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Hi Michael Thanks very much f

2008-08-28T01:40:40.992+02:00

Hi Michael Thanks very much for the comment. I don't know how to do this, but will try and research it if I get the chance. Kind regards D

Update: Removed need to manual

2008-08-24T00:43:23.306+02:00

Update: Removed need to manually specify COM port details

@Salva - Thanks for your mess

2008-08-22T14:58:38.250+02:00

@Salva - Thanks for your message. You might be right - I've not looked into it in detail. I got the structure from MSDN here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa921533.aspx which says that the cell id is a DWORD. So I represented it as a uint, as recommended in MSDN here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms912059.aspx So there wasn't a lot of thought that went into it. Do you think a different data type would have been more appropriate?

@Clay - I've used the Huawei E169 with the EEE PC (running Linux) although that was a bit of a pain. I've read several posts on forums of people saying that they've used the Huawei E220 without any problems, although I've not seen this for myself.

updated - hope this addresses

2008-07-23T02:11:49.893+02:00

updated - hope this addresses a lot of what people have been asking for

@everyone-asking-for-new-featu

2008-07-18T00:04:30.210+02:00

@everyone-asking-for-new-features sorry, I haven't really done much with this since writing it on the hackday evening. I'll try and find some time to do this soon

I admit that it is overpriced,

2008-07-17T13:57:16.212+02:00

I admit that it is overpriced, but I think that can be largely explained away as an "Early Adopter Tax" - this isn't really into retail yet, so until they get production up and running fully, it was always gonna cost a bit more. I love it - it goes with me everywhere now, and I get a lot of use out of it. It might be more pricey than something like the EEE PC, but it has a few benefits over it, too: Battery life - working online, I can get a couple of hours out of the EEE PC's battery. Running by itself, I've had the Redfly going for 12 or 13 hours before needing a charge. Obviously, working online, my phone's battery wont last that long, and using the Redfly to keep the phone's battery up does knock it's battery life - but even then I can get 8 or so hours out of it. The ability to get a full days work between charges is a massive difference between this and UMPCs like the EEE. Bootup - Full-fledged operating systems like the Xandros Linux on my EEE PC take a while to boot. The Redfly's "boot" (the time to connect to the Windows Mobile PDA) is a few seconds. So it makes it practical for quick tasks in a way that the EEE PC (or those like it) just isn't. While I know I can leave the EEE PC in standby to make bootup quicker, doing that and leaving it in my bag means you pay a big price in battery life, plus it gets pretty hot! I can't leave the EEE PC on in standby all day, and expect it to still have any battery life left by the end of the day. These two alone justify adding an extra £100 to the price for me. The price you pay is in power - I can't do everything I might want to do on a smartphone. But I can do enough that it's still worth it.

It's a bit heavier than the EE

2008-06-05T01:57:50.768+02:00

It's a bit heavier than the EEE PC. I'm guessing this is because the space that would otherwise be taken up by processor, memory, storage, graphics chip, et al. is free to make the big 8 hour battery. I don't mind too much... given the choice between light as EEE PC with a flat battery in a few hours, or something slightly heavier that will run all day, I'll take this.

Noticed something else that I

2008-06-05T01:35:31.574+02:00

Noticed something else that I like: Connecting to the phone - which is the device's "boot time" if you think of it as a laptop/EEE PC replacement - is amazingly quick. So cool.

Oh yeah! Woops! :oops: Ah we

2008-06-01T19:50:42.923+02:00

Oh yeah! Woops! :oops: Ah well... it was an excuse to set up a build environment, which should come in handy. Thanks for the link!

RE: What else to do with it Y

2008-05-30T19:11:47.441+02:00

RE: What else to do with it You've probably already seen it, as I know we're both using this site a lot to get us started, but there are some good ideas at http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Info/WhatPeopleAreReallyUsingTheirSlugsFor

Really? I was gonna wait until

2008-05-28T17:26:45.108+02:00

Really? I was gonna wait until I'd collected my first full day's, but if it's that far out, I think I'll tweak my script now - thanks!

Yeah, I was surprised that it

2008-05-28T14:20:17.588+02:00

Yeah, I was surprised that it was so hard to find packages for using MySQL in SlugOS. I'm fairly new to the slug, so perhaps I'm not looking in the right places? I've been looking in: - SlugOS ipkg repositories - as configured as part of the SlugOS/LE install - ipkgfind to search Optware packages - Google - as a general catch-all For all of the modules I had to fight with, such as ccache or perl-module-digest-sha1, I couldn't find any that would work on SlugOS/LE. Perhaps it's an endian-ness thing? I don't know. Do you know of any other places to look for NSLU2 packages?

Another thought... It might

2008-05-28T12:19:13.168+02:00

Another thought... It might be cool to add to the "bill" info about the environmental cost of this usage - such as the amount of CO2 produced to generate the electricity used. I'm gonna try and find some reliable figures for this - I'm not having any luck on the Southern Electric (my provider) website... in fact, the closest I've found is here.

@Kyle - Thanks for the comment

2008-05-13T21:35:11.273+02:00

@Kyle - Thanks for the comment. I don't mind people mentioning my work, but a link back to me somewhere would be nice!

@Wade - thanks very much for t

2008-05-06T10:40:02.556+02:00

@Wade - thanks very much for the suggestions. They're good ideas, and I'll add them to the list for when I next have a play with the code for this.

@Kathy Jacobs - I've not writt

2008-05-01T10:26:36.113+02:00

@Kathy Jacobs - I've not written a Home screen plugin before. And from what I hear, they're a little complicated. I might have a look at it at some point, but to be honest, it probably wont be any time soon. Sorry!

yup - from v0.5

2008-04-30T17:33:44.469+02:00

yup - from v0.5

@Sean I'm not familiar with th

2008-04-30T15:22:18.360+02:00

@Sean I'm not familiar with the Shadow - but the fact that you said "Home screen" instead of "Today screen" suggests that it is a WM Standard (rather than Professional) device. Is this right? Because this is a Today screen plugin, which will only work on devices with a touchscreen (e.g. WM 6 Professional). Sorry for the confusion

@cyclefreaksix - I think it's

2008-04-30T03:24:13.901+02:00

@cyclefreaksix - I think it's unlikely that other plugins should have anything to do with this. Can I confirm a few things: - you have a touchscreen WM5/WM6 PDA? - you installed the CAB to main memory and not a storage card? - you went to the Items tab of the Today Screen applet in Settings after installing the CAB? @Jeff Kirvin - Thanks very much!

@Cyndi - I've not written anyt

2008-04-26T21:34:07.040+02:00

@Cyndi - I've not written anything myself. You may want to try this

@KertDawg That's very odd. No

2008-04-25T02:30:52.442+02:00

@KertDawg That's very odd. No idea why... I haven't written any code to handle key presses here. It's just a plain text box.

Apologies for the shamless pim

2008-04-23T12:26:02.879+02:00

Apologies for the shamless pimping, but I've also written something like this which people may find useful? Instead of a separate application, I wrote it as an extension to the Internet Explorer browser for Windows Mobile - an extra menu option that turns the current URL you are looking at into a TinyURL. http://dalelane.co.uk/page.php?id=41 ceSnipURL has the benefit that you can edit the long URL before getting it shortened. My extension has the benefit that you don't need to open a new app. To be honest, I think I'll end up using both :-)

great! glad to hear that's it'

2008-04-16T17:32:11.888+02:00

great! glad to hear that's it's working. thanks very much for the feedback :-)

Hi Cathy - yeah, definitely. D

2008-04-09T17:22:45.105+02:00

Hi Cathy - yeah, definitely. Do you think it's likely that you will?

Ron Afraid not. The nature of

2008-04-09T11:26:12.259+02:00

Ron Afraid not. The nature of trying to extend the Pocket Internet Explorer menus makes this code quite platform-specific. I really wrote it for myself - so it will work on PDA's like my own (that is to say, touchscreen devices running Windows Mobile 5 or 6). The code is shared, so if anyone wanted to port it to a different browser or platform, that might help get them started.

@Tomsoft I was toying with t

2008-04-03T00:09:53.278+02:00

@Tomsoft I was toying with the idea of hacking together something like this for my personal use: something that gets my GPS coordinates and stores it with the GSM Cell ID, repeating this periodically. I'm curious about the distribution of GSM cells in my area, and thought it might be interesting to see what data this would collect if I left it running for a few weeks. Owen's comment above - that cell ids are not necessarily fixed - gives me pause about wider use of this. I like the idea of an open cellid database, but the scale of the task to collect this information seems somewhat daunting. The number of people who might be willing to run such an app to collect this data with no immediate benefit (in fact, actually at some cost considering the battery life implications) seems to be somewhat limited. I wonder whether it will be possible to collect cell locations fast enough to maintain up-to-date relevant data? I'm not sure... That said, if I do write something that could collect this sort of stuff, I'd be happy to share it with you. And I'll be watching with interest to see how your project develops - good luck!

Nice list - some new ones for

2008-04-01T15:46:57.883+02:00

Nice list - some new ones for me here, so thank you. Another app you might want to consider: Slick (http://www.lonelycatgames.com/?app=slick) which is a simple free multi-protocol IM client.

@Roberto - I've never tried. U

2008-03-31T16:01:06.818+02:00

@Roberto - I've never tried. Used lots of USB devices with it, but never for ethernet.

@Eric - This will probably hav

2007-07-21T22:30:50.854+02:00

@Eric - This will probably have to wait until I get back in a couple of weeks, sorry. If you can't wait, and am a code monkey like me, I have made the source available on http://dalelane.co.uk/software/ so please feel free to take a look. D

I don't know - I've never used

2007-07-21T01:10:48.136+02:00

I don't know - I've never used PIEPlus. Can I ask - how did you try installing it? With the CAB? Or manually?

@zebrum - Check out the page I

2007-07-20T15:28:10.158+02:00

@zebrum - Check out the page I've added for the del.icio.us plugin on my homepage - http://dalelane.co.uk/software - where I've added a zipped-up copy of my Visual Studio solution. At some point, I will get round to adding support for other services (like digg?), and modify it for a Smartphone version. But if anyone wants to go ahead and beat me to it starting from what I've got so far, please feel free. :-)

@zebrum - Sure, I'll tidy it u

2007-07-20T10:28:48.947+02:00

@zebrum - Sure, I'll tidy it up a bit, add a few comments then find somewhere to make it available. Gimme a day or two to get round to it, though :-)

@Patrick - Interesting idea -

2007-07-20T10:27:49.996+02:00

@Patrick - Interesting idea - I use Opera on my PDA, too. I've not looked into writing an Opera plugin... I'll try and take a look at some point and see if they have an API for new menu items.

Done - if you download the zip

2007-07-19T19:49:01.078+02:00

Done - if you download the zip file again, you should find it contains a CAB file which does the setup needed. Sorry again! Dale

Hiya Sorry! You're quite righ

2007-07-19T19:41:49.135+02:00

Hiya Sorry! You're quite right, I should've included instructions on how to register the DLL. That's what happens when you write posts at 2am! Gimme 5 mins and I'll create a CAB project that does it all properly. Kind regards Dale

I've not tried that, sorry. It

2007-06-17T23:02:55.689+02:00

I've not tried that, sorry. It might be worth looking for an answer on http://forum.xda-developers.com/ - I've found it a very useful source of info on all things Windows Mobile. Good luck!

How are you trying to sync it?

2007-06-17T19:19:03.873+02:00

How are you trying to sync it? I've only seen USB and Bluetooth as options