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Exactly a month after I purchased my iPhone I recieve an e-mail from Best Buy’s Rewardszone membership with this insane deal on the iPhone for those who are Premier Silver members since last year. In order to get the Premier Member status you have to spend over $2,500 in Best Buy stores but if you have their Mastercard you can qualify by spending that same money anywhere. If only I knew they would have this crazy deal I would have waited a month and gotten $100 discount, oh well im still happy with my new iPhone. Hopefully there will be better offers than this later this year.

Today I was playing around with a few php scripts that I’ve been writing to automate a couple of things on another web host. I also wanted to test them out and see them live before I uploaded them onto  my web space. I could have easily just ran MAMP on my computer and just got around the obstacle that way but I’d figure that OS X comes pre-installed with Apache and PHP and might as well make use of it. I made a quick search and came across the FoundationPHP book site which details on how to do this as well as shows images of the process and basically just simplifies it as best as possible.

Enabling PHP and Apache in Leopard

I was browsing twitter today and came across Kevin Rose’s post of this video and just found it awesome and hilarious all at the same time.

I’m trying to keep with my New Years resolutions this year. One of them being, working on my Japanese reading and writing skills, unfortunately I can’t work on my speaking skills all too well because I don’t have anyone Japanese to speak to. So I’ve been going over some Kana and Kanji flash cards and trying to translate and read some basic japanese books. I’ve started with the iPhone app Hiragana Lite and Kotoba!

It’s the free versions of the software but so far so good. I just need to work harder on my writing skills as I haven’t really practiced much at all. Learning a new language can be pretty frustrating at times especially while self studying. I still plan on sometime taking a class here or a series of courses in Japan.

What can probably be done in order to complete this whole Sync circle of services that I have going is possibly set up Google Sync on my iPhone, then once all my contacts have been cleared is sync my iPhone with my Mac’s Address Book.app and if all goes well I will have my Plaxo contacts in Sync with my iPhone and from my iPhone have my Gmail contacts Synchronized as well and therefore closing that circle that Plaxo can’t do because Gmail Contacts are only Uni-Directional Sync with Plaxo. Holy smokes that was a mouthful. In any case, I have not yet tried this connecting this chain of services yet and will keep posted on it.

Yesterday I experimented with what I had mentioned on my blog post on trying to get a complete circle of sync complete but unfortunately I found out right after I posted my idea that it was not a valid one. Once after I had set up Google Sync on my iPhone I was no longer able to sync my address book or calendar using the iTunes sync because Google sync works with the MS Exchange protocol. There are various other work arounds to get it all working together but unfortunately they either require you to do some hacking on your mac, or that you use an additional software to get the sync done.

In order to do this you will need to buy Spanning Sync and set it up to sync with GMail, or you can use the hack to fool your mac into thinking it has a iPhone plugged in. I have already tried setting up the sync using the MS Exchange option on the Address Book preferences pane with the Google Sync settings but unfortunately that didn’t work out. I guess ill just have to settle with doing a little bit of hacking on you mac and let Plaxo do the rest.