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Comment on Bookmark Management on the Nokia 770 by Bookmark Management on the Nokia 770 | Donovan’s Brain

Bookmark Management on the Nokia 770 | Donovan’s Brain — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 23:51:01 +0000

[...] The Syncing Apple: “I wanted to export my perfectly good bookmark lists in Firefox and put them on the 770.” [...]

Comment on 2008 and the Newton by pixelglow

pixelglow — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 01:01:52 +0000

I see you’re a Newton fan too… I used to have a couple of MessagePads back in the day, carrying it around to take notes when carrying a PDA was a sure sign of geekdom.

You might want to check out my iPhone app Instaviz:

http://instaviz.com

… which has Newton-inspired shape recognition and automated graph layout. Note taking via mind maps / concept maps and the like.

Comment on Building Android – Available Now! by dillera

dillera — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:46:41 +0000

Ah yes, that is an elegant (but slower I would think) solution. I was lucky- I had an external drive I use for TimeMachine. I bit the bullet and partitioned it out and shaved off 30G for my new case-sensitive partition.

Comment on Building Android – Available Now! by Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:39:06 +0000

The easiest way to do this is to create a disk image to work from that is case sensitive HFS+ and build from there.

Comment on OpenEinstein build 48 for Nokia 770 by spiderxman

spiderxman — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:27:09 +0000

sorry! I forget make it executable
But it’s did’n work

I unpack files in /home/user/MyDocs/.document/newton

after make execute and run “./einstein” platform loads and type:
========
Welcome to Einstein console.
This is Einstei Platform 2007.7
./einstein — syntax error
syntax is ./einstein [option] path_to_data
========

Ok. ROM file copied in same dir and named 717006. I type “./einstein 717006″

sysyem type:
=====
Welcome to Einstein console.
This is Einstei Platform 2007.7
Can’t start ROM file ‘717006/717006′
=====

ok. I rename “717006″ to “rom-image”

sysyem type:
…
Can’t start ROM file ‘rom-image/717006′
…

???
And if I creat subfolder “rom-image” and move 717006 into, after run “./einstein rom-image” system type:
…
ROM file should be 8MB long
…

But file “717006″ – 8.9MB!!! And, of course, this ROM full works on Einstei Platform 2007.7 for Windows!!!

WTF?

Comment on OpenEinstein build 48 for Nokia 770 by spiderxman

spiderxman — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:01:37 +0000

Small stupid question: how run it on 770?

I unpack and copied three files (*.rex, ROM and 16 megs of binary OpenEinstein) to internal memory (into created dir “Newton”). Binary was renamed to “einstein”
Then I type in x-term “./einstein” and…

“./einstein: permission denided” ((

Comment on Desktop Tower Defense by joeljrichards

joeljrichards — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:53:31 +0000

Ugh. I agree. I got hopelessly addicted to this game but then I stopped playing video games years ago–after I developed an unhealthy compulsion for Civ and C&C. I just downloaded Mote-M for my iPhone, not as cool but I it may be the first paid App I delete in an last ditch effort to regain my productivity.

Comment on Linus Torvalds uses PowerPC not Intel for Linux by Plavix verses generic.

Plavix verses generic. — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:10:23 +0000

Plavix….

Plavix dosage. Mexican plavix….

Comment on EEE 901 Ubuntu and Netbook Remix by dillera

dillera — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 02:27:27 +0000

UPdate: i used a spare apple wireless BT keyboard and I’m loving the 901 now. There was also an update to the netbook remix, and it’s better also.

Comment on Awesome image editor for MacOSX: Imagewell by Russell

Russell — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:25:23 +0000

Imagewell looks great. Another alternative you might consider is Pixelmator. Small, efficient, accomplishes the tasks you listed.

http://www.pixelmator.com/

Comment on OpenEinstein build 48 for Nokia 770 by Nokia 770 Blog

Nokia 770 Blog — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:50:31 +0000

The Mobile King…

Nokia literally rules the world of mobile handsets worldwide and there might be hardly…

Comment on Could Android crush iPhone? by D George

D George — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:24:35 +0000

I am neither a mobile application programmer nor a middlware expert. I still cannot understand why cant we make a mobile device which is fully customizable? why can’t they make a Mobile processor (like intel or AMD just like PCs) and use peripherals with drivers work for all availabe mobile OSs. If thats possible, why do we worry about specific OSs. Mobile hardware manufacturer makes cell phones and OS vendors like MS, Google or Apple create Mobile OSs which is compatible for those cellphones and end user can decide what mobile, carrier and OS they need.

Please somebody explain why this is not possible..? Or Is this a monopoly of vendors, hardware manufacturers and carriers..?

Thanks,
DG

Comment on OpenEinstein build 48 for Nokia 770 by joey

joey — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:15:06 +0000

wow, didn’t know this existed. yeah I second that “get it running on n810″

any tips on formatting mmc for bootability, using osx? or windows? or ubuntu? or whatever…

Comment on Could Android crush iPhone? by Ati

Ati — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:17:45 +0000

Well, the primary selling points of the iPhone are it’s unique (read: multi touch) hardware, and a polished interface.

Android cannot compete with the hardware, since it’s purely a software mechanism, and while Android is super-customizable, your average layman is not going to be able to get anything as slick as the iPhone interface running without a lot of difficulty.

Also, they aren’t mutually exclusive; android software, if it was better than iPhone, could run on an iPhone, thus removing any competition whatever.

In short, I don’t think the iPhone has anything to worry about just yet.

Best,
Ati

Comment on OpenEinstein build 48 for Nokia 770 by justfred

justfred — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 07:53:04 +0000

Well, thanks for providing the compiled binaries; I was about halfway through the process and Leopard was giving up on me. I managed to get everything installed but when I try to run I get:

$./einstein .
This is Einstein Platform 2007.7
Creating image…
Killed.

-The ROM came from my (2000->)2100, “Senior CirrusNoDebug image”, named 717006
-I copied from the card to the internal store.
-The three files are there.
-They’re all chmod 777

I’m not sure how to exit the maemo_af_desktop

Anyhow, thanks for any help you can offer; I’d love to see this thing run (so I can rationalize an N810!)

-Fred