Category Archives: Software

Stuff you can get and install or services you can use

RSS Feeds for Mobile Bookmarks

One of the things I’ve started doing for “send to my mobile” is using del.icio.us to do the bookmarking from my desktop browser and subscribing to the RSS feed from my mobile. I bookmark stuff and tag it “mobile” when … Continue reading

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ShoZu Geotagged Photos

ShoZu on the N95 is pretty slick. There’s an option to enable the built in GPS to attach geotags to the photos, and then Flickr puts the photo on a map for you. Nice and slick. The option to upload … Continue reading

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Mail Hackery

One of the notification systems at AdMob went insane yesterday and as a result this morning I was looking at just over 19 thousand messages in my inbox. Not that I like dealing with my inbox to begin with. And … Continue reading

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OpenMoko on Existing Hardware

Something I hadn’t realized until I went to a presentation last week was that OpenMoko is up and running to varying degrees on hardware other than the Neo1973, including the Treo 650. Cool, I think I have one of those … Continue reading

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FBReader on the N800

Russ has raved about FBReader, an ebook reader for Maemo, in the past. I had installed it before and tried it out, but had problems with the format of the books. He walked me through the stuff he was doing … Continue reading

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Trying Maemo WordPy on the N800

Just trying out a post from the Python based Maemo WordPy client. I was also fooling around with Minimo, but was having a bunch of issues with the UI. Fortunately it looks like the Maemo version of the Minimo source … Continue reading

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Your Own (Free/Open!) Adserver for Mobile

One of the requests I’ve heard a few times from publishers at AdMob is something of the form of “how can I run my own advertising along with/together with/on top of AdMob?” Usually what the publishers want to do is … Continue reading

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iPhone Tools and Services at AdMob

AdMob is going to be showing off some iPhone specific stuff at the Silicon Valley MoMo tonight. I’ve made plenty of comments about the whole idea of the mobile browser as a thin client for rich applications. Generally, I think … Continue reading

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Mobile Browser Testing

Andrea has a post about mobile device testing up on the dotMobi blog. If I understand correctly he’s talking in this case about an Acid2 style set of tests for mobile browsers in particular. Would certainly be nice to have … Continue reading

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Old Bloggers, New Blogs

Russell Beattie is back at it again with a new blog. Which he used almost immediately to call me crazy. Fair enough. And Diego Doval has started up the much more aptly named blog.diegodoval.com. I suggest subscribing to both immediately. … Continue reading

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