1. 27 June 2005

    1290 days ago

    Motorola i860 Specs & Features (Phone Scoop)

    Try this – type some product into the location bar of firefox (I pasted motorola i860 there instead of in the google bar) – and whoa! Firefox routes me to the particular phone at phonescoop.com. works with nokia [model number], apple powerbook, windows xp… neat.

    The phone looks cool because of a neat little easter egg that lets you upload your photos (with latitude and longitude) to flickr instead of motorola’s own photo site. I want a gps phone.

    update: are you kidding me?! I ordered my powerbook, and have compulsively been checking the status of the order since. Type apple store order status into the location bar, and boom! I get to the sign in page to view my order status. I wonder if it looks through my history and learns new places and keywords for them, in addition to some basic ruleset thats programmed in (because I’d never been to the windows xp page or the phonescoop page, but it still worked). Wow.

    update again: Firefox redirects you to googles first result for whatever query you put in the location bar, and its very very useful.

    via Kjell Olsen1290 days ago

  2. 20 June 2005

    1297 days ago

    KickReal (LIVE PENALTY SHOOTOUT-CHASE THE BALL INTO THE GOAL WITH YOUR OWN FOOT)

    Wow, camera phone + foot + software lets you play a soccer shootout by mock kicking a ball for the camera! Sweet, I really want a high tech phone to be able to play with stuff like this.

    via Kjell Olsen1297 days ago

  3. 02 June 2005

    I hate cell phones

    1315 days ago

    There’s just something about being always connected, that even as part of the internet generation, I can’t get over. I think cells really encourage people to just take off, not having planned ahead, knowing they don’t need to rely on themselves, they can always make a call. Without the cellphone the motivation is there to plan ahead, to have a way out; but when a cellphone is their lifeline at every point, they will be much quicker to call someone (and probably you) to bail them out.

    Do people really always need to be connected? I know that I sure don’t want to have to deal with getting phone calls whenever and wherever I am. So as cool as some phones are becoming these days, I’ve always been and still am averse to the idea of having one.

  4. 20 May 2005

    1328 days ago

    Phreaking Phones with a Voice Recorder

    Bluebox with your iPod (or computer, cellphone, over VoIP even). also

    via Kjell Olsen1328 days ago

  5. 16 May 2005

    1332 days ago

    O'Reilly Network: The Geospatial Web: A Call to Action

    Just today I was out in the woods walking, and thinking how sweet it would be to have a cellphone that could track my location with gps, a camera that flagged all the pictures I took with longitude and latitude values, and a collar on my dog to see how far away from me she is (so as to keep her from getting into a porcupine). And all this is coming.

    Nat Torkington, organizer of the upcoming Where 2.0 conference, said it this way: “Everything is somewhere. Whether you’re talking about assets, people, phone calls, pets, earthquakes, fire sales, bank robberies, or famous gravestones, they all have a location attached. And everything we touch in our lives, from groceries to digital photos, could have a location. From these locations we could learn a lot more about ourselves and build new economies.”

    A nice call to arms cum where do we stand post: what needs to come of age before the geoweb can really manifest itself.

    via Kjell Olsen1332 days ago

  6. 28 April 2005

    1350 days ago

    PythonForSeries60 - Matt Croydon::Postwiki

    What you get when you let python hackers loose on a mobile paltform: some cool shit. I just wish I had a sweet series 60 phone.

    Also: series60 snippets

    via Kjell Olsen1350 days ago

  7. 19 March 2005

    1390 days ago

    PBS | I, Cringely . Archived Column

    Cringely paints a gloomy situation in which telcos and cable providers begin to discriminate against packets not affiliated with their own services, stifling competition and innovation against the web. And what could anyone really do about it?

    via Kjell Olsen1390 days ago

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