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		<title>Is vodacom billing correctly for 3G?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ismail Dhorat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been using my vodacom 3g data bundle for about a month now. I use the modem with cheetahwatch a great application for mac, that adds a signal strength icon in your menubar. I was finally cut off for having hit my 2g cap yesterday, but cheetahwatch showed i had used in excess of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="drop">I</span> have been using my <a href="http://www.vodacom.co.za/services/mobile_data/vodacom_what.jsp">vodacom 3g data bundle</a> for about a month now. I use the modem with <a href="http://m.ac.nz/cheetahwatch/">cheetahwatch</a> a great application for mac, that adds a signal strength icon in your menubar. I was finally cut off for having hit my 2g cap yesterday, but cheetahwatch showed i had used in excess of 3 GB.</p>
<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JjS8o7VdXUs/SKU-qGlDWRI/AAAAAAAAAKI/ifw5GgSi-Qs/s1600-h/cheetah-vodacom.png"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JjS8o7VdXUs/SKU-qGlDWRI/AAAAAAAAAKI/ifw5GgSi-Qs/s400/cheetah-vodacom.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5234659034929518866" border="0" /></a></div>
<p>Now, this is interesting to me as for the last two years i have been doing some <a href="http://www.du.ae/">consulting work</a> related to revenue assurance.</p>
<p>Looking at the logging done by the vodaphone application that comes bundled with the modem, you find a descrepency as it shows a total of 2GB.</p>
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<p>So either, cheetah watch is logging data usage incorrectly or Vodacom is not charging data bundles correctly.</p>
<p>Anyone out there using vodacom / vodaphone 3g data connection and cheetahwatch notice the same thing?</p>
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		<title>Create a desktop app for muti.co.za</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ismail Dhorat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been using a desktop app based on fluid and the iphone twitter client hahlo to access twitter. Fluid is a SSB (site specific browser) that converts a site to a native mac application, that you can add to the doc/menu bar, it even allows for dock badges(Those little numbers that show new messages). [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="drop">I</span> have been using a desktop app based on <a href="http://fluidapp.com/">fluid</a> and the iphone twitter client <a href="http://hahlo.com/">hahlo</a> to access twitter. Fluid is a SSB (site specific browser) that converts a site to a native mac application, that you can add to the doc/menu bar, it even allows for dock badges(Those little numbers that show new messages). This is slightly different from Adobe Air and Microsoft Silverlight in that it uses nothing &#8216;new&#8217; other then current open internet technologies. I created one for <a href="http://www.muti.co.za">muti</a> as well, it may be of use to others out there so here are the instructions.</p>
<p>* Note these instructions are for mac, for windows replace fluid with mozilla&#8217;s prism, the same script should work on prism / firefox as well.</p>
<p>1. <a href="http://fluidapp.com/dist/Fluid_0.9.2.3.zip">Download and install fluid</a>  &#8211; Instructions and details at the <a href="http://fluidapp.com/">Fluid website</a></p>
<p>2. Run fluid, and fill in the details like the screenshot below:<br />URL: <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">http://www.muti.co.za/new</span><br />Name: <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">muti</span><br />Location: <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Applications</span></p>
<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_JjS8o7VdXUs/SHS94RqnMHI/AAAAAAAAAIY/Qx_YzN2aetw/s1600-h/Picture+1.png"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_JjS8o7VdXUs/SHS94RqnMHI/AAAAAAAAAIY/Qx_YzN2aetw/s400/Picture+1.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5221006642541703282" border="0" /></a></div>
<p>3. You can either choose to use the default website fav icon or a custom icon. I created a custom icon so it fits well in with the rest of the icons in the menubar. Feel free to use it<br />Rightclick and save as: <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_JjS8o7VdXUs/SHS6IFH2LOI/AAAAAAAAAIQ/T9vg_wJae9M/s1600-h/muti-icon2.png"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_JjS8o7VdXUs/SHS6IFH2LOI/AAAAAAAAAIQ/T9vg_wJae9M/s400/muti-icon2.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5221002516006055138" border="0" /></a></p>
<p>4. Click <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">&#8220;Create&#8221;</span>, fluid will work for a bit, then click <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">&#8220;launch now&#8221;</span></p>
<p>5. A new window will popup with the title muti, click on <span style="font-style: italic;">muti</span> in the menu bar  and then <span style="font-style: italic;">preferences</span> and select <span style="font-style: italic;">advanced</span>:<br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">muti > Preferences > Advanced</span></span></p>
<p>6. Under <span style="font-style: italic;">&#8220;Allow browsing to URL&#8217;s matching this pattern&#8221;</span>  change <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">www.muti.co.za/new</span> to <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">*muti.co.za*</span></p>
<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_JjS8o7VdXUs/SHTPHN9ohUI/AAAAAAAAAIo/xG76RDP917s/s1600-h/Picture+2.png"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_JjS8o7VdXUs/SHTPHN9ohUI/AAAAAAAAAIo/xG76RDP917s/s400/Picture+2.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5221025590943450434" border="0" /></a></div>
<p>7. Optional:<br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">muti > Preferences > Appearance : </span></span><span>you can change the window opacity<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span> <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">muti > Prefrences > General : </span>Tick<span style="font-style: italic;"> <span style="font-weight: bold;">open in the background</span></span> this opens all links clicked on muti in the background in your default browser.</p>
<p>8. Close the prefrences panel</p>
<p>9. In the muti window, logon with your username and password</p>
<p>10. With muti application still open, click the script icon: <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_JjS8o7VdXUs/SHTI9ISLmaI/AAAAAAAAAIg/zyTto1aZifw/s1600-h/script.png"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_JjS8o7VdXUs/SHTI9ISLmaI/AAAAAAAAAIg/zyTto1aZifw/s400/script.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5221018820550564258" border="0" /></a> and select <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">browse userscripts.org</span></p>
<p>11. In the new window that pops up, enter in &#8220;<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">muti</span>&#8221; in the search box and hit enter, click on the first option. This will take you to a page with a description of the script, feel free to look at the source code. The script can be found at: <a href="http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/29838">http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/29838</a></p>
<p>12. Click &#8220;<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Install Script</span>&#8221; , this will display the source code with an alert, Click <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Install</span></p>
<p>13. On the menubar click the script icon: <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_JjS8o7VdXUs/SHTI9ISLmaI/AAAAAAAAAIg/zyTto1aZifw/s1600-h/script.png"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_JjS8o7VdXUs/SHTI9ISLmaI/AAAAAAAAAIg/zyTto1aZifw/s400/script.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5221018820550564258" border="0" /></a> again, and confirm that <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">muti</span> is listed there with a tick next to it</p>
<p>14.  Close down the <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">userscripts.org</span> window</p>
<p>15.  Select <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">muti > Convert to menuextra SSB</span></p>
<p>16. All done, now you have a desktop app for muti that looks good in the small window of fluid and it should look like this:</p>
<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_JjS8o7VdXUs/SHTQBlqzkjI/AAAAAAAAAIw/RMhPzEvVN2M/s1600-h/muti-screen.png"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_JjS8o7VdXUs/SHTQBlqzkjI/AAAAAAAAAIw/RMhPzEvVN2M/s400/muti-screen.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5221026593739346482" border="0" /></a></p>
<p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_JjS8o7VdXUs/SHTQa90fGTI/AAAAAAAAAI4/KF2QDd9HsBY/s1600-h/muti-screen1.png"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_JjS8o7VdXUs/SHTQa90fGTI/AAAAAAAAAI4/KF2QDd9HsBY/s400/muti-screen1.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5221027029719128370" border="0" /></a></div>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Notes:</span><br />* Elements on the right side navigation bar on muti seems to be used for a lot of things like voting and logging in, since this was removed logging in will not work. Voting will still work since i catered for that in the java script. If for some reason you need to login again, deactivate the script, logon and reactivate it again.<br />* Windows users can use the same script, just replace fluid with <a href="http://wiki.mozilla.org/WebRunner">mozilla prism </a>(not tested)<br />* If you prefer the default page to be <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">hot</span> on step 2, just enter <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">http://www.muti.co.za</span> instead<br />* To refresh, right click and select reload<br />* Feel free to modify/customize the JS code<br />* Possible future features:<br />-Dock badge with the number of new submissions. Though this is not currently possible since there is no way to differentiate new items since the last refresh.<br />- Auto Refresh</p>
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