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Saturday, June 25, 2011

Megan's Nokia N95 to iphone

The challenge is to set up my old iphone so Megan can try it out.

COPY DATA FROM NOKIA TO GOOGLE
A. Contacts worked direct from the phone.  See try 3 with link below.
B. Calendar - Worked with goosync.com

A  transfer the contacts from the N95 to google and then to the iphone

3. NOKIA GOOGLE THING - WORKED
http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=98230&topic=15015
2. GOOSYNC.COM - FAILED
goosync.com - Claims to sync Calender and Contacts (on the front page) for $20 about (web site is in GBP)
They have a 7 day free trial which I am  taking advatage of.
How much does the subscription cost?

Premium subscriptions start at £19.95 (Pound Sterling) for a 12 month subscription. It is also possible to purchase a 24 month subscription for the reduced cost of £29.95 (Pound Sterling) or a lifetime subscription for just £39.95.
A GooSync Lite subscription is £8.99 for a 12 month subscription.
Now the Calendar sync has worked.  Megans apointments are visible in her google calendar.  But the contacts did not sync?  Perhaps I am a lite user?
As a Lite user can I synchronise my Contacts?

GooSync and Google Contacts support is only available for users of the GooSync Premium account.
In order to upgrade please use the upgrade account button on the home page once you are logged into the website.

What are the differences between GooSync and Google Contacts synchronisation?

•Using GooSync offers a sync between your GooSync contacts and your device. Your contacts are securely stored in GooSync and you can view and modify your contacts using the GooSync Contacts manager. In addition you can sync categories.
•Using Google contacts offers a sync between your Google contacts and your device. Your contacts are stored in Google. In order to sync your Google contacts you must give permission to GooSync to access your Google contacts.
Perhaps I have not given permission to do the sync?
Went to goosync and found a way to grant access to google contacts.  The default is obviosly not sync'd

Re run the sync app on the N95
This time connected via our wifi.  Had to re enter the wep key.  I wonder if this is a 'feature' of the N95.
Did you know Megan has 928 contacts. 
Used Telstra and still get.
"System Error"
Changed profile to just sync contacts (& not the calendar).
It says success but the contacts do not show up in the google contacts.

1.  COPY TO SIM - FAILED - Sim too small
Open contacts>options>mark/unmark>mark all>copy>to sim directory. - No good. Sim not enough memory.


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Extract Notes off iphone
It does not seem possible to copy all the notes off.  Only to email them off.  Bizzare.  Why is something so basic so hard?
If you jailbreak your iphone then you can use this
http://www.iphonetransfer.org/backup-iphone-notes-how-to-backup-iphone-notes-to-pc.php


SSH
Several posts suggest that the only way to get the stuff on the iphone is to connect via ssh

http://www.sync-iphone.com/notes-2/sync-iphone-notes.html
suggests there is a way to do it with google.

my iphone firmware is 4.2.1 (8C148)
The above mentioned link suggests using a microsoft exchange connection type however this does not mention notes
somewhere else says oh gosh should have used gmail - > still no notes





Thursday, June 23, 2011

TK102 Poor build


My TK102-2 purchased from Ebay arrived today.
It does not seem to be assembled correctly.
The board and the plastic section that goes between the battery and the board is skewed up at the right.








In this photo, you can see how the board is kicked up so that the USB connector does not line up with the hole in the case.

Also at the top right, you can see the internal plastic section that separates the battery from the PCB.


Inside, the phone module has this written on it
SIM3402 S2-1019P-A960B
1604B09SIM300M32_SST34HF3284
SN: MP0610320040245
IMEI: 354779035581975
FCC ID UDV-0606020060002

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Blocked by Education Queensland

I have been advised by two people that EQ have blocked www.syndetic.com.au.
I had a search on google and EQ have all sorts of policies and procedures but I could not find a way to contact them (electroically anyway).
I would like to ask them
a)  Is my web site blocked?
b)  If it is blocked, how do I get it unblocked.
I would also like to ask, but I doubt they would tell
c)  Why was it blocked in the first place.


General enquiries

Telephone: +61 7 3237 0111

Mail address

Department of Education and Training
PO Box 15033
City East Qld 4002

But no email that I can find

Sunday, June 19, 2011

Photos on the trail


Finish Line - Mount Coot-tha

100km on foot !

http://syndetic.com.au/ftest1.html



Chris with sparklers.  Oxfambulators arrive to a welcome from friends ad family.









Out of the 1132 people who started the event, 826 participants (seventy three percent of walkers) crossed the line under the 48 hour time limit set with the last team finishing at 8.18am on Sunday morning. The average team finishing time was 29 hours and two minutes.  
Eighty nine percent of teams finished the event with at least one team member crossing the line and forty four percent of teams finished as a complete team of four.















Erin

My mum's the best







Megan








119. 274 – OXFAMBULATORS 40 hrs : 6 mins

http://trailwalker.oxfam.org.au/brisbane/teams/team-tracker/complete-teams/







Megan & Cybele







Whats the big issue with walking at 2am











Family hug









Jemma & Megan







I am too dam tired to look at the camera but gee it's good to see you.












Oxfamulators support page

Team and Thank you


Cameron Braid - Fixed the web page and made it really great.
Dick Carter - car fridge
Waratah - GPS tracker unit
Joel & Vivian - Phone batteries for GPS unit
Waree - Phone battery for GPS unit.

Mel - Not just food but great food and just taking care of everything to be eaten
Paul - Easy Up, gas heater, Helping to setup and pull down the tents.
Darren - Supply and erect the tent at Lake manchester.
Frank - I had fun supplying 240v to run the foot spa's at Lake manchester, Organising the GPS and looking after the kids.
Sean - Loan of his car and the Gold Creek stop.

Bob and Ivan for navigation and providing experience and help especially in training and getting the girls ready.

Cybele - Chief Whip cracker and enthusiast
Claire
Erin
Megan

GPS
Wondered how the GPS worked?
In Megan's back pack was a TK102 GPS tracker (Look on ebay.  about $85)
The TK102 has a GPS receiver and a GSM phone module.
I fitted a Telstra Next G sim (because I had it) in the hope that Telstra's coverage would be the most complete.  It would have been nice to have a Next-G tracking device however we had what we had.
The sim was on a shared data plan from Telstra.  No longer available.  The current plan is $5 per month for 5MB data.

The TK102 is programmed using text messages.  I set it to transmit once every 5 minutes.  Basically to try to conserve battery life as I really did not want Megan to have to change batteries.  I used BL-5C batteries in place of the BL-5B batteries that it is designed to use.  The BL5C is held in place with electrical tape because it is longer than the unit is designed for.

The TK102 was programmed to transmit data TCPIP packets to gpsgate.com,  Buddy tracker service.  This is a free service and you can log in to see the location and history of your unit.  I wanted to use gpsgate to actually display the position on a public web page but i could not find out how to do that.  They did however provide example code for hosting it on my own server.

Within gpsgate.com, I created a "public group" and this provided the conduit to access the data.

Then I used the example code to set up a web page on
syndetic.com.au/ftest1.html

This web page is loaded into your browser.  It then goes off to google and gets the map data and displays it.
It goes to gpsgate and retrieves the current position and all the historical data and then creates google poly lines which is the green line on the map.
And there you have it.

A really big thank you to two key people.  Firstly to Waratah who loaned me the TK102 and showed me gpsgate.com and to Cameron Braid who took my web page and really spruced it up.

Saturday, June 18, 2011

Brookfield - Last Supper



Mel produced great food.  She was at every stop.  Tasty and encouraging.






















As well as taking a physio on the track with them,
Brought in a second physio to do that last service before the final push to the finish line

















































This was the team support set-up at Brookfield.  Once again, Paul rose to the fore with his "easy up" and heater.  Mel produced great food.