Mac.sis making macs and S60 handsets talk

Slightly behind the original schedule (May), Apple has today released iTunes 7.2 and updated iTunes Store to offer non-DRM tracks and albums from EMI. At the time of writing, however, I have been unable to test the "iTunes Plus" feature though, as any attempt to accept the terms and conditions results in an error message.

Regardless of what your opinion is about the GTD (Getting Things Done) hype, it is likely that anyone without inhumane memory capacity needs a way to jot down lists of things to do and things that need remembering.

AllAboutSymbian alerted me to the fact that there seems to be a lightweight mobile version of Google Calendar available at http://www.google.com/calendar/m.

Myself, I am not a Google Calendar user, but this may be useful for folks with older mobile browsers or slow (non-GPRS or non-3G) data links.

Mac.sis is run on Drupal, which is an very extensible open source web content management system. Despite all of its features, it does not have an API yet for submitting content using the Atom Publishing Protocol, which is the standard posting protocol used by Nokia Lifeblog.

Lifeblog post

This is simply to prove that I can post to Mac.sis from Lifeblog via Flickr :)

I took my 1st generation MacBook in for warranty repair last week, and got the machine back today. The dealer changed the top case (to fix the discolourisation) and replaced the battery, both under warranty. The new top case has the effect of making the MacBook look almost brand new, and it even came with the New Mac Smell.

Tomorrow my MacBook is going in for a yearly check-up. The machine is little under a year old, still under warranty and showing some of the symptoms common in this MacBook batch. The wrist rests look as if the machine has been used by a car mechanic as a workshop till for twelve years and the battery behaves erratically, sometimes providing a full 3 hours of good use and sometimes abruptly signing off after about 30 minutes.

After a rather long wait, Salling Clicker 3.5 is available for download & purchase. For those not familiar with the Clicker, it turns your smartphone into a universal remote that can be used for controlling Macs and for all sorts of household wizardry. I've been using Salling Clicker as a remote for my Mac mini media centre (old G4, no Apple Remote) and it has served me well.

The whole Mac.sis server suffered an MySQL crash last night, and apparently the crash was bad enough that the hosting company has reverted to day-old backups. Therefore, yesterday's content is to a large part in the bit bucket. I am reposting my own articles (got local copies, thanks to Ecto).

So, if you sent in questions or comments yesterday and cannot find them, here's why. Please repost if you can. Apologies for the inconvenience this may cause.