Best of Foo
Posted by Rod in Events at 7:30 am on Sunday, 3 February 2008

Up in Warkworth for version 2 of Foo Camp.

Highlights so far include New Zealand electric car hero Ian Wright of WrightSpeed, and Mike from Atlassian is back in NZ. He seems to like it here.

Meraki is a low cost Mesh Wifi device and back end management service. Google recently put money in them to flood SanFran with free wifi. Already lots of talk about what we could do in Wellington with that.

Fluid is a Site Specific Browser maker for OSX. It allows you to run a browser application - like an application. GMail being an obvious example. The Dock icons (called badges) can have some intelligence. For example querying the page for unread messages.

Available badges seem to be hard coded into the app and the GMail badge doesn’t seem to work for hosted domains - the default seems to be a text editor icon which is not that useful. This might be cool for Xero as well. We could display an unreconciled transaction count as an example. Bit more research to do when I get home.

The Jing Project is an interesting screen capture and screen-to-flash app that has a very different ’sunburst interface’.

Rowan liked web debugging proxy Charles developed a young dud up here but I haven’t had a play yet.

Also need to look at iTimeMachine (Use time machine to any network disk). They say on their site that the upcoming TimeCapsule update won’t allow you to point time machine at a USB drive (AirDrive) connected to your current Airport. That’s going to upset the Apple community.

Another few sessions to go this morning.

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Comments(3)

    Comment by Paul S at 5:20 pm on 5 February 2008

    Regarding Meraki - I know there are people using this in Wellington already. It seems like a great way to share bandwidth, especially in a geographically challenged environment like Wellington.

    I believe there is a user group too. Anyone else know more??




    Comment by stuart at 6:14 pm on 5 February 2008

    I’ve been following TheFreeNet group for a while and it seems to be picking up momentum recently with a number of individuals and organisations getting involved. They’ve just recently received $9000 of contributions from Webstock and Govis which is going towards purchasing the Meraki devices. They are actively looking for help here: http://groups.google.com/group/ftnaotearoa




    Comment by Nigel Parker at 8:43 am on 7 February 2008

    “developed a young dud up here” ha ha I hope you ment dude also Karl ain’t that young :)