Shazam is THE killer-app for music lovers with mobile phones This new mobile service lets you call in and it will listen to the music you are listening to for 20 seconds, and then send you back a SMS text-message telling you what song and artist you were listing to. It also allows you to log in and look at a list of all the tunes you have “tagged”. Kind of reminds me of a Sony product that never took off, where you could tag songs on the radio, only …
In the June edition of Macromedia’s The Edge, Lauren Gibbons Paul writes about The Future of Multimedia on Devices. Users are hungry for everything from location-enabled restaurant and movie reviews to games to short messaging services (SMS). Even streaming video and audio applications are making an appearance on the diminutive devices. As always, content is king. People are looking for content – and preferably on the device of their choice. Something which the publishing houses seem to want to fight, in the same way they were fighting the video tape …
ExtremeTech has an interesting article about Flat Panel Display Technology. Since the LCD screen is becoming more and more common, its a good idea to have some insight into how they work – at least if you make multimedia presentations. Besides, the geek in me just plain out want to know how they work. ExtremeTech has a lot of other interesting articles, among them one titled “Exploiting/Protecting 802.11b Wireless Networks“, a good article about how vulnerable and insecure Wi-Fi networks really are — and what you can do to at …
Another device with Flash support on the market. Phillip Torrone wrote me to tell me about a very cool new device from Verizon. Its called Thera, and it supports Flash. Phillip has put up a page with pictures and a little information about the device. Thera is a PDA with Phone (or vice versa), and as far as I can tell, its only available in the US. I have to admit that the information about the device was kind of scarse on the Verizon pages.
Phillip Torrone has posted videos and pictures from the pocket pc summit Folks, the Pocket PC Summit was sweet, no foolin’. Tons of smart people, tons of great sessions, tons of fun. Lots of folks are going to post stories about it so I’m going to post 94 photos and 2 videos. Phillip also points out that Bill Perry of PocketPCFlash.net created one of the best conference guides ever for the conference. (CAB file download)
Just a quick note, Frank McPherson is blogging from the Pocket PC Summit. Thanks to Phillip for the link.
Linux for PlayStation 2 Community: Home The kit constist of a 40 GB Hard disk, 10/100 Mbit/s Network Adaptor, USB Keyboard, USB mouse, Monitor Cable and DVD discs that contain the Linux installation, RTE and hardware manuals. The kit should be available all over the world by the end of this summer. Some more information over at linuxplay.com Personally I am looking forward to converting my favorite game machine to a PC running Linux! :-)
This is what I call playing with toys! :-) Samuel Wan has connected his Lego Mindstroms robot with ColdFusion I think the high point of the day was when I sent my browser to http://localhost:8500/webrover/test.cfm , and my robot suddenly smacked into the wall on other side of the room. It scared the heck out of my cat! *sniff* The little webrover is all grown up and running around :) He will be making available code and instructions so that you can do the same fun stuff with your Lego …