Virtual Palm OS on your Nokia Internet Tablet

13 Tuesday Nov 2007

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Engadget are reporting (Virtual Palm OS on your Nokia N-Series tablet — hoozah! – Engadget) that a Virtual Machine of the Palm OS developed by Access is available to run on a Nokia 770 and later.  As a free solution, this is great news as it will allow the tablet to be to move closer the the PDA role many want to use their N770 for (there is personal organiser software out there but the Palm OS offers a lot more in terms of Windows integration) as well as a lot of robust product standard solution software.

The question has to be, what is the price of the Virtual Machine in terms of performance overhead.

If the usability and performance of the virtual machine is good then this can only help Nokia try and poach more Palm OS users to the N series.

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Quote of the day…

12 Monday Nov 2007

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We may not achieve transcendence through computation, but we will keep ourselves out of the gutter with them. What you perceive of as a vacuum is an earthy paradise – the freedom to, quite literally, line-by-line, prevent humanity from going nonlinear.

Douglas Coupland – Micro-serfs

DAB for iPod

07 Wednesday Nov 2007

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Back in June I blogged about the idea of having a plugin for the iPod that would allow me to savour the joys of DAB Radio. Well it would seem that the first one to the market will by the same people who make the very retro looking portable radios – Roberts.  the Robi as they’ve called it has been reported to be available from the 1st December.

More information can be found here and here.

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Entertaining, but factual read

07 Wednesday Nov 2007

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  I’ve recently been on the road during the day or at home sick so had the benefit of hearing a bit more Radio 4 than I normally would. That includes hearing the programme ‘book of the week’ . This may sound pretty dull, it but proved this week to be far from it with John O’Farrell’s An Utterly Impartial History of Britain (or 2000 Years of Upper Class Idiots in Charge).  The excerpts that have been broadcast have been very funny and educational.  For example in describing the politics of England prior to the Gun Powder plot the different factions have been likened to football teams and the occasional hooligan behaviour.

If history is taught in the manner that this book adopts, then I think we’ll have a lot more history students engaged and enjoying the subject.  On the strength of what I’ve heard I’d recommend the book.

 

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More people following Radiohead’s lead…

30 Tuesday Oct 2007

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Saul Williams is following in Radiohead’s footsteps of have the album for free or buy with a contribution ($5 in this case).  Saul, has at least set the free version’s bit rate to be 192kbps and a choice of qualities if you make a contribution. More information at Saul’s website http://niggytardust.com/saulwilliams/

 

Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails is also indicating that he is likely to follow the same route next year with a new release.

 

Working with MS Office documents on N770

25 Thursday Oct 2007

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To get Office documents onto my Nokia N770 and make them decently readable I’ve been using a combination of CutePDF which a printer driver that acts as a printer driver but produces PDF files along with FBReader. Admittedly CutePDF has a couple of weaknesses, such as hyperlinks can’t be followed from the PDF document it does produce a good reliable results, and its free as well. As for FBReader, it produces nicely rendered pages and is very easy to work with on the N770.

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Scissor Sisters to release fan only single

24 Wednesday Oct 2007

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The Scissor Sisters have announced that they will be releasing a fans only single of ‘Lights’ available only at scissorsisters.com.  The release will only be available for a limited period.  so if you want to get the single, then best sign up to their website pronto.

 

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Canadian government choose to tax download purchases

22 Monday Oct 2007

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In a time when all the commercial organisations and law makers the world over are decrying peer to peer networks for copyright theft and critising ISPs for not stopping it. The Canadian government have chosen to impose an additional purchasing tax for downloads with the tax biased against monthly subscriptions (the model that organisations such as the EFF suggest maybe the way forward). For more details go here.

 

This maybe a shorted sighted move to replace declining tax revenues from physical media, but given that organisations will pass the tax on to the purchaser, it is only likely to encourage people to use peer-to-peer solutions more as the purchase price goes up. 

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The first Verve material in 10 years released

22 Monday Oct 2007

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The NME have made some previously unavailable recordings by the Verve available for the next seven days. The high quality MP3 download is the first new material from the Verve in 10 years.  Go here to down load.

 

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Jesse Malin – New Album

19 Friday Oct 2007

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Jesse Malin is back in the UK touring, along with a new album called ‘Love it to Life’ – as you may guess from the title and cover it is a live album.  The album is being released through One Little Indian at the end of the month.

 

 

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