features of Polish It include:
- Objects rendered in full 3D.
- Choose from over 10 objects to polish.
- Simple controls: Touch to polish, Tilt phone to maneuver.
- Snap a photo and send to your friends.
- More features to come.
Pricing and Availability:
Polish It is available for $0.99 at the iPhone App Store:
Release iPhone/iPod Touch FreeSWITCH Console
Posted by Chris Danielson in Apple on August 14th, 2009
Well, it has been a long battle. Fought since June 5th, 2009, but at long last Apple has come through and allowed the FreeSWITCH Console application into the app store.
FreeSWITCH is an open source telephony platform designed to facilitate the creation of voice and chat driven products scaling from a soft-phone up to a soft-switch. It can be used as a simple switching engine, a PBX, a media gateway or a media server to host IVR applications using simple scripts or XML to control the callflow.
So without much further ado, here is the iTunes link: App Store, FreeSWITCH Console.
The application requires that you have the event socket layer (ESL) module installed in your FreeSWITCH instance.
Mounting MobileMe iDisk Using WebDav and Linux
Posted by Chris Danielson in Apple on August 13th, 2009
Anyone have a MobileMe account and wondered if you can access the iDisk from a mount command in your Linux environment? It’s handy for backing up your data and general file sharing.
This simple step by step process will allow you to gain read and write access to your MobileMe user account’s iDisk drive space. The first pre-cursor you need to fulfill is that you need the davfs (on debian/ubuntu flavors just run: apt-get install davfs2) package installed.
Next we’re going to create a mount point that will be used as a point of reference for the iDisk drive.
sudo mkdir /mnt/idisk |
Using the root user account, modify your /etc/fstab file by adding the following at the bottom. Just change the {account_name} section below:
https://idisk.mac.com/{account_name} /mnt/idisk davfs rw,noauto,user 0 0
Now that you’ve completed the modification of the mount. Let’s run a test.
mydev:/mnt# mount /mnt/idisk Please enter the username to authenticate with server https://idisk.mac.com/{acccount_name} or hit enter for none. Username: {acccount_name} Please enter the password to authenticate {acccount_name} with server https://idisk.me.com/{acccount_name} or hit enter for none. Password: mydev:/mnt# ls -al /mnt/idisk total 11 drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 256 2009-08-13 08:11 . drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2009-08-13 07:59 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 68 2009-06-16 14:33 Backup drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 36 2009-06-16 14:33 Documents drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 68 2009-06-17 07:14 Groups drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 132 2009-07-02 09:11 iPhone Development drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 100 2009-06-17 07:48 Library drwx------ 2 root root 36 2009-08-13 08:11 lost+found drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 36 2009-06-16 14:33 Movies drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 36 2009-06-16 14:33 Music drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 36 2009-06-16 14:33 Pictures drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 36 2009-06-17 07:49 Public drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 36 2009-06-16 14:33 Sites drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 88 2008-07-10 01:11 Software drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 52 2009-06-17 07:53 Web |
That’s great isn’t it? Now the only trouble is it keeps on prompting you for your username and password. In my situation I want this automated. Luckily for us, davfs has a mechanism built into it for managing this. It’s located in the /etc/davfs2/secrets file. So as the root user run the following commands.
mydev:/# umount /mnt/idisk mydev:/# echo "https://idisk.mac.com/{account_name} {account_name} {account_password}" >> /etc/davfs2/secrets mydev:/# mount /mnt/idisk mydev:/# ls -al /mnt/idisk total 11 drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 256 2009-08-13 08:11 . drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2009-08-13 07:59 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 68 2009-06-16 14:33 Backup drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 36 2009-06-16 14:33 Documents drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 68 2009-06-17 07:14 Groups drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 132 2009-07-02 09:11 iPhone Development drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 100 2009-06-17 07:48 Library drwx------ 2 root root 36 2009-08-13 08:11 lost+found drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 36 2009-06-16 14:33 Movies drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 36 2009-06-16 14:33 Music drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 36 2009-06-16 14:33 Pictures drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 36 2009-06-17 07:49 Public drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 36 2009-06-16 14:33 Sites drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 88 2008-07-10 01:11 Software drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 52 2009-06-17 07:53 Web mydev:/# umount /mnt/idisk |
And that is it! No more prompting for the username and password. Pretty simple implementation and we’re off to the races.
EDIT NOTES: Thanks DaveDaveDave for the comment, I changed the https://idisk.me.com to the new and functional https://idisk.mac.com
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