In a follow up from my recent release of an API to Three mobile’s new web texts, I decided
to make an accessible interface for myself.

Being a Mac user, the quickest way to make this happen was through the dashboard. It’s terribly basic right now, with only two hours or so put into it so far, but it’s very usable.

You can get it from my releases directory.

Currently on my iMac I have a couple of external disks attached that I want to share to the rest of my house. The problem though is that when sharing through Samba I can’t make the shares read only, OS X pretends to accept the permissions change in preferences > sharing, but just changes it right back. After a little bit of poking I’ve got read only shares working.

Open a terminal and replacing {sharename} with the name of the share you set up in Preferences, type:
sudo nano /var/samba/shares/{sharename}

Now append the following line to the end of the file and hit ctrl-o to save.
read only = yes

Finally, reload the Samba config files using this:
sudo /usr/sbin/smbd reload

I’m sure you’ve all heard about the new iPhone by now, with 3G and GPS built in it’s finally a phone I want. It’s going to be available in Ireland through O2 costing €169 on their lowest plan (€49/m) and will be in shops on the 11th of July. The full price plans are as follows:

I didn’t understand the hype of the first iPhone release, but they certainly have me caught up this time.