Thursday, January 24, 2008

Really Cool Things

Some people are doing some extraordinary stuff with their new internet tablets. Now that the N810 units getting into developer hands (after countless problems with LetsTalk - Did they really ask you for your Social Security Number?) the excitement is growing.

Finally: INdT is hosting the Bossaconference '08 in Brazil. It's a gathering of developers in open conversation about Linux device development. I will be there, delivering a lecture on community involvement in open-source applications. I have a bunch of feedback already (thank you very much to #maemo IRC folks) but ask my readers this question:

What do you feel developers or users doing WRONG when developing/releasing/giving feedback on open source applications?

3 comments:

tz said...

Not to toot my own horn, but I've been running true OTG switch host mode and swap USB keydrives for a few weeks:

http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14092

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000Y032X8

You need that - which contains 5 wires internally, much easer than the scrape and peel on the connector. Just pull back the sheath and shielding and short brown to black.

Then get a fairly common mini-b male to standard female A adapter (casecooler.com has them, but so does many other places). I've also managed to open up one of these cheap miniB-AF adapters and short pins 4 and 5 near the back with some conductive silver ink and it works both in the n800 and n810 with an UNMODIFIED microb to minib adapter since the 5 wire adapter carries through the sense line.

tz said...

Oh, I forgot about the other interesting things: I have a WiSpy working (intermittent lockups) in auto-host mode, my moving map program for the Zaurus runs with Qt3 added to the pad (full GPS tracking with path draw, maps from US Census tiger database, extremely fast and compact compression). I'm trying to do something with video, get my EVDO modem to work off the usb port (though my Cradlepoint 350 travel router works well as a stopgap). I'm setting up the development environment and will probably set up KDE... And got my mac format iPod to mount (time to port gtkpod).

I'd do more but I'm too busy downloading all the neat things others are doing too.

This is worse than when I got a new system and installed ubuntu - I do embedded linux, but have been running the kernel since 0.99.

Maxilogan said...

Hi Dan. As far as I can understand, you're running this blog through Blogger and not wordpress.

I do the same for mine (far less viewed than this ;) ).

Did you ever try to publish something through the Blogger client on OS2007? In my experience, it always crashed both under OS2007 and OS2006, and we cannot (still) install it under OS2008.

Is there any app that allows Blogger publishing to be used on ITT? Or (going a bit OT), is there something that can run under Symbian? I own an E51 also (which I find an ideal companion to the ITT, BTW: small, full featured phone also with great voice capabilities)