I was just thinking to myself that Hugh would love the 770’s sketch application. The 770’s high resolution and small size, I would think, make it the perfect device for drawing black and white cartoons the size of business cards. Imagine my surprise, then, when a search shows that he already has a 770 but curiously doesn’t say anything about sketching on one.
Categories: UMPC
I reflashed my new Nokia 770 earlier this week and started installing stuff from scratch. I’m keeping a log of changes here. I mention it here in case you are curious, but PLEASE don’t use it as a how-to. I may have left out steps for various items and I am not responsible for any damage you may do.
If you ARE looking for howtos, go here. Thoughtfix collected a tremendous list of articles and howtos for new 770 owners. Nice!
My new wallet arrived today. It’s an All-Ett. Holds everything my old wallet did at less than half the thickness. Seriously. They use really thin material, so the all-ett is thinner than other wallets when empty. Then, the all-ett is longer – it has 4 areas for stacks of cards rather than 2.
Categories: Gadgets
Is there any interest out there for a version of ReaderMini.com that will work on the Sony Mylo? If so, let me know and I’ll start to investigate. I’m thinking a slideable feed list and lots of hotkey support.
I don’t have a Mylo, but it shouldn’t be too hard to get something working.
Here is a screenshot of ReaderMini on a Nokia 770.
Categories: Gadgets · Google · RSS · ReaderMini · Sony
Google Reader doesn’t work well on the Nokia 770. And Google Reader Mobile is too limited. Enter ReaderMini.com.
With ReaderMini.com, you can browse your feeds on a Nokia 770 much more quickly than with either of the official Google Reader versions.
TODO List:
Deal with auth and command token timeouts.
Funky html problem that affects the ‘read/unread’ button sometimes.
Clicking read, starred, shared should mark an item unread, not starred, not shared.
Bug: AJAX requests don’t start the internet connection on the 770. Pop a dialog or put a request in an iframe.
Bug: After some point, the feed list doesn’t follow the scroll bar. May only happen on the 770.
Bug: Image handling in Opera on the 770 might leak. After browsing several feeds with lots of images, images stop showing up. Workaround: refresh the browser. Solution: Find a way to clean up the images.
“Hide feeds with no unread items” option
Buttons in rm for 770 need to be bigger.
Add to todo list: http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Labs-Reader/browse_thread/thread/468fe1a3945edfb1
Thicker scrollbar option
mark all as read
del.icio.us api integration (del.icio.us this!) (greghaspants)
Feed list is not 100% of viewport. pgdn skips a ot of feeds.
“Unread only” option
Incorporate some of the great ‘reading feeds on a touchscreen’ discussion points at this post.
Scroll using pen drag instead of the scrollbar (keesj on #maemo, Jonathan Greene on groups)
Scrolling marks items read
Can scrolling with mouse or pen drag be added for all browsers with JS? — if so, I can go back to the non-jerky version of the feed list.
FAQ page in Wiki (auth, goals, contact, other apps, pointer to niall)
Known Issues, changelog, Todo list page in Wiki: incorporate those into the ‘home’ page of readermini.com’s interface and the front (login) page.
Subscribe to feed functionality (keesj on #maemo)
HTTPS login, security warnings
Show more than 20 items per feed (paging, load on scroll?)
River view for categories
Blog this button
Tag functionality
Degraded mode for browsers that can’t handle dojo and ajax
ReaderMini and alpha.ReaderMini favicons
Gregarius backend – no reason that ReaderMini shouldn’t integrate with other Aggregator software.
Sliding feed list so more real estate goes to feeds.
Keyboard shortcuts for non touch screen browsers (Sony Mylo)
Outlook preview pane theme.
done: Link items back to their original posts.
done: Put feeds and feed contents in separate, scrollable containers.
done: Reset the feed contents scroll area when a new feed is clicked.
done: demo account
done: allow reload after login (redirect to / after successful login)
done: mark read button
done: star,share buttons
done: Progress Animation
Categories: RSS · ReaderMini
Bunnie (one of the original XBox hackers) has something planned for the Zune. Could be linux, but I have a feeling there is more to it than that.
Categories: Microsoft
If you read my note a few days ago about GR on the 770 and you were thinking, “But GR doesn’t work AT ALL in Opera for me!”, I have a fix for you. To get the 770’s version of Opera to work at all with Google Reader, you need to change a line in /home/user/.opera/opera.ini. Change SpoofUserAgent=3 to SpoofUserAgent=1. That will tell Opera to stop pretending it is IE6.
I made that change soon after I bought the device.
For the past few nights I’ve been trying to figure out why Google Reader is slow on the Nokia 770. In my experience it generally takes 30 seconds to switch between feeds.
UPDATE: To get the 770’s version of Opera to work at all with Google Reader, you need to change a line in /home/user/.opera/opera.ini. Change SpoofUserAgent=3 to SpoofUserAgent=1. That will tell Opera to stop pretending it is IE6.
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