So after getting the iPhone 3G, I promptly installed fring on it seeing as how I could make skype out calls and skype to skype calls on the iPhone! Yes, I know..it sounds magical and wonderous, but my experience has been less than stellar. fring itself seems like a neat little app, but my skype out calls never worked. Until I found this:
As I wrote elsewhere, in addition to adding " " before the REQUIRED country code, if your logged into ur Skype account via your computer and you try to Skype via ur iPhone, the call will terminate as well.
Yup that's right. This is absolutely a hidden "feature" of fring. Now, granted skype does add the little "+" sign for you, but seriously, fring should have anticipated this pain point and at least thrown up a dialog box that says, "Hey Skype Out-ster, you may want to add a "+" by HOLDING DOWN THE 0 on the dialer before the country code (and yes, you need that country code)."
After you figure this out, fring actually gets a bit more useful and interesting.
[via iPhone 3G | iPod touch Forums]


11/ 5/07 10:09 permalink discuss
Since getting my sweet, sweet Dell XPS m1330, I've decided to blog my entry into the world of Ubuntu over at SwitchBuntu. Come on over!
Cool! One of my photos was chosen to represent the Tapestry Art Festival on the San Jose Schmap.
If you go to the photos tab and scroll through the photos, you should see one of my artistic creations there. Sweet!
Well, we're about 5 days from our departure date to Europe and making last minute preparations. As you already know (I think), we've decided to go sans laptop for this trip. What? No computer at your every beck and call? Preposterous you must be shouting by now. I think so too, but we decided against it since a laptop would comprise about 20-25% of our total gear weight limit of 40lbs. I still think we're a tiny bit over without the beastly machine, but at least we're not lugging a whole computer and what not around.
This presents a few problems in and of itself. First is that we will need internet access. Sure there will be Internet cafes just about everywhere, but we know those are about as safe as carrying your money around in a clear plastic bag floated by helium balloons behind you. I'm sure most are perfectly fine, but I'm not really in the mood to take a chance with my private info.
So what to do? Well, in this day and age, plenty. We're bringing a USB thumb-drive-ama-key-fob-ama-flash-amajig that contains a bevy of widgets:
I'm also thinking of bringing my PPC-6700. Eventhough I won't have EVDO access, it still has built-in wifi that should work with public wifi connections. The cool part comes when I login to my home PC via logmein from the phone. Since there are no keyloggers on my personal phone and the logmein traffic with my home computer is encrypted, we should be pretty safe. A little paranoid you say? Yeah, but at least my data will be safer for the most part. A little geeky elbow grease goes a long way.
Big Ups to The Great Geek Manual for point the way for us paranoid geekswho want to roam the earth.
06/26/07 08:55 permalink discuss



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