Author Archives: Robert

How to sync your iPhone with MULTIPLE google calendars

Here’s one that took me ages and ages to work out, so I hope you find it helpful. When I first set up my google calendar on my iPhone, only one google calendar was being shown. I use my google calendar at work, my colleagues share their calendars with me and we all know who’s [...]

Plupload: Uploads for everyone

Maybe this is old news to some of you, if so I apologize, but I just stumbled across this.
Plupload, by the developers of the popular html text editor TinyMCE, allows you to upload files using HTML5 Gears, Silverlight, Flash, BrowserPlus or normal forms, providing some unique features such as upload progress, image resizing and chunked [...]

Testing popup

Here’s another approach, not quite as integrated but a bigger viewable space. Also cool.
Robert’s personal meeting room
Start time: 24. August 2010, 14:15 GMT+2
Duration: 60 mins
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iframe test

This is a test of embedding our new OnSync app into websites. Pretty cool to be able to embed a meeting room directly on a website, don’t you think?

Baby steps. The first week with my new site.

Ok, so here’s an update on how the site http://www.thebestburgerinbarcelona.com is going and some things I did to it. Read my previous post to see what it’s all about.
I found a cool plugin called Sexy Bookmarks. It inserts these nicely styled buttons I have at the bottom of every page allowing people to tweet, facebook, digg, [...]

The best burger in Barcelona.com

Ok, so I’m trying a little experiment. Check it out here:
http://www.thebestburgerinbarcelona.com
If you have not worked it out from the URL, its a ranking page of the best burgers I can find in Barcelona. I truly believe burgers are like one of the cornerstones of our society and I’ve decided to turn this passion of mine [...]

Apple’s web designer

Here’s something I always wanted to know: Who designed apple’s website?
Today I came across this information by chance, while researching on skinning flex components (the results of this research will be another post).
So, turns out the guy is called Jason Wilson and you can check out his rather impressive porfolio here: http://wilson.tv/

Happy New Year 2009

It’s been over a year since my last post and almost exactly 3 years since I launched this blog on 31.12.2005.
I have just upgraded to Worpress 2.7 which has a much more powerful admin than 2.0 which I was using previously. I’m still experimenting with some themes so don’t be suprised if the pages look [...]

New blog about how to make money with a blog

My friend David has started a new blog, in spanish, about how to make money with a blog. It’s only a couple of days old and he’s already added loads of useful information about how to get started, choose the right topic, quality assure your content, target the right audience, driving traffic to your site, [...]

Make VoIP telephone calls straight from your Flex app

“The Ribbit Phone Component will give Rich internet application developers the ability to make and receive calls, record/send and receive voicemail, as well as add and manage contacts.”
http://developer.ribbitphone.com/
This sounds exciting, I have not tried this yet but if this component keeps what it promises it could have an immense impact on the way people communicate. [...]