Archive for October, 2003

Mobile Antivirus Engine

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2003

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

Mobile providers — Wake Up!

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2003

Tim quotes from a
recent rant of mine.

Optimizing Powerpoint for Size

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2003

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…”

Mac OS X driver for Sierra Wireless AirCard 555

Sunday, October 19th, 2003

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 PC with a 1,490k download
(a zip file, so any compressing proxy should have had negligible to no
effect).

iTunes for Windows to the Rescue

Saturday, October 18th, 2003

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 list; that album, and the extended
version of Fellowship of the Ring. However, my Mac kept spitting out disc two of HtWWW, but my PC
could read it fine, so iTunes for Windows to the rescue, and I’ll have it in my music collection
before long.

Atari 2600 on your 3650?

Friday, October 17th, 2003

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.”

Vnc2swf

Wednesday, October 15th, 2003

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.

Forbidden Eggs

Thursday, October 9th, 2003

More on MIDP on Mac OS X

Thursday, October 9th, 2003

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

.NET Interface to GPS Devices

Thursday, October 9th, 2003

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.”