Category Archives: Open Source

Open source tools and software

Motorola Open Source

Posted on December 19, 2006 by miker

I was going to leave Andrea a comment on his post about Motorola open source, but Blogger comments seem to be screwy at the moment. I’ve spoken to a few people from Motorola and I have to admit that honestly … Continue reading →

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Greenphone Availability Rumours Greatly Exaggerated

Posted on December 15, 2006 by miker

I got a response back from Trolltech a little while ago. I had heard that orders were being taken for the Greenphone now. Turns out the Professional edition is available for order now, but others will be sold online (supposedly … Continue reading →

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Greenphone. Gimme gimme gimme gimme.

Posted on December 14, 2006 by miker

I went to the Homebrew Mobile Phone club meeting last night (I would put a pointer up, but their site seems to be down, which has already resulted in more email than I can handle right now… but trust me, … Continue reading →

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SymTorrent – Symbian BitTorrent Client

Posted on October 26, 2006 by miker

Symbian Freak posted about the Symbian based BitTorrent client, and I tried it out on my E61. I only tried a relatively small test, about 80 megabyte download, only one running at a time. Didn’t open up ports in the … Continue reading →

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Another Linux Based Mobile – ROAD

Posted on August 17, 2006 by miker

A friend just pasted me this in IRC, the ROAD HandyPC. It’s aimed straight at the Nokia Communicator it seems. WiFi, quad band cellular, bluetooth, looks like a very nice inside screen, camera, full keyboard. Anyone have any more news … Continue reading →

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Image Resizing

Posted on May 8, 2006 by miker

I just added image resizing to the transcoder I just started playing with. It doesn’t figure out the target size of the image using anything resembling the technique I think makes sense long term. But it does resize the images … Continue reading →

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Mobile Transcoder

Posted on May 5, 2006 by miker

I just started working on a mobile transcoder of my very own. It’s based on Phonifier, so anyone familiar with that set of code should see a lot of the same stuff in madgat. My version doesn’t do a bunch … Continue reading →

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Homebrew Mobile Phone Club

Posted on May 1, 2006 by miker

The first meeting of the Homebrew Mobile Phone Club in Silicon Valley is happening this week on Thursday night. Kick ass!!

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Interest in Embedded Linux

Posted on April 5, 2006 by miker

This is an interesting set of numbers related to use of Linux and interest in Linux for embedded systems. Very much out of line with what I’ve seen however, so I’m left wondering somewhat what could cause that skew. The … Continue reading →

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The Series 60 SDK vs. Linux

Posted on February 15, 2006 by miker

I don’t have a Windows system, I don’t want a Windows system, I will not get a Windows system. I would however like to create software for my phone, a Nokia 6680. Java and now Python are options. But I … Continue reading →

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