November 30, 2008 – 1:12 am
The MSI Wind has a spec of 2Gb ram, 160Gb harddisk, and comes with 6 cells battery.
I first use the Wubi Ubuntu Installer to install Wubi 8.10 on Windows. This Ubuntu runs on the Windows file system, so we can test Ubuntu out without creating separate partitions. (The instruction is detailed at Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy [...]
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Tagged installation, internet, Linux, MSI Wind, netbook, testing, Ubuntu, wireless network
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November 23, 2008 – 1:52 pm
Yesterday, my father and I travelled back to our Malaysia home town in Pontian. I recorded down the bus trip from Larkin interchange to Pontian with Sports Tracker. We travelled on a Penawar express bus.
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View the same map on Nokia Sports Tracker.
On our return journey, I received sms from my brother, knowing that [...]
August 8, 2008 – 10:59 pm
From then82blog.
SymbianGear.com is giving out free applications during this week. For each day, one specific application can be downloaded for free. (This info is a bit late, but still have 3 more free apps from today, they are EUROPAinfo 1.0, Advanced Brain Trainer and Handy Alarm.)
TheN82blog has links to many good and free applications.
This afternoon, I took a walk with my recently bought Nokia N82. I had already installed Nokia Sports Tracker and was eager to test it.
I created a new walking workout with autolap set to route based. Once the application starts tracking, it will record the path, location, time and number of steps I took. The [...]
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Tagged exercise, Google map, GPS, nature, Nokia, Photos, sports tracker, walking
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February 11, 2008 – 2:47 am
Unicode filename and path are supported in version 1.0.3
The symbian python os functions can accept utf8 string and will also return utf8 string (eg. in os.listdir). It does not use unicode string like in other native symbian functions.
Since the Sky Explorer code uses path.join to get the full path in a lot of places, I [...]
January 13, 2008 – 8:43 pm
From Google news.
Young Japanese people are evolving a new lifestyle for the 21st century based on the cellphones that few are now able to live without.
They are using their phones to read books, listen to music, chat with friends and surf the Internet — an average of 124 minutes a day for high school girls [...]
November 14, 2007 – 12:55 am
From CNET News.com.
After years of rumors of a Google phone, the search giant a week ago finally unleashed its mobile play: an alliance of handset makers and an open software platform dubbed Android.
On Monday, Google released the software developer kit, or SDK, for Android and announced that it would set aside $10 million to give [...]