Hari ini, BlackBerry Bold 9700 a.k.a Onyx secara resmi diperkenalkan di Jakarta. Dalam sebuah perhelatan di Dragon Fly, Jakarta, smartphone itu dipamerkan ke hadapan para jurnalis nanti sore pukul 15.00 WIB.

Dijual dengan harga eceran Rp 6.450.000 (di luar pajak dan tanpa kartu), seri terbaru BlackBerry teranyar ini dijejali sistem operasi versi 5.0 untuk komunikasi high-end, wifi, dan koneksi GSM berbasis 3G — seperti yang sudah ada di Bold pendahulunya. Kabarnya, jaringan BlackBerry messenger di versi ini sudah tingkatkan sehingga jauh lebih nyaman dibanding pendahulunya.

Apa lagi yang baru? Seperti BlackBerry Gemini 8520, seri Bold 9700 Onyx juga telah mengganti Trackball dengan Trackpad yang lebih sensitif. Dengan alat navigasi tersebut, pengguna terhindar dari risiko tombol ngadat gara-gara debu yang menumpuk.

Mengenai spesifikasi lengkap BlackBerry Bold 9700, silakan baca-baca penjelasannya di sini. Soalnya, terus terang saya belum merasakan sendiri keasyikan memainkan perangkat baru ini.

Saya malah sudah lebih dulu menjajal BlackBerry Curve 8520 a.k.a Gemini. Ini BlackBerry tipe paling murah, dijual sekitar Rp 2,1 juta – Rp 2,4 juta (tanpa kartu dari operator). Di tengah eforia pasar Indonesia yang tengah tergila-gila pada semua produk buatan RIM Kanada ini, Gemini tampaknya cukup cepat terserap, terutama di kalangan first BlackBerry users.

Sosoknya mirip BlackBerry Curve 8900 (Javelin), lengkap dengan keyboard QWERTY. Curve 8520 atawa Gemini adalah produk pertama Research in Motion yang menggunakan trackpad optik sebagai perangkat navigasi menggantikan trackball yang juga terdapat pada seri Javelin dan Bold.

BlackBerry 8520 Gemini

Peranti anyar ini, bagi saya, lebih nyaman ketimbang trackball. Sebelumnya saya sempat memakai Curve 8310 dengan trackball. Dua kali saya harus membawanya ke tempat servis untuk dibersihkan dan satu kali membeli trackball baru. Navigator berbentuk bola ini cepat kotor dan membuat fungsinya terganggu. Trackpad nyaris bebas dari gangguan semacam itu.

Trackpad tampaknya merupakan jawaban RIM atas keluhan para pengguna terhadap trackball. Tak heran bila seri-seri BlackBerry berikutnya pun memakai sistem navigasi tarckpad sebagai pengganti trackball.

Curve 8520 juga dilengkapi media keys di bagian atas untuk mengakses musik dan video, seperti play, repeat, dan mute. Lalu ada BlackBerry Media Sync yang memudahkan sinkronisasi dengan iTunes atau Windows Media Player.

Untuk membantu orang-orang seperti saya, disediakan BlackBerry App World, bursa aplikasi khusus BlackBerry. Dengan fasilitas ini, saya bisa menjelajah situs BlackBerry untuk mengunduh, misalnya, theme, wallpaper, ringtone, dan sebagainya. Aplikasi itu ada yang gratis, ada pula yang berbayar.

Namun, ada sedikit pengurangan pada Curve 8520 seperti kamera hanya 2 megapiksel, sedangkan pada Javelin 3,2 megapiksel.

Layarnya 2,64 inci TFT LCD 320X240 piksel — lebih cerah dan tajam ketimbang 8310. Ketebalan bodinya hanya 39 sentimeter, panjang 10,9 cm, dan lebar 6 cm. Beratnya 106 gram. Fiturnya juga belum mendukung 3G, baru GSM/GPRS/EDGE. Tapi tersedia fasilitas WiFi dan Bluetooth.

Curve 8520 menggunakan prosesor 52 MHz, memori internal 256 MB, dan mendukung slot memori eksternal microSD/SDHC dari 16 GB yang kini tersedia hingga generasi berikutnya 32 GB.

Memori itu cukup memadai untuk mengakomodasi kegiatan saya sehari-hari, seperti browsing, membuka dan menulis email, berkicau di Twitter, Facebook, dan membaca blog. Jam pasir yang kerap keluar di BlackBerry 8310 saya dulu, sekarang tak nongol lagi di Gemini.

Bagaimana dengan daya tahan baterai?

Pada seri 8310, saya bisa menggenjot baterainya hingga sekitar 12 jam untuk pemakaian normal. Sedangkan daya tahan baterai 8520 sedikit lebih panjang, sekitar 18 jam dalam pemakaian normal. Mungkin karena lebih baru. Yang jelas, kalau saya pakai untuk membuka UberTwitter secara nonstop, daya tahan baterai, baik 8310 maupun 8520, menyusut drastis.

Last but not least, pilihan ada di tangan sampean. Setiap pilihan hendaknya didasari oleh kebutuhan, dan bukan sekadar gaya-gayaan atau mengikuti trend semata. Jadilah konsumen yang cerdas.

>> Selamat hari Rabu, Ki Sanak. Apakah sampean tertarik memiliki salah satu dari dua seri BlackBerry terbaru itu?

I’ve been building a few apps recently and have found that a linear response over a range of numbers has been a poor solution. I needed to be able to apply different response curves to user interface components (knobs, sliders, touchpads) as well as on screen display objects, characters, etc.

I needed a good name for the class, but instead came up with the pretty poor moniker ‘RangedNumbers’. I’ll change it when I come up with a better one.

So the idea is, a ‘ranged number’ is instantiated, initialised for the required range then a simple call with a value in that range will result with a percentage that can be applied to the intended recipient accordingly. I realised that an inverted curve would be handy too, so have added that functionality.

I have included exponential and powered curves as well as linear.

So to use the ranged number system:

I have put together two demos to show the RangedNumber class in action:

Firstly using a Slider component. Grab the slider and watch how the markers are represented on all the displayed response curves.

A demonstration of how to implement non-linear response curves

Now here is the same demo but this time using a TouchPad. Click on the touchpad to engage. In this demo horizontal movement controls the standard curves and vertical the inverted.

How to implement non-linear response curves with a touchpad

The source for these demos and the Ranged Number class can be found here: Ranged Number ZIP

After my Update to 9.10 i got the problem that my Touchpad Mouse won’t work. To fix the Problem type in Terminal as root ( su or sudo -s)

echo options psmouse proto=exps > /etc/mpdprobe.d/psmouse.modprobe

afer this type

reboot

This will work HfGl ^^

Genauer: Mittelklick am Touchpad wieder aktivieren.

synclient -s TapButton1=1 TapButton2=2 TapButton3=3 RBCornerButton=3 RTCornerButton=2

Die derzeitigen Werte liefert synclient -l, man synclient liefert Beschreibungen.

Zum Aktivieren des Mittelklicks oben rechts reicht: synclient RTCornerButton=2

Galera, Hoje vou postar um tutorial bem interessante porém fácil… para quem não tem conhece essa tecnologia basta acessar o site do Windows Surface e veja o que vem por ai no futuro, enquanto ele não chega nas lojas para a venda podemos brincar um pouco.

• Uma folha de papel sulfite (A4 ou Ofício);

• Fita adesiva;

• Uma Webcam;

• Software opensource de trackeamento de dedos: Touchlib que você pode baixar AQUI (ele tem apenas 3.9Mb!) pode trackear 10 pontos ao mesmo tempo, ou seja, você pode usar as duas mãos!

Apesar de você poder usar praticamente qualquer câmera, quanto maior a qualidade da câmera, melhor será o rastreamento realizado com o software, decorrendo uma maior acuracidade no trackeamento. O modelo utilizado no vídeo abaixo foi uma Philips SPC90NC de 1.3mp, e 90 fps. Sendo que qualquer uma VGA de 30 fps deve funcionar perfeitamente!

Assita o tutorial em vídeo:

E nessa outra versão de tutorial você aprende fazer sua parede Touch  usando as mesmas configurações com leves modificações

por enquanto é isso até a próxima

créditos ao amigo nebulosa do saber

Terinspirasi oleh tulisan mas dedy yang saya baca di facebook, walaupun ubuntu yang saya gunakan bukan versi terbaru, saya menggunakan Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron. Setelah menjelajah web dengan bantuan Google akhirnya nemu juga caranya.

Let’s  Rock…:

1. Lakukan backup xorg.conf dengan perintah berikut pada terminal (Application->Accecories->Terminal):

sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf  /etc/X11/xorg.conf.bak

2. Selanjutnya kita edit xorg.conf dengan perintah berikut dari terminal

sudo gedit /etc/x11/xorg.conf

3. Cari bagian Input device dengan Identifier “Synaptics Touchpad” dan tambahkan baris berikut sebelum EndSection

Sehingga bagian tersebut menjadi seperti :

Section “InputDevice”

Identifier “Synaptics Touchpad”

Driver “synaptics”

Option “SendCoreEvents” “true”

Option “Device” “/dev/psaux”

Option “Protocol” “auto-dev”

Option “HorizEdgeScroll” “0″

Option “SHMConfig” “on”

Option “VertTwoFingerScroll” “true”

Option “HorizTwoFingerScroll” “true”

EndSection

4. Tutup dan simpan perubahan pada berkas x.org tersebut.

5. Selanjut untuk pengaturan secara grafis (GUI) instal gsynaptic

6. Restart X Server dengan logoff (Ctrl+Alt+BackSpace) atau Restart MacBook Anda.

7. Setelah MacBook Anda dimuat ulang (restart) silahkan lihat pada menu System->Preferensi->Mouse tab Touchpad.

8. Lakukan aktivasi vertikal dan Horizontal scrolling. Uji coba dengan kedua jari Anda pada touchpad Macbook Anda.

~~~ Semoga Bermanfaat ~~~

以下的方法在ubuntu9.04驗證可行。

1. 先開啟SHMConfig功能。
編輯設定檔:

sudo gedit /etc/hal/fdi/policy/shmconfig.fdi

輸入下面的設定:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
  <device>
    <match key="input.x11_driver" string="synaptics">
      <merge key="input.x11_options.SHMConfig" type="string">on</merge>
    </match>
  </device>
</deviceinfo>

2. 重新啟動ubuntu。

3. 接下來就可以使用synclient指令開關touchpad了。
這一段bash script可以toggle touchpad:

# toggle synaptic touchpad on/off

# get current state
SYNSTATE=$(synclient -l | grep TouchpadOff | awk '{ print $3 }')

# change to other state
if [ $SYNSTATE = 0 ]; then
    synclient touchpadoff=1
elif [ $SYNSTATE = 1 ]; then
    synclient touchpadoff=0
else
    echo "Couldn't get touchpad status from synclient"
    exit 1
fi
exit 0

參考文章:

• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticsTouchpad
• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticsTouchpad/ShortcutKey

I don’t know if it’s just me but there are these days in an week where I tend to worry so much that my productivity drops to near-stagnation. Just nothing seems to happen other than a tense me appearing tense. Anyway, I’m just recovering from a somewhat unhappy experience with my Karmic Beta installation on my laptop. Yes, it’s another ooh-nareshov-does-another-distro-shift post. And here’s what happened.

First, I get a call from Vadiraj on a Wednesday morning, out of the blue, from Goa. Apparently, his friend and he planned a noon-trip to this place just to score something that’s allegedly only available there (in India, i.e.). He wanted me to do a quick Google to give him some pointers. Unsuspend my laptop, I did. To connect to the internet through my USB modem, it failed. No matter what I tried – wvdial, pppd, NetworkManager – I couldn’t connect. And I went on a reboot-and-try spree. No luck. All that happened was me end up with a laptop that’d get stuck at boot trying to fsck my filesystem. Enraged, I was.

I reach office and start moving my stuff off of my laptop preparing for a fresh-install. Of, *shudder*, Arch Linux. Installation was pretty straight forward. But I didn’t really enjoy it as much I did Gentoo or FreeBSD. Not to mention all that sorcery trying to get my USB modem to work being unsuccessful. (At some point I had udev identifying my device as a CDMA modem and hal identify it as a GSM modem).

That night, no internet. The next day, installed Debian testing. But I had the same darned problem of being unable to tap my touchpad to click on, you know, things. The GNOME which Debian-testing featured didn’t have that tab under System > Preferences > Mouse where I could enable “Tap to click”. A quick Google suggested the use of GSynaptics – which had a “Tapping” tab where I promptly enabled “Enable Tapping” and had my Aha-moment.

Phew.

Oh, and, today I get a pay-your-internet-bill reminder. And I did it within minutes of seeing this. And here I am, about seven hours after I did that and back from a pretty decent string chamber orchestra organised by the Bangalore School of Music for raising funds for the Karnataka-floods relief, blogging about why my USB modem wasn’t working and the things I did in the past few days.

And regarding my worries. Wanda the Fish, the fortune teller had this to say:

First thing Wanda, the fortune teller, said.

P.S.: That was my first click on the Wanda-the-Fish GNOME applet after installing fortune-mod earlier today.

P.P.S.: On the upside, I got a chance to do a fresh ext4 install after all this.

Auch das weiße MacBook wurde erneuert. Es hat jetzt ein Polycarbonat Unibody Gehäuse und wie die MacBook Pro´s ein Multitouch- Trackpad.

Das Display verfügt nun über eine LED Hintergrundbeleuchtung und der Akku hält bis zu 7 Stunden. Der FireWire 400 Port fällt weg und Preis liegt unverändert bei 899,00 €.

Update: Erste Unboxing Fotos gibts bei Engadget

Recently, the demo video below demonstrating how a multitouch interface may work as a mouse replacement has recently been making the rounds on the net and it seems that people think it’s cool.  It’s a well made video, and it highlights to me how badly the open source geek community communicates good ideas that it has.

1. For the left and right parts of the touchpad for global buttons – we can do this now with corner buttons on laptop trackpads.  Or just dedicate some special keys to these.  Nothing new, but again, presentation matters.
2. Nothing really requires two hands or a lot of space – seems to be a bit of a waste of such a large touch surface.
3. Being able to detect hovering keys is a cool hardware feature, but it doesn’t seem to be used to great effect in the video other than showing you where your fingers are.  Can we do more with context?
4. The video places the keyboard in what looks like a secondary position.  I personally like the layout of laptops with a large but easily accessible multitouch trackpad.  This lets me easily use either the keyboard or the touchpad.  I’d like this on the desktop and have looked at a few options, but without software support and without the ability to test out key feel, I haven’t actually taken the plunge.
5. This reminds me a lot of the Palm Pre’s window manager.
6. The zoomed out view still doesn’t seem good enough when users have more than a handful of apps/windows open.  Grouping by app/task maybe should emphasize the division between groupings and do some Mac OSX Dock-like zooming.
7. The window manager idea may be good for new users who are bewildered by having too many windows.  Power users will have a tough time though. Being able to use 2d space on a large monitor is imporatant for many people.  Also, customization of one’s personal working space is important.  For example, having a docked sidebar for a contacts list is fairly common.  In the more geeky linux world, there’s recently been a growth of users using tiling window managers which still can be 2d, but also simplify window arrangement.  I tried to find a link to interesting dwm/wmii/awesomewm/xmonad videos, but I most of the demos aren’t very interesting unless you’re pretty geeky.  Is it so hard to demo a tiling window manager without showing a bunch of terminals?
8. It’s funny to me how the demo starts at the desktop, but just like in the real world, it quickly gets obscured by apps and is never seen again.

10/GUI from C. Miller on Vimeo.

http://www.resourcesforlife.com/docs/item2156

Jak powszechnie wiadomo często pisząc coś przypadkiem klikniemy gdzieś przez oparcie ręki o touchpada. Na szczęście przed pisaniem kilometrowych wypocin można touchpad wyłączyć dzięki synclient. Jest to program który manipuluje ustawieniami synaptics. Jednak aby miał on dostęp do tych ustawień w sekcji InputDevice dla touchpada w xorg.conf należy dopisać:

Option      ”SHMConfig”   “on”

Ewentualnie jeśli korzystamy z HAL’a do ustawienia touchpada – plik /etc/hal/fdi/policy/11-x11-synaptics.fdi i linijka:

<merge key=”input.x11_options.SHMConfig” type=”string”>on</merge>

synclient opcja=wartość

synclient TouchpadOff=1

#!/bin/bash

state=`synclient -l | grep TouchpadOff | awk ‘{printf $3}’`

if [ $state = 1 ]; then

synclient TouchpadOff=O

elif [ $state = 0 ]; then

synclient TouchpadOff=1

fi

W sieci pojawił się nowy produkt, który z pewnością ucieszy nie tylko miłośników kina domowego odtwarzanego przez komputer.

Kształtem przypominająca palmtopa, zdalna klawiatura mieści się z łatwością w dłoni, pomimo iż posiada klawiaturę QWERTY oraz touchpad w miejscu, gdzie można było spodziewać się ekranu LCD. Odległość, w jakiej urządzenie może działać od komputera, to maksymalnie 10 metrów. Urządzenie posiada podświetlane przyciski i jest dostępna w dwóch kolorach: czarnym i białym. Działa zarówno z systemami Windows, linux, jak i Mac OS – wymagany jest tylko wolny port USB do podłączenia odbiornika RF.

Nowa klawiatura, jak zapewnia producent, z powodzeniem zastąpi tradycyjną klawiaturę komputera wszędzie tam, gdzie użytkownik jest oddalony od jednostki centralnej lub musi byc w ciągłym ruchu (np. podczas prezentacji).

Cena urządzenia wynosi 40 dolarów i nie wydaje się zbyt wygórowana, nawet po dodaniu kolejnych pięciu za przesyłkę.

Para aqueles usuários de Ubuntu como eu que logo que foi lançada a versão Beta do Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic e não aguentou esperar e já foi desesperado para baixar a ISO e instalar na sua máquina para ver as novidades e como eu se deparou com o problema do seu touchpad do notebook não funcionar ou funcionou parcialmente, você movimenta mouse pela touchpad mas o famoso click com toque de dedo no touchpad não funcionou ai você esperou fazer todas atualizações de kernel e muitos outros pacotes com a esperança que o bug tenha sido corrigido no final reiniciou e pensou pronto agora sim irá funcionar ai quando chega no gdm para a escolha de usuário ele funciona e você pensa legal mas na hora que entra na sua conta.. cade ?  Já não funciona mais o “click de dedo”  então aqui está a simples solução.

1 – Vá até Sistema – Preferências – Mouse

2 – Vá até a aba TouchPad e selecione – “Habilitar cliques do mouse com touchpad” e pronto resolvido e se preferir habilite também a opção “Desabilitar touchpad enquanto digita” assim não corre perigo de clicar ou movimentar mouse acidentalmente enquanto digite um texto.

Syndaemon es uno de esos programas de gran utilidad pero que casi nadie conoce, y que nos permite desactivar el touchpad de nuestro portatil o notebook, en el momento en que empezamos a escribir.
Con él, conseguiremos evitar el molesto hecho frecuente de escribir en otra parte del texto por haber pulsado sin querer el touchpad.

Premisas:
Debe existir –>  SHMConfig “on”   <– en la configuracion de  XOrg (/etc/X11/xorg.conf)

Ejecución o carga básica del programa: (suele venir ya integrada con las distribuciones mas populares)

• $ syndaemon

La salida por pantalla nos mostrará cuando se activa o desactiva (enable / disable) el touchpad.

Algunas opciones utiles:
-t   : solo desactiva la pulsación (tapping) y el scroll, no desactiva el movimiento.
-d  : carga el programa en segundo plano.
-i   : Tiempo en segundos que tiene que tocarse el touchpad para volver a activarse (por defecto 2 segundos).

Podemos agregarlo al inicio automatico de gnome:

• Sistema > Preferencias > Aplicaciones al inicio > Añadir :  syndaemon -d -t -i 1

Sitter med datorn i knäet och funderar vad jag ska hitta på. Inget av värde på tv så det går bort. Sätta igång en film går även det bort då jag inte tror att jag orkar se hela. Var ju uppe först av alla imorse. Får väl kanske fortsätta att surfa runt på lite randomsidor.

Har btw installerat Googles webbläsare Chrome och efter att ha använt den i några timmar kan jag bara säga att jag gillar den. Riktigt snabb och smidig jämfört med Firefox som jag upplever gå väldigt segt. Chrome har dessutom iaf några av de funktioner som jag gärna vill ha. Dock saknas det fortfarande en del vad gäller alternativ och add-on’s som Firefox kan stoltsera med. Verkar dock vara på gång möjligheter för add-on:s så man får väl invänta och se. Ska testköra denna webbläsare ett tag på samma sätt som jag testade Safari 4. Den webbläseran gick dock inte hem helt och hållet hos mig. Tror Chrome har större möjligheter att klara sig.

En sak jag gillar är hur man i adressfältet snabbt inte kan söka inte bara via Google utan och via vilka sökmotorer man själv väljer att lägga till. Detta genom att först skriva ett bestämt ord beroende på vilken sökmotor man vill använda. Säg att man snabbt vill kolla upp ett mobilnummer på Eniro.se. I adressfältet skriver jag då: “eniro [tab] mobilnumret” och trycker Enter. Vips hoppar resultatet fram. Riktigt smidigt.

Ett stort minus är dock att man får scrolla ihjäl sig när man ska zooma in och ut i FarmVille. Funkar någorlunda när man använder mus, men med touchpaden är det riktigt illa. Ska detta sänka Chrome!?

Humm… man kanske skulle ta å sparka igång ett Vänner-avsnitt? Det var länge sen sist.

Oggi ho aggiornato il sistema e gsynaptics non si è più avviato.
Ho risolto cambiando in questa riga l’opzione di shmconfig, da true a on:

[~] diff /etc/hal/fdi/policy/11-x11-synaptics.fdi_old
/etc/hal/fdi/policy/11-x11-synaptics.fdi

43c43
<     <merge key="input.x11_options.SHMConfig" type="string">True</merge>
---
>     <merge key="input.x11_options.shmconfig" type="string">on</merge>[~]

On Friday last week I happened to upgrade certain packages on my erstwhile Jaunty installation on my laptop. For some strange reason my touchpad ceased to work. I couldn’t move the mouse pointer. I couldn’t even get onto good ole’ Google because I couldn’t click on NetworkManager and select the radio button next to my CDMA USB modem entry!

The next day I issued a ‘do-release-upgrade’ and headed out to watch Tarantino’s “Inglorious Basterds” with Debayan and Vignesh. After I returned there was still an hour to go and so I continued to bootstrap my Debian-armel on the SD card for the Beagle board. And when it was all over, I had Karmic!

So, the touchpad worked now. Somewhat. I couldn’t tap on the touchpad to click on things like the menubar entries and so on. Turns out that Systems > Preferences > Mouse > Touchpad has a button which says “Enable mouse clicks with touchpad” disabled by default. I, on the other hand, could make my way through up to this point with the keyboard alone and enabled it. Phew.

The improvements from Jaunty are, as expected, quite a lot. And visibly so.

Take the shiny new 2.6.31 kernel, for example. It boots fast. And supports kernel mode setting for the revamped X. The improvements are so obvious that you can’t afford to not say “wow”. I haven’t done the “full-screen flash video” test yet, but I do like the snappiness when I switch between virtual consoles and X. Once again, I can live with the minimal compiz that’s turned on by default on an Ubuntu installation. Oh, and I did have another oh-that’s-new moment with the volume control. It doesn’t look like the old one but it does look like an incomplete version of the Windows 7-style volume manager. I couldn’t find a way to mute my laptop speakers and let all sound be audible only via my earphones. Thankfully, alsamixer works.

UPDATE: It turns out that selecting “Analog Headphones” under Sound Preferences > Output does the trick.

So far so good. Upgrading moar. Oh, and don’t forget ‘do-release-upgrade -d’ in a screen session. Also, E17 looks kickass.