Yo! Gibbon!

Twitter Friend Directory

I just found this slightly weird Japanese site that creates page of all your twitter friends with links to their websites.  It's nothing amazing, but for some reason I like reading down the list and seeing who's blogging, who's got a side project, and who is happy to give their employer some extra publicity.

You can see my friends here:  http://tw.muumoo.jp/snow_gibbon/friends_web
And ChaletPro's list here:  http://tw.muumoo.jp/chaletpro/friends_web

Clearing your OS X DNS cache

It took a while to work it out, but it's simple as: dscacheutil -flushcache

Getting your contacts onto your new iPhone

You've got your new shiny iPhone 3G. Now you want to transfer your contacts (and their phone numbers) from your old phone onto your new one.  Here's one way that I found the migration to be really easy.

• Go to http://www.mobyko.com and create a free account.  Mobyko is a free service that allows you to backup your phones data online.

• After you've logged into Mobyko and backed up your data, follow the following steps:

• click 'help' in the bottom left hand corner
• follow the "FAQs click here" link
• under the section called "creating your account, click on the last link: "I know my phone has SyncML but it's not on the list"
• towards the bottom of the page there is a link to "these settings".  Click it.
• finally, make a note of your username and password

• On your iPhone go to the App Store and search for "Funambol".  Download and install the application (it's free).
• Click "Settings" > "Account".  Enter the username and password that you made a note of, and set the server to be 'http://sync.mobyko.com/'
• Go back to the main Funambol page and click "Sync All".
• Hey Presto, all your contacts are on your iPhone, as well as being safely backed up on Mobyko.

My First Launch

I've just launched my first website!  Well, it's not exactly the first website I've launched (being a veteran of the first dotcom bubble), but it's the first one that's all mine! 

It's called ChaletPro and it's a site designed for chalet owners who are looking for a way to get their chalet online and in front of the snow-ridin' public.  So if you want to advertise your chalet please check it out.

It's written in Django - a rather wonderful web framework written in python.  If you're interested in rapid webapp development I'd recommend that you check it out.