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8 months ago
in A digital camera designed for bloggers? (Scripting News) on Scripting News
Why not just get a better camera phone? Think about it, Scoble uses a Nokia N95 to do all of his QiK streaming and that has a 5 megapixel camera. Jeff Jarvis used a Nokia N82 to cover the World Economic Forum: http://www.beet.tv/2008/02/nokia-n95-loom.html
That has a 5 meagpixel camera with xenon flash, wifi and the ability to upload straight to Flickr or whatever image service you like to use. It's the device I currently use day in and day out.
Disclosure: I work for Nokia's S60 Division, S60 being the OS that powers devices like the Nokia N95 and N82.
That has a 5 meagpixel camera with xenon flash, wifi and the ability to upload straight to Flickr or whatever image service you like to use. It's the device I currently use day in and day out.
Disclosure: I work for Nokia's S60 Division, S60 being the OS that powers devices like the Nokia N95 and N82.
8 months ago
in Tetris Splash - RussellBeattie.com on Russell Beattie's Blog Forum
People are gushing over Rez HD, I've yet to play it, but I fondly remember playing the first version on the Dreamcast. You might want to check it out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rez
And don't forget Geometry Wars and Marble Madness. In our ever increasingly ADD world I personally love these games that you can just fall into, play with for a little bit, leave, then come back to with no problem.
And don't forget Geometry Wars and Marble Madness. In our ever increasingly ADD world I personally love these games that you can just fall into, play with for a little bit, leave, then come back to with no problem.
8 months ago
in Thank you to Nokia for amazing two days | Oliver Thylmann's Thoughts on Oliver Thylmann's Thoughts
Nokia is planning to have these meetings at regular intervals?
Plans to expand outside of London?
Plans to expand outside of London?
8 months ago
in TWiT follow-up (Scripting News) on Scripting News
All the new Nokia phones coming out come with a podcatcher built it, if you already have a Nokia device and don't have the application you can grab it here: http://europe.nokia.com/A4160376
As for the N800 not being polished enough, I agree, even with the latest firmware/OS on it, which by the way is the exact same experience on the N810 minus the keyboard and GPS, the browser just isn't snappy enough according to people whose main source of information is Google Reader.
As for the N800 not being polished enough, I agree, even with the latest firmware/OS on it, which by the way is the exact same experience on the N810 minus the keyboard and GPS, the browser just isn't snappy enough according to people whose main source of information is Google Reader.
8 months ago
in The Tao of Mac - Those guys in the woodwork on The Tao of Mac
you shouldn't have to defend your opinions against other people's opinions. like assholes, everyone has an opinion. i agree with you on all your points, especially the remark that things should just work. the out of box experience is something lots of people take for granted. like you i hear "well duh, S60 is a smartphone platform so you can just add the features you really want."
that isn't enough. the baseline needs to improve. S60 aside, N82 user here, i've yet to purchase an internet tablet. like you i agree google reader is the killer app, but i regularly consume around 300 RSS feeds and i've heard bad things about the new mozilla based browser in maemo 2008.
maybe the next version. maybe i'll stop saying that one of these months.
that isn't enough. the baseline needs to improve. S60 aside, N82 user here, i've yet to purchase an internet tablet. like you i agree google reader is the killer app, but i regularly consume around 300 RSS feeds and i've heard bad things about the new mozilla based browser in maemo 2008.
maybe the next version. maybe i'll stop saying that one of these months.
9 months ago
in The Tao of Mac - The Joy of Webpads on The Tao of Mac
"And here’s the clincher: nearly all the links posted on this site since the beginning of February were added from it – something that I never managed to find an easy way to do on the N810."
Can you elaborate what you meant by that?
Can you elaborate what you meant by that?
9 months ago
in Quick iPhone SDK Thoughts - RussellBeattie.com on Russell Beattie's Blog Forum
Having an outside company control what you can and can not do with a device you own is always a dangerous game. Sure there will be plenty of awesome applications, but you can bet your ass that things will be called "illegal" and "bandwidth hogs" and taken down just to make operators happy and copyright owners happy. How would you like it if every application you wanted to install on your Windows machine had to go through a filter setup by someone else? Exactly.
9 months ago
in The iPhone Sandbox - RussellBeattie.com on Russell Beattie's Blog Forum
Biting my tongue until tomorrow. I'll tell you one thing Apple is doing right, this coming from a Nokia/S60 die hard, they're using the iTunes platform as their means of software distribution. Finding good applications worthy of instillation has been the thorn in users and developers asses since time existed. Nokia's Internet Tablet, which runs Maemo based on Linux, uses the same repository type system that other distributions use to aid in software discovery and installation.
9 months ago
in The Real iEffect - RussellBeattie.com on Russell Beattie's Blog Forum
Hate to say it, but it took you long enough to come to this conclusion :P
Now the fun hasn't even begun, wait until the SDK comes out and people wake up to the fact that they can add value to their mobile phone post purchase ... then the revolution will begin.
Long time reader, don't think I'm mocking you, I just thought you would "get it" a lot sooner than the rest of the people in the mobile space.
Now the fun hasn't even begun, wait until the SDK comes out and people wake up to the fact that they can add value to their mobile phone post purchase ... then the revolution will begin.
Long time reader, don't think I'm mocking you, I just thought you would "get it" a lot sooner than the rest of the people in the mobile space.
10 months ago
in Been here before (Scripting News) on Scripting News
OpenID + XMPP. Think about how each and every one of our personal relationships have their own set of rules. There is the guy your daughter dates who she doesn't want you knowing about or her friends at work, but doesn't mind her friends at school knowing. How come no one builds something for that use case? Social networks are all or nothing and I don't like that. Follow the UNIX philosophy and solve one problem at a time then create a solution around those answers.
10 months ago
in Why does Twitter go down? (Scripting News) on Scripting News
Do you have any idea how much more efficient Twitter would be if they switched to XMPP based RSS instead of whatever the hell it is they have now. Twitter is basically instant messaging with even less volume than instant messaging, yet they can't figure out in 2008 what AOL, MSN, ICQ and Yahoo did way back when. What are they waiting for?
11 months ago
in CES, here we come! (Scripting News) on Scripting News
A 1 TB drive would be nice and as for ideas on what to see ... well 2008 looks to be the year of the UMPC. I'm going to hang around Lenovo's booth and Intel's. See you at the BlogHaus.
12 months ago
in Zune as a podcast player? (Scripting News) on Scripting News
Still don't understand why you don't just get a Nokia N95-3. It has American 3G (provided you're with AT&T) and has a podcasting application that can update itself over WiFi or the cellular network, whichever you choose. Dedicated music playing devices with optional connectivity are just a band aid solution when in reality you just have to get yourself a cellphone that isn't a piece of shit provided to you by one of the four monopolistic operators.
1 year ago
in Specifically about podcasting (Scripting News) on Scripting News
I used the podcasting application on my Nokia N95: http://europe.nokia.com/A4160376
And you might want to play with the mobile web server, basically it puts Apache on your cellphone: http://blogs.s60.com/mws/index.html
So now you have the catcher and the sender all in one device, using standard technologies. The future is P2P traffic on mobile phones, but in a country like America where everyone has 2+ computers and cellphones that cry ancient it is easy to see why mobile doesn't really make the leap into peoples imagination when thinking about the services of tomorrow.
And you might want to play with the mobile web server, basically it puts Apache on your cellphone: http://blogs.s60.com/mws/index.html
So now you have the catcher and the sender all in one device, using standard technologies. The future is P2P traffic on mobile phones, but in a country like America where everyone has 2+ computers and cellphones that cry ancient it is easy to see why mobile doesn't really make the leap into peoples imagination when thinking about the services of tomorrow.
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1 year ago
in Casting in late 2007 (Scripting News) on Scripting News
tvrss.net is amazing. it essentially is a torrent file attached to an RSS feed that you feed into your torrent client (I prefer utorrent) and from now on all your shows come down to you in high quality, for free. when piracy is this easy i wonder why the big heads can't do it. personally a lot of people my age (21) like to wait until a season is over and then watch a show in chunks. they don't like this whole bit by bit plot fed to them.
1 year ago
in More Free Themes! on Symbian in Motion
"Brownie" looks pimp, but the link you provide is to the wrong theme. I installed it and it definitely isn't pimp.
1 year ago
in Adaptxt by Keypoint Technologies on Symbian in Motion
wtf, i asked the PR guy to shoot me an email when this application came out so I could test it on my device and he totally shafts me.
1 year ago
in Making a happy developer house (Scripting News) on Scripting News
Google's SDK comes out tomorrow actually.
I'm sorry to say but open does not equal success either.
I'm sorry to say but open does not equal success either.
And funny that you mention it but there was an official respose when it first appeared that many users thought the app was going to be a podcast *making* app. The word then was at some point it would be one. Clearly, it's the service part that needs the most work, since not only will it hold uploaded podcasts, but it also needs to be a default subscription source in the player with good discovery tools due to the volume of new recordings.
I'd say keep an eye on them, or better yet, give them a call. ;)