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Transfer Contacts from Sony Ericsson to iPhone on Mac

d0rr — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 13:34:00 +0000

I was about to manually transfer my contact from my old Sony Ericsson W810i to iPhone when I came across this easy steps to sync all my contacts to iPhone, within a minute.

First of all, you will have to download Sony Ericsson Sync Plugin for iSync. Since my SE W810i has been phased out for long, I’m using the W910i download page instead. The plugin works the same by the way.

After you’ve downloaded it, install it and load up your iSync under: Applications > iSync

Connect your Sony Ericsson phone to your Mac, browse to Devices > Add Device to add your device, and you should see your phone as shown below:

Double click on your phone and you should see the details as shown below.

Click on Sync Device button and your contacts should be sync to your Mac now.

Next, connect your iPhone to you Mac, opens iTunes and select Info tab and check Sync Address Book Contacts checkbox. In my case, I checked the All contacts radio button to sync all my contacts over.

Hit on the familiar Sync button and all your contacts will be in your iPhone now.

Let me know if it works for your, or not.

WordPress & Google XML Sitemaps

d0rr — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:30:10 +0000

One of the most important element in SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) is to have your site indexed properly (and regularly) by popular search engines.

As of today, Google has a significantly huge market share of 84.96% (resource) and is definitely hard for website owners to ignore.

I’m going to walk you through on how I generated XML Sitemaps for adorr.net (powered by WordPress) and submit the sitemap to Google for in-depth crawling.

Before we proceed further, I would assume that your site is running on WordPress, as per stated in this post title.

Generate Google XML Sitemap

First of all, you will need to download WordPress Google XML Sitemaps plugin and install it on your WordPress site. If you haven’t know how to install WordPress plugin, check out the steps here.

** Do note that if your WordPress has Multisite feature turned on, follow this instruction instead!

Once you’ve got the plugin installed and activated, browse to Settings > XML-Sitemaps

Look out for a link button to “build the sitemap” for the first time. If you get a permission error, check the file permissions of the plugin files.

The plugin will then automatically generate the XML Sitemap file. Mine is located at http://adorr.net/sitemap.xml (default location is on your root, unless you changed it, check the value under “Location of your sitemap file”)

The next time you want to rebuild the sitemap, click on the link button “Rebuild the sitemap” on top of the plugin page.

This is, however, optional since by default the option “Rebuild sitemap if you change the content of your blog” is checked.

XML Sitemap to Google

Next, login to your Google Webmaster Tools account. If you haven’t own one, free registration is just a few steps away.

On post-login page, click on “Add a site…” button and type in your domain name.

** Make sure you have a consistent domain, e.g. www.adorr.net or adorr.net, since they are treated differently. If you need an idea on how to make this happen, check out my another post on this.

There’s a simple validation process, where you are required to add in an additional metadata onto your site header, within tag.

It should look similar to mine as shown below (except that with different content value, of course):

Once done, browse to “your site” > Site Configuration > Sitemaps, click on “Submit a Sitemap” button and type in your sitemap file and location (it’s sitemap.xml by default, unless you changed it in previous steps when generating sitemap)

It usually takes 5 – 15 seconds for Google to download your sitemap file and digest.

If everything goes smoothly up to this point, you shall leave the rest to Google Bot to crawl your site

Last but not least

There are a few other tools that you may find it useful, e.g. Crawl stats, Site performance, but I’ll leave that to you to discover.

Hope these simple steps will help you a little, if not much, on your site’s SEO.

Cheers!

Mozilla Firefox 4 Beta 1

d0rr — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 01:37:38 +0000

While there will still be further tweaks and polishing on the UI and features finalization, Firefox 4 Beta 1 is close to it’s first release.

Although the emphasis for this major version update is on the newly redesigned UI for better user experience, the underlying core features are equally significant too.

Here’s a quick list of new features worth attention:

redesigned sleeker and easier to use user interface
supports WebM format for open HD quality video playback
introduces WebSockets to allow developers building real-time online interactions
indexed DB for developers to store application data locally, specifically for cloud applications
and of course, support of CSS3 and HTML5

For more detailed Beta Features, click here

I personally feel that the changes may not be visible for day to day web browsing experience.

However, by having more and more browsers officially supporting CSS3 and HTML5 means the web revolution is near. Cloud applications, faster to load and easier to develop interactive websites are now foreseeable in near future.

What do you think?

Note! Do not install Firefox 4 Beta 1 if you depend your life on add-ons as most of FireFox 3 add-ons are not compatible yet.

Note! The add-ons you installed on previous version of Firefox is not entirely not able to use, but you’ll have to install Add-on Compatibility Reporter and follow this steps.

WordPress 3.0

d0rr — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 07:16:51 +0000

WordPress 3.0, code name “Thelonious”, was released on 17 June 2010 after half a year of hard work by 218 contributors.

I personally don’t find any significant updates in this version (expected much significant updates e.g. platform overhaul or so since its goes from version 2.x to 3.x). The only feature that caught my attention is the merge of WordPress MU and WordPress. Now that we can set up multiple blogs from the same installation.

Among other new (and somewhat notable features according to them) are:

- sexy new default theme called Twenty Ten
- new APIs for theme that allow them to easily implement custom backgrounds, headers, shortlinks, menus (no more file editing), post types, and taxonomies (Twenty Ten theme shows all of that off.)
- new lighter interface
- the contextual help on every screen
- 1,217 bug fixes and feature enhancements
- bulk updates with a single click

Meanwhile, you may watch the WordPress 3.0 video tour below.

I’ve just done my update from WordPress 2.8 to WordPress 3.0 through auto update and it (really) takes only seconds! Kudos to WordPress

To those who wonders, you will have to add the following line in your wp-config.php before you can add more sites

define(‘WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE’, true);

You shall now see a new admin page Tools > Network

Apple iPhone 4

d0rr — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 03:11:01 +0000

Ever since the iPhone 4 prototype was lost in a bar (or stolen) by an Apple Engineer Gray Powell, iPhone 4 has become the most talked-about upcoming smart phone.

Be it coincident or done intentionally, another lost iPhone 4 shows new details and it looked almost identical to the prototype reavealed previously.

1GHz A4 chip (same chip used by iPad), slimmer design, front-facing camera, LED flash light, 720p video are among those features that most existing iPhone users hungered for. And it finally seems to be coming to us soon!

Then, we heard about the news saying that Steve Jobs to Deliver Apple’s WWDC Keynote on June 7

Then, Apple decided to reveal the iPhone OS 4 (named iOS4) ahead of iPhone 4 announcement, which is believed to be the core of iPhone 4. Multitasking, fast app switching, local notifications, app folders, new mail app, iBooks, iAd advertising, and many more new features that you may not even care about. All these are suggesting to what the new iPhone 4 will be like.

Not long after that, iOS 4 is available for public to download. iOS 4 will be fully compatible with iPhone 3GS and iPod Touch 3G, but iPhone 3G and iPod Touch 2G users are not let down where they still can run iOS 4 but with some features missing (big miss would be multitasking, awww)

on 7th June 2010, Steve Job announced iPhone 4 on Apple’s WWDC Keynote as scheduled. Nothing new except Retina Display, essentially a high-end screen with four times as many pixels in the same screen real estate. Otherwise, all other stuffs are as expected, and the delivery on US is expected to be on 24th June 2010.

You may be interested to watch the Apple Keynote’s Network Meltdown, a notable (highlight) glitch during the event, where Steve Jobs had to bail on a demo because of network trouble.

Some interesting happenings in between