Category: Tech

At times wonderful, and at times totally frustrating too. That’s technology, my experience of it anyway. I do a lot of stuff with technology and I suspect I will continue to do that.

Getting going with ThinkDB

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ThinkDB2.5 is a very old piece of software. I think I’d lost my registration for this old Palm OS app, but I managed to find away around that. Even though this is an old app that doesn’t mean it isn’t any use, in fact, quite the contrary. As a little database app for Palm OS it is very functional indeed. To the extent that it even has a plug in architecture, although I haven’t quite remembered how to get that going as yet.

I’m slowly remembering why the Palm was such a great platform. Who knows, I might even go back to it!

Sinewave / Bacterium

Posted by on in Mobile Applications, Music, Tech

I didn’t make either of these, although I think that I may have compiled them under HB++, a now defunct IDE for Palm OS development.

The Sinewave app was from Olivier and was meant as a learning aid for those wishing to develop Palm OS audio apps.

Bacterium was something that was being developed (I can’t remember by whom) and, as often happens, got stalled. Both late examples of Palm OS music making apps.

Getting the Tungsten C up and running

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I remembered that I still had an old Palm Tungsten C which I’d bought from a friend ages ago, and I thought I’d see if it still worked. Of course it did, with one caveat, but I’ll come back to that.

The Tungsten C was an interesting device, with a full keyboard and large screen it is a very easy to use device, and it supports WIFI and bluetooth. However, the WIFI doesn’t support WPA security which makes it kind of useless now. However, it is still on the face of it a very handy device. That is until I decided to see if I could run linux on it, and then as you can see from the picture with the stripey lines, it didn’t really like it.

It restored ok, and seems to be working fine now. All I need to do is to work out what to do with it next!

I hate it when something is lost

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I’ve been trying to find the registration code for an old Palm application that I’d like to put into my StyleTap emulator on my old 3G. The company that made the software are long gone, and so far I can’t locate the registration details from anywhere.

It looks like I’ll have to give up on it for now at the very least, but it is really annoying!

Getting apps into iDroid (2)

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This wasn’t something I thought would run under iDroid. It is a very simple app. All that happens is some balls float around the screen. The significant thing is that I made it in Processing, so I didn’t think it would work at all on the emulated version of iDroid, but it did!

Getting apps into iDroid (1)

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Well it isn’t all plain sailing with iDroid of course, I’ve had quite a few problems getting things to load in it, although some things are just fine.

The one app I really wanted to get running on iDroid was Tasker, which is one of the most excellent Android apps ever in my book. However, I just get this:

Which is of course no fun at all. I may do some research on this, but my guess is that this isn’t going to be readily fixable.

Well that didn’t work then did it

Posted by on in Stuff, Tech

I thought it would a great idea to get an old bluetooth keyboard running on my Axim, but this one doesn’t seem to want to even switch on as yet! Just my luck. Trying to get text into a windows mobile keyboard using a stylus is no fun at all!

Processing arrives for iOS

Posted by on in Making things, Tech

A brief play with Processing JS for iOS will tell you that it is very definitely a version 1.0. Having said that, I think it’s a good start and even though I’ve only messed around with it a little so far, but it is possible to get stuff up and running very fast.

This is processing JS and not processing. For me that meant that I’m not as familiar with this version as I am with the regular flavour of processing. Even so, I fiddled with the sample sketch and got it to do a few different things already.

I’m really hoping that this app gets some more functionality soon. Things like a way to export or email the code out would be handy, and a reference manual that’s on the device / app and isn’t just on the web. That would be good.

http://widgets.itunes.apple.com/appstore.html?wtype=0&app_id=492576043&country=gb&partnerId=2003&affiliate_id=http%3A%2F%2Fclkuk.tradedoubler.com%2Fclick%3Fp%3D23708%26a%3D2040619%26url%3D&ww=325

Starting out with Basic4PPC

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It is pretty retro I know, but it is sort of fun to mess around with things like Basic4ppc to see what I can make. Having said that there is the small problem of what actually to make using b4ppc.

You can’t really make any worthwhile music app with this language, and it isn’t too useful for anything net related. So, what should I make with it?