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Monthly Archives: February 2008

New Wordpress widget: Meta

09-Feb-08

I use FeedBurner for RSS feeds. There are three of them:

all posts OpenMoko related posts Nokia related posts

First one is used on this website and some planet sites (Planet LinuxToGo, Planet Closed fist), second on Planet OpenMoko and last one on Planet Maemo. And I do not care about comments feed.

With default “Meta” widget link to WP [...]

Polish locale for OS2008

06-Feb-08

Today I created package with Polish regional settings for Maemo OS2008. They are working and show as “Polski (Polska)” in “Control panel -> Language and region”.

I used glibc 2.5 locale data + Ångström localedef and generated locale files on my N810. To make them appear as “Polski (Polska)” instead of “pl_PL” I edited LC_ADDRESS file [...]

New Wordpress widget: Recent Comments

06-Feb-08

When I wrote post about my palmtops story WordPress added many pingbacks into my older posts (which I linked to). As a result all of them appeared in “Recent Comments” widget. This hide real ones so I decided that it is time to change something.

And thats how “Hrw Recent Comments” widget was created. I [...]

Localizing Maemo

05-Feb-08

By default N810 comes with few translations of interface, on-screen keyboard layouts and hardware keyboards (BT and N810 internal) layouts. The problem starts when user wants to add own ones.

Getting regional settings was simplest — grab proper package from Ångström and unpack it into Maemo file system. This gave me “PL_pl” settings. But how to [...]

Nokia N810 and fscked charging subsystem

04-Feb-08

Today I took my N810 from charger when it was displaying “Battery full” message on charging screen. Then I tried to power it up. It refused to boot…

OK, lets take battery out for some time and insert it back. Still nothing. Connected it back to the charger — no reaction… even “Charging” message is not [...]

My palmtops story

02-Feb-08

All started years ago — I was living in Wrocław then. Each Thursday groups of friends met in pub. About half of them used PalmOS powered palmtops. Due to them I started thinking about buying palmtop for myself.

Palm M105

About year later I bought my first PDA: Palm M105. It had monochrome screen (16 shades of [...]