Category Archives: Open Source

Open source tools and software

Mobile Search as a Web Service

I was poking around a bit today with identifying mobile search traffic. I dumped a few million records out of the Mowser traffic DB and parsed through the referer URLs to pull out keyword info from searches that land on … Continue reading

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Native GCC on the N810

I started out trying to install the rtcomm update that gives all kinds of new protocol support to the built in messaging app. I was having install problems even with red pill mode on. Then when poking around in the … Continue reading

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Getting my Nerd On

I’ve been using a MacBook Pro as my main computer for a while. When I purchased my last laptop for personal use Lenovo was having some serious problems with their supply, so I got pissed off and went out and … Continue reading

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Testing out Maemo WordPy 0.6

I saw the post on Maemo Apps about the WordPy update. I just installed it and used it to upload an image to Flickr, now I’m posting from it. The image I uploaded is my Serial Experiments Lain inspired N810 … Continue reading

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Swapped Keyboard Mapping Techniques on the N810

In the comments to my previous post about remapping keys on the keyboard of my N810 there was a mention of editing the X server keyboard mapping file at /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/nokia_vndr/rx-44, which I assumed was a pretty nasty hack. But Daniel … Continue reading

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BarCamp Mobile and Embedded

Enrique just posted about the Mobile and Embedded BarCamp happening alongside the Mobile and Embedded Developer Days. I don’t think I’ll be able to make it down till the afternoon on Wed, but sometimes getting a second wave in fresh … Continue reading

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Subversion for OS2008

I’ve been keeping an eye out for OS2008 software that I was using on my N800, and last night I just saw that Subversion is now available. That’s a killer bit of software for me. I use my own svn … Continue reading

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OpenMoko and Android at the Silicon Valley Homebrew Mobile Phone Club

Via John Kern: Homebrew Mobile will be meeting at the Tech Shop in Menlo Park on January 16th. The topic is OpenMoko and Andriod. After the fantastic meeting we had on open source in mobile at MoMo I’m sure this … Continue reading

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Open Web Analytics WordPress Plugin

One of the most kick ass plugins for WordPress is the Open Web Analytics plugin, I hear people raving about it pretty frequently. Unfortunately I also saw it causing some issues with blogs mobilized through Mowser. There were a few … Continue reading

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Embedded Linux for Cellular Solutions

All the folks who presented at the January 2008 Silicon Valley MoMo have agreed to share their presentations. We had a great event overall, the discussions that sprung up and the questions that the audience asked were spectacular. One of … Continue reading

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