Monthly Archives: February 2008

Microb Spellcheck Extension

Some of the comments to my previous posts about Firefox mobile pointed me toward the packaged extensions to the Microb browser, which is the default browser on the N810. One of the extensions is a spellcheck extension that underlines misspelled … Continue reading

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Random Mobile Web Stuff

Riding Caltrain home earlier I had a hankering for some new fiction, so I thought “this would be a perfect chance to poke at the Amazon mobile site and get Singularity Sky.” Geeky huh? I have to say I don’t … Continue reading

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The Effects of Unbundling Mobile Distribution

Sounds like there’s some interesting discussion going on at GDC. I liked the summary from MocoNews about the end of carrier control in gaming. It’s an excellent example of one of the positive benefits that comes out of having the … Continue reading

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Linux Router

I have a problem with wifi routers. I don’t know why it is, maybe I abuse them too much. But I’ve gone through a few routers over the last year. At AdMob we had the same kinds of problems, wifi … Continue reading

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Poking Around in the Minefield

After getting an initial version of mobile Firefox (currently called minefield) compiled and running on the Maemo SDK, I compiled a version for ARM and put it on my n810: It’s definitely a very early effort, like all of the … Continue reading

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Walk Through Minefields

I got networking going in my scratchbox install and was able to build my own minefield 1.9 Mozilla and get it talking to the intarwebs: Pimp, I know, you’re jealous. Turns out Brad is way more pimp, and actually had … Continue reading

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Why I Don’t Care About LiMo

There’s a whole bunch of noise about the LiMo Foundation and comparisons to the Google Android project and the Open Handset Alliance. That’s cool, I’m happy there are people taking a look at both and poking around and trying to … Continue reading

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BarCamp Bank SF – Mobile Payments?

I just signed up for the BarCamp Bank event in Berkeley next month. Not my normal venue, but I would really like to get a conversation going around mobile payments. In short, they don’t work. There’s point solutions here and … Continue reading

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The Taste of Progress

Apparently the technology now exists to tell good espresso from bad, so I have some subjective measure to go on when I complain about these kinds of things. I don’t want it built into the coffee machine though, I want … Continue reading

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Mobile Search, Blended Indexes, Content Ranking

I’ve been wondering a lot lately about search indexes and mobile content, and the reinforcing effect an established web index can have on the growth of any new channels. I’ve been paying particular attention since Google changed to a unified … Continue reading

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