Category: Computer and IT

This shows the latest computer and information technologies news, and also some related information or development by me.

Walkaround some Discuz enabled site, and republish my authored plugin

Just now I had found some website built using Discuz, and most of them provide their local platform for Discuz related script download. I had re-published my authored Discuz plugin and posting some tutorials to their Discuz site.

They are Discuz Malaysia (http://discuz.my), Discuz Turkish (http://discuz.eu), Discuz Indonesia (http://discuzindo.net), Discuz International Official (http://msg2me.com), Discuz Thai (http://discuzthai.com)

I had tried to republish my authored Discuz Plugin, the most recommended one, Imgshow Platform For DiscuzX2, and the end of this post is the list of sites that can download this plugin.

English version:

http://discuz.my/thread-19-1-1.html
http://www.msg2me.com/thread-5585-1-1.html
http://discuzindo.net/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=73&extra=

Chinese version:

http://bbs.qxinnet.com/thread-42140-1-1.html (Chinese and English)  (Main Publish Site)
http://www.discuz.net/thread-2237589-1-1.html (Chinese and English)

(If you like this Discuz Plugin, or wants support my works, you can help me click on Facebook Share, Like, Google Plus Button, Tweet Button, or any buttons existed on their site…)

Google pinyin for mac

I used Chinese Pinyin which Mac built-in, it sometimes lagging when typing. I used to use Google Pinyin when I used Windows last time. But I couldn’t find the Google official release of Google Pinyin.

However, now I had found it! Here is the downloadable link: Google Pinyin for Mac download link (zip file)

Now I can type Chinese characters faster like a running leopard without lagging.

 

Related posts:

1. http://viewology.net/download-google-pinyin-input-for-mac/926/2/

 

After some tries, my whole macbook crashed because of high ram utilization of Google Pinyin and Google Chrome… So, I could only use back the Mac built in Pinyin.

iPlacePlus Helps you Check in from Second Life

Nowadays people love to check in from their First Life, posting to Foursquare, a very popular Location-based Site, sharing their current location to their friends. Some people may like it, may want to go there, may been there before.

Second Life is a 3D social game, brought in First Life experience into the virtual world, there are many interesting places waiting for us to explore.

A new service, iPlacePlus.com, is another LBS helps you to check in from Second Life. Wherever you go in Second Life, you can use iPlace Tool (a scripted box inside Second Life) to check in, and your current location will be posted to iPlacePlus to be shared to public. There is a Second Life map will be shown in the web page, the other users can see the map, click the “Teleport” button and in case they had opened their Second Life Client program, they are able to be teleported to the location you had been to.

iPlacePlus is currently in alpha release, and I just created for fun, and I will use it for myself or shared to little friends in Second Life. It will have sign up feature for new member, but currently is closed. When you first time using iPlace Tool in Second Life, the tool will help you sign up directly with iPlacePlus as well.

Sharing your iPlacePlus map to your friends is very easy. It will provides various embedding methods in the website. It will supports Facebook Sharing in the future.

The first place in Second Life I would like to share with you is a Second Life English school, a very interesting school with friendly teachers and students from around the world. I joined there almost one year. Really good.

Click this link http://iplaceplus.com/view.php?placeid=1 you will be able to see the Second Life Map of the English school.

Alternatively, I shared the English school to some Discuz! based forum as well, click here http://bbs.qxinnet.com/thread-42272-1-1.html for Chinese, or click here http://warung.my/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=1140&extra= for English.

Watch this video if you want to know a little about how to use iPlace Tool inside Second Life. The video is outdated already. The main feature is very similar and there are additional features built-in. I will show out when it is ready.

AD TIME: If you really really interested to this Second Life English class, you can visit their website directly -> http://drive-through-esl.info/.

As you see, the iPlacePlus.com website design is very sucks. Forgive me I have no design and color concepts in my brain, current design is simple. If you are web designer, and you passionate to Second Life like me, and you are very helpful and wants help to contribute design to this website, contact me. If you have comments, you have plan, you have idea, contact me as well. I created this site for fun, and it will be a free community website when it released to public.

I will reserve first ten user accounts to my close friends, even they may not using this service. My lovely angels will be the first, because I super love her.

 

In short, I had introduced a new service, iPlacePlus.com, that helps you check in from Second Life. You can explore beautiful places in Second Life, share to your friends by checking in your current location to the website, or shared to Facebook.

Played Titanium mobile framework

Just played and hello world to Titanium, another mobile apps framework like Phonegap, has the ability to develop iOS and Android apps using Javascript without learning native language Objective-C and Java.

Titanium has over 300 APIs, it bridged more and more native features than Phonegap. Titanium had bridged in native UI widgets and features into its own Titanium framework, while Phonegap only support HTML5 + CSS3 Web View Interface. In this case, Titanium provides API to build UI widget, such as Text Field, Table View, Button, using same and neutral Javascript API, the developers need not to bother the look-and-feel of widgets while Titanium take care of it. It is automatically rendered as iPhone-styled widgets while apps runs on iPhone or rendered as Android-styled widgets while apps runs on Android. Besides native hardware feature support such as Accelerometer, Compass, Camera, supported by both, Titanium has many other built-in API, such as it is able to initiate HTTP Client, or using TCP/IP Socket Stream, File System or Local Database Access and other useful utilities.

Titanium Javascript is compiled into application binaries and it can be run on the speed nearly to native apps. Again, Titanium Javascript is cross-platform over the non cross-platform Objective C and Java.

It has a standalone Eclipse-based IDE, which provides complete and useful hints when you code Titanium, and it is all free and open source. It has built in iPhone and Android simulator to test your apps. But when you need to debug on real iPhone, what I do is open the generated project setup in Xcode, and build there, and the whole process is damn smooth.

 

I’m lovin it.

 

Notes on Hello World Phonegap on Develop iPhone Apps

Notes on Hello World Phonegap on Develop iPhone Apps.

Phonegap is a mobile apps framework that can deliver cross-platform mobile apps (deployed on iPhone, iPad, Android, BlackBerry… ), utilizing web technologies (HTML5 + CSS3 + JS) we know, without knowing Objective-C (iPhone+iPad) or Java (Android). Phonegap actually runs your apps wrapped as an inner browser inside native apps. However, Phonegap provides JS-bridge to native phone features, such like Contacts, GPS, Accelerometer that you can simply call them using Javascript. The downside is that Phonegap framework has no built-in native look-and-feel widgets, but you can use Jquery Mobile framework along to create impressive mobile apps though.

Phonegap is also built-in supported by Adobe Dreamweaver CS 5.5, along with Jquery mobile supported, developers can easily develop and test iPhone native mobile apps right inside Dreamweaver. Apple had also announced to approve or accept apps developed by Phonegap to be available on Apps Store, that is a happy news to developers.

Before do Phonegap for iPhone, needs a Mac and had Xcode installed. And you need have access to Apple Developer Program, had Provisioning Profile configured. Then you can create a Phonegap project template from Xcode IDE. Along the process to get Phonegap runs on Xcode and an apps deployed to iPhone taken me half days to make it, here are some links or notes for future reference.

1. http://devclinic.com/devclinic/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=19
I found this post is very useful which give details and full steps to get signed certificates stuffs configured through Apple Developer Program and Xcode.

2. http://www.iphonedevsdk.com/forum/iphone-sdk-development/7209-putpkt-write-failed-broken-pipe.html
Sometimes, the error “putpkt write failed broken pipe” will randomly appeared.

3. http://iamcam.wordpress.com/2011/03/17/phonegap-xcode4/
Steps get phonegap runs on Xcode

Be careful on the first link to get everything ready before go to third link.

 

Besides Phonegap, Appcelerator Titanium is another option.

Video of Adobe Flash Builder and Flash Catalyst worked together

Adobe® Flash® Builder® 4.5 Premium software is an Eclipse™ based development tool for rapidly building expressive mobile, web, and desktop applications using ActionScript® and the open source Flex framework.

Adobe® Flash® Catalyst® CS5.5 is approachable interaction design software that enables you to easily transform Adobe Photoshop®, Illustrator®, and Fireworks® artwork into expressive, fully interactive projects without writing code, and leverage the reach and consistency of the Adobe Flash Platform.