Monday, March 27, 2006

Easy tu use GUI designer for J2ME

I found this GUI design application called J2ME Polish J2MEPolish.org

Thus appears to be a very nice GUI designer. Has anyone vas tried it out?

Friday, March 24, 2006

Software turns laptops into navigators

Software turns laptops into navigators
Loki system melds global positioning, WiFi to find services -- from Boston GLOBE
A Boston company is giving away software that can turn nearly any laptop computer into a global positioning system, enabling users to find the nearest restaurant, hospital, or gas station at the touch of a button.
http://www.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2006/03/23/software_turns_laptops_into_navigators/

Saturday, March 11, 2006

Communicating with Bluetooth aka "toothing"

I found this article on MSNBC. It talks about how people have started to use bluetooth to communicate and arrange meetings with each other.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11763070/

Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Flickr + mobiles + location

From Marc Davis' research at Berkeley through his Yahoo Research Lab in Berkeley this is an app for series 60 that attaches cell ID to a photo and then tags your photo in flickr with location tags that others have used for that cell id.

http://zonetag.research.yahoo.com/zonetag/

Tuesday, March 07, 2006

GPS/Location thread

I found an useful reference for GPS/Location-based services. It turns out SUN has a so-called location API. The link is at
http://developers.sun.com/techtopics/mobility/apis/articles/location/
One caveat: You have to download Sun Java Wireless Toolkit 2.3 Beta in order to use javax.microedition.location reference that contains Location API

write gps-related reference that you may find into this thread...

Monday, March 06, 2006

GPS and compiling JAR for phone?

Hi, has anyone been able to get a GPS fix on A780? Are there any special settings required? I was not able to get the fix, and the radar symbol on top of the screen is still greyed out.

Another question on an unrelated topic -- have any of you guys been able to compile an application in Eclipse for cell phone using J2ME? That would be great if you could share instructions on how to do this, assuming that Motorola Toolkit and J2ME are installed.