http://blog.charlies-server.com Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:38:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The self-proclaimed definitive list of push-capable apps over at AppAdvice is very neatly organized and provides direct links to the iTunes store for each of the apps listed. Overall a well put together site with several other app lists. http://blog.charlies-server.com/2009/06/25/apps-that-push-you I recently took a look at Beejive IM for the iPhone. While the latest version supports push notifications, it's really not going to fill the niche that I had hoped it might. Not at all to say that it's a poorly written piece of software -- it definitely isn't -- ... http://blog.charlies-server.com/2009/06/24/beejive-and-shortcomings-of-iphone-push-for-im All of last weekend was entirely devoted this year's ballroom competition at MIT. My affiliation, the University of Connecticut, provided sponsorship including a hotel room at the Hyatt down the road from MIT. Just a few minutes' walk away from the competition venue, I was able to get a great ... http://blog.charlies-server.com/2009/04/28/2009-mit-open-ballroom-dance-competition-recap In what became a whirlwind of ballroom-related activity, I competed with Kailee and Tracey at Harvard on Sunday in addition to competing at Holy Cross on Saturday. Since Brittney, my usual partner for Smooth dances as of late, was unavailable Sunday, it was my pleasure to dance Smooth with Kailee ... http://blog.charlies-server.com/2009/03/20/2009-harvard-invitational-ballroom-competition-recap Ballroom/Spring-2009-HolyCross Last weekend, I competed at the 10th Annual Holy Cross Ballroom Dance Competition with Kailee (Standard events) and Brittney (Latin and Smooth events). Altogether a beautifully run competition, as usual, competing at Holy Cross was a lot of fun. In addition to the dancing itself, there was a photo shoot ... http://blog.charlies-server.com/2009/03/18/2009-holy-cross-ballroom-competition-recap I'm happy to report that in my short experience with Safari 4 (released as a public beta at time of writing), the tab sidebar at least seems to work beautifully still. 'Top Sites' tabs show a black thumbnail but everything else with regards to the tab sidebar seems to be ... http://blog.charlies-server.com/2009/02/24/safaristand-and-safari-4-still-working Sunday, February 22nd was a pretty busy day for me. Travelling out of Logan Airport would have been enough to keep me plenty busy. But on top of that I decided that I didn't want to miss more of the BU competition than I had to, which happened to fall ... http://blog.charlies-server.com/2009/02/24/2009-boston-university-ballroom-competition-recap I've had the Philips SRU-8010 Universal Remote for quite some time now, but never really got it working quite well with my Windows Media Center Edition USB Infrared receiver (or cheap knockoff). I got the receiver working very well on my Gentoo Linux HTPC with LIRC's mceusb2 driver but wasn't ... http://blog.charlies-server.com/2009/01/28/philips-sru-8010-not-so-universal-remote I've been using Fring to make SkypeOut calls over WiFi. Not only does this shave billed minutes off of my phone bill, but what with the iPhone's 3G chipset being unreliable as all hell, I honestly prefer to make some of my calls via Skype anyways as long as I ... http://blog.charlies-server.com/2008/12/06/fring-skypeout-not-playing-nice-solved As a follow-up to my previous post on dropped calls with the iPhone 3G, I'm happy to report that I no longer experience the issue. I haven't had any major problems with dropped calls on my iPhone 3G, including while switching between EDGE and 3G networks, since I got a ... http://blog.charlies-server.com/2008/08/22/iphone-3g-dropped-calls-solved