Some UNIX commands

Posted by on Mar 20, 2005 in ITP, Ubiquitous Mobile Computing

i forgot about some of these unix commands, though after a minute they all came back to me…. kill -s kill 100 -165 ps pwd write

UbiqMob: Assignment Number 5

Posted by on Feb 15, 2005 in ITP, Ubiquitous Mobile Computing

Blog it up about a mobile application that gets more interesting as more people get involved (think: dating, games, social software). Start thinking about what you want to build for your midterm project. …

UbiqMob: Assignment Number 4

Posted by on Feb 15, 2005 in ITP, Ubiquitous Mobile Computing

HopStop + how does the app know your location? (do you need to tell it, or does it just “know”?) you have to enter it either on their site ala’ a mapquest interface or email it to a email address. when you create an account, the system will send you a text message asking you ...

UbiqMob: Assignment Number 3

Posted by on Feb 15, 2005 in ITP, Ubiquitous Mobile Computing

Describe any camera phone application. Find an example of a camera phone game, a group camera phone moblog, a UPC / barcode lookup service, etc. (Don’t be afraid to write about things that are available outside the US!). Tell us about what the product does, the user experience and what you could do to improve ...

UbiqMob: Assignment Number 2

Posted by on Feb 15, 2005 in ITP, Ubiquitous Mobile Computing

Describe any text-messaging application you’ve had an experience with. A few years back I had signed up for Major League Baseball email alerts from Yahoo! Sports. Now they are offering text messaging alerts. http://beta.alerts.yahoo.com/config/edit_notification?.t=p&.hier=MLB&.mcb=&.done=http%3a//mobile.yahoo.com/%3f.up=1 Tell us about what the product does, the user experience and what you could do to improve that experience. The product ...

UbiqMob: Assignment Number 1

Posted by on Feb 15, 2005 in ITP, Ubiquitous Mobile Computing

Why did you take this class? Hi my name is Mohit SantRam and I’m a second year student at ITP. I’ve worked on a few cellphone applications, most notably Bickr and Socialight. Aside from loving my digital camera, i LOVE my cameraphone. i’m addicted to flickr and I want to improve my cellphone development skills. ...

Cron Jobs

Posted by on Feb 14, 2005 in ITP, Ubiquitous Mobile Computing

Q: How do i set up a cron job? A: Do this: 1. Log into stage / dreamhost / etc. 2. Type “crontab -e” to see the crons you have running 3. Enter the follow, to get a script that runs every second: EVERY MINUTE (that’s as low as you can go… for now) */1 ...

UbiMobiComp

Posted by on Feb 14, 2005 in ITP, Ubiquitous Mobile Computing

i’ve been playing with emailing and texting my phone. i use t-mobile and the unlimited text messaging feature on the plan. i also have the $2.99 mms feature, but i’m going to upgrade it to the better plan. for twenty bucks, you are supposed to get an unlimited data connection. i don’t know if you ...