Symbian Diaries Back End Changes
After some tinkering over the last 24 hours, the Symbian Diaries system as a whole has had some new featres added. I talk about them on the main site.
Category: Mobile Computing
Symbian WebRing In Place
Now why hasn’t anybody thought of this one before? The Psion Series 3 and Series 5 both had strong WebRings, and hopefully the Symbian WebRing started last night on All About Symbian will become just as useful. If you’d like to join the ring, you can find more details here, or jump straight to the sign-up page here.
Vexed UIQ is Coming
Here’s a sneak preview screenshot or two of Vexed running under UIQ. There’s just one or two things I want to do before releasing this to the public. Firstly, I need to tweak the menu system a little bit, as UIQ currently needs a bit of a hack to get the Menu on screen all the time (all other OPL runtimes only show the menu when it is asked for). UIQ had the same problem with the J2ME runtime as well, which resulted in some hacking around from UIQ. The second is the screen layout. There’s a lot of white
Some OPL Notes
But not here – over at the OPL Diary (http://opl.symbiandiaries.com/). One article looks at how OPL for UIQ has been progressing over the last week or two, and the second (written by Steve Litchfield) looks at the conversion process of OPL apps onto UIQ, and some of his thoughts on OPL. I’ve always hoped that a decent release with all the widgets would help OPL – and the initial rush for OPL on UIQ has backed up this thought. Now if only we can get the dialog widgets sorted in Series 60 and we’ve got a great base to really
Betamax vs Ipod – Why MiniDisc Is The Winner
2002 was the last year Sony Betamax videos were made. And I bet you thought that Betamax died out in the early eighties? Naw, you fell for the marketing of VHS being superior. If it was so superior then why do Broadcasters and Cameramen still swear by Betamax (they call it Betacam) until going digital very recently? The point of the micro rant above? To lead into my rant below, and possibly be ridiculed by the hynotised masses of Apple Geeks. Join me in the flame retardant suit as I loudly proclaim that “the Ipod is not the best portable
Event Core for UIQ Released
Just posted the UIQ Event Core up to FreEPOC. It’s an ’empty’ application for OPL, showing you how to do everythin properly and providing a good place to start OPL coding. And if you just want to see some OPL code doing more than Hello World, open the zip file and read the core.tpl Text File (which is the source code).
