Category: Mobile Computing

Wap Template Link Love

Posted on March 28, 2004 by Ewan Spence

I’ve made quite a few contributions to Mobile Whack, but this one seems to be getting a huge number of hits. It’s my guide (on Symbian Diaries) on creating a WAP version of your Moveable Type Blog through the templates system.

Gaming Headlines Now On-Line

Posted on March 22, 2004 by Ewan Spence

Launched today is a new website all about gaming on modern platforms (Playstation, Nintendo, XBox). Gaming Headlines (http://www.gamingheadlines.co.uk/) is the site, and I’ve been asked to watch over the Nokia N-Gage section – plus keep a watchful eye on developments on the Nitendo Dual Screen Gameboy. Why not have a look at the site and see what you think?

Symbian Diaries Back End Changes

Posted on March 18, 2004 by Ewan Spence

After some tinkering over the last 24 hours, the Symbian Diaries system as a whole has had some new featres added. I talk about them on the main site.

Symbian WebRing In Place

Posted on March 16, 2004 by Ewan Spence

Now why hasn’t anybody thought of this one before? The Psion Series 3 and Series 5 both had strong WebRings, and hopefully the Symbian WebRing started last night on All About Symbian will become just as useful. If you’d like to join the ring, you can find more details here, or jump straight to the sign-up page here.

Vexed UIQ is Coming

Posted on March 15, 2004 by Ewan Spence

Here’s a sneak preview screenshot or two of Vexed running under UIQ. There’s just one or two things I want to do before releasing this to the public. Firstly, I need to tweak the menu system a little bit, as UIQ currently needs a bit of a hack to get the Menu on screen all the time (all other OPL runtimes only show the menu when it is asked for). UIQ had the same problem with the J2ME runtime as well, which resulted in some hacking around from UIQ. The second is the screen layout. There’s a lot of white

Some OPL Notes

Posted on March 11, 2004 by Ewan Spence

But not here – over at the OPL Diary (http://opl.symbiandiaries.com/). One article looks at how OPL for UIQ has been progressing over the last week or two, and the second (written by Steve Litchfield) looks at the conversion process of OPL apps onto UIQ, and some of his thoughts on OPL. I’ve always hoped that a decent release with all the widgets would help OPL – and the initial rush for OPL on UIQ has backed up this thought. Now if only we can get the dialog widgets sorted in Series 60 and we’ve got a great base to really