2008-03-27 links

• UIQ Technology: UIQ 3.3
  UIQ 3.3 announced. Includes Opera 9 and widgets.
  tags: mobile UIQ symbian news releases motorola


• HOT: S60 Hacking – Mission Accomplished, FP1 Hacked!!
  The S60 platform security hack using the TRK debug tool has now been done on S60 FP1
  tags: symbian S60 nokia mobile hack platsec security

2008-03-18 links

• Beebhack
  wiki page summarising the various techniques for downloading bbc iplayer content.
  tags: bbc iplayer hacks h264 flash RTMP tv video wiki ... saved by 8 other people

2008-03-14 links

• Rotation support for OS2008
  Support for the RandR extension on maemo OS2008. Enables rotating the screen on an n800 or n810 to portrait mode.
  tags: maemo N800 n810 nokia os2008 X Xomap RandR linux mobile x11 kernel ... saved by 13 other people


• RTMPy
  "RTMPy is a Twisted protocol implementing Adobe's Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP)"
  tags: flash flv python RTMP video twisted adobe ... saved by 15 other people


• Orbit Rich Media Downloader:download social video,music, streaming media, rtmp and more...Pandora,YouTube,Yahoo,Myspace,Dailymotion,RapidShare...
  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!
  tags: download freeware downloader media video RTMP flash windows flv ... saved by 66 other people


• po-ru.com: BBC iPlayer fix hacked again!
  A ruby version of the latest bbc iplayer hack.
  tags: bbc drm hack iplayer ruby tv video mp4 iphone linux ... saved by 26 other people


• Faked iPhone BBC iPlayer on Flickr
  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!
  tags: bbc hack iphone iplayer linux mp4 video DRM download apple ... saved by 29 other people

2008-03-11 links

• Gabor Torok's Forum Nokia Blog | Another hack for Symbian Platform Security
  More reaction to the symbian platform security hack.
  tags: mobile symbian s60 hack platsec security


• HOT: Nokia's S60 3rd Ed security has been HACKED?
  Using debug tools (MetroTRK) to hack symbian's platform security system.
  tags: mobile platsec s60 security symbian hack ... saved by 1 other person

2008-03-10 links

• Technarium » Blog Archive » Eagle Perch
  small windows pc app to update your location on fireeagle when you're using a pc with a known location.
  tags: windows fireeagle location ... saved by 1 other person


• BBC iPlayer MP4
  Online version of the hack to get a directly downloadable mp4 link from the bbc iplayer (iphone beta version).
  tags: bbc iplayer mp4 tv video webapp drm ... saved by 14 other people


• BBC iPlayer on GNU/Linux without Flash using only free software
  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!
  tags: iplayer BBC linux howto video streaming mp4 tv drm iphone ... saved by 8 other people

2008-03-07 links

• PuTTY for Symbian OS
  A nice update to s60 putty, cleaning up some of the UI.
  tags: symbian ssh mobile putty nokia series60 s60 news releases ... saved by 270 other people


• Where's the path 
  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.
  tags: maps googlemaps geography api os ordnancesurvey

2008-03-06 links

• ncdu » NCurses Disk Usage
  "ncdu is an ncurses version of the famous old 'du' unix command." page also has some links to alternatives.
  tags: linux filesystem disk unix du storage statistics ... saved by 30 other people


• Crocs 'o-dial' handset holder
  Two of the world's most hideous things - crocs shoes and phone holsters - have now been combined into one!
  tags: crocs shoes mobile awful news hideous


• Google Calendar Sync with Outlook
  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.
  tags: calendar sync outlook google googlecalendar gcal ... saved by 597 other people

2008-03-05 links

• last.fm lastgraph & extra stats - data visualization & visual design - information aesthetics
  Two versions of last.fm visualisation toy - one a web app and the other a windows app.
  tags: lastfm music visualisation Last.fm webapp windows blog ... saved by 4 other people

2008-03-04 links

• Nonblind Placebo Trial
  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.
  tags: medical paper medicine trial placebo ... saved by 1 other person

2008-03-03 links

• Random thoughts about nothing (usually) so special: Second release of my Last.fm S60 Client - aspyplayer
  S60 python client to input any music played on your phone to last.fm (scrobble). Doesn't attempt to stream last.fm radio.
  tags: s60 python last.fm scrobble mobile symbian mp3 music ... saved by 1 other person

2008-03-01 links

• Video: "How to Speak"
  tags: presentation howto video speaking presentations teaching ... saved by 1111 other people

2008-02-29 links

• Are Kids Copying Their Parents When They Lie? -- New York Magazine
  How kids learn to lie.
  tags: kids article parenting lying education psychology children ... saved by 85 other people