Thoughts from a Bafta nominated Podcaster, Blogger, Writer and Commentator.
A new RSS Reader for the Psion netBook and EPOC powered computers. But it’s not really a new application – at least not in the traditional sense. Distributed computing, Wi-Fi, Bloglines, could this be the future?
Use the Psion NetBook’s built in FTP client, with its Wi-Fi connectivity, to create a stable replacement for Psi-Win on Windows, Mac or Linux.
Well, Wi-Fi is working nicely in the house, so just after confirming the main internet applications work everywhere in the house, it was time to try out (investigate) some more net applications beyond Email and Opera. Given the amount of time I spend on the #mobitopia and #joiito channels on IRC, the original chat application, is first on my list. I’ve had this problem before (at the O’Reily Emerging Tech conference) and the solution there was to grab Russ Spooner’s incomplete OPL implementation of IRC. That required some hacking and reverse engineering to get it working on the netBook. With
The Wireless Router from the house turned up today. After setting aside most of tonight in the vain hope I could convince the Linksys kit to talk to Windows 98 over Cat5, NTL Broadband over our set-top box, and a Psion Netbook/Buffalo Airstation card, I was shocked to find the setup took about 5 minutes with no hiccups whatsoever. So now the house is Wi-Fi-ed up very nicely (WiFied? Wi-Fied? Wi-Fi’d?) it’s time to push the greatest Wi-Fi device I can think of. The Psion netBook. This little computer has been with me since 1999 – how many of you
