- BBC iplayer download script, written in perl. Works on linux and windows and supports radio programmes, including converting realaudio to mp3.
- Road trip photo ideas
- Also promises improved performance.
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
2008-12-23 links
Saturday, December 20, 2008
2008-12-19 links
- pAn Adobe AIR app that allows downloading BBC programmes on linux. Shame playback speed is a bit pants!
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Friday, December 12, 2008
2008-12-11 links
- "in order for Mozilla to be relevant in the smartphone space we need to have a presence on the Symbian platform. We have worked with Symbian to understand and scope the size of the project and Symbian are supporting this with engineers to start working on this project so far."
- I don't expect this to ever be offered to UK mobile numbers!
- Use GCC 4 instead of 3.4 for compiling symbian binaries (might be useful if you don't have access to ARM RVCT).
Thursday, December 11, 2008
2008-12-10 links
- A new plugin that allows browsers to run x86 code. Portable binaroes are created with a customised GCC and are run with an npapi plugin.
- better coverage than some mobile networks!
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
2008-12-09 links
- "GNUnet is a framework for secure peer-to-peer networking. The primary application implemented within the GNUnet framework is anonymous censorship-resistant file-sharing. "
- "NITdroid is a kernel and userspace port from scratch of the Google Android operating system to the NITs hardware. .... This project is an ongoing effort to make Android usable/useful on NIT devices (N770, N800, N810, N810W if possible)."
- "This paper describes the how Android 1.0 was first ported to Nokia's N810 Internet tablet." Written by Peter McDermott of NthCode, a consulting firm specializing in Linux device development.
- "Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Tasks"
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
2008-12-08 links
- A look at the protocols used by gmail video chat, including encouraging responses from google and xmpp people in the comments
Saturday, December 06, 2008
2008-11-04 links
- "Libchamplain is a C library aimed to provide a Gtk+ widget to display rasterized maps."
2008-09-16 links
- "etckeeper is a collection of tools to let /etc be stored in a git, mercurial, or bzr repository"
2008-09-01 links
- "Five alive: Danny Baker returns to national radio" - great article on Danny Baker in the Indy media section.
2008-08-19 links
- "MontaVista, Texas Instruments, Samsung, Movial, and Marvell Technologies also on board to create an open source platform" "While the platform the companies develop may be similar to the one Nokia uses in the N800, the Arm group is creating a completely open platform that it will share with the open source community"
- from the nokia (maemo) browser team
2008-08-13 links
- Blog post on attempts to integrate geolocation into mozilla
- "This extension allows you to setup your location in Firefox so that you can use geolocation enabled sites. "
2008-08-12 links
- Linux network manager - an alternative to gnome's networkmanager without any gnome dependencies.
2008-08-11 links
- "PTK is an alternative advanced interface for the suite TSK (The Sleuth Kit)."
- "open source digital investigation tools (a.k.a. digital forensic tools) that run on Unix systems"
2008-08-08 links
- LXDE homepage
- LXDE (Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment), GTK+ 2-based, "scaled-down version of GNOME."
- "PowerTOP is a Linux tool that helps you find those programs that are misbehaving while your computer is idle"
- "Fontmatrix is a GPL’d font manager for Linux"
Thursday, August 07, 2008
2008-08-06 links
- "The PocketMod is a small book with guides on each page. These guides or templates, combined with a unique folding style, enable a normal piece of paper to become the ultimate note card."
- "The idea was to use PocketMod style foldable booklets, but feed it with geographic data and maps."
- "Modest Maps is a BSD-licensed display and interaction library for tile-based maps in Flash (ActionScript 2.0 and ActionScript 3.0) and Python."
- Hildonised version of gosmore: "Gosmore is an offline viewer of Open Street Map XML data."
- A rewrite of maemo mapper: "to make it easier to create and use OpenStreetMap data"
- The official "list of tools for maemo developers and power users". Includes nano, screen, wget, ping...
Saturday, August 02, 2008
2008-08-01 links
- Building Mozilla's NSPR (Netscape Portable Runtime) on Symbian using Open C. To quote the wiki page: "If we want to port FireFox or other Mozilla platform products onto a new OS, this is the very start line."
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Friday, July 18, 2008
2008-07-17 links
- "This project aims at using Trolltech Qt4 packages on maemo devices." Includes a Qt4 diablo repository and now supports the hildon input methods (i.e. the virtual keyboard).
Friday, July 11, 2008
2008-07-10 links
- small app from microsoft to mount an ISO
- Beta IM client from Nokia with some location features. Unfortunately it looks like only S60 FP1 is supported.
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Friday, June 20, 2008
2008-06-19 links
- Requires only a web-accessible webdav server and http-auth
- Experimental firefox extension to sync bookmarks, history, cookies, passwords and saved form data with a webdav server.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
2008-06-09 links
- Shock horror - one of those trendy iphone sites made to work for S60 - "really easy" apparently.
- "Mini-ITX motherboard incorporating its new Atom 230 CPU and selling for around $80"
- "The Beagle Board is a low-cost, fan-less single-board computer based on Texas Instruments' OMAP35x device family" $149, 3"x3"
- Google talks about how its cell-id location works - by gathering data from users who have GPS.
Friday, June 06, 2008
2008-06-05 links
- Another free Wireless Village IMPS server has appeared, with gateways to the major IM networks, apart from google chat.
Monday, May 26, 2008
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Friday, May 23, 2008
Thursday, May 22, 2008
2008-05-21 links
- Impending doom for Symbian/S60?
- firefox extension to make a tab show only the favicon - useful space saver when you have a lot of tabs
- Edit text areas using an external editor
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Friday, May 09, 2008
2008-05-08 links
- Upgrading to the new release "Diablo" with apt-get instead of the full firmware flash. That was supposed to be a feature of the release after diablo.
- Final Update of Nokia Location Tagger - in future it's going to part of the firmware. Hopefully that includes non N-series phones too!
- Expandable radio with a hardware API.
Saturday, May 03, 2008
2008-05-02 links
- "PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives ... and lost pictures ... PhotoRec ignores the filesystem and goes after the underlying data"
- [Gnash-dev] Re: Adobe opens Flash--How much?
Friday, May 02, 2008
2008-05-01 links
- open specs, but RTMP video transport protocol unfortunately not included (yet)
- blog post from somebody on the open screen project
- Licensing fees for devices to be removed!
- Open Screen Project home page
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
2008-04-29 links
- Python script finds the radio and tv feeds on the mlb.com and launches mplayer to play them. Nice way of never having to go to the awful website!
- Doesn't sound at all imminent! THis post reviews the options but doesn't mention QEMU. I wonder if they know it's already used by Nokia for meamo...
Friday, April 25, 2008
2008-04-24 links
- Good to see them say the obvious: a proper ARM simulator is needed, hope they fix it for free version of carbide too! Would be nice if Nokia could get ARM to allow QEMU to emulate the latest ARM versions. UPDATE: article removed from S60 site!
Thursday, April 24, 2008
2008-04-23 links
- Wiki page on the symbian signed criteria has some good symbian coding pointers.
- a new windows port of gkrellm
Saturday, April 19, 2008
2008-04-18 links
- "The library provides a subset of the full C++ STL standard library, along with some features to improve usability for Symbian OS." Released under MIT Licence, supports UIQ3 and S60 3rd edition.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
2008-04-15 links
- by Ixonos, a Finnish software company.
- blames lack of updates on Nokia acquisition of Trolltech. No word on when we might see much-needed updates to the browser on our S60 phones though!
- Shame they couldn't make it pay (or get it unblocked on 3UK!)
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
2008-04-14 links
- "Mobbler, Mobile Scrobbler, is a last.fm scrobbler that works with Symbian s60 smartphones. It allows you to scrobble from the Nokia s60 Music Player, both whilst your listen to the tracks or you can store the tracks offline to be submitted later."
Saturday, April 12, 2008
2008-04-11 links
- 3mobilebuzz blog has started handing out mobile broadband usb dongles to bloggers to test, as they previously did with the skypephone. Similar approach to Nokia's WOM world.
- "There has not been a checkin to the S60 port in over 8 months… As far as I can tell, the port is dead"
Thursday, April 10, 2008
2008-04-09 links
- Mozilla Mobile prototype "Fennec" shows recent firefox 3 optimisations give a good speed boost on ARM too. Maemo builds are available for download.
- DirectShow plugin "for the decoding of video in the MPEG-4 ASP (e.g. encoded with DivX, Xvid or FFmpeg MPEG-4) and AVC (H.264) formats"
- "Encrypted bandwidth-efficient backup using the rsync algorithm"
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
How to send links from PC to phone browser with mobile codes
I often want to get a link from my PC onto my mobile phone and the easiest way is to use mobile codes (or 2D barcodes) which the phone camera can grab using a program such as i-nigma.
I previously did this by cutting and pasting the link into the Nokia mobile code page but the process can be speeded up using firefox bookmark keywords.
unfortunately block it :( The firefox keyword for mowser would be
I previously did this by cutting and pasting the link into the Nokia mobile code page but the process can be speeded up using firefox bookmark keywords.
- Create a firefox bookmark with this address and give it the keyword "mc":
http://mobilecodes.nokia.com/dm?BARCODE=%s&X=0.18&name=&type=link&MODE=TEXT&a=view
or alternatively a keyword for the i-nigma service would be:http://encode.i-nigma.com/QRCode/img.php?d=URL%3A%s&c=&s=4
- If a page is a bit heavy for a mobile browser, this firefox keyword gets us straight to a code for the mobilised version (keyword "gmc"):
http://mobilecodes.nokia.com/dm?BARCODE=http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=%s&X=0.18&name=&type=link&MODE=TEXT&a=view
- I go the the address bar in firefox and press <home>
- type mc <space> (or gmc <space>) and press <return> and there is the mobile code!
- point the reader on my phone the mobile code and the link is passed to the browser
unfortunately block it :( The firefox keyword for mowser would be
http://mowser.com/web/%s
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
2008-04-01 links
- Some useful maemo apps, including: light-meter, internal-temp, gps-clockd, adjust-clock, color-ls, easyroot, battery-status, wireless-tools, nano.
Friday, March 28, 2008
2008-03-27 links
- UIQ 3.3 announced. Includes Opera 9 and widgets.
- The S60 platform security hack using the TRK debug tool has now been done on S60 FP1
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Saturday, March 15, 2008
2008-03-14 links
- Support for the RandR extension on maemo OS2008. Enables rotating the screen on an n800 or n810 to portrait mode.
- "RTMPy is a Twisted protocol implementing Adobe's Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP)"
- Orbit Downloader is a free closed-source download manager for Windows, with support for RTMP. NB - wikipedia says app phones home for unspecified reasons - probably best to block that!
- A ruby version of the latest bbc iplayer hack.
- BBC's fix to prevent the download of DRM-free videos to non-apple devices being discussed (and quickly circumvented) in the comments to a flickr photo!
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
2008-03-11 links
- More reaction to the symbian platform security hack.
- Using debug tools (MetroTRK) to hack symbian's platform security system.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
2008-03-10 links
- small windows pc app to update your location on fireeagle when you're using a pc with a known location.
- Online version of the hack to get a directly downloadable mp4 link from the bbc iplayer (iphone beta version).
- iphone doesn't support flash so apple fanboys in the bbc wanting iplayer on their iphones have to trancode to mp4, downloadable through http (not rtmp) thus enabling easy drm-free downloads for all! Probably will get shut down!
Saturday, March 08, 2008
2008-03-07 links
- A nice update to s60 putty, cleaning up some of the UI.
- A couple of nice demos using the OS Openspace API - one just a big map with search and the other comparing the OS maps to google, side by side.
Friday, March 07, 2008
2008-03-06 links
- "ncdu is an ncurses version of the famous old 'du' unix command." page also has some links to alternatives.
- Two of the world's most hideous things - crocs shoes and phone holsters - have now been combined into one!
- Sync google calendar with outlook. Configuration options look a bit sparse! No option to select which calendar to sync with if you have more than one! Only supports Outlook 2003 and 2007.
Thursday, March 06, 2008
2008-03-05 links
- Two versions of last.fm visualisation toy - one a web app and the other a windows app.
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
2008-03-04 links
- Online copy of interesting paper linked from bad science. A trial from 1965 where patients were actually told they were taking placebos! From Archives of General Psychiatry April 1965, Vol. 12, pp. 336-345.
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
2008-03-03 links
- S60 python client to input any music played on your phone to last.fm (scrobble). Doesn't attempt to stream last.fm radio.
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Saturday, March 01, 2008
Thursday, February 28, 2008
2008-02-27 links
- Blog post about problems with google's IMAP implementation. I went back to accessing it purely through webmail.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
2008-02-26 links
- Another blog post saying the bbc radio streaming is going to change, without actually saying what the new streaming technology is going to be! How annoying! The author even describes it as vague in his delicious bookmarks!
- Funny bit on skiers at the end: "It's almost the time of year the nation's braying upper-middle-class idiot quotient collectively decides to stand up and go skiing" ... "The moment anyone tells me they're going skiing, I start to dislike them."
- Theme maker updated for OS2008. Includes a nice-looking example theme that is a lot lighter than the dark standard themes.
- Bradford City to offer buy-one-get-one-free season tickets for only £150 for the 2008/2009 season!
- flash pdf viewer
- Nokia Location Tagger updated to support non-N-series devices. The Share Online beta should take notice and do the same!
- Beta release of nokia's eclipse plugin for maemo development in python without scratchbox
- Beta release of Nokia's eclipse plugin for maemo development using scratchbox.
Friday, February 22, 2008
2008-02-21 links
- "'Geotagging' for the N82 will be available in Q1 2008 through a firmware update." Built into the camera app. At last!
Thursday, February 21, 2008
2008-02-20 links
- OS2008 repository for nightly builds of mobile firefox.
- wiki page listing eclipse plugins that are useful for symbian development in carbide.
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
2008-02-19 links
- gdata provider for thunderbird's lightning calendar extension - inc. cvs builds required for use with the lightning nightly
- howto: hook up thunderbird's lightning extension with google calendar
- Use google calendar with Thunderbird's lightning extension.
- Thunderbird calendar extension. inc. link to nightly builds.
- tb3 to have integrated calendaring
Sunday, February 17, 2008
2008-02-16 links
- Links to old Lee & Herring shows online: Fist of Fun and This Morning With Richard Not Judy.
Friday, February 15, 2008
2008-02-14 links
- google dropping XMPP = bad!
- Automatically create rss feeds from pages that don't supply them. Useful for creating a quick input for yahoo pipes.
- flash tool for typing practice
- essential link for feb14
Thursday, February 14, 2008
2008-02-13 links
- Powerpoint file listing some useful navigation tips for carbide c++.
- BBC Radio starting to discover xmpp!
- The rbot irc bot has switched to git and has a new website.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
2008-02-12 links
- Article about the restoration process for the Woody Guthrie live recording.
- Restored Woody Guthrie live performance from 1949 wins 2008 Grammy Award for Best Historical Album.
- To me the most interesting of the nokia s60 devices announced yesterday was the cheapest: the 6220. It looks like the successor to my 6120 and adds an auto-focus camera, built-in GPS and a nice amount of RAM (128mb). With 3G who needs wifi anyway!
- New Nokia 6210 Navigator has a built-in compass so it can show which way you are facing on the map! Great for when you are walking.
- Interesting new observation: "The shorter lifecycle for smartphones means higher sales does not reflect in faster growth in installed base."
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
2008-02-11 links
- UK Police use bluespamming to send out appeals for help with a murder case in Eastleigh.
- Nokia Maps version 2.0 hits the beta labs. First impressions: looks pretty nice on my 6120! Seems quite a bit faster.
Friday, February 08, 2008
2008-02-07 links
- pretty, pretty, pretty good.
- Useful thread on NewLC: Common mis-use and abuse of Symbian OS.
- Symbian OS patent.
- Symbian coding standards wiki page. "These are the coding standards used by Symbian's own system developers."
- Online backup service, with versioning. Free account comes with 2GB. Linux client available.
- Mozilla wiki page for "Mobile Firefox". Includes weekly meeting notes.
- How to build the new (work in progress) "Mobile Firefox" for maemo (Nokia N810/N800).
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