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14Dec/050

Bookmarks Cracked on 770

I figured out how to manipulate the bookmarks for the Opera on the Nokia 770. They are stored in XBEL format. More later as I perfect this. You can export XBEL formatted bookmarks right out of Firefox with the Bookmarks Synchronizer-- that is the key.

Go here to get a version of the Bookmarks Sync that works with Firefox 1.5.

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14Dec/050

TomTom5 traffic updates in USA

TomTom5 now has live traffic updates in the US, for selected cities. You can get the service free till the end of 2005. There is no traffic info for Philadelphia however. Logging into your tomtom account, you can check the availability of service for many major cities. I selected NYC, since there is service there.

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14Dec/050

Linux on the Treo 650

Thanks to the work of Matthew Mastracci, this amazing news is all over the net, but I want to mention it here.

Matthew Mastracci has booted a Linux kernel on his Treo. His site has the current status, and he has setup a Treo650 page on the Handhelds.org Wiki site.

My Treo 650 (from Sprint) has been working fine for me. The only real issue I have is the Sprint Service in West Philadelphia. I want to use it as my primary phone (and do, and just put up with the missed calls), but there are still issues of service coverage while inside my house. These super thick brick walls are just not nice to the Sprint signals. Other than that ChatterEmail has been superb, and I use it most of the day to keep me on top of my email, when I'm not in front of a computer. In that respect the Treo has been near flawless. I have no plans to flash Linux onto it, but I can see how it could become very interesting on the 650: with the keyboard, built in connectivity and a decently rezed screen.

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14Dec/050

Grabbing Screen Shots on the 770

If you want nice screen shots from your 770 you are in luck. Jakub Pavelek has written a cool applet that shows both CPU load and memory (ram) usage. As a bonus, it offers to take both a screenshot and a delayed screenshot. It will also kill running applications to help with the dreaded memory crunch on the 770. The screenshot delay is essential, since if there is no delay you will always have the applet's pop-up ui as a blank mask over the screen (see my previous screenshots on this blog).

With this in place, you can snap screenshots. They are stored as PNGs in:

/home/user/MyDocs/.images/screenshot[000].png

So, assuming that you have already setup the Dropbear SSH server and have your host keys all setup, from a Mac or Windows terminal you can just do this:

dillera$ scp user@192.168.251.53:MyDocs/.images/*.png .
screenshot00.png            100%  177KB 177.3KB/s   00:01
screenshot01.png            100%   88KB  88.0KB/s   00:00

In this example, I just pulled down two screenshots from the 770 into my local directory on my Mac. Now I can edit those as necessary. One result is below.