In a recent post by me a reader left some informative information about the scam sites that I have written about in the past. You might have seen my posts warning you about the websites called bid4that and Vuulu. I told you that these sites popped up and then vanished a few days later stealing money from the end users. They would allow you to buy bids and use them to bid on products however the winning bidder was never sent the product. Instead the winning bidder would be refunded for their bids. You might still be asking how are they stealing if they are refunding the winners bids? How about all of those who bid on the item without winning? They paid for the bids and the site owners reaped profits.

Bid4That did not last too long maybe a week and Vuulu lasted only a few days. I am really wondering how long this new site Muulu will last. I STRONGLY ADVISE ANYONE READING THIS NOT TO FALL FOR THIS SCAM! You will be throwing money away and will never receive the products from the site.

If you have been caught up by any of these scams please let everyone know in the comments. Don’t be afraid even though the site owner has made death threats to people in the past. There are plenty of other sites out there which talk about Muulu so read them and make your own decisions. Before you make the final decision read this post which includes a chat transcript with the site owner.

In Part 1 of this tutorial we created the base for our application. It consisted of a static list that was displayed when the application was launched.

At the end of Part 1 you were able to build the application and tap on any of the items which would push another scene. In Part 2 of this tutorial we are going to focus on using a cookie as a data source for our list. We will build a list that will display a list based on a cookie’s contents.

When you tap on a list item you will be taken to another scene where you will be able to change the title for the list item and it will be retained in a cookie. I did find an issue with cookies on the emulator and device. There is a known bug that cookies will retain on the emulator and device even after the application is removed. To learn more about this issue and cookies I suggest you read the Working with Cookies tutorial.

We will be continuing with the code that we created in Part 1 so open that application up. We will first be creating a model object that we will use to interact with the Mojo cookie stuff. In your application create the folder /app/lib/ and then create a new file named WBCookie.js and put it in your newly created lib folder. Now you will also have to update your sources.json so that Mojo will know where to find this file. Be sure that your sources.json file looks like the code below.

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I received an email today and I thought the contents were rather funny. You can see part of the contents below.

Greetings!

First of all, we’ve switched over to a new email delivery provider. In theory, we copied all your preferences over successfully. If you didn’t get this email, and should have, please visit your profile and re-check the appropriate box. And vice-versa as well, with our apologies in both cases.

What’s so funny about that? Well If you were not able to get the message how would you even see that message Why would they state that in an email that you may not get? What are you going to be able to do if you don’t get the message… You won’t even know that you should visit your profile and check appropriate boxes.

Nothing against the company who sent this out it made me laugh and for that I thank you!

You might have seen my previous post titled Call For Help where I told you how I broke one of the retainer keys on my DiNovo Edge keyboard. After days of searching for the retainer clip on-line I was about to give up as it seemed like no one had the darn piece. I had sent out a lot of emails and questions via Ebay and got a quick response from oc_laptops. They asked me if I could send them some photos of what the clip looked like. They stated that they had over 100 different types of these retainer clips. It seemed hopeful that they would have the retainer clip as they carried so many of them. About a day later they emailed me back with a photo of the exact retainer clip except it was white not black. I quickly ordered one and they shipped it rather quick.

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At the request of a reader this next tutorial will cover Mojo Lists however it will get quite long so I have decided to break it into smaller parts.

Part 1 (This section) will deal with setting up a static list.
Part 2 will show how to use a cookie as a data source.
Part 3 will be some restructuring of the code
Part 4 will show how to use the depot as a data source.
Part 5 will show how to use an Sqlite database as the source.
Source Code will be posted for download after the series is complete.

On our main scene we are going to show a static list of items. This means that we are going to use an array of elements which will never change over the lifetime of the application. The list item data will be specified by us and not fetched from any data source. The main list will give you options to choose from such as using a Cookie, Depot or Sqlite for the data source. When you tap on one of these options another scene will be displayed that will actually load another list. The data that populates these lists will come from the data source that you specified. This should give you the ability to write your own lists using any data source that you see fit.

The very first thing that you need to do is create a new WebOS application and add a new scene to it called main. Now that we have the main scene created we need to alter our stage-controller.js so that it actually pushes the main-scene on startup. Open the file and make the code look like this.

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I am not sure if you have ever heard of the company called Targus but if you own a laptop I am sure you have. They tell everyone that they are the global leader in laptop bags when you call their support line, you can also see it on their about page. About 7 months ago I dropped $60 on a new targus backpack for going to and from work with all of my gear. I made it a point not to buy the cheapest bag as I have had some horrible experiences when I have bought the cheapest items. About a month ago the seam along the zipper on the bag started to let loose a bit. I dealt with it for a while and now even when the bag is zipped you can still get the laptop, books, etc out of the bag without having to unzip it.

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I am not sure if you have ever heard of the company called Targus but if you own a laptop I am sure you have. They tell everyone that they are the global leader in laptop bags when you call their support line, you can also see it on their about page. About 7 months ago I dropped $60 on a new targus backpack for going to and from work with all of my gear. I made it a point not to buy the cheapest bag as I have had some horrible experiences when I have bought the cheapest items. About a month ago the seam along the zipper on the bag started to let loose a bit. I dealt with it for a while and now even when the bag is zipped you can still get the laptop, books, etc out of the bag without having to unzip it.

I emailed Targus support about 2 weeks ago and never heard a response back from them. Today I decided to call into support to see what I had to do in order to get this bag replaced. The woman I spoke with told me they would replace the bag however I had to send my bag in before they would send out a replacement. This is understandable however I cannot do that because I use the bag every day to go to and from work. Without a bag I would have a hard time getting all of my stuff to work with me. I asked if I could provide a credit card to them and have them ship me the new bag and if I did not return the defective bag they would have my card to charge for the amount of the bag. This is how most companies I have dealt with work when it comes to having to replace items. The woman continued to argue with me telling me that there was nothing else that could be done. When I asked her what I was supposed to use to get my stuff to and from work her answer shocked me. She said “I guess you will have to go buy a bag and when you get the new one from us, return the one you bought.” That is a bit too unethical for me and I could not believe that a company would tell someone to do something like that. I requested to speak to her supervisor and she said there was not one available. Oddly enough after insisting I speak to a supervisor she got me on the phone with a gentleman by the name of Gary Carver. He also insisted that there was nothing that could be done about this situation. I have to send my bag in before they will replace it.

While I understand their point they need to understand that if you buy a bag you cannot go without it otherwise why buy the bag in the first place? They are dealing with a product that is heavily used by a lot of people and to leave their customers hanging like this does not award them good PR. Tonight I went out and bought a new Swiss Army bag and when I get the replacement from Targus I will rid myself of it and never buy another Targus product.

On a side note someone should tell Targus that ASP 3.0 is so 1990’s and they need to get with the times.