Monthly Archives: October 2003

Mobile Antivirus Engine

MobileTracker: “Japanese mega-carrier NTT DoCoMo has announced that it is partnering up with Network Associates to develop an antivirus engine for mobile phones.

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Mobile providers — Wake Up!

Tim quotes from a recent rant of mine.

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Optimizing Powerpoint for Size

vowe dot net: “You have seen this before: Somebody gives you a PPT file that is huge. When you look inside you find lots of graphics, most of them in uncompressed BMP format, some even scaled down…”

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Mac OS X driver for Sierra Wireless AirCard 555

Stretched Out Software has a Mac OS X driver for the Sierra Wireless AirCard 555. The AirCard can get some impressive speeds on Verizon’s Express Network. I’ve seen it go as fast as 12 kilobytes per second on a Windows … Continue reading

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iTunes for Windows to the Rescue

I finally picked up How the West Was Won–I can be frugal at times, and I waited until my credit card points were enough for $50 in Best Buy cards. Then I picked up the two items on my wish … Continue reading

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Atari 2600 on your 3650?

Brighthand: “MobileWizardry and Mobile Digital Media (MDM) will release an official Atari 2600 emulator later this year… these games will be available for Palm OS, Windows Mobile, and Symbian Series 60.”

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Vnc2swf

Tom Hoffman points to a cool hack called Vnc2swf. It does exactly what the name suggests. Be sure to check out the movie on Tom’s page and the sample movies on the Vnc2Swf page.

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Forbidden Eggs

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More on MIDP on Mac OS X

Rael’s got some more details on doing MIDP development on Mac OS X.

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.NET Interface to GPS Devices

Thinking in .NET: “the article is about an application that I’ve been working on with the guys at 3Leaf (aka Early and Adopter) that’s a .NET interface to Global Positioning System (GPS) devices.”

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