Tue, 21 Nov 2006
Maemo Glossary
As a result of a conversation on IRC a couple of days ago about the connection between the Nokia 770/Maemo and The Flintstones I decided to start a Maemo Glossary in the wiki to preserve such esoterica for future generations.
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Don't Just Ignore Me!
Turns out this draft/ignore entry plugin for PyBlosxom works as advertised. No more messing up Planets with half-finished entries. Now, don't go getting nosey...
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Catalan to English translation
The other day I discovered an impressive online Catalan to English translation service. At first I didn't know my source document was written in Catalan but a helpful soul on #mamemo helped me out on that score. Some Google-ing revealed a couple of online translation services for Catalan but Translendium was by far the most impressive.
The source page I was translating had information on Nokia 770 reverse engineering and was an interesting find. The resulting translation makes clear when the translation is ambiguous or where there is no appropriate translation known. It managed to turn "Primer hem de extreure les parts de la imatge" into "First we have to extract the parts from the image" which I thought was impressive. Of course translation doesn't always help, such as when one ends up with "costs an egg and half" and one doesn't know how much an egg costs. But from the helpful soul on IRC I learned this is equivalent to the English idiom of "costs an arm and a leg". i.e. Expensive!
If you are interested in learning more check out the detailed Nokia 770 reverse engineering document.
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Wed, 08 Nov 2006
Treo 180 Speaker Fix-Up
The other night I finally got around to fixing my Treo 180 so I can actually use it as a phone again. (Certain readers may find that surprising. :-) ) Thanks to this Treo 180 speaker fix guide the operation went mostly smoothly.
I should really have used thinner hookup wire but I just used what I had on hand so it's not the most pretty fix in the world. But at least it works. It really was a bad design flaw that should never have made it past QA.
Cheap, hackable Linux smartphone due soon?
On the subject of cell phones, can I have one of these, please. :-) Interesting seeing the "mad props" given to Nokia. Time will tell what this new entrant (assuming it appears as forecast) will mean to existing FLOSS/Linux-based players such as Nolkia's Maemo and the Palm-related Access platform.
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