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RSS Reader for BlackBerry

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RSS Reader MIDlet on BlackBerry Pearl (Emulator)There were some anonymous requests for releasing a BlackBerry version of the RSS Reader MIDlet so I took the challenge and was able to build a version for BlackBerry. The application seems to work with the BlackBerry emulator and according to the anonymous comment it installs over the air on the actual device. Here are links for the BlackBerry files:

www.substanceofcode.com/downloads/midlets/rim/RSSReader.jad
www.substanceofcode.com/downloads/midlets/rim/RSSReader.cod

If you have the actual device please leave some comments how it works on the device in real life. We don’t have any BlackBerrys here in Finland and I think that these devices are quite rare in the whole Europe. The BlackBerry Pearl seems to be quite an interesting device after using the emulator and reading specification’s from the home page.

How did I build BlackBerry versions? I downloaded BlackBerry JDE 4.2 from BlackBerry Developer site and followed the instructions that I found from NetBeans knowledgebase. In the end it was quite easy.Сувенири

Internet in a tablet, Nokia 770

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Nokia 770I have been using the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet for a few months and I’ll have to say that it is a fantastic piece of hardware. I was quite uncertain that I would keep using it after the “wow” effect but it has indeed become very handy device that I use daily for checking emails, reading news feeds and browsing the web. I have even watched some prerecorded TV episodes on it with very good results.

As a software oriented gadgeteer I was eager to start developing some software for it. To my unpleasant surpise it doesn’t have a Java runtime environment (yet). This seems to be because of some licensing issues between the Maemo OS and Sun’s Java Platform. Hopefully we will see Java in the 770 in the near future. Currently I’m able to use atleast C/C++, Python and even Mono for my applications. Time will tell if I’ll be able to develope some fun applications for this device.