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About Stephane Daury

Enjoyer of life; software developer. See https://stephdau.me and https://tekartist.org

OpenMoko is Picking Up Steam


From the source article, over at the always great LinuxDevices.com:

FIC has announced an on-sale date for its Neo1973, expected to be the first low-cost, high-volume phone with a user-modifiable Linux-based operating system. Additionally, the OpenMoko project building open-source software for the phone has published a wealth of technical resources. […] The first [release phase was] Feb. 11, with free phones for prominent open source community members. The real sale date will be March 11. That’s when the online store opens, and everyone can buy one direct, for about [US] $350.

I read about the OpenMoko project the same day the iPhone was announced, and I really think I’m more eager to see a Neo1973 than I am to see Apple’s upcoming solution.

There are very good photos (1, 2, etc) of the device’s innards on the project’s wiki for the hardware enthusiasts.

Is this Really Fair?

The above image shows the OS X weather widget for Montreal (Quebec) and Boynton Beach (Florida): -13°C v. 23°C (or 9°F v. 73°F). Why, you ask? Because I’m in the former, and my wife and kids are in the latter for the week…

Does that sound fair to you?

But I’ll have my revenge when I go to San Francisco for the Web 2.0 Expo in April, and maybe the Red Hat Summit in San Diego in May. Muhahahaha!

parseMe 20070213 Update

It’s time for another quick update to parseMe, my little GPL’ed PHP-based RSS/Atom feed reader for mobile phones and other web-capable devices. Pfew [deep breath], that was quite a mouthful, wasn’t it? ;)

  • It now loads the destination links without images by default, for performance improvements on most sites. Links still go through the Google Mobile gateway.
  • Small screen-related interface improvements for the feed selection form.

You can find the appropriate links below:

Hoping you’ll enjoy it as much as I do in the bus, on the way to and from work.