All about using the Mac in NTU, and hopefully an iPhone in the near future. General stuff for the general population as well as for the Computer Science nerds.

This should be interesting

Just got an email saying that the Director of Education Development wants to meet up with me to discuss the silly little app I made called edveNTUrous.

This should be interesting.

Incidentally, the app can be found here.

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Facebook Page for NTU Mac users

We’re on Facebook as well!

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Cleaned up the UI for edventurous. Refactored to target 10.5. Hit me up if you wanna test.

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So we all know NTU’s video lecture implementation for the Mac sucks. The slides don’t work and sometimes the video doesn’t even appear. I’ve been working on an app to help mitigate the problem.

edventurous is a pretty wrapper that takes the URL of the video lecture, parse it and dump the URL into a QuickTime movie player for viewing. You will need WMV Flip4Mac components to be able to actually view the video.

Will be releasing the app here in time to come when I’ve finished polishing the UI.

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iPhone configuration for NTU Mail

In case there are those that wish to configure their iPhone for NTU mail manually, the settings are as follows,

Email: (your email)
Server: webmail.ntu.edu.sg
Domain: student
Username (your username)
Password: (your password)
Use SSL: YES

Remember to select Exchange as the account type.

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Apps apps apps

Have some ideas for Apps that will run on the Mac to make life easier for NTU students. Ping me if you have ideas.

Will keep you guys updated.

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No Exchange 2007 Support

So I met up with CITS. Snow Leopard’s Mail won’t be seeing NTU’s mail servers for students as the servers are still currently at Exchange 2003.

Suffice to say, Mail will not work with your NTU mail.

However, CITS did mention that they are exploring some cloud hosted solutions that might get you IMAP access, but I suppose that’s something that hasn’t been firmed out yet.

For now, Entourage or Outlook Web Access is your only hope amongst other things.

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SL Exchange support update

Have an appointment with CITS this coming monday to help them test their implementation of Exchange 2007 to get it working with Snow Leopard.

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Snow Leopard Exchange 2007 support

Did my bid for the Mac community (if there is even one). Wrote in to helpdesk to volunteer my services to ensure their Exchange servers work well with Snow Leopard.

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Remember. Its LEAP authentication for NTUSECURE.

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