Gyoo

Price in USD per minute to call from Japan to France:

The price and currency rates used are the today ones:

• 1 USD = 94.22 JPY
• 1 EUR = 118.74 JPY
• 1 EUR = 1.26 USD
• 1 USD = 1.61 AUD

The bottom line:

1. If at home, use Skype on your Pc.
2. If in Wifi range, use Fring on your iPhone
3. If out of Wifi range, use PennyTel on your iPhone

You can look at VoIP-Sol.com for other solution.

Google will play soon in the playground of Microsoft and Mozilla with its new Web browser, Chrome.

Particularity of this new comer: it has been written from scratch for the today Internet, not for the requirement posted 10 years ago. They are stressing the fact that each tab of Chrome is an independent process, improving speed, memory usage and stability. A nice comics as introduction.

First, some figures:

• iPhone camera resolution: 1600×1200 (72dpi)
• iPhone screen resolution: 320×480 (160dpi)
• iPhone contact picture display size: 64×64 (160dpi)
• iPhone contact picture display size on call: 320×270 (160dpi)
• Outlook import resolution: 72×96 (72dpi)

Yes Outlook sucks. You can only add into Oulook interface poor resolution image compare to the capacity of the iPhone.

The solution:

1. On your PC, resize the image contact to 320×320 (160dpi), knowing that 25 pixels on the top and bottom will be semi-transparent when on call. Or any size bigger with the same ratio, up to 1600×1600 (bigger is sometime not imported into the iPhone photo library)
2. On your PC, create a folder iPhone Photos\Contacts and move your contact photos inside
3. Sync the photos into your iPhone with iTunes8.0 through the Photos tab. Select the iPhone Photos folder as source.
   
4. Manually associated the photo to your contact on the iPhone (Edit ->Add Photo->Choose Existing Photo)
5. Sync back the iPhone with iTunes. The photos will be associated automatically into Outlook with the good resolution this time.

Very surprising, but it is not possible to create group into the iPhone address book directly from the iPhone. The only way so far is to create them on your PC or Mac and synchronize it to the iPhone. After not possible to change a contact from one group to another or edit a group. Still you will need your Mac / PC address book to make the job. The only option on iPhone is to add a new user on an existing group.

On my side, I’m using Outlook. Into My Contacts, right click and select New Folder … to create a new group. After in iTunes the new group will appear and will be synchronize on your iPhone.

Synchronization of contacts is simple on Mac, but could be a nightmare on Windows.

First of all, you need iTune7.7 to perform the synchronization. After plugging your iPhone, select your device and go into the Info tab of iTunes. 4 methods are offered to synchronize your address book:

• Yahoo! Address Book
• Windows Address Book
• Google Contacts
• Outlook

I haven’t test Yahoo! Address Book, but test the 3 other ones. The best result is obtained with Outlook.

I don’t use it for email (using Thunderbird), just starting to use it to maintain my address book.

First step, you have to consolidate your address book into one of the source supported by iTunes. It could be actually the most consuming task. I had some contacts on my previous phone and some in Thunderbird address book. My previous phone provided a soft to export the directory into csv. I made the merge into an Excel spreadsheet with the contact from Thunderbird.

Google Contacts is limited. There is no field birthday, and first name and last name are merge into the same field.

Windows Address Book doesn’t import properly csv file with unicode character.

Outlook as well doesn’t import properly csv file with unicode character. Actually the problem seems to be more the way Excel is generating csv file, but the result is the same. However, Outlook is able to import a binary Excel sheet. In our Excel spreadsheet, just select the area containing all the data and give it a name.

To keep in mind the Outlook email fileds are mapped on the iPhone:

• Email: work
• Email2: home
• Email3: mobile

An alternative to iTunes is to use a tiers software for the synchronization. Funambol for instance is available on AppStore on your iPhone and as plugin in Thunderbird and Outlook. Your contacts are fisrt uploaded from your PC  to a Funambol server, and after download by your iPhone from the remote server.

Gyoo is reborning in its own ash !
After using Blosxom since 2004, I have just migrated my weblog to WordPress.
I should have said start using in 2004, since not a single line has been posted since about 2 years …

For the very few visitors of my previous blog, I hope you will not miss the Blosxom flavor.
I use to like the simplicity of this text blog, and spend few nights to enhance it.
But Blosxom is still the same after fews years. No so much evolution, compared to the competitors. And the few hours I have spent so far with WordPress let me think not playing in the same category….
I hope I’ll post more regularly than before…

Hereunder a latest picture of my Blosxom version for the nostalgic …

In addition, aftershocks from the December 26 earthquake occurred in Indonesia’s Aceh province and the island of Sumatra on December 29.

Reports from international media and national government sources indicate that the earthquake and tsunamis killed more than 117,000 people in South and Southeast Asia and East Africa: 79,940 people in Indonesia, 24,673 in Sri Lanka, 10,850 in India, 2,000 in Thailand, 120 in Somalia, 90 in Burma, 65 in Malaysia, 54 in Maldives, 10 in Tanzania, 2 in Bangladesh, and 1 each in the Seychelles and Kenya. Death tolls continue to rise as rescue and recovery operations access more remote areas.

How to help:

• Organizations list from Google
• Organizations list from CNN
• USAID
• Blog: the South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami

A magnitude 9.0 earthquake today, off the west coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia, triggered massive tsunamis that affected several countries throughout South and Southeast Asia, as well as Somalia, Tanzania, and Kenya in East Africa.

I’m now using BlueHost.com to host my web site, following the trouble I’ve got with my previous hosting company. I’m very satisfied with BlueHost until now.

• 2 Gb disk space
• pop3 mail access
• ssh access

And my Blog is quite faster than before !

One week for zighost.com to allow me to access to my web site after they have suspended it without reason, and to transfer my domain name to register.com! On advice: absolutely avoid zighost.com as web hosting company. The same trouble happened few weeks ago to one of my friend with his web site shiromi.com.

By looking up inside whois database you will find that zighost.com is actually a brand owned by Teknoline Internet (teknoline.com), located in Istanbul in Turkey…

1uhost.com, ankahost.com and many other names are used by Teknoline. They are using the data center of NAC in Parsippany in USA. But when you have to exchange email with zighost.com, after decoding their poor english, you understand quickly your are not talking with profesional…