New Twim with Twitgoo Support

Posted on Sunday, April 26, 2009 by Tommi Laukkanen

New release of Twim is once again out of the door.

Now you can post photos from Twim to Twitgoo

With the latest version (v1.11) you will gain the following new features:

Twitgoo support. Now you can take a photo and send it directly to Twitgoo service.
Retweet feature fills up the status update box with the selected tweet.
Clock is shown in the bottom of the menu screen so you know what time it is even if you Tweet with Twim 24/7.

Photo services

Download the latest version from Twim page here. Tweet me (@tlaukkanen) if you like the new features :)

For the next versions I have planned on implementing an option to upload existing photos from your memory card as then you will have much more higher quality photos to upload to TwitPic and Twitgoo. This is because Java MMAPI doesn’t let application to take full resolution pics within Java application for unknown reasons.

New Year and New Twim Release

Posted on Thursday, January 1, 2009 by Tommi Laukkanen

Here is my first software release for the year 2009. I just updated Twim client with the following new features:

Show direct messages
You can use unicode characters in your status updates
You can easily send direct messages from the menu

Twim v1.6

So if you are a Twitter fan then head yourself for example to Phoload page and download the latest release. While you are there, please rate the application :) Have a good year of 2009!

Twim with new features

Posted on Tuesday, October 7, 2008 by Tommi Laukkanen

I just recorded a video showing a new features of Twim v1.3. Now user is able to open shown link or tweet in phone browser. User can also easily reply to selected status. You can download the latest version for example from Phoload site, here. Twim is free as free beer and it is open source too.

Mobile Trail Explorer v1.12 Released

Posted on Thursday, August 14, 2008 by Tommi Laukkanen

It’s only handful of days since last release, but I decided to release the v1.12 so soon as the v1.11 contained few bugs that were blocking few critical features, like adding a new waypoint and changing display settings.

You can download the new release from here or here. New version also contains a new languages, French and Dutch. You can now also change the language if you want to use other then phone default language. Thanks for the contributions and test reports reported on Google Groups discussions.

Drawing scalable numbers with J2ME

Posted on Thursday, July 31, 2008 by Tommi Laukkanen

One of the users suggested that Mobile Trail Explorer (MTE) should have a speedometer screen which shows current speed with large numbers so that it could be used as a normal speedometer while driving a bike. One of the challenges is that MTE runs on different devices and therefore on different screen resolutions. For example my Nokia N80 has a very large resolution of 352 x 416 while latest N series devices are usually running with 240 x 320 and older devices are using smaller 176 x 208 resolution.

Using the bitmap fonts would have been a solution but that would require us to store bitmaps for every resolution and that would eat up a lot of valuable memory. I have used bitmaps fonts on SubOthello game. I think that it suits really well for mobile games which are targeted and built separately for different devices.

To solve this more generic way, I created a NumberArea class for, which This is used to draw an area into Canvas where numbers such as speed and distance are rendered with basic Graphic methods such as fillRect(…) and fillRoundRect(…). If you are interested you can take a look into a source code.

On a side note: We are now on feature freeze with MTE so that we can release the v1.11 within a week or so.