As you may not notice, but since the last change on the site outlook early this year, Theo’s Weblog was decorated with some kind of pattern…
It is actually call QRCode, a 2D barcode widely use in Japan!
Many mobile phones in Japan comes with encoder/decoder build-in working with the digital camera, save ALOT of typing isn’t it?
🙂
I actually did the code quite sometime ago, but completely forgot about it….
You can try a online demo here!
While we was “a little bit” disappointed about Core Player for PalmOS released last week, we now have another excitement!
The professional media player developer, Kinoma, has just released their new media player and producer, version 4 EX, Kinoma Player 4EX featuring:
MPEG-4, 3GPP, RTSP, HTTP, MP3, RSS, OPML, Windows Media (Windows Media 9 video and audio) , AAC, and Flash Video…
Not only promising WMV 9 (which is already known to be no no on CorePlayer 1.02), RSTP streamming…….
Stated in their website:
Sites like Google Video and YouTube serve up some of the most entertaining video available anywhere. Using Kinoma Player 4 EX, you can watch the latest favorites from these sites on your handheld. But be careful, you may spend more time watching than you expected.
Thinks it means FLV (Flash Video) used by YouTube, Google Video and a few other online video Content provider, so finally we can watch them on our Palm without the painly converting!(Don’t think other mobile devices do FLV yet, other than MPlayer/FFMPEG on a Linux Zaurus)!!!!!
Hum…………..wonder would VLS works?? (It would be JUST GREAT if it does!)
Too bad there doesn’t seems to be a trial, I will see should I really get it, as there is actually no comments yet on the product.
Too much talking, heads up to Kinoma!!!
Links:
Kinoma – Kinoma Player 4 EX.
Kinoma – Kinoma Producer 4 EX.
PalmInfocenter – Kinoma Player 4 EX Released
Tipped by email of a friend, FireFox 2.0 has just been released, wonder why wasn’t the official site updated yet, but you can go http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0/win32/ to download it!
Reports from users that some extension (now call addons) does not works in FF 2.0, but most of them are just same old problem of version number checking, which can be override by another addon call “Nightly Tester Tools”.
Hum, IE7 follow by FF2, seem like we will have quite some beta testing to do again….
Reminds me off the days with IE3.0 vs Netscape 3.0 (I personally don’t count IE 2.0 vs Netscape 2.0 a “compare”)….
🙂
Link:
FireFox Official site
Nightly Tester Tools
Microsoft Official Internet Explorer 7 page
Quote from todays New Zealand Herald:
NZ households ‘spending more on sweets than fruit’ 4.05 pm Tuesday October 24, 2006
New Zealand households are spending more on sugary snacks than on fresh fruit, a new report says.
….(chomp)
It seems to be same problem with most developed countries, junk food are everywhere….
But with all those great fruits in New Zealand, thats just so sad……
Miss all those Gala Apples, Kiwi Fruits and big red fresh juicy Strawberries…..
What do you think?
Link:
New Zealand Herald.
A new Open Sourced browser is on the way.
Universe 3, base on their previous development WAP Browser, WAPUniverse, stated on their website it will pack with features that we dream of on our Palm, like Tab browsing, RSS reading etc..
Too bad developer already stated that they have enough beta tester, can’t wait to put hands on it….lets look forward for its release.
Quote from the site:
Features including…
A Tabbed interface (supporting up to 3 tabs)
An address bar featuring a url box and navigation buttons
An Integrated RSS reader
Private browsing (mask the history, cache and cookies)
Support for JPEG, GIF, BMP and PNG (with alpha channels) images
Support for HTML/XHTML/WML/RSS 1.0/2.0
Support for WAP 1.0/2.0
Support for Hires and Hires+ screen sizes
No need for the Java VM!
Much more.
Planned Features Include…
Advanced 5-Way scrolling (based off of the Nokia S60 Browser)
Removing the 3 tab limit JavaScript support (using Apple’s JavaScriptCore)
gzip Compression for a faster browsing experience
Opening and saving files to the local file system
And more
Stated in the site, Screenshot simulated. There is no affiliation between the Universe browser and ACCESS.
Added 20061027110243:
Tams PalmOS Blog has a good preview on the beta, feel free to visit tamspalm.tamoggemon.com/2006/10/26/a-new-browser-for-palm-os/
Link:
Officall site – WAPUniverse
Agent Smith: …Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world……
Quote from The Matrix (1999)
Hum…..yeah…….we got an error…. oh yes, it never existed.
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gcc -o perfect_world
collect2: ld terminated with signal 303
Segmentation Fault
ld: fatal: file *** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target ‘perfect_world’
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Why did I took the blue pill?
Earlier I made a post about PalmDOSBOX on TC, in the comments, Reader Maxence MOHR mention question about dosbox.conf.
It is an important config file for PalmDosBox, as it currently still has no setting/preference form for user to set custom settings, nor there is no way to input commands as input was not supported.
I too have the problem at the beginning, dosbox.conf was mention but not welly documentated in
After a few search, I came up with info about dosbox.conf online by the Offical DOSbox, after download and installing it, I got a full dosbox.conf which was for DOSBox Win32.
Then I select the part I need, copy them into a dosbox.conf file and place it on the root “/” of my SD card by card reader.
Below are the content of the dosbox.conf I use:
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[dos]
# xms — Enable XMS support.
# ems — Enable EMS support.
# umb — Enable UMB support (false,true,max).
xms=true
ems=true
umb=true
[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.
mount c /
c:
dir
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Nice to catch a few bugs, and some improvements: like bugs of missing comment(s) in comment auditing system , error of timeout due to long loop in index page, cleaner and faster code…….
A few new features were planned, like RSS for comments, more auto notice to comments reply, even some fancy version of the weblog (Flash with FLAX, AJAX version), but I really don’t have the time for it right now, keep them in my head, do them while I can.
My feeling on Perl is….
It is hard to learn, has a way longer learning curve, compare to PHP, but if a user spend enough time on it, I think the long learning curve DOES worth it!
P.S: Hum………just thought of it….wonder does mate D still uses Perl now?
Some Tips on using the GoogleMap Mobile (GMM):
Samsung SGH-i530 running GoogleMap Mobile var GPRS 
TC (WIFI), i530 (GPRS) and Treo650 (BT PPP) running GoogleMap Mobile. 
Click to enlarge
What to Install?
Although it is called GoogleMap Mobile for Treo, but it does works on other PalmOS devices, I have tested my TC, i530 they both work, forget about the J2ME edition of GMM which needs JVM to work, it is buggy, slow, although currently support a few more function like Favorites.
Zoom.
The Volume button on the Treos is the Zoom button, the 5 way is scroll.
Find.
You can use global find in PalmOS with the Long,Lat of your target location(or Name of the places), there will be an option on the find allowing you to go directly to the location in GMM!
Error.
You need LOTS of DBCache if you really want to play around with GMM on your Treo 650 (TC has lots of free heap, so not a problem, but for all other NVFlash devices…..), or it will report error, I remember my last error was with appox 2.3MB DBCache free (Max Free Chunk), a restart frees the Max Free Chunk, and GMM works fine again!
Others.
Unlike the GoogleEarth for Desktops, with our limited resources (RAM and CPU, Bandwidth wise), some feature like: Enlarge of map in satellite view is not supported, instead it will tell you the requested map is not available, please Zoom out; the fancy Earth view for user to select their wanted location, we need to use “Find”, scrolling is just too slow….
Whats missing?
Of coz, I wouldn’t lame for 3D images support on the Palm port, but looking at the officall discussion fourm on GMM, some features are on the top wanted list:
1. Storage of the Cached images on SD card, currently, they are stored in RAM, which of coz we want more on our Treo…
2. Sending GPS data to GMM, hum…it should be nice, then a “REAL” Map GPS program, maybe with tracking and routing……
3. Sending GIS data from 3rd party Applications to GMM, it would be nice, then the “Custom Field” of the Address Book (Contacts) would be useful!!
4. Most wanted! Storing favorites! we need that, we don’t want to search for our favorite everytime, and it would be really great if KML file by GoogleEarth desktop can be support (Online *.KML or VFS storage).
Links:
GoogleMap – Take the power of Google Maps with you on your Treo
Officall GoogleMap Mobile Discussion group
GoogleEarth – Google Earth KML 2.0 Tutorial
Google has just released Google Map service for the Treos.
Treo 600,650,700p are supported, but I suggest all other PalmOS (OS5+) devices with network connection should work.
The service itself is FREE, but you will need network connection to get GoogleMap for Treo work, like GPRS (which normally cost), BT PPP var desktop etc.
This seems to be the first release so it is not very rich in function, but I am really look forward like support for *.KML (POI and Path) from the GoogleEarth desktop, sending POI data to GoogleMap for location display, or even sending GPS data realtime to it for Tracking…
Heads up Google and install now!
🙂
Link:
Google – Take the power of Google Maps with you on your Treo.
Google – Supported devices
Official Google Blog – Maps in the Palm in your hand
