Re: projects of interest?

2007-07-20 Thread Allan Savolainen
On Jul 17, 2007, at 8:58 PM, Daniel Robinson wrote: What are the projects of interest for people? I hope to port some bittorrent and emule client for openmoko, or perhaps even some sort of download module that could be utilized by other programs. IRC is another important app for me as

Re: projects of interest?

2007-07-19 Thread Gilles Casse
> > On 7/19/07, Andreas Jellinghaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > I would like to train my vocabulary while in the subway. > > a simple application that shows me a word, and when I tab > > ob it the translation with two buttons ok / wrong > > I use FlashBack (but, no sound support): > http://fr

Re: projects of interest?

2007-07-19 Thread michael
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: I would like to train my vocabulary while in the subway. no pun intended, I presume? :-) Michael ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/

Re: projects of interest?

2007-07-19 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, On 7/19/07, Andreas Jellinghaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: I would like to train my vocabulary while in the subway. a simple application that shows me a word, and when I tab ob it the translation with two buttons ok / wrong I use FlashBack (but, no sound support): http://freshmeat.net/pro

Re: projects of interest?

2007-07-19 Thread ramsesoriginal
I am working on some sort of paint for OpenMoko (Just as a training to learn gtk/improve my skills). If i manage to creat a halfway good plugin systme, the kanji trainer could be a plugin for this one. On 7/19/07, Andreas Jellinghaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I would like to train my vocabular

Re: projects of interest?

2007-07-19 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
I would like to train my vocabulary while in the subway. a simple application that shows me a word, and when I tab ob it the translation with two buttons ok / wrong, so I can entwe if I knew it would be enough. combine that with retrying those I got wrong more often and it would help me a lot. if

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2007-07-19 Thread Giles Jones
Ramsesoriginal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : Just store everything as a > graph, and Then use one of the many Graph-algorithms out there. I think > a simple topological sort would be enough for the beginning, then we > could search something that fits better for us. I believe most GPS systems use p

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2007-07-19 Thread Emre Turkay
l idea. > > Started to write it a couple weeks ago, got a sourceforge account[2]. > There is a very trivial demonstration application on subversion and as > a tarball download. > > If there is anybody interested I would love to discuss. > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org

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2007-07-19 Thread Justyn Butler
[2] http://mebot.sourceforge.net emre On 7/17/07, Daniel Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What are the projects of interest for people? > > I am interested in working on kid's phones. I have wanted a kid's phone > that was not as brain-dead as the phones that are curr

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2007-07-19 Thread ramsesoriginal
IF (and only if) we have some sort of navigator map, there should be no problem. If we have some sort of route-tracking and the possiblity to save places, it would be even simpler: Just store everything as a graph, and Then use one of the many Graph-algorithms out there. I think a simple topologic

Re: projects of interest?

2007-07-18 Thread Chris Kuethe
On 7/17/07, Daniel Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What are the projects of interest for people? Related to the idea of a Call Firewall http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Preferences#Call_Firewall http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Wishlist:ANARM The usual per-caller ringers would be nice t

Re: projects of interest?

2007-07-18 Thread Giles Jones
On 18 Jul 2007, at 22:40, Casey Harkins wrote: Mathew Prokos wrote: Anti theft software would be an interesting project, possibly detecting if the sim card was changed, and sending its current location to either a known cell phone via txt msg or to an internet server.. Sort of the same id

Re: projects of interest?

2007-07-18 Thread Casey Harkins
Mathew Prokos wrote: Anti theft software would be an interesting project, possibly detecting if the sim card was changed, and sending its current location to either a known cell phone via txt msg or to an internet server.. Sort of the same idea of the tracking software that was mentioned earl

Re: projects of interest?

2007-07-18 Thread Mathew Prokos
Anti theft software would be an interesting project, possibly detecting if the sim card was changed, and sending its current location to either a known cell phone via txt msg or to an internet server.. Sort of the same idea of the tracking software that was mentioned earlier. _

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2007-07-18 Thread Tim Newsom
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:10, Mark Rossman wrote: First off I think the largest amount of time would be to calculate the distance between each possible combination of points, and I think most people wouldn't really have that many points anyway. Now if UPS decides to offload their routing onto the

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2007-07-18 Thread Tim Newsom
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:51, Brad Pitcher wrote: Actually, I was thinking of offloading that work to a mashup like interface.. Say google maps or what not and just displaying the result. But google maps doesn't reorder destinations to create the optimal path does it? No idea. That's why I sa

Re: projects of interest?

2007-07-18 Thread Tom Russell
Cool project - I'll definitely be looking at it when I get my GTA02. Thanks for the pointer. Tom On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 10:50 -0700, Jeff Andros wrote: > some of this is implemented by FMA (http://fma.sourceforge.net/), > however, it's about as stable and reliable as a good hotrod. Some of > the

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2007-07-18 Thread Brad Pitcher
Actually, I was thinking of offloading that work to a mashup like interface.. Say google maps or what not and just displaying the result. But google maps doesn't reorder destinations to create the optimal path does it? ___ OpenMoko community mailing

Re: projects of interest?

2007-07-18 Thread Visti Andresen
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:14:41 -0700 Myk Melez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Daniel Robinson wrote: > > What are the projects of interest for people? > I want to port minimo <http://www.mozilla.org/projects/minimo/> to the > phone. Just do a 'bitbake minimo&#

Re: projects of interest?

2007-07-18 Thread Myk Melez
Daniel Robinson wrote: What are the projects of interest for people? I want to port minimo <http://www.mozilla.org/projects/minimo/> to the phone. -myk ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmo

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2007-07-18 Thread Tim Newsom
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:27, Jeff Andros wrote: On 7/18/07, Tim Newsom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You could expand this a little and possibly select items from multiple location lists and then select "Find the shortest route to complete all tasks" --Tim just don't expect it to do so very

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2007-07-18 Thread Mark Rossman
First off I think the largest amount of time would be to calculate the distance between each possible combination of points, and I think most people wouldn't really have that many points anyway. Now if UPS decides to offload their routing onto the cell phones of their drivers it would take foreve

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2007-07-18 Thread Jeff Andros
On 7/18/07, Tim Newsom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You could expand this a little and possibly select items from multiple location lists and then select "Find the shortest route to complete all tasks" --Tim ___ OpenMoko community mailing list com

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2007-07-18 Thread Tim Newsom
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 7:40, Marc Verwerft wrote: On 7/18/07, Emre Turkay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm planning to use it to implement a GTD[1] utility. Yes! Consider there is a simple market-list application, in which I note the stuff I need to buy from market, time to time. When I approach

Re: projects of interest?

2007-07-18 Thread Jeff Andros
some of this is implemented by FMA (http://fma.sourceforge.net/), however, it's about as stable and reliable as a good hotrod. Some of the problems are probably due to the closed software on the phone, and I really commend those guys for what they've done. Since we have access to the phone's os,

Re: projects of interest?

2007-07-18 Thread Giles Jones
On 18 Jul 2007, at 17:34, Tom Russell wrote: I want to be able to script (in Python?) a simple app that, when I sit down at my desk @ work, turns the ringer to vibrate and sends any incoming call notifications to my Linux desktop for visual display or ringtones through my PC headphones.

Re: projects of interest?

2007-07-18 Thread Visti Andresen
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:05:27 -0700 (PDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, ramsesoriginal wrote: > > > I though that this phone could be great for Bars/restourants/pubs: a simple > > wifi network, and an app which syncs the order typed (or choosen) by the > > waiter whith a

Re: projects of interest?

2007-07-18 Thread michael
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, ramsesoriginal wrote: I though that this phone could be great for Bars/restourants/pubs: a simple wifi network, and an app which syncs the order typed (or choosen) by the waiter whith a waiter. There are plenty of such devices, I know, but if a phone could also do this, i

Re: projects of interest?

2007-07-18 Thread Jason Elwell
On Wednesday 18 July 2007 11:34:52 Tom Russell wrote: > I want to be able to script (in Python?) a simple app that, when I sit > down at my desk @ work, turns the ringer to vibrate and sends any > incoming call notifications to my Linux desktop for visual display or > ringtones through my PC headph

Re: projects of interest?

2007-07-18 Thread Tom Russell
I want to be able to script (in Python?) a simple app that, when I sit down at my desk @ work, turns the ringer to vibrate and sends any incoming call notifications to my Linux desktop for visual display or ringtones through my PC headphones. -- Tom ___

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2007-07-18 Thread Brad Pitcher
Yes! For me a GTD app is the killer app. Especially when you hook GPS into it. Maybe the phone could even look at the list of places you need to go to accomplish your tasks for the day and plan an optimal route. Thanks Emre! I'll help with testing and maybe write a plugin for it. -Brad On 7/1

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2007-07-18 Thread Emre Turkay
Just created a wiki entry: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Mebot emre On 7/18/07, Mickael Faivre-Macon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If there is anybody interested I would love to discuss. > I'm sure willing to test it ... Me too Did you put it in the Wiki ? > > > > > [1] http://en.wikipe

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2007-07-18 Thread Marc Verwerft
On 7/18/07, Emre Turkay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm planning to use it to implement a GTD[1] utility. Yes! Consider there is a simple market-list application, in which I note the stuff I need to buy from market, time to time. When I approach to the market moko starts an audio alert and tel

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2007-07-18 Thread Emre Turkay
rge.net emre On 7/17/07, Daniel Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What are the projects of interest for people? I am interested in working on kid's phones. I have wanted a kid's phone that was not as brain-dead as the phones that are currently targeted at children. I like that t

Re: projects of interest?

2007-07-18 Thread Ian Stirling
Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: On 7/17/07, Giles Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We need a good use for GPS, I want something like Tomtom but this How about POI[1] tracking? Simple idea: when the Neo user enters a POI, she or he presses a button (read: starts a program), the GPS waypoint is recor

Re: projects of interest?

2007-07-18 Thread Ian Stirling
Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: On 7/17/07, Giles Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We need a good use for GPS, I want something like Tomtom but this How about POI[1] tracking? Simple idea: when the Neo user enters a POI, she or he presses a button (read: starts a program), the GPS waypoint is recor

Re: projects of interest?

2007-07-18 Thread Giles Jones
Ramsesoriginal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > Another cool use would be (TV|Radio|Computer|xyz) remote control, I use MythTV and it has support for a remote control over TCP/IP (I control it with my Mac). There's a project listed on the projects site to create a MythTV remote for this phone.

Re: projects of interest?

2007-07-18 Thread ramsesoriginal
I though that this phone could be great for Bars/restourants/pubs: a simple wifi network, and an app which syncs the order typed (or choosen) by the waiter whith a waiter. There are plenty of such devices, I know, but if a phone could also do this, it would be cool. We could write our own server a

Re: projects of interest?

2007-07-17 Thread Marc Verwerft
On 7/17/07, Daniel Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What are the projects of interest for people? I am interested in working on kid's phones. I have wanted a kid's phone that was not as brain-dead as the phones that are currently targeted at children. I like that the Neo1

Re: projects of interest?

2007-07-17 Thread Dirk Bergstrom
Daniel Robinson wrote: What are the projects of interest for people? My number one desire is the equivalent of procmail for the phone. Don't ring at 3:00 in the morning if the number isn't in my phonebook. Don't announce an email when I'm sleeping unless it has one of

Re: projects of interest?

2007-07-17 Thread Brad Pitcher
I was thinking something like this would be perfect to integrate with twittervision. (www.twittervision.com) It's got a great API already, or you can just make a post to twitter with a string like "L:" included. can even be gps coordinates. So, if one could just specify that they were trave

Re: projects of interest?

2007-07-17 Thread Jeff Andros
On 7/17/07, Who <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 7/17/07, Daniel Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm dreaming of being able to fit a keyboard (perhaps an old one from my Psion) keyboard wise, I've been thinking of just using a bluetooth mini keyboard for most of my big text entry... short

Re: projects of interest?

2007-07-17 Thread Who
On 7/17/07, Daniel Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What are the projects of interest for people? For me it's all about the fact I've NEVER found a device that could approach my Psion for functionality! Hopefully with OM I will get something! I'm dreaming of being a

Re: projects of interest?

2007-07-17 Thread Casey Harkins
Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: On 7/17/07, Giles Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We need a good use for GPS, I want something like Tomtom but this Possible uses: can be combined with Google Maps or something like that to give other people an idea of the "travel route" you have followed. I plan on

Re: projects of interest?

2007-07-17 Thread Giles Jones
On 17 Jul 2007, at 23:30, Mickael Faivre-Macon wrote: I like this last one. We should populate the wiki wishlist with all these ideas, no ? They should not be buried in a mailing list. Mickael There's a website which will convert a file with an NMEA log file into a Google Earth route. Very

Re: projects of interest?

2007-07-17 Thread Ian Stirling
Daniel Robinson wrote: What are the projects of interest for people? I am interested in working on kid's phones. I have wanted a kid's phone that was not as brain-dead as the phones that are currently targeted at children. I like that the Neo1973 has a secure tether point. I

Re: projects of interest?

2007-07-17 Thread Dylan McCall
I am interested in a centralized locations system that replaces the address / phone numbers system, which stores actual physical locations along with GPS coordinates. Ideally, it would be encouraged that every application which could use it did use it. For example, sharing locations between people

Re: projects of interest?

2007-07-17 Thread Mickael Faivre-Macon
I like this last one. We should populate the wiki wishlist with all these ideas, no ? They should not be buried in a mailing list. Mickael On 7/18/07, Torfinn Ingolfsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 7/17/07, Giles Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We need a good use for GPS, I want something li

Re: projects of interest?

2007-07-17 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
On 7/17/07, Giles Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We need a good use for GPS, I want something like Tomtom but this How about POI[1] tracking? Simple idea: when the Neo user enters a POI, she or he presses a button (read: starts a program), the GPS waypoint is recorded, perhaps the program ask

Re: projects of interest?

2007-07-17 Thread michael
On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Daniel Robinson wrote: What are the projects of interest for people? I am interested in working on kid's phones. I have wanted a kid's phone that was not as brain-dead as the phones that are currently targeted at children. I like that the Neo1973 has a sec

Re: projects of interest?

2007-07-17 Thread Visti Andresen
On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:22:55 +0100 Giles Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 17 Jul 2007, at 18:58, Daniel Robinson wrote: > > > What are the projects of interest for people? > > > > I am interested in working on kid's phones. I have wanted a kid'

Re: projects of interest?

2007-07-17 Thread Giles Jones
On 17 Jul 2007, at 18:58, Daniel Robinson wrote: What are the projects of interest for people? I am interested in working on kid's phones. I have wanted a kid's phone that was not as brain-dead as the phones that are currently targeted at children. I like that the Neo1973 ha

projects of interest?

2007-07-17 Thread Daniel Robinson
What are the projects of interest for people? I am interested in working on kid's phones. I have wanted a kid's phone that was not as brain-dead as the phones that are currently targeted at children. I like that the Neo1973 has a secure tether point. I want the phone to be teth