guess who just used POSLavu on Kitchen Nightmares? Gordon Ramsay!

What is KDS Lavu?

it’s the iPad Kitchen Display System

Kitchen Display System – POS Lavu supports kitchen display system that replaces your thermal print-outs. Having a wall mounted iPad, your kitchen staff can now refer to a iPad display, that shows “live” kitchen orders and close them when the order is completed.

Update: version 1.2 allows (see 2nd pic below, with the red ticks)

• Order items are now itemized
• Order items can now be ‘checked’ as complete
• performance enhancements & UI tweaks

Ask Kidotech for a demo today! it’s eco-friendly, 1-time cost and looks really cool!

Kidotech has been appointed the Singapore reseller for POSLavu – a really cool and flexible iPad POS system.

All you need for a POS is an iPad, printer and a cash drawer.

POSLavu has been specially designed for retail & restaurant , a simple affordable wireless point of sale system that can grow with your business.

so get in touch with us at poslavu  { at } kidotech.com today!

How does it work?

Edit: Works on iPad2 too!

Customer feedback are collected via wacom STU-500 signpad.

installation completed at Nokia Care Centre – VivoCity.

We were very much inspired by 37signal’s smiley project.

http://www.sencha.com/products/touch/

The First HTML5 Mobile Web App Framework.
Sencha Touch allows you to develop mobile web apps that look and feel native on iPhone and Android touch devices.

collection of links and reads on visual dashboards

Links:

1. http://mygengo.com/talk/blog/why-your-startup-needs-a-visual-dashboard/
2. http://www.dashboardtosuccess.com/
3. http://dashboard.kpilibrary.com/
4. http://www.atlassian.com/wallboards/

Examples of dashboards:

1. http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2550-smiley-an-app-in-24-hours
2. http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2774-smiley-goes-public-now-everyone-can-see-how-our-customers-feel-about-our-customer-support
3. http://www.panic.com/blog/2010/03/the-panic-status-board/
4. http://blogs.atlassian.com/developer/2010/06/wallboards_the_best_new_way_to_track_your_teams_progress.html

Do you have a Facebook fan page for your small business? or your product?

one of the most bizarre things that i see fan pages do (yes, even fan pages for major brands) is to set the “Default View for Wall” (see 2 in screenshot) to “Only Post by Page“. i think that completely defeats the purpose of facebook fan pages.

By setting “Only Post by Page”, all interaction by your fans, including valuable feedback…. gets censored. As a fan, i’m not gonna post something that doesn’t get displayed or doesn’t get read!

Explanation: Typically, there are 4 options for Wall Post. using MakanDeals as an example:

Option 2: Makes your facebook fan page, a 1-way communication channel.

So if you are admin for any fan pages, do an analysis of what you want to do with your facebook fan page.

Steps to feature “All Posts” on your Facebook Fan Page

1. Make sure, you are the admin for your fan page
2. Click on Settings (see 1 in screenshot)
3. Make sure “Default View for Wall” is set to “All Posts“
4. Get ready to clean up some spam!

Just received word from our office designer that our office design has been featured in the current issue of “Cubes” (in singapore) and here’s another magazine.

Google {“Thin office” Singapore}… our office is nicknamed “thin office”, i’m sure that is a future sign of things to happen… i might be getting thinner?

Look out for our in-house part-time models: Tzin & Teck (not thin)

for more details: go to sklim.com and check out the project details and blog entries

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Links

• here’s a link to blog on sklim.com for before & after photos. [link]
• pdf file to Cubes article
• architizer.com
• yatzer.com
• framemag.com
• archdaily.com
• designboom.com
• lsnglobal.com
• coolboom.net
• decoist.com
• behind the scenes “Work in progress” pics [link]

Update: the interesting part is reading user comments.. -bt

Update: 2: added photo of article in Cubes Magazine.

Java Library for registration and authentication through Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter and other Open ID providers

http://code.google.com/p/socialauth/

libphonenumber – Project Hosting on Google Code.

Library for dealing with international phone numbers. Might be useful in several projects…