Category: Mobile Computing

Betamax vs Ipod – Why MiniDisc Is The Winner

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2002 was the last year Sony Betamax videos were made. And I bet you thought that Betamax died out in the early eighties? Naw, you fell for the marketing of VHS being superior. If it was so superior then why do Broadcasters and Cameramen still swear by Betamax (they call it Betacam) until going digital very recently? The point of the micro rant above? To lead into my rant below, and possibly be ridiculed by the hynotised masses of Apple Geeks. Join me in the flame retardant suit as I loudly proclaim that “the Ipod is not the best portable

Event Core for UIQ Released

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Just posted the UIQ Event Core up to FreEPOC. It’s an ’empty’ application for OPL, showing you how to do everythin properly and providing a good place to start OPL coding. And if you just want to see some OPL code doing more than Hello World, open the zip file and read the core.tpl Text File (which is the source code).

Forum Nokia Switched On

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Forum Nokia are getting everyone to re-register (or they just want everyone to do their nice survey), so away I go to plough through it and come to the choice of development languages. Someone over there is switched on enough to make sure OPL is there! You know if Carlsberg made programming lanaguges, they’d probably write OPL.

OPL & Java Comparison?

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Wireless Watch (via The Register) has an interesting quote in an article based around IBM’s Request for Java to be Open Sourced… But even with these various changes, it remains difficult to get changes implemented through the Java Community Panel and the process has not encouraged the rapid accumulation of applications from small developers as languages like Psion’s OPL do through their open source models. …Okay it’s not Psion’s OPL anymore, it’s yours (and ours) thanks to it being under LGPL, but thanks for the thought. I always wonder what would have happened if OPL had never been dropped, and

Being Evil On The Tube

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Viral marketing is alive and well on the Victoria Line! I’ve still got a numbr of the 16mb MMC Demo disks from ETech, which have Vexed and SameGame preinstalled on the (along with the OPL runtime), and I’ve taken to handing them out to complete strangers. So if you’re on the tube, fiddling with a Series 60 phone, and someone leans over you and hands you an MMC card with the ominous impression that he’s giving you a free game, that’ll be me. It’s not a virus. It’s not going to eat away your time. And you’re not going to