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Palm Pre “Novacom Not Running” error on Mac OS X

Update:
A permanent solution has been written up by Nicholas Cancelliere at ozmox.com, check it out!

After freshly installing the Palm Pre SDK on my Mac today, I was greeted with the following warning:

Novacom Error

In order to install or debug applications in the Palm Emulator, the novacom service must be running on your desktop.

Please verify that you have the latest Palm SDK installed correctly.

Can’t say I was terribly impressed.  I ended up ignoring this message, only to find out that when I tried to install the Hello World application on the emulator, I hit a bit of a snag:

Install problems

palm-install: Connection refused

Turns out there’s a quick fix for this.  You just have to start novacom from the command line.

sudo /opt/nova/bin/novacomd
Start up novacom

Rerun the install script again and bam! We’ve got a working Hello World app.

 

It works!

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Find My iPhone == Awesome

A while back when MobileMe first came out I took advantage of their 60-day free trial.  I wasn’t a fan.  At the time I only had an iPod Touch and a Macbook Pro, so there wasn’t exactly a whole lot of data synchronization necessary.

But things have changed.

Now with the launch of 3.0 and my purchase of an iPhone last September I’ve finally found a reason to use MobileMe.  Find My iPhone.

I stumbled upon this article while reading the upcoming articles at Digg.  For those who don’t want to read the link, the basic gist of it is a high-tech chase down the streets of Chicago involving three Lego-crazed guys and the search for a stolen iPhone.  It’s really damn cool.

So I dashed over to MobileMe and signed up for another free trial to give this thing a whirl.  After a minimal signup and some minor iPhone account settings, I had my iPhone hooked up to my Mobile Me account (featherless).  I can now see exactly where my iPhone is at all times on a handy little Google Map widget.  Amazing.

But there’s more! You can now send messages to your iPhone.  These aren’t plain-ol’ text messages, these things can pack a punch.

Step 1 - The instructions

Step 1 - The instructions

Step 2

Step 2 - Make some noise?

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iPhone Development Days

For the past two or three weeks I have been immersing myself in iPhone development in an effort to launch an app for the 3.0 release.
My first app is a result of me starting to play FFXI again and getting remarkably frustrated with the Auction House system.  The app allows you to search through the [...]

The Sixty One

Since signing up for thesixtyone I’ve been obsessively finding any way to finish their “quests”. I’m like a kid who messes up his room just to have a way to convince his parents to take him out for ice cream.  Radio Surfing? Done. +10 rep, please.  Every time I open Safari and hit up thesixtyone [...]

Things

Alright.  It’s been almost a month since my last entry.  This is getting ridiculous.  When I need to do something I tend to postpone it not because I’m lazy, but because I’m too damn meticulous.  For example, every time I think to myself “I should write on TheJeffFiles today” I put the task off to [...]

Back to the Valley

Monday the 5th of January
Welcome to the World’s Social Graph
I met my housemates this morning; they’re a cool lot.  Jeremy’s a fellow CSer and Neil and Vinay are engineers.  They were all chilling downstairs in the living room on their laptops, probably checking the directions to work.  We hit the pavement at 9AM to head [...]