Re: Offer to write some neat programs for the Freerunner

2009-01-06 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Sargun Dhillon xbmodder+openm...@gmail.com writes: IMAP IDLE is not a push mechanism... SMS is a push mechanism. Something that doesn't require the FR to be out of suspend mode before You can be in suspend with GPRS connected. The only trouble is that port scanners will wake up your phone all

Offer to write some neat programs for the Freerunner

2009-01-04 Thread Sargun Dhillon
So, I want to start my Freerunner development back up. I was thinking of a few different Apps to write, please give your comments (Tell me what you want): A) Assassin game A game where you can 'kill' other Openmokos, it would like Via Bluetooth/Wifi. This would mostly be a gimmick based off of

Re: Offer to write some neat programs for the Freerunner

2009-01-04 Thread Jos vd Snepscheut
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Re: Offer to write some neat programs for the Freerunner

2009-01-04 Thread Alexandre Franke
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Sargun Dhillon xbmodder+openm...@gmail.com wrote: B) Open Source Push Everybody has heard of Push, right. This whole Push E-mail, Push application notification. I was basically playing with the idea of writing a push framework for the Freerunner. People could

Re: Offer to write some neat programs for the Freerunner

2009-01-04 Thread Sargun Dhillon
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 2:58 AM, Alexandre Franke alexandre.fra...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Sargun Dhillon xbmodder+openm...@gmail.com wrote: B) Open Source Push Everybody has heard of Push, right. This whole Push E-mail, Push application notification. I was basically

Re: Offer to write some neat programs for the Freerunner

2009-01-04 Thread Sargun Dhillon
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Re: Offer to write some neat programs for the Freerunner

2009-01-04 Thread Graeme Gregory
Tiny mail is query based, or pull. That means it eats up more batteries than a push based system, also it is not a general purpose push framework... Not so true, tinymail will use IMAP IDLE if available and that is a push mechanism. Graeme

Re: Offer to write some neat programs for the Freerunner

2009-01-04 Thread Sargun Dhillon
IMAP IDLE is not a push mechanism... SMS is a push mechanism. Something that doesn't require the FR to be out of suspend mode before a push... Also, tinymail is designed around e-mail messages, and isn't designed as a general purpose push mechanism. On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Graeme Gregory