Category Archives: Software

Stuff you can get and install or services you can use

Small Systems FTW!!

I had heard that there was a great presentation floating around by Steve Yegge about dynamic languages, virtual machines, and optimization. And I forget what got it in front of me, but yesterday I hit the transcript of the talk, … Continue reading

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At MobileBeat on Thursday

Gregory and Matt invited me to participate in a developer focused pre-event session on Thursday right before MobileBeat 2008 kicks off. The session is going to focus on the evolution of mobile operating systems and services platforms. It should be … Continue reading

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Maemo Browser Friendly Apps

I was somewhat curious how the new WordPress 2.5 admin interface would play with the browser on the N810 so I spent a little time poking around. Even though the new interface seems to be a lot more squishy than … 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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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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JoikuSpot + N95 + MacBook = :-)

I tried out JoikuSpot yesterday for a while. It’s a bit of software that turns your Nokia phone into a Wifi access point using the cellular connection as the backhaul. It worked perfectly!! I have a 3G N95, so the … Continue reading

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Skyfire Launch – Proper Mobile Browser Behavior

For the last few weeks I’ve been helping out the folks at Skyfire with some bits and pieces of projects they needed some backup on. They have a new browser for mobile devices, initial release is for Windows Mobile devices, … Continue reading

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iPod Videos

I’ve been using VLC to convert videos for my iPod for a while, but recently had started having issues. Like one video stops playing after 45 minutes of an hour and a half long movie (something I discovered while on … Continue reading

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WURFL Community Participation Site

Luca recently announced the availability of a public WURFL database site that contributors can use to propose new devices or modifications to WURFL. Managing the large dataset that makes up WURFL has been a problem, so Luca is trying to … Continue reading

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LightSabre

Version 1.1 of the LightSabre application for N95s is out. You need to also install the accelerometer plugin on your phone otherwise the LightSabre application just does nothing at all when you try to start it. Now I can be … Continue reading

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