I’ve been waiting for wearables for years now. I’m hearing a lot about them recently so I’m wondering if there are any worth getting. I thought I’d start a post to log what I find. I was inspired by an article in wired,com Wearables Pioneer: How Wearing Tech on Our Bodies Actually Helps It Get Out of Our Way. engadget wearables …
Android keyboard video and mouse (KVM)
It occurred to me a little while back as it has to many people that with an external jeyboard, video and mouse you could essentially turn your android, or other smart phone, into a portable computer with a 500mhz or so processor. When the faster 1ghz processors come along it really would be a useful bit of kit. All you …
Open Screen Project
I was just passed a fascinating article describing Adobes fascinating approach to delivering flash on the iPhone. In this article I can across the Open Screen Project that is trying to make it easier to deliver quality users interfaces across all the upcoming screen types from mobile phones and other handheld devices to large screen tvs with browsers or operating systems …
Audio blogging including speech to text!!
I’ve just been impressed again. I heard about ipadio this morning and installed to my phone. Just checked it out at http://www.ipadio.com found someones phlog (phone log) http://www.ipadio.com/phlogs/MarkSmith3/2009/09/01/Fish and saw the transcript of their aduio blog. Couldn’t believe it just had the text right there. I’m definitely excited to try this. Apparently the speech to text part is delivered by …
Introducing Android Scripting Environment
Yep, you guessed it. It’s android time again :-). Just had to note here that an Android Scripting Engine should be coming to and Android powered device near you in the very near future. Apparently Python, and a set of languages I’ve never heard of before, are going to be included. the point being you’ll be able to write stuff …
MIPS Technologies is optimizing Android for its architecture
Been reading a lot of android stuff lately. Given it’s my latest toy you shouldn’t be that surprised. Any way I was encouraged by a report that the company behind many industry standard processor architectures has made android work with their architecture. In english I take that to mean that Android has now been taught how to play with the …
GPhone with battery that keeps on going
It appears the new batch of android based phones may have a much better battery life. I’ve just got my first gphone so this is going tobe one of the main issues. I’ve ordered a spare battery. I was happy switching batteries in my previous phone so it should be fine here too. Still I would love to not have …
Rhomobile: An open mobile framework
Wouldn’t it be nice to write for one mobile device but then be able to export it to many others too. Without any extra work. This is the constant goal of software development. The write once, deploy any where kind of scenario. Well I was just told about rhomobile and was happy to find that they provide some tools to …