- Nice round-up of the worst bad science stories of 2007. A shamefully large number of examples from The Independent :(
Monday, December 31, 2007
2007-12-30 links
Monday, December 24, 2007
Saturday, December 22, 2007
2007-12-21 links
- Firefox extension that adds tasks to gmail.
- "This paper describes how to use Symbian OS C++ APIs to interface with the Flickr web service. It contains a short background to Flickr’s architecture and APIs and concludes by describing the building of a Symbian OS v9.x DLL"
- Don't like the rebranded snapple!
- Freeware symbian app that automatically changes your S60 phone wallpaper, downloaded from web services such as a flickr search. Unfortunately the images don't fill the screen and it failed getting images from my flickr account. Uninstalled!
Friday, December 21, 2007
Thursday, December 20, 2007
2007-12-19 links
- Some monospaced fonts designed for coding, with one size per font. Including CodingFontTobi1, which is rather good.
- A collection of monospaced fonts links
- Code example using an open source IRC library (CIRC) with Open C and a symbian c++ GUI to create a functional IRC client application.
- Those hard-to-find instructions for setting alternative fonts in the windows command prompt with regedit! Consolas and Andale Mono both work.
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
2007-12-18 links
- Project to produce open source freeware apps for UIQ3. Hosted on google code.
- UI changes in the new OS2008 release. Plus some free wallpapers.
- "Nokia has released the first OS2008 update for the N810 and N800 Internet tablets." ... "the N800 image offers now full functionality and several bugfixes found after the developer beta release"
- "3 UK and T-Mobile (UK) have signed an agreement to combine their 3G access networks" ... leading to... "almost complete population coverage for 3G services across Britain by the end of 2008"
Saturday, December 15, 2007
2007-12-14 links
- fake an iPhone user agent on the S60 browser to get the iPhone optimised pages. However the SIS needs signing.
- Backup app TimeVault "takes snapshots of system files and folders and provides an easy to navigate interface for file recovery and versioning."
- Firefox extensions to print to PDF and to force ffx to free some of its RAM. "They both require the latest Firefox 3.0 nighties or beta". Also need a mozilla add-ons account.
Friday, December 14, 2007
2007-12-13 links
- Ordnance Survey dips a toe in web 2.0? "Experiment with OS OpenSpace to incorporate Ordnance Survey data into your web application."
- Beta mapping service from the Ordnance Survey. Could we see these nice maps in maemo mapper now???
- A flash lite file taking advantage of the flash video (FLV) capabilities of the new beta flash lite 3 to enable playing of youtube videos on s60 phones. Holy grail for Flash lite? Sadly not on 3 UK, youtube seems to be blocked.
- BBC Radio Player rebranded to BBC iPlayer. As part of this the maximum bit rate of the radio streams has been raised to 64kbps, which is nice! Article hints at more changes to come, hopefully none of which breaks the easy archiving of the real streams.
Thursday, December 13, 2007
2007-12-12 links
- Modest binaries available at last! Hopefully this is finally a decent IMAP client for maemo - it's long overdue!!
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Saturday, December 08, 2007
Wednesday, December 05, 2007
Why the n800 is faster with os2008
A nice summary of why the nokia n800 got a lot faster using the new firmware: os2008.
Posted by Eero Tamminen on the maemo-users mailing list.
The main reason why OS2008 is faster than OS2007 is that kernel now supports Dynamic Voltage Frequency Scaling (DVFS). When only CPU is used, the frequency can be higher than in OS2007, when also DSP is used, it needs to be dropped to earlier speed (which transition was a real pain to get fast and reliable enough). When neither is needed, frequency can be dropped even lower which improves battery usage.
The kernel Flash memory de/compression uses now faster algorithm which speeds up all disk accesses slightly (because the algorithm doesn't compress as well as previous one, the rootfs is now more full).
Libjpeg is now better optimized (all these factors make e.g. image viewer image loading significantly faster).
Some additional packages are now built with VFP (e.g. PDF reader is faster because of this). Because thumb & VFP don't work together, this increased the rootfs size slightly too.
After the N810 release there was also a minor optimization to the N800 specific touchscreen driver which makes N800 response ~20ms faster.
Posted by Eero Tamminen on the maemo-users mailing list.
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
2007-12-03 links
- "UIQ 3: The Complete Guide" - a UIQ book placed online in a wiki.
- Nice critique of symbian apps in general within a blog about how good the new version of google maps mobile is.
Saturday, December 01, 2007
2007-11-30 links
- irseek logging all irc conversation on all the large irc networks. how are they doing this? how can they be stopped!
Friday, November 30, 2007
2007-11-29 links
- Gmail chat adds group chat rooms - are they going to update the stand-alone google talk client too? Hopefully with video too!
Thursday, November 29, 2007
2007-11-28 links
- New version of google maps gets an approx location from the cell your phone is in. Works for me on 3 - they must have a pretty good database! Perhaps generated from users with GPS.
- Tiresias family of fonts ("designed for best legibility by people with impaired vision", as used by the BBC) now available free - GPL licensed.
- a monospaced font
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Monday, November 26, 2007
2007-11-25 links
- "outlook killer" "eM Client is Windows based e-mail client that enables users to send and receive e-mail, manage calendars, contacts and tasks."
Saturday, November 24, 2007
2007-11-23 links
- Faster startup and less memory use for the S60 Java ME VM. Also: "The new architecture allows us to dynamically extend the virtual machine with new APIs" - eg. eSWT.
- New java UI toolkit in S60 3rd edition feature pack 2. "eSWT is a cross platform toolkit developed in cooperation [with] Eclipse ... eRCP. ... eSWT shares most of the API with desktop SWT."
- Pros and cons of disabling atime to reduce the number of accesses of the disk.
- Good summary of the recent hard drive power management scare ("Ubuntu May Be Killing Your Laptop's Hard Drive").
Friday, November 23, 2007
Bradford City this week signed Thai international goalkeeper Jamie Waite until the end of the season:
"Goalkeeper Jamie Waite [signed] until the end of the season after being on non-contract forms with Blue Square South strugglers St Albans City.
The 21-year-old Thailand-born international has had spells with Rotherham and MK Dons, among other clubs, but has yet to start a league game.
He made history on his debut for the national side aged just 15 years and 354 days when he came on as a second-half substitute in a game against Singapore in Bangkok.
That made him the second youngest player ever to appear in a full international."
(T&A)
His father is British and his mother is Thai.
2007-11-22 links
- GTK+ implementation for eSWT (Embedded Standard Widget Toolkit.) - for java on maemo?
Thursday, November 22, 2007
2007-11-21 links
- online DBs of md5 hashes
- GeoTagging Flickr group. Has some useful links to geotagging tools/services.
- new version of sportstracker includes a web service where you can upload & share gps tracks. It can also geotag photos.
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
2007-11-19 links
- 3G forum members who can unlock recent Nokia S60 phones.
- An OpenFire jabber server with gateways for other IM services aimed at nokia internet tablet users. The IRC gateway was removed, sadly.
- 770-encode script renamed to tablet-encode. Video-encoding perl scripts optimised for the nokia internet tablets. Wrappers around mencode.
- The good old T&A appearing in mobile news feeds! The S60 browser gets given the full web rather than the wap version of the metro site.
Saturday, November 17, 2007
2007-11-16 links
- Fix for Nokia 770 memory corruption bug when using wifi.
- Mozilla wiki page for "mobile firefox". Includes weekly meeting notes.
- Google android's java licensing and how it relates to sun.
Friday, November 16, 2007
2007-11-15 links
- "InterfaceLIFT, your source for graphical user interface enhancements for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, and Linux. We specialize in desktop wallpaper, icons, themes"
- Article summarising how to fake a N810 MAC to get the firmware to put on a n800. Tried it myself and it works great. OS2008 is looking very nice!
Thursday, November 15, 2007
2007-11-14 links
- The changes android have made to webkit.
- maemo tutorial "for any developer with Symbian C++ or Windows Mobile programming experience"
- Atari ST emulator for nokia internet tablets
- "Track Flight Status, Airport Delays and other Flight and Airport Information"
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
2007-11-13 links
- Share one GPS device between multiple applications - "Gypsy was designed to fix the numerous design flaws found in GPSD."
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
2007-11-12 links
- article on vulnerabilities in "log analysis tools aimed to stop brute force scans against SSH and ftp services"
Friday, November 09, 2007
2007-11-08 links
- SSHForwarding: Secure Port Forwarding over SSH2 for Symbian s60v3. Very useful but rather overpriced ($40). How hard can it be to get the freeware putty port to do this?
- Micro-ATX motherboard from the $200 Everex TC2502 Linux PC available for $60.
Thursday, November 08, 2007
2007-11-07 links
- Nokia Audiobook Player for S60 phones and an audio converter tool for PC (Nokia Audiobook Manager). Uses AMR-WB.
- is linux really so unpopular?!
- Google's android users webkit for its browser
- Automatic Panorama Recognising Tool
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
2007-11-06 links
- Neil MacLeod's script for easier copying of the OS on maemo devices to a memory card.
- Open Handset Alliance homepage
- a good analysis of the google announcement
Monday, November 05, 2007
2007-11-04 links
- Andy Rubin and the google phone project.
- Using only python to control the FM tuner chip in the Nokia N800.
Friday, November 02, 2007
2007-11-01 links
- Useful list: "This is a list of device bandwidths: the channel capacity ... of some computer devices employing methods of data transport is listed by kbit/s, Mbit/s, orGbit/s."
- "Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks."
- nokia bb5 phone unlocking now available independent of the networks?
- video on extending wifi range with foil and card
- "Double your range and signal strength for about 5 cents!"
- "The easy way to download Web videos from hundreds of YouTube-like sites. This works also for audio and picture galleries."
Thursday, November 01, 2007
2007-10-31 links
- article looking at some small linux pcs
- disabling the compatibility check for firefox and thunderbird extensions by adding a boolean: extensions.checkCompatibility
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Saturday, October 27, 2007
2007-10-26 links
- Breaking S60 Platform Security through use of Nokia's Software Updater tool. The firmware image is edited to add extra UserCapabilities before flashing to the phone.
Friday, October 26, 2007
Thursday, October 25, 2007
2007-10-24 links
- an article on how to build the hugin photo-stitching panorama tool in ubuntu
- official blog announcement of the excellent "gmail does IMAP" news.
- gmail now has IMAP support! Sadly the option to enable it doesn't appear in my settings yet.
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
2007-10-23 links
- using only the router portion of a netgear modem/router
- AR7 adsl chipset suspected to be the cause of frequent dropouts on noisy lines.
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
2007-10-22 links
- "Bangkok-based Norhtec has unveiled a sub-$85 mini-PC claimed to be the most affordable Linux thin client system to date."
- Jonathan Greene posts an interesting overview of the new nokia n810.
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Friday, October 19, 2007
2007-10-18 links
- Ari Jaaksi's Blog post about the new Nokia N810. Has some interesting replies in the comments from nokian David Weinehall about the various design choices that were made.
- Maemo joins Forum Nokia. Front page includes details of new N810.
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
2007-10-16 links
- Jonathan Greene argues for nokia to provide new features to existing as well as new model phones. Too right!
- haha: "If you thought UIQ was ugly and hard to use, just wait until Motorola ... closes the deal."
- asus releases eeepc specs.
- BBC partnerships with adobe for streaming video with flash and with the cloud for free access to BBC websites through its wifi hotspots.
- BBC to use flash to bring its iPlayer to linux and mac.
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Monday, October 15, 2007
2007-10-11 links
- nice line: "high as kites on gadget-induced endorphins" the linked article "Eternal September 2.0" is also an amusing read!
- "researchers from the University of California-Riverside decided to see just how often a P2P user might be tracked by content owners." "fake users"
2007-10-10 links
- guide to repair of a fujitsu power connector, with photos.
- achewood comic sans strip now available as a colour poster!
- Mozilla announces plans for firefox on mobile devices.
- Analysis of what changes were in the recent n800 kernel update, plus a patched kernel with 48MHz highspeed support.
2007-10-09 links
- A guide listing some of the different ways of geotagging photos.
- Research machines (they still exist?!) to sell asus eeepc in the uk for £169. Sadly that's before VAT.
- From an Australian public health campaign: "Back pain — don’t take it lying down” "back pain is not a serious medical problem"
- 2008 version of mandriva released.
- Liberation fonts - similarly-sized but free equivalents for Arial, Times New Roman, and Courier New.
- Interesting Andrew Gumbel article on the Colorado Rockies.
- Yahoo's zonetag can record a GPX trace and use it to geotag photos uploaded to flickr from other devices. No correction for the inaccurate digital camera clock though!
- OSX dithering to 1-bit
- Bizarre! "View real-time data and statistics from any logfile on any server you have SSH access to, in an intuitive and entertaining way."
Tuesday, October 09, 2007
2007-10-08 links
- adobe flash benchmarking page. my old 2.4ghz work desktop with flash 9 on ffx2 got a result of 816.
Saturday, October 06, 2007
2007-10-05 links
- Repost of Craig Murray's censored article on Alisher Usmanov
- A new version of nokia's S60 sharing (flickr & blogging) app is added to Nokia Beta Labs.
- microsoft makes ie7 available to pirates
- nice summary of the problem with apple
Friday, October 05, 2007
2007-10-04 links
- "write GNOME applications and libraries in a high-level programming language" "the Vala compiler translates Vala source code into C source and header files"
Thursday, October 04, 2007
2007-10-03 links
- "A remote incremental backup". "The idea is to combine the best features of a mirror and an incremental backup."
- Some symbian research projects. "These mobile applications explore new ways of interactivity or add value to your mobile phone."
Tuesday, October 02, 2007
2007-10-01 links
- Baseball postseason on-demand via Joost: "within 24 hours of their initial airing, Joost will begin streaming games on-demand from the Division Series, League Championship Series and World Series around the world, outside of the U.S. and Japan."
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Thursday, September 27, 2007
2007-09-26 links
- Carlo Longino on the iphone.
- "Conversation is a messaging application that allows you to follow your conversations, organized by individual contacts."
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
2007-09-25 links
- Stephen Fry blog post on mobile/smartphone issues. He turns out to be quite a geek, but with an unfortunate apple fetish.
Thursday, August 30, 2007
2007-08-29 links
- "Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP/2000 and Linux"
- Nice set of notes on the Nokia 6120 Classic, including why it's better than the iPhone.
- blog post with youtube links to "match of the 80s" - a BBC TV series looking at football in the 80s with Danny Baker
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Saturday, August 25, 2007
2007-08-24 links
- "There are only four food items on the In-N-Out menu: Hamburger, Cheeseburger, Double-Double and French Fries." but: "there is an extensive “secret menu” available for those in the know"
- WirelessIRC finally released for S60 3rd edition!
Friday, August 24, 2007
Thursday, August 23, 2007
2007-08-22 links
- "LibTorrent is a BitTorrent library written in C++ for *nix. The client uses ncurses and is ideal for use with screen or dtach. It supports saving of sessions and allows the user to add and remove torrents."
- "This directory contains a rebuilt n800 kernel with support for MMC 4.x wide-bus and 48MHz bus speed for highspeed MMC and SD cards. This kernel is just for the 4.2007.26 (maemo 3.2) release."
- "PhotoRescue will undelete, unerase and recover pictures, images, photos and files lost on corrupted, erased or damaged memory cards when other solutions fail."
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