Re: Marble Maze
Marco Trevisan (Treviño) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joe Pfeiffer wrote: I was figuring something like that since long time... I hoped to play with Neverball and accelerometers, but unfortunately we won't have 3d soon :/. Perhaps it is easier to port enigma. That is a very nice game too http://www.nongnu.org/enigma/ http://packages.debian.org/unstable/games/enigma Niels ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Stylus Recommendation
Ben Burdette [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Something that might work would be a guitar finger pick. Here's a link to a selection of those: http://www.suncreekmusic.com/index.php/cPath/26_34 I thought of buying a simple plastic keyring. I think that the following could do the trick, but I am a little worried about damaging the screen of the phone. http://www.acehardwareoutlet.com/(5ebbkvzk4jdg2i55dldmps55)/ProductDetails.aspx?SKU=5169487 Niels ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: stylus alternative
Robin Paulson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: so, i've been following the discussion on finger-based vs. stylus-based apps. and i thought it might be a good idea to come up with some ideas for something between the two: a short (20-30mm long) piece of kit, attached to the finger end Does it hurt a touch screen to use the backend of a disposable ballpen as a stylus? Niels ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Switch to newsgroup
Geert Schuring [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd really like to switch to newsgroups for this kind of communication. Best way to do it if you ask me! No shitty webforums, offline message reading, and easy subscribing. So why not move to newsgroups? You can already read all the openmoko mailing lists as nntp (also known as newsgroups) at www.gmane.org. http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.handhelds.openmoko.community Niels ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: OK, the forum is coming..
Joe Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And people who remember the term usenet can even look at it with a proper news reader. I don't think that google provides nntp, but you can ask gmane to create an nntp gateway. See the sympy group for an example http://groups.google.com/group/sympy http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.sympy Niels ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: community Digest, Vol 36, Issue 45
Ryan Lozier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there an openmoko forum? I am really sick of reading this mailing list for the last year to find subjects im interested in. If there is one, please someone point me to it, and im not talking about the wiki. I mean, where would someone go if they had a question about a particular function of the phone or one of the softwares? This mailinglist? If there is no forum yet, we need one. ryan. Gmane provides a web-interface to the lists. It is fairly easy to navigate, but I don't know if it remembers which messages you have read. http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.handhelds.openmoko.community http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.handhelds.openmoko.community Niels ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: GPS can work stand-alone (Re: Advertising/hype)
Nick Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The other idea for a 'killer mobile gps app' that occurred to me is some sort of dynamic-flash-mob system, where you can express interest in various activities, and it'll detect whenever a 'critical mass' of people for a given activity are close enough together and buzz them all. Imagine walking past a stranger and suddenly your cellphones buzz to let you know you're both interested in a quick game of something... That sounds like great fun. Do you plan to introduce a central server and use a critical radius of a kilometer, or do you want to use wifi. I guess that wifi requires a fairly large userbase. Is it possible to design a system that worked with a central server without having the users reveal their position and identity all the time? On a related note I think that Slashdot once had a story about a (bluetooth based??) Japanese dating gadget that worked in a similar fashion. They had to buy the gadget, encode their preferences, and then wait for the unexpected buzz of finding a perfect match. They must have used some kind of encoding to prevent abuse, but I am not sure how it worked. On an even less related note it could be fun to keep a log-file of the wifi phones that stay in your vicinity for more than an hour (ignoring public transport). Then your phone can tell you whether or not you have met a given person before. Perhaps you can use data from the log file to query friends for further information or a vcard. This idea might require a lot of storage and a way to filter out routers, but it could lead to some fun. Enough babling... Actually I just wanted to wish you all good luck with finishing up the phones. I am looking forward to buying one. Niels ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
