Cutting Edge WAP
After a few headaches, I’ve reworked the WAP Site version of “Ewan’s Musings.” Have a look at http://ewan.symbiandiaries.com/index.wml to see the all new and improved WAP site.
Category: Mobile Computing
Literature in the 21st Century
One of the ‘must have’ applications on my 7650 (and 9210, and 5mx, and Palm, and so on through to the dawn of history) has been an EBook Reader. Ebooks are generally compressed text files that allow you to store an entire novel in around 500K (for the average novel). Given that an episode of The Simpsons is going to take 20mb for a chopppy 15 frames/sec version, that’s a lot of entertainment in a small space. EBooks have allowed me to read some of the classics of literature, from HG Wells “The Time Machine,” to Edgar Rice Burroughs “Mars”
To Pay or not to Pay
Thanks to my involvment in the Open Source OPL Project, I’m looking at all areas of development, to see where the new author needs some help, to ensure that new authors coming to Symbian don’t have to hunt for information – especially those who are programming for the first time, perhaps in OPL. It’s struck me that while I have a lot of knowledge on some areas, there is a very large gap that I think I need to fill. Being a shareware author. Since I started releasing applications, they have all been free software through FreEPOC. It’s served me
Why Wap Works – The New WWW
I remember my Nokia 7110 – it promised me, for the first time, the mobile internet (whcih was a surprise to me as I’d been picking up emails and web pages with my Psion Series 3a for 3 years before getting that phone). It actually meant I have a WAP Browser. And as we all know, WAP kinda fell over. I think it’s been harshly judged, because I am really into WAP now. Why? Because people are realising what the mobile internet should be about. By this I mean the information that I want while I am away from my
Symbian Dev Expo Follow Up
There are a fair few Blogs and News sites carrying information about the Symbian Dev Expo – but I hope you’re not expecting one here! The reasons for this is twofold. Firstly any information is going to be carried in All About Symbian and Your Symbian, so you’ll just have to browse and subscribe from those sites to see what I thought. The second reason is that Rafe, Jordan, Robin and Myself (the core of All About Symbian in some respects) have got a huge amount of follow ups to do. Not only have we got some nice letters and
Vexed available for the 7650
To go along with the new version of OPL, there’s a new version of Vexed for the Series 60 devices, that’s the 7650 and 3650 at the moment, although more will follow.
