Tag Archives for mobile
Maemo 2.0 Beta now available!
You can now download the new firmware flashing software (Mac OS X and Linux only) and the new 2.0 beta firmware from the Maemo platform releases page. The new software includes the previously-announced Google Talk client. For more screenshots, see: … Continue reading
Mobile’ish links for today
Here’s a few links I picked up over the past few days: Rolling Dice — a video demonstration of a motion detection API in a phone (Via C. Enrique Ortiz’ Mobility Weblog) HP48 emulator for Maemo HP 42C emulator for … Continue reading
Mobile Monday Austin, June 5th: Opera CEO Jon S. von Tetzchner
Mark your calendars for this Monday, June 5th! Mobile Monday Austin (5:30pm – 8:00pm at Dell, Parmer South Campus, PS1 Texas Giant Conf Room) will feature Opera CEO Jon S. von Tetzchner, M:Metrics Senior Sales Director David Gill, and Frog … Continue reading
Austin Python Meetup, June 8th 2006
The next Austin Python Meetup is happening June 8th! I’ll be there talking about Python as a language for mobile application development, specifically looking at and demoing Python for S60. My presentation isn’t finished yet, so any ideas or suggestions … Continue reading
Mobile bittorrent
David Hulbert has started coding a mobile BitTorrent client for S60 called WizBit using Nokia’s Python for S60. His project blog has more detail. And if you want to install Python on your S60 mobile phone but don’t know which … Continue reading
Mobile web dev with wifi
Shortly after my Apache and mod_python for S60 post where I geeked out on the possibility of running a web development process involving bluetooth file synchronization and an on-phone webserver, it occurred to me that a simpler solution might just … Continue reading
Apache and mod_python for S60
Nokia Research Center (NRC) has published a port of Apache for S60 which includes mod_python built for Python for S60. Once installed, you can run Apache on your phone and serve Python-based web applications that utilize the full (non-GUI) API … Continue reading
MobileMonday Global Summit
Tonight is the Mobile Monday Global Summit 2006 in Helsinki, Finland. The summit includes a peer awards ceremony featuring mobile software nominated by other Mobile Monday cities. Mobile Monday Austin has nominated Bones in Motion to the B2C (Business-to-Consumer) Category … Continue reading
Massive download spike of PyS60
Anyone know what might have caused a massive spike in downloads of PyS60 for 1st Edition devices on April 25th and 26th? We normally see around 100 downloads per day, but those two days saw 35,000 downloads total! The SourceForge … Continue reading
“Debugging 101″
There was a nice post on Hacknot this week called “Debugging 101” that covers approaches to debugging; However, what I found most memorable was the reminder that “debugging” still carries a connotation of “failure”. I’ve certainly met guys who think … Continue reading
My Nokia 770 is here!
It took awhile, but I finally got a Nokia 770 Internet Tablet! (Though I guess it would be called an “ultramobile” now ;-) The device arrived a couple weeks ago (those who bumped into me at SXSWi might have seen … Continue reading
VirtualRadio for S60
I bought a copy of VirtualRadio for my Nokia N90. At the time I thought it would be killer to have a shoutcast client on my phone. I don’t listen to mp3′s on my phone (I have an iPod for … Continue reading
Xcode Plugin for Symbian OS
A friend sent me this link today: “Xcode Plugin for Symbian OS.” I haven’t tried it yet, but it’s the most promising OS X development solution for native Symbian apps that I’ve seen. (Screenshots)
View your site with Nokia Open Source web browser today
You’ve heard about Nokia’s open source web browser for S60 based on Apple’s WebCore/JavaScriptCore right? I’m sure you have… but did you know that you can try it out right now? I didn’t either. The odds are pretty good that … Continue reading
PyS60 bug tracking moved to SourceForge
Jukka has migrated the bug database for the Python for S60 1.3.1 release to the project’s Bug Tracker on SourceForge. There’s also a good post on the discussion boards about the move and why the source code is downloadable, but … Continue reading
Preferans, PyDict, and s60-compat for PyS60
Some of this will be more useful for those Russian-speaking Python hackers out there, but http://amigo12.boom.ru/ (English) has some excellent examples of robust and unique mobile applications written with Python for S60: Preferans card game on Python for S60: Python … Continue reading
NewsForge: Nokia releases Python for S60 source code
There’s a new NewsForge article up about Python for S60 with a few quotes from yours’ truly: “Nokia releases Python for S60 source code.” I chatted with Mr. Feller on the phone a couple weeks ago while he was prepping … Continue reading
Zonetag: post geocoded images to Flickr from your phone
I haven’t seen many posts about this, but Yahoo! has released a geocoding, Flickr-uploader for S60 phones: Zonetag! The download link isn’t working for me, but the description of the app’s functionality sounds a lot like ShoZu, meaning, a background … Continue reading
Python for S60 making the news with GvR and AllAboutSymbian
Python for S60 is making the news again! Guido van Rossum now has a Nokia phone to run PyS60 on: “Too Much Fun with Python on Nokia Phone“ Steve Litchfield, of All About Symbian, has posted a review: “Nokia Python’s … Continue reading
Python for Maemo (Nokia 770 linux tablet) examples
A friend just sent me a link to Teemu’s Blog to check out his two recent posts: Coding for Nokia 770 using Python – Part 1 Coding for Nokia 770 using Python – Part 2 The examples cover Python for … Continue reading