Archive for February 2009

#65 - Water Reminder

13 Feb, 2009 | admin | Too many Comments - 7 -
I just read somewhere that the human body needs about 2 liters of water per day as you sweat that amount out of you body by simply breating in and out from early in the morning until late in the night.
Not mentioned in here: those beneath us that do sports activites as they need much more water.

Ok, so what does this analog clock offer? It's a simple clock informing you by an audiovisual alarm that you should take a sip out of a glas of water. In an hour you should get close to your first liter per day - but that is not enough. Covered through the day you will reach your two liters, even if you forget to sip the one or another time.

The alarm rings every 15 minutes!



Mojos on your netbooks... NOW!

08 Feb, 2009 | admin | Too many Comments - 11 -
Thanks to the help and beta testing of kronos_eee and Stefan91 from the netbooknews.de IRC chat channel, i managed to port the MOJOCAFE onto a windows executable file.
This means: If you own a netbook running Windows XP or Windows 7 (!) then you can use that file to show your Mojos right on your netbook as some kind of screensaver! As the whole thing is still on BETA i am not going to put it on the startpage directly. But here are the infos and the download link for you to test it out. It would be so awesome if you could drop me a line or two telling me if it works on your system and what kind of system you have:

MOJOCAFE Screensaver 1.01 works on:
ASUS 1000H with Win XP (see screenshot below)
ASUS 1000H with Win 7 beta 7000 (approved by kronos_eee)
HP nx6125 with 1400x1050 screen resolution (approved by Stefan91)

You can download the file by clicking this address:
http://www.mojocafe.net/screensaver/mojocafe_v1.01.zip

And here is a screenshot of my new ASUS eee right next to my NOKIA n800 in front of my dual monitor PC running the MOJOCAFE...

Mojocafe running on ASUS eee and NOKIA n800

Google widget - i hate and love it

05 Feb, 2009 | admin | Too many Comments - 8 -
Ok everyone, just to keep you updated about what is going on actually with the Mojocafe.
For the whole week i have been trying to develop several Mojos like
- a Mojo showing the next events from your Google Calendar User account
- a Mojo showing the To-Do List from your Google ToDo User account
and
- a Mojo showing the contacts from your Google contacts user account

This means for example that you could have in full screen the information about the next dates that you have to attend, the next next you want to do or people you would like to contact.

The problems that i have been cofrontated with are of a simple safety nature: you Google User login data.
Google offers three ways to login and gather the proper information from an user so that the data snatched can be used within other programming languages. This kind of communication is done by a so called API and most widgets that you know from Yahoo!, google itself, ebay etc. are done throu this process.

The conclusion for this to work in the most easiest way in combination with Adobe Flash (what the Mojocafe relies on), is by the user, meaning you, would have to offer your google mail and password login within the Mojocafe system. I would have to save this information in the Mojocafe database and encrypt it (MD5 encryption at least).

But lets be honest: do you give out your google login data to someone like..... ME ?

*grin* i know that it is nothing about me, but as i in my case WOULD NOT tell anyone else my login information, why should you do so? And i hope you would not do so.

So unfortunately at the moment there is no easy way to implement most of the google widgets inside the Mojocafe.
APART FROM THE CALENDAR!

Now that i stopped messing up with the above mentioned API, i am concentrating on the so called magic cookie authentification.
This means: i am going to develop a Google Calendar Mojo so that you can have your google calendar entries presented to you on your device. The way to get there will be a bit harsh as anyone who wants to use that Mojo will have to copy a 4 billion character (more or less) long website-address inside the Mojocafe profile, but fortunately it will only have to be done once :)

I will keep you updated abou this.

Oh and by the way: i am going the CeBit this year and will talk to some hard and software developers to join the Mojocafe!

#64 - Digitalizm

03 Feb, 2009 | admin | Too many Comments - 13 -
A clock showing the actual time simply by presenting digits from 0 to 60 where the clock presents the time by showing the proper digit in a different color.
The red digit presents the actual hour.
The green digit represents the actual minutes.
And at last the yellow digit presents the actual seconds.