Archive for the 'Mobile' Category

Evernote: A Promising Start

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

After having signed up for an Evernote beta invite a while ago, I finally received one this week.

Evernote is a next generation note taking service. What sets it apart from similar applications are the numerous ways of entering as well as retrieving notes. First of all there is the Evernote Website. It is simple and [...]

iPhone SDK

Friday, March 7th, 2008

This morning, Apple finally announced details about the long-awaited iPhone SDK. The SDK is available for download starting today, and it sounds pretty intriguing!

It comes with a full application stack that includes a custom version of Cocoa (Cocoa Touch), and APIs to access all the iPhone specific features, including hardware-accelerated 3D graphics, the accelerometer, camera, [...]

Gentoo / AMD64 / Bluetooth

Thursday, February 3rd, 2005

After a bit of fiddling with masked ebuilds, I finally managed to get Bluetooth working with Gnome on my AMD64-based Gentoo system. In case you’re running into similar AMD64-related issues, please check out the following bugs I submitted to the Gentoo bug tracker:

80670 80671 80672

(Hey, I got three sequential bug numbers)

The following bug is also [...]

sell your old cell phones

Monday, June 7th, 2004

I came across an interesting link on the wireless weblog: CellForCash.

They make it easy for you to sell your old cell phones by sending you a postage-paid box. The few phones that I have checked only sold for slightly above $10, but since they make it so easy, I may very well take advantage of [...]

Nokia ships impressive Nokia 7610 camera phone

Tuesday, June 1st, 2004

Nokia just announced that they have started shipping the impressive Nokia 7610 Series 60 camera phone. The price tag of somewhere over $600 seems a little hefty, but with service provider discounts this will probably be available for a lot less. The feature list certainly sounds awesome: 1 Megapixel camera, MIDP 2.0, 8MB internal memory [...]