Mozilla’s developing a version of its mobile Minimo browser for Windows CE. This is very, very good news, especially because putting Linux on most Pocket PCs is (currently) impossible. Could it be, a decent web browsing experience coming to a handheld near you?
12/6/2005
2/15/2005
2/14/2005
Use a DS as a PIM?
Nintendo licensing PalmOS? So what’s it mean? I guess this idea throws a wrench in the idea of V-Pocket being for video or something. Though this does sort of remind me of other, slightly less successful titles.
In other DS news, someone’s made their own game for it. Already.
2/9/2005
Goodbye, Carly
Oh, goodbye, Carly. You could make that into a song. It’s big news (Google even has it listed as number one “In the News”), Carly Fiorina is out at HP. Here’s to hoping this will in some way mean good things for the next round of iPAQs. Stockholders seem pleased.
2/7/2005
Good News for Palm Users
You can now pay more for an unlocked Treo 650 and continue not using a Samsung i550 with Sprint.
Not that I have much against Palm (my m500 lasted forever, almost), but is it me or do they seem to be trying to rid themselves of the pesky PDA business?
2/6/2005
Why I Hate Technology
It’s a pain to deal with.
I tried setting up Gallery on my personal blog, thinking that it would do a much better job of keeping my photos straight than whatever basic script I had written up/stolen and mercilessly hacked from some tutorial site.
For the record, I find Gallery to be one of the most clumsily set up and evidently bloated scripts, ever. The installation was comprised of something like 15 different tabs, each of which one had to review in the case that it had some required setting or something that was simply incorrectly detected. I get through it, though, and come upon the ugly template I apparently selected.
No matter, I can change it, just as soon as I log in.
But I can’t log in. It doesn’t like my admin password, and it tells me the admin user doesn’t exist when I tell it to e-mail me my password.
2/5/2005
Bienvenidos, and a Word about Developer’s Rights
It’s about time, I think, that I started some sort of public blog. I had one before, except then some friendly people who actually knew me got the link and had a bit of a field day with it. So I shut them off from it. That was in May 2003.
So almost two years later, I’m trying something different. Because there’s a nicely sized Intraweb out there, and I’m looking to actually have something of mine available to it. Thus, I established this. Apologies for the name, I’m truly not that inventive (though I capitalized the B in blog to prevent any mistakes in word-separation). Your ideas are appreciated. But we’ll see how this goes.
First on the agenda: developers, how they protect their applications against piracy, and how far they can and should go. In the interest of disclosing relevant details of my background, I am not a commercial software developer, and I’m not running a single piece of pirated software on either my computer or my PDA(s). Personally I rely on freeware and open-source software because I’ve found they can usually get the job done for my needs just as well as any commercial program.
There was a case in the 80s, the reference to which I credit to a poster in a thread to which I will link later, about a subway vigilante. It’s rather interesting if you’re unfamiliar with the case, it’s basically the case of a man shooting four kids because he thought they were robbing him. What does that have to do with software piracy? Keep reading.