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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 [...]

Bluetooth + phone == remote control

02-Jan-08

During holidays I found another usage for my current phone (SonyEricsson k750i). It is Bluetooth Remote Control functionality.

Basically it turn phone into HID device but the good thing is that user can create own profile for this. There is a tool for it (Microsoft Windows executable) and also those files can be created by hand [...]

2007 Timeline

01-Jan-08

2007 is ending. It was very good year for me. I am now married man, waiting for daughter birth. Have own company, working as contractor for one of biggest companies in OpenEmbedded world.

January

Signed contract with OpenedHand — starting from February. Became one of 50 selected developers for OpenMoko Phase0 program. Each of us got offer to [...]

GPS driver for FIC GTA01 in beta

29-Nov-07

During night some selected people got link to page on one of OpenMoko servers. After accepting EULA they got gllin package.

What is in package? Gllin binary itself, starter script and set of libraries from OM2007.1 release (OABI). They used “–library-path” option of dynamic linker to use old libraries on OM2007.2 system:

lib/ld-linux.so.2 –library-path /home/root/gllin/lib:/home/root/gllin/usr/lib /home/root/gllin/gllin.real -low [...]

Audio routing in mobile phones

28-Nov-07

I do not know how it is in other mobile phones but there is one annoying thing in my Sony Ericsson k750i phone. It is how it handle audio…

As phone has FM radio integrated I use it very often. When I go somewhere I usually plug headset (which was provided with phone) and turn on [...]

Converting ringtones (WMA -> MP3)

16-Nov-07

Yesterday I had occasion to play with HTC Touch Dual smartphone. Nice phone, comfortable formfactor, a bit crappy keypad. No WiFi or GPS but HSDPA/UMTS/EDGE present so it can be used for browsing net.

And it has nice ringtones :) I grabbed few of them to use with my SE k750i phone but they were in [...]