tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63530861317246972552010-05-08T16:00:55.658ZA continuous stream of nothingJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03300759375812317220noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6353086131724697255.post-63624857161198684252007-10-30T12:37:00.001Z2008-05-05T16:50:06.002Z

I'm a big user of Lightning in Thunderbird, and also of Google Calendar, but for whatever reason no-one feels inclined to provide pre-built binaries for the x86_64 architecture. This is a bit strange, because it's not like 64-bit is new or experimental, but there you go.Anyway, as no-one else has built it I figured that I would take the plunge. Of more interest to you, no doubt, is that I've

Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03300759375812317220noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6353086131724697255.post-39911304987831479402008-04-07T22:55:00.002Z2008-04-07T23:00:29.322Z

A new version of Lightning and still no pre-built package for x86_64.The good news is that it looks like the package built from source contains all of the standard locales, so those of you who commented on my 0.7 build that it was missing their favourite locale should be happier with this one. Give it a whirl and let me know how it goes.The file is available at http://www.devzero.net/thunderbird

Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03300759375812317220noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6353086131724697255.post-68005942344418997822007-10-30T16:19:00.000Z2007-10-30T17:05:31.165Z

InSearch 1.1 has been released. This is much the same as the previous version, with the exception that it now handles multi-frame pages better (i.e. is more likely to select the correct input box). Apart from that it has the same focus-on-the-search-box-in-the-page goodness of the first release.Get it at http://www.devzero.net/firefox/insearch.xpi

Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03300759375812317220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6353086131724697255.post-30156607419419458682007-08-12T20:41:00.000Z2007-08-12T20:42:38.821Z

Within the low cost calling extension the rules engine carries out the work of translating from the outgoing number (the number selected by the user to dial) to the dialling number (the number actually dialled by the 'phone). It does this in two stages:Select which of a number of potential dial chains to useIterate over a given dial chain to generate the dialling numberAt the first stage the

Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03300759375812317220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6353086131724697255.post-40687333148649609652007-08-07T18:29:00.000Z2007-08-07T18:41:59.174Z

The design of the low cost calling extension is starting to come together. One of the items that is of interest is the ability to divert calls outside of the voice-based network entirely, for example sending the call over IP. Although this is not something that I am looking to provide at current I think that it is important that the architecture provides for this capability. As such I have

Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03300759375812317220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6353086131724697255.post-15218292112491174532007-08-04T13:43:00.000Z2007-08-04T16:29:46.410Z

So I have received my 'phone and spent some time doing the usual sshing in to it, making simple calls and the like, and overall am both happy and surprised at the feel of the 'phone, both physically (it is smaller and lighter than I expected, and its slightly strange shape does not make it harder to hold) and functionally (it's quite zippy, although I'm sure there are optimisations down the line

Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03300759375812317220noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6353086131724697255.post-77569483371554811072007-07-09T21:49:00.000Z2007-07-09T21:55:28.485Z

The OpenMoko 'phones are finally available. There are so many things that you could do with an open source 'phone that the biggest problem is working out where to start, but I think I'm going to spend some time looking at the messaging interface. Although people talk about 'smartphones' and 'convergence' a lot they're just mini PCs running lots of disparate applications, and it shows most in

Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03300759375812317220noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6353086131724697255.post-53896577345613497502007-06-30T20:38:00.000Z2007-07-01T18:06:56.764Z

InSearch is a Firefox extension that provides a keyboard shortcut to focus on the search box within the page being viewed.How often have you been happily surfing a website from your keyboard when you want to carry out a search of items on the site, perhaps the forums? Although the search box is present on the webpage it requires you to use the mouse to select the search box before you can type

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