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Author: todd

  • Nakama.ca: Cameraphone Photo/Video Social Networking

    I’m pretty satisfied sending photos and videos from my phone to Flickr, Microsoft Live Spaces, and Blip.tv. Nakama sounded interesting so I signed up for this free web service.

    Nakama.ca

    But, I never felt the urge to use it. The site describes itself like this: Set your phone free! Take pictures or videos from your phone and publish them straight to your blog, Flickr gallery, even your MySpace or MSN Spaces page. You can also look at your friends’ stuff on your phone… so you don’t have to wait to get home to check out what everyone’s up to… their pics and videos are always there waiting for you.

    I obviously don’t get it yet. But, if you do, please clue me in.

  • Stitch Cameraphone Photos Vertically for a Change

    Vertical Photo Stitch ExampleMost people seem to pan across a landscape and stitch photos horizontally (as shown in my O’Reilly example a few blogs ago). However, you can create some satisfying stitched photos by taking a series of photos down-to-up (which I find easier than up-to-down) with a cameraphone. I took three photos with a Nokia 3650 cameraphone a couple of years ago. The vertically stitched result can be seen to the left. It didn’t make the cut for the Digital Photography Hacks book. But, you can see the result here.

  • Windows Mobile Network Analyzer PowerToy

    Microsoft sometimes releases stable but unsupported utilities for Microsoft Windows on your desktop or notebook. They sometimes do the same thing for Windows Mobile devices. One Windows Mobile PowerToy that was released just last month is…

    Windows Mobile Network Analyzer PowerToy

    Microsoft describes it as: Network Analyzer for Windows Mobile runs network utilities, for example ping and ipconfig, on a Windows Mobile powered device. Network Analyzer for Windows Mobile facilitates the troubleshooting of network connectivity issues. You can extend the harness. You can add user-defined tests (DLLs) to the list of tests to be executed. An xml input file defines the list of tests to execute. You can use Network Analyzer to send information about network traffic to a .cap file. You can then view the .cap file with the Network Monitor tool or the Ethereal tool.

    As a supporter of the Open Source paradigm, I was pleasantly amused to note that the output is intended for use with the Open Source Ethereal network protocol analyzer.

  • Mozilla Minimo Browser Project Looks Dormant

    It looks like the Mozilla Minimo browser project for mobile devices has gone dormant. Its last release, 0.016, was made on June 16 (more than 6 months ago). Doug Turner himself notes in his blog that he has not been doing much development on Minimo and invites interested developers to step up to contribute to the project.

    Minimo has a long way to go (as its release number indicates) before it is a useful tool for end-users. And, I hope interested talented developers join in the development effort to deliver a good Open Source browser for mobile devices.

  • Creating Panoramic Photos with a Cameraphone

    So, you just got a new shiny cameraphone to replace the, uh, old shiny cameraphone. Don’t take the same old 1 or 2  megapixel photos with it. Try stitching a couple of photos together on your desktop or notebook and create a panoramic photo. I wrote a litte hack for Derrick Story’s…

    Digital Photography Hacks

    …book in the popular O’Reilly Hacks series back in 2004 that tells you how to create panoramic photos using a cameraphone. And, they have provided it as a free hack available on the web. You can find the full hack linked at…

    Get the Big Picture with a Little Camera Phone

  • Total Commander 2.0 Windows Mobile File Utility

    I haven’t tried this myself. But, it looks interesting with a beta-level of support for Windows Mobile 5 Pocket PCs and Smartphones.

    Total Commander

    Version 2.0 is freeware. There is also a shareware version 6.55a. Total Commander provides a rich set of file handling features, a text editor, and ftp client (among other features).