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Version 2 of the NMA app is live!

April 6th, 2011 | iPhone, Releases | andrew.hawkins

The brand new ‘New Media Age’ app for the Apple iPhone is now available for download from the iTunes App Store.

NMA iPhone App

 The app builds on the success of the original NMA app that was launched last year, and includes these great new features: 

- All content is fully available offline, allowing you to read news and opinion even when you don’t have a connection to the Internet.
- Share articles with your friends across key social networks such as email, Facebook and Twitter.
- Read the latest from Gadfly.
- A complete UI re-design.

You can download it from the link below:

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/new-media-age/id340427952?mt=8

The app takes full advantage of Skinkers’ products and technologies, including the ‘Application Accelerator’ product and ‘Content Services’ cloud service.

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Skinkers release TouchSwipe jQuery plugin for iPad, iPhone and Android.

February 11th, 2011 | Android, Apple, iOS, iPad, iPhone, JavaScript, jQuery | Matt Bryson

Skinkers’ TouchSwipe jQuery plugin enables the detection of swipe gestures on touch based devices.

Features

  • Detects swipes in 4 directions, “up”, “down”, “left” and “right”
  • Supports single finger or double finger touch events
  • Supports click as well as swipe
  • Definable threshold to determin when a gesture is actually a swipe
  • Events triggered for swipe “start”,”move”,”end” and “cancel”
  • End event can be triggered either on touch release, or as soon as threshold is met
  • Allows swiping and page scrolling

Download the plugin at :
http://plugins.jquery.com/project/touchSwipe

Demos and docs at:
http://labs.skinkers.com/touchSwipe/

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How to set up Zabbix to send push notifications to your iPhone

December 8th, 2010 | iPhone, Linux, Tech | Max Sanna

If you already use Zabbix, you probably love the way it handles management, monitoring and charting like no other solution out there. Since I started using it I got rid of so many old tools, such as Nagios, Cacti, Munin, etc. and I do everything from my Zabbix interface.

A cool thing you can do to get important notifications the “2010 way”, though, is to get rid of expensive SMS services and use your iPhone to get nifty push notifications sent to it in case of problems. And here’s how to do it.
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