2009-11-18 links

• Nokia dropping Symbian from N-Series
  tags: nokia mobile symbian news maemo linux

2009-11-13 links

• Firefox changes to extensions.checkCompatibility
  Now need to add the version number to the pref name to keep addons working -- use extensions.checkCompatibility.3.7a for the current nightly trunk builds.
  tags: firefox extensions browser mozilla blog

2009-10-30 links

• Tips for running Linux on a flash device
  for the nslu2, but applicable to any linux system
  tags: linux disk nslu2 sysadmin flash slug embedded

2009-10-29 links

• Official Google Blog: Announcing Google Maps Navigation for Android 2.0
  looks big... provided it functions without the internet connection
  tags: google mobile maps gps googlemaps android

2009-09-17 links

• Online javascript beautifier
  un-"minify" compacted javascript
  tags: web programming javascript online formatting beautifier beautify js tidy

2009-08-27 links

• Maemo 5 annoucement
  Nice to see the Nokia guy pointing out that root is still the user's choice -- not something you have to hack like on android or iphone.
  tags: mobile maemo mozilla linux nokia root freedom

2009-08-18 links

• Google chrome does bookmark sync
  as per mozilla weave, but using your google account for online storage.
  tags: browser google chrome bookmarks sync xmpp

2009-08-14 links

• python http auth / webpage scraping
  good intro to http auth and beautiful soup webpage scraping with python
  tags: python blog web auth

2009-08-05 links

• GNOME Integration with Online Services
  Gnome Live!
  "information about all interesting GNOME-based technologies that allow developers to integrate their apps with online social services."
  tags: gnome online gdata api linux microblogging

2009-06-09 links

• Scripting on Android!
  Python, Lua and Beanshell currently supported. Scripts have access to some platform APIs, including location.
  tags: python scripting google android mobile

2009-05-21 links

• Another "Nokia to replace Symbian with maemo" rumour
  tags: nokia maemo linux S60 symbian mobile rumour

2009-05-18 links

• sipe - LCS plugin for pidgin
  A plugin for pidgin to interface with Microsoft Live Communication Server (LCS).
  tags: chat IM linux ubuntu pidgin windows microsoft communicator lcs sipe

2009-05-13 links

• oFono not part of maemo - yet
  Quim Gil: "For those of you wondering, don't expect this young and brave code to be shipped with Fremantle. One of the origins of this project is the work that Maemo has been doing as regular R&D activity. We have no firm plans as to when oFono would be integrated into the platform."
  tags: mobile maemo nokia linux ofono intel opensource


• Intel and Nokia announce open source telephony project: "oFono"
  "oFono.org is a place to bring developers together around designing an infrastructure for building mobile telephony (GSM/UMTS) applications. oFono.org is licensed under GPLv2, and it includes a high-level D-Bus API for use by telephony applications of any license."
  To be used in the next maemo device with 3g radio?
  tags: linux nokia mobile opensource phone telephony intel ofono maemo


• Ovi Share (aka Twango) RIP
  tags: mobile nokia s60 ovi media photo

2009-05-11 links

• Ozone - a Symbian browser using webkit
  A UIQ project now ported to S60. Looks very interesting (given the official nokia webkit browser is never updated!) Text causes crashes on S60 ATM.
  tags: symbian mobile s60 nokia uiq browser webkit

2009-05-07 links

• S60 UI now officially a dead end - to be replaced by Qt
  Symbian^4 release plan includes "A new “Orbit” extension library for Qt, which contains more than 50 widgets tailored for mobile user experience, and which will provide a replacement for the existing “Avkon” widget set;"
  tags: symbian qt nokia symbianfoundation ui s60 mobile avkon


• Symbian Foundation to use mercurial
  David Wood: "We decided in the end to use Mercurial rather than Git (though it was a close-run thing)."
  tags: symbian symbianfoundation nokia s60 mobile mercurial hg git


• tortoisehg
  "TortoiseHg is a Windows shell extension and a series of applications for the Mercurial distributed revision control system."
  Sponsored by google.
  tags: tortoisehg hg mercurial windows


• Mercurial: The Definitive Guide
  Mercurial O'Reilly book available online
  tags: mercurial scm hg manual book free documentation python

2009-04-27 links

• Transmageddon - video transcoder using python & GStreamer
  "Transmageddon is a video transcoder for Linux and Unix systems built using GStreamer."
  tags: gnome video linux transcode python gstreamer


• Arista Transcoder using python & gstreamer
  "An easy to use multimedia transcoder for the GNOME Desktop. Arista focuses on being easy to use by making the complex task of encoding for various devices simple. Pick your input, pick your target device, choose a file to save to and go. "
  tags: gnome video linux transcode python gstreamer

2009-04-01 links

• Symbian Foundation Blog on the new EUserHL library
  Simplifying symbian. "Use of this library is recommended for all new code."
  From the comments a symbian bugzilla is on the way too.
  tags: s60 symbian EUserHL bugzilla c++

2009-03-26 links

• OpenGL-ES support in maemo
  Wiki page about the OpenGL-ES support in maemo
  tags: nokia mobile maemo opengl 3d graphics linux wiki

2009-03-18 links

• First beta release of Fennec - Mobile Firefox
  The developers claim it is actually usable on the Nokia internet tablets now! If this is true it will be very cool, especially with the weave support for bookmark sync.
  tags: linux nokia firefox fennec maemo mozilla beta mobile

2009-03-09 links

• Developing accelerated graphics with Maemo 5 Fremantle
  Some details on the OpenGL-ES2 support included in the latest alpha release of the maemo 5 sdk.
  tags: nokia maemo opengl qt clutter arm ti beagleboard

2009-02-24 links

• Flickr Developer Blog on the astrometry.net bot
  cool!
  tags: astrometry astronomy flickr photography bot

2009-02-18 links

• How to remove the "Press red" icon
  if only there was a way of doing the same for the DOG! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_on-screen_graphic)
  tags: bbc icons freeview tv


• Write to a Google Spreadsheet from a Python script
  looks useful. using the google GData python library.
  tags: python google howto spreadsheet script gdata googlespreadsheet

2009-02-10 links

• Google Mobile Sync now supports contacts sync on S60 phones
  Uses SyncML to sync contacts on S60 phones. Unfortunately doesn't support calendar sync yet, so goosync still has a reason to exist!
  tags: nokia mobile s60 google sync symbian goosync contacts


• Maemo on BeagleBoard
  "This project is about creating an environment based on the maemo SDK that is runnable on a BeagleBoard."
  tags: maemo nokia beagleboard TI ARM linux


• Gebabbel - a QT frontend for gpsbabel
  has screenshots of it working on a Nokia N810
  tags: linux gps n810 gpsbabel GPX maemo

2009-02-04 links

• Google Maps Mobile client adds location sharing
  "Google Latitude"
  tags: google maps nokia s60 symbian gps location mobile geolocation geo

2009-01-22 links

• John Gilmore on Adobe's release of the RTMP spec
  "it's total crap"
  tags: adobe rtmp openscreenproject flash gnash

2009-01-21 links

• Adobe to publish RTMP spec
  Via Open Screen Project. Bit late when others have already figured it out anyway.
  tags: flash opensource server streaming adobe RTMP gnash openscreenproject

2009-01-16 links

• Google officially dumps Jaiku
  Guess they only bought it for the engineers.
  tags: mobile google jaiku microblogging appengine s60

2009-01-15 links

• New in Gmail Labs: Send & Archive button
  "Send & Archive" button for gmail. How about a "Delete & Previous" button? Or a customisable "x & y" button?!
  tags: email gmail google blog

2009-01-14 links

• Nokia adopt LGPL for Qt
  Big boost to Qt from Nokia. Very thorough article about it on Ars.
  tags: linux nokia mobile qt c++ license GPL trolltech lgpl crossplatform opensource kde gtk