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Phone images

I finally got around to snapping some pictures of the “new” rotary phone.

check out those bells

There are more in the gallery

I have been using gnome-blog for posting the last couple of blogpost. And Its quite neat, its an panel applet and it makes posting so much easier since its integrated into gnome. I feel that its missing some features like multiple drafts and the ability to insert images. Inserting images should be possible, with the most recent version, if the blog supports it. But well i do not know if wordpress supports it or if the version in the ubuntu repositories is the most recent. I tried getting the tarball but there was some dependency issues.

Speaking of panel applets i highly recommend bubblemon. It shows cpu, bandwith and memory usage as a “bubbling aquarium”.

xonix mobile edition

Having toyed around with J2ME for the freeVibes, I got a bit hooked on coding for the mobile phone.

So I started to recreate the classic oldskool game Xonix, it’s a game I really like. So simple and addictive. It’s not the first time I’m coding it, I have made it as an applet about a year ago (Xonix applet). As well as being a fun game to play I find it a fun game to code too. Though I have had my share of frustrations. The basic functionality is a fillalgorithm, that has to fill an area on both sides of the line / trail you make with the ‘pilot’. This has to be fast and efficient – nobody likes a game where you have to wait for updates.

xonix screenshot

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FreeVibes

Finally the summer-holiday arrived, now its time to do some fun coding.

I bought myself a new mobile, a Nokia 6300, it’s got all the bells and whistles. Hmm well at least those I could afford. I choose this mobile because it has : Java, mp3 -player, bluetooth and memorycard.

I must admit that i might be a bit of a nerd, so I just had to code something for it. And after “hello world” I found a small and some would say useless application to code.

FreeVibes

I must say I got inspired by vibelet and the article in wired ( Hold the Phone, It’s a Sex Toy ). As the title suggest, its well vibrating. I think that vibelet – though i haven’t seen their program, must be making quite an profit. Because getting a java-enabled phone to vibrate constantly, is quite easy.

So now its Time for FreeVibes, a free software version.

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