Monthly Archives: January 2008


Iphone overload ?

Never thought I’d see this from IBM and Apple but “E-mail software from IBM Corp. will be available on Apple Inc. iPhones and iPod Touch devices under a new partnership that brings together two big rivals of Microsoft Corp. IBM plans a formal announcement of the Lotus Notes e-mail package for Apple’s portable devices at […]


Iphone remote control of your pc

A client asked me if it was possible to have remote access to desktop resources from his O2 based Iphone. My immediate thought was no – not if the iphone isn’t allowing you to install applications … but …. ShapeServices have an option for this go to https://www.rdmplus.com/ and download the windows component and register […]


The reason we all need a blackberry ? – Part Deux

Having been a blackberry user for a while – the change to the 8800 handset from an 8700 model was a revelation. The additional power – layout and improved ergonomics made it a completely different experience to the previous models. Whilst some users feel the Pearl better meets the needs of a Blackberry phone user […]


Exposing data from Intellipool Network Monitor (INM)

When monitoring systems there may be times when you want non technical users to have visibility of the data without the full functionality of the monitoring system. As part of the Sentry project I wanted to replicate some of the information outside of INM using a hardware device but what if you want users to […]


Skype on your Iphone ?

I was browsing for some skype api information recently and wondered if anyone had looked at Skype on the Iphone given the current “cat and mouse” games that Apple are playing with the developers out there who want to give the Iphone some real killer applications other than the preloaded ones. Well actually there is […]


Sentry – the software part

Powershell and the Sentry Hardware – how to interface. Serial port access using Powershell – as covered in the article entitled Powershell and serial ports for the Sentry Project does not cover that actual syntax of the commands required to send instruction to the Sentry project hardware only the basic serial IO commands available. So […]