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series 60 flip phones
Finally some series 60 flip phones are coming out. Weighing in at only 95g is the panasonic x700 and the dimensions are 87 x 47 x 24 mm, 80 cc. It’s a kind of standard silvery phone and it has a small external screen which is nice. Next up we have the just-announced Nokia 6260 at a much heftier 125g. Also it’s kind of a monster for a flip phone, 102mm x 49mm x 23mm, 109cc. I’ll have to see them both in person before I can really decide if the nokia is just too big, but I’m thinking that one of these phones is a phone that I would actually buy, for my own, personal use. That’s saying a lot, since the last phone that really caught my eye (and I’m still using it) is the moto startac. All in all, it looks like the Panasonic has the advantage.
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scopetime
This Scopetime is a nifty flash gizmo. It’s like a new way of displaying time. I like the presentation as much as the idea. I don’t think we really need new ways of displaying time, but on the other hand, I think this idea does actually work, which is pretty unique in this category of “inventions”. In other words, I could actually see having a clock that works like this. Anyway, I like the flash.
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ACCESS
ACCESS … check this out! by Marie Sester
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more dll
One of the programmers on #mobitopia was kind enough to build the simple, DLL-based guiengine example from the Nokia SDK for me on windows. I’m using it to test against my linux build. I copied all of the files (the .app, .rsc, and .dll) over to the phone and it works. Then I copied over my own .app file, built against the windows .lib, and that ALSO works. Yay! Now I see that my linux build isn’t making the necessary .rsc file. Why not? Oops, that’s my fault, when I took out the AIF file from the makefile I also removed the RSC. I just need to remember to copy the .rss file into the src directory next time. OK, I can make a .sis file for the application side of guiengine now on linux and it works OK.
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dll madness
I’m still trying to figure out how to build a DLL for symbian on Linux. sdk2unix didn’t do it “out of the box” so I’m learning, learning, learning about how DLLs work, how symbian builds DLLs, etc. Here’s one: if you include a DLL’s lib stub file in your makefile, it still won’t link to the .app unless you actually use something from the DLL in your source code.
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all I need to know I learned from symbian.com
such as what the heck all those different UIDs are for . Here’s a quicko primer:<ul><li>The first UID indicates the structure of the file </li><li>The second UID indicates the outermost “interface” provided by the file </li><li>The third UID indicates a particular instance of the object identified by the other two UIDs </li></ul>
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hamlet meet scooby doo
Hamlet meets Scooby Doo . Rather funny I thought.
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graphic, DHL
Well, I finally added a graphic to my website. Do you think it looks OK? I had this sudden inspiration and here it is, weighing in at 1.4 Kb. Also, my sister’s birthday present in now in Kowloon, Hong Kong. It was shipped there by accident by DHL.
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udell's random access streams
Jon Udell is trying to figure out how to get random access to video streams off the net. He seems to have gotten somewhere using, amazingly, SMIL .
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explanation of how Mail.app's LSA-based spam filter works
How Mail.app’s LSA-based spam filter works . Finally an explanation I was able to comprehend. It’s data mining after all :-)
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