Sony has released their eReader today– the PRS-500 is available in the US for $349. Guess what else you can get today for $349? The 770 and PRS-500 share nearly the same screen specs (800×600 for the PRS-500 and 800×480 for the 770) however the PRS-500’s screen is non-color. Beyond that, they are very different…
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Origami and the Nokia 770
Nokia better get their butt in gear for the 2nd generation Internet Tablet- the hype (more analysis) over the Microsoft Origami project is growing, and while it is very much vaporware at this point, a lot could happen this year. This device is aimed squarely at the niche that Nokia has identified. More than a…
Scanner Darkly Trailer for Nokia 770
The new trailer for A Scanner Darkly is out, and there is a feature in the current (March) Wired Magazine about the issues that Linklater has had with the technology to rotoscope this entire movie. Seeing as how the trailer is very cool, and not too big, I decided to encode it for the 770–…
2400mAh Treo650 Battery
2400mAh EXTENDED LIFE BATTERY – BASI24TR650 You need one of these if you have a Treo and say, chattermail… to have a chance at going 2 days without depleting your battery. $39…
Minimo for WM5
The Minimo Project has released a candidate for wm5— now all I need is for Acer to release the cool QVGA N300 in the USA and I’d have something cool and new to run it on…
BlackBerry Connect live in Barcelona
Treonauts has some in-the-hand experience with the Black Berry Connect for Palm. I was very excited about this a year ago when it was announced, as I had just switched from a Blackberry Nextel phone to my new Sprint Treo650. While ChatterMail has been very good to me, I would still run Connect if it…
Booting Einstein on the 770
After a fews days of experimentation, I have a workable recipe for using Einstein with the 770. There is work that remains to be done to Einstein, but it does run, just slowly and it is buggy. This is not ready to be a production Newton yet. First there are some things I’m assuming you…
A new Era Dawns
NewtOS/Einstein works on the 770! This is developing, but it works at this point, once you disable the kernel-watchdog and kill Matchbox to free up enough RAM for Einstein to launch. I’ll post a more detailed receipe of what I did later today, when I get some free time. Screenshots: Photos of Newton Booting on…
Will the 770 be the next Newton?
This past week, at the 2006 World Wide Newton Conference mastermind Paul Guyot introduced to the world the next step in his Newton emulation environment, Einstein + Relativity. Paul has had the Newton running (emulated) on the Mac for a couple of years. Now he has built it for ARM based Linux devices. Mmmmm…. I…
Cold Reset HP JetDirect
I’ve had a HP 2300 laser printer for a while, and it’s been the best printer I’ve ever had. The duplexing unit works perfectly. However, I didn’t spring for the networking option, as I had an external JetDirect, which I’ve been using. But then I saw the internal JD card on ebay for $20 (it…
770 Previous Post Redux
Some important updates on my past 770 posts. Swap If you are using .51 firmware and want to use swap, use 24 megs or less. I had problems using 128, then 64, then 32 megs. Finally Andy Flegg was able to tip me off that there is an issue with using anything over 32 megs…
Theming for the Syncing Apple
I’ve settled on Blix for now. I really like how it has its CSS layout- the first layout that actually made sense to me. I’ve modified it a bit to better fit into the SyncingApple style, and I’ll make further tweaks as time permits. I really love how it handles the code by wrapping long…
Apple BT Keyboard
I don’t quite know how to explain what I did (if anything- just investigating), but I have the Apple Bluetooth Keyboard working on my 770 (with the .51 firmware)- and it was insanely simple. I’ve been looking over the Linux – Bluez How-Tos for a few days, and trying this and that (including compiling the…
MarsEdit 1.1 is released
Don’t forget to grab 1.1 – it was just released yesterday and it is a welcome improvement…
Updated to WP2
So I felt bad about all the people who maybe were going to use IE no matter what, so I just upgraded to the new WordPress 2.0, and the new K2 theme from BinaryBonsai. So things are going to be in flux as I begin to mess with and screw up the CSS for this…
This Site on IE
I just realized that this site looks ghastly in IE. If you are using that browser please come back here using Firefox. It looks much nicer…
Busybox on the 770
Busybox is your gateway to exploring the 770. It’s called “The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux” for good reason. When you login to the 770 and use the CLI (or shell) what you are using is Busybox. Traditional Unix machines uses many small programs (most often the GNU toolset) for most common tasks. Almost…
Recovering from a Firmware Flash
So with new firmware images coming from Nokia (which is a good thing) you have to start to deal with picking up the pieces after a flash. The built in control panel ‘Backup’ does a questionable job – while it does seem to work, it also seems to have made my 770 totally wonky, and…
What Happened in .51?
Issues with 51 Ok, since I’ve flashed 51 onto my 770, all hell has broken loose. So far I’ve had these issues: News Reader won’t load (and it constantly refreshes) Sporadic reboots Out of Memory errors (I never had them before) Using swapon causes immediate out of memory and or reboot I had to finally…
CLI Package Installer
Reinstalling packages after a firmware update via the GUI is a drag. Luckily, you can do it quickly and easily with with a simple cli tool on your 770. Thanks to Andrew Flegg who tipped me off to this tool. Assuming you have SSH setup and your 770 is in R&D mode, ssh into your…
.51 Update for 770 – Nothing Dramatic
The Nokia team has released the .51 (apparently that refers to the week the update was released) update on their European site. You can download it after you type in the MAC address of your 770 which is located on a sticker underneath the battery. Hint: write it down somewhere so you don’t have to…
Making Swap
In my quest to speed up the 770 (I think that by loading my bookmarks and RSS feeds I’ve crushed it- it’s just so slow now that it’s mostly unusable) I ran across a link in the comments here to a post on the users list about enabling swap on the MMC, and how that…
Bookmark Management on the Nokia 770
Ready to export your existing bookmarks onto the 770? Just as I wasn’t willing to enter in my RSS feeds by hand, the same goes for my bookmarks. I wanted to export my perfectly good bookmark lists in Firefox and put them on the 770, since it is supposed to stand in for my laptop…
Ebooks and the 770
I really got into reading ebooks with my Toshiba e805, one of the first PocketPCs that sported a near-VGA screen. Reading on it was pleasant and very easy on the eyes. So I’ve been anxious for the 770 to take over as my primary ebook device– the beautiful screen is certainly up to it. So…
Gmail Mobile launched
Gmail mobile is live for mobile devices. It’s a super stripped down interface to your gmail intended for tiny screens on mobile phones. Needless to say, it’s extremely fast on the 770. Using the 770 with this new mobile interface is as fast as email should be. Until the Nokia Osso Email application reaches this…
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