Today we are gonna take a look at how we can control your Windows or Mac with the Ipod touch.

Because I just bought the ipod I don’t want to start jailbreaking it. So we first take a look at the possibilities of a web application.

The ipod touch supports most of the funcions of the safari browser. Unfortunately this means it doesn’t support flash.

Apple has a small developer website for ipod and iphone web applications. We need to get access to these files, so you need to register for free and get a Apple ID. ( if you don’t already have one).

see: http://developer.apple.com/iphone/devcenter/

But what now?

First we explain the theory of what we would like to accomplish.

Of course there will be better and stable solutions but today we are gonna choose the quick and dirty way!

The idea is to browse (on your iPhone) to a (local) website interface (the web application), through this web interface we will set and save a variables to a XML file. This XML file is stored on a server or a local server. On this server there will be a small application made with Adobe director (because it supports Mac and PC), which will frequently read the XML file. Optionally you can of course make your own application with C++ or something…

When this little application notices a change (to the XML file) it will ‘do something’. You can really make a function for whatever you want. To keep it simple we are launching some Adobe applications remotely. (See the image above). After processing the request we need to clear the XML file, to allow input of new commands.

Look at this image for a general idea:
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During the holiday season I’m staying with the mom of my girlfriend. As always when visiting family and friends, I check their computers on viruses, Trojans and so on.

Recently I gained some nice and positive experiences with Kaspersky Antivirus, so I decided to remove Norton Antivirus from the PC and install Kaspersky. This being an older computer, all the resources i could gain would have a positive effect on the daily use.

Kaspersky detected quite some viruses and Trojans that Norton hadn’t detected before, even though both had the latest updates installed. Kaspersky notified me of cfgmgr3.dll being a Trojan, this is where my quest began…

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At the office we use Pound as a reverse proxy for Microsoft Exchange 2007 (and previously Microsoft Exchange 2003). This has been working fine with Exchange 2003, but with Exchange 2007 we were having some challenges.

Basicly when you would use Internet Explorer to log into OWA, you would most likely get a 500 Internal server error. In for instance Firefox, it would always work just fine. We did have this problem with Exchange 2003, but less frequent.

The Pound logfiles would show something along the lines of:
Dec 16 15:00:39 proxy pound: e500 can’t read header
Dec 16 15:00:39 proxy pound: response error read from 192.168.123.123:80: Succes

This is very simular to this old post on the Pound mailing list.

I asked 2 colleages of mine to look into this challenge and they managed to find the solution, the next is all thanks to them! Kudos to those guys, I would just like to share it with the rest of the world

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Johnny Chung Lee has come with a new and simple solution for a (multi) point screen. The idea is to track the IR point with an wiimote.

Look at Johnny Lee’s website for details..

Obiously, we from Labcoding.com love playing with the Wiimote, so we’re going to try Johnny’s experiment!

At first we need to download the software.

- Wiimote whiteboard
- Multitouch app ( if you build two IR pens, for one IR pen use, Wiimote Whiteboard)
- Direct-X sdk (it’s 426mb and only needed if you want to use the MultiTouch App)

Shopping list:

• 1 Wiimote
• 2 IR led (1.5V tolerant Led)
• 2 Small ‘press’ switch
• 2 (AA) battery

* for testing you can try a normal IR remote, but usually this blinks the IR signal, so it doesnt work that great!

Getting started:

First we need to make an IR led pen.

The scheme looks like this:

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To use the adobe Brio services you need to have a (free) adobe Id.

First go to the Adobe Brio link here.
Fill in the adobe id or create one.

Create a new url for your conference, like: http://connect.acrobat.com/YOURNAME

when the application is loading, you need to accept the plugin for screen sharing.

So far an easy set up.

For testing i invite a participant. In this case i will be inviting myself
The next thing i to share the screen.. It all starts up..
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So, you’ve got Fedora Core 8 installed, it all looks pretty sweet and you start browsing the internet. You quickly notice that there are quite a few things that don’t work out of the box, like for instance Flash or Java. A shame you think, let’s play some MP3’s then. You click an MP3 and Amarok fires up, then you get the notice it doesn’t support MP3… doh.

Time to get your FC8 box up to date so you don’t have any limitations!

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