bits and bytes

Like I mentioned in my last post I bought myself an IPhone. Before my IPhone I had my blackberry and I got used to being notified when I got new mail. On the IPhone however IMAP only has 15minutes updates, so you have to wait and it’s not really 15 minutes …

The nice people from zarafa created z-push. An opensource php application that mimics active-sync. I installed on my server and made some small changes. Now it works on my imap account and I get notified of new mails in my inbox.

I did however have to do some minor changes in the php code.

In config.php changed backend to imap

$BACKEND_PROVIDER = “BackendIMAP”;

in backend/imap.php changed to retrieval to only retrieve the INBOX to check for changes (I have +100 folders)

$list = @imap_getmailboxes($this->_mbox, $this->_server, “%”);

in backend/diffbackend.php I changed the default cutoffdate (this showed up 0 in the logging)

function getCutOffDate($restrict) {
$restrict = SYNC_FILTERTYPE_3DAYS;

Now my automatic notify works

Like they mention in the forums, it does drain your battery life on the IPhone. So be carefull when you turn it on!

This morning there was a strike in Belgium. The nice people forgot to mention that they would also do road blocks. It took me 4 hours and 30 minutes to drive to work. Normally it takes me 1 hour and 10 minutes. (I leave at 5.30) so this morning I arrived at 10 o’clock.

2 weeks ago I received my Iphone. I used TubeTV to download some videos from the google channel (e.g. the html5 stuff) they got converted to Iphone format and I had uploaded it. So during my +4 hour drive I watched some episodes of hak5 and also the html5 google video . I can tell you one thing, I am glad I bought the IPhone. There are still some pieces that could be better (sending text messages amongst others) but having a multimedia device in your pocket is really nice (If only nokia had given the linux tablet a phone, I would have bought it a long time ago but I’m really not going to stuff a mobile phone and pda in my pants!)

I know openmoko is going pretty well but from what I understood, making a phone call isn’t always without problems so that’s really not an option as primary phone!