LightNotepad: let’s see how this works
Links
Useful
Mobile site- Offline9 August 2008
Where am I
Nokia Nseries Widget
Where I am
In order to view the Nokia Nseries Widget you need JavaScript and Flash Player 9+ support
What am I doing
Thoughts on Qik
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Qik is a website for streaming video from cameras. Nice. Another way to compromise privacy. Or show cool stuff to friends. Well, they’re in beta, so I’ll give them some slack, but here is where it doesn’t get it quite right yet:
- They have recently added ‘groups’ to their service. So you can be member of a group, or not. But: not exactly fine-grained - any member of the group can see every other members videos (those marked for group). Probably fine
- But: you can only ex-post associate a video stream with a group. So you cannot live-stream for a group only
What they actually do a tad better than f.i. Sports Tracker is that they coarsen your geography - so I don’t show up with the city or even my internet access point - I show up centered on the country (”United States”, “Canada”, “Ecuador”). That’s better for some - but again, for others, you might actually want to reveal more information (in the group, for instance). Both of these sites would gain from some better “geo-coarsening” tools.
Scripting Bluetooth transfers to my phone
Saturday, July 5, 2008
Want to send the latest podcast, or movie, or whatever, to your phone - automatically - and find it there, waiting, in the morning? And whatever software you are using doesn’t quite do it? Here’s the trick (for Linux):
let dp1=$(date +%d)+1
curl http://podcasts.nytimes.com/podcasts/$(date +%Y/%m/%d)/${dp1}frontpage-p.mp3 \
-o nyt-frontpage.mp3 && obexftp -b 00:11:22:33:44:55 \
-p nyt-frontpage.mp3 && rm -f nyt-frontpage.mp3
where 00:11:22:33:44:55 is the BT address (which you can find, for instance, if you already connected using (KDE) GUI tools at /var/lib/bluetooth/names).
Works like a charm.
Cloning OpenWRT
Friday, July 4, 2008
I use OpenWRT on Linksys WRT54GL as a firewall. I would like to have the ability to fully clone the system. Reading the docs, it looks like the following should work:
- Backup the existing OpenWRT firmware (note whether it is White Russian or
dd if=/dev/mtdblock/1 of=/tmp/backup20080704.trx
scp backup20080704.trx pp:/mirror/firewall/ - Flash the WRT54GL with a “blank” firmware image, using instructions at OpenWrtDocs/Installing,
- The upload the firmware image, and reflash from within OpenWRT
mtd -r write firmware.trx linux - Or: try using TFTP (this might not work, because it needs the .bin file, not the .trx generated in Step 1)
I’ll see if this works.
Reboot option on N800
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
I have to find this every time I reflash my N800 (not that it happens often): where do I enable the ‘reboot’ option on the power button pop-up menu? Answer: /etc/systemui/systemui.xml.
OK: linux ^800 = android
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Games on the N95… portable and useful
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
on the plus side:
Some of the N-Gage games are not half-bad (I don’t have a PSP, so I’m not spoiled…), AND… you can connect the N95 to the TV and play on a bigger screen (avoid the landscape mode though - the half-VGA then shows badly…) AND… some Austrian computer science students came up with an app to link the phone to a Wii remote… and it works!!! (well, the directional keypad works, not the accelerometer - but that’s all you need for most of these games, which are, after all designed for phones…)
GPS on N95 issues
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
- GPS is slow to get a fix. I’m not certain that the A-GPS is working completely alright - I may have messed something up - but on the highway from magog to montreal, it took 5 minutes to get a fix - and then again because Sports Tracker caused a hard reboot of the phone (only explanation).
- Sports tracker is buggy - that’s all. Or in conflict with SOMETHING on the phone. It somehow cannot get a fix, and then can’t hold on to it. I had Maps open, and a beautiful 8-9 bars on the fix - and Sports Tracker couldn’t get a fix. Then, when it finally got one, it held it for all of 100m - while Maps still had a full fix.
Not quite there…
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
well, Sports Tracker worked just fine while driving the car, but on my bike ride today, it failed. Twice over the course of my ride it stopped logging GPS after about 1 mile. Every time I checked, the GPS had a fix - but that doesn’t mean that at the time it failed it did not - it’s a bit hilly out there, but it should have had a fix…
Suffice it to say that my “workout statistics” are somewhat biased… since the time continued to run, but the distance not…
Interestingly enough, the software DID identify the pictures I took on the route - but since the track ended prematurely, it didn’t know where to place them, except at the end point…
On the other hand, I figured out how to upload tracks and routes onto sports tracker (the option is very hidden away - both software and website are clearly beta…). So I made Google maps of a couple of rides (or potential rides), and uploaded them (using this link http://www.elsewhere.org/journal/gmaptogpx/ to convert them, plus some post-editing).
A GPX route (between [rte][/rte] tags) becomes a route, a track ([trk][/trk]) becomes a workout. So with some tricks, it is possible to post-edit. But that’s precisely NOT the point of this software….