- 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!
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