Category Archives: Open Source

Open source tools and software

More Public Support for the Abundance Economy

It looks like the world at large is starting to take up the challenge of understanding what it means to base an effort around the economics of abundance instead of scarcity. It’s already a pretty common thread with folks who … Continue reading

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SMS on Alternate Ports

Following up on some of the mobile applications pondering I was doing the other day, I’ve been pointed at and run across some new info about SMS usage. I figured I would post it to share, seeing as how that … Continue reading

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Microb Browser Extension Testing

After my IUI Maemo Microb hackery the other day I started pondering making the browser lie to say it was an iPhone. More cause I wanted to hack around some with extensions and Microb than because I really find myself … Continue reading

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Vote N810 for “Handheld of the Year” at Engadget

I’m going to pick up the handheld of the year thread from TabletBlog and encourage all you N810 fans to go vote N810 at the Engadget awards.

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IUI Dev on OS2008

I’ve been fooling around a bit with doing IUI dev on and for the N810. IUI is the javascript library behind those cool iPhone web apps. It does a menu style rendering and slides and all that. It actually works … Continue reading

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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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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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