To Pay or not to Pay

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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

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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

Weighing Day at Baby Clinic

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Vikki Writes… Well, it’s been 4 weeks since Eilidh’s last weighing, and she’s gained another whopping 21oz! She’s now 17lb and has finally doubled her birthweight (though she was only 1oz off it last time). She’s jumped another centile so she’s now between the 9th and the 25th, which is perfect. If she stays there, she’ll be 5’2 as an adult :) And there’s nothing wrong with being 5’2, is there Mum? Health visitors are more than happy with how she’s doing, they were all crowded round her cos she was being cute and showing off to her audience as

Joined Up Television

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Another long conversation with Jody got onto the topic of how you would improve television ratings. What we cam up with deserves a much wider audience, because I think it would actually work. It’s called Joined Up Television, and the premise is simple. All our television programs should inhabit the same world. Now this has been tried to a very limited extent before – witness the horror of the two parter detective story where part one was on Magnum PI and part two was on Murder She Wrote. But you want to take this to the extreme. A perfect example

Symbian Dev Expo Follow Up

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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