Flash 10.1 running on Android 2.2 using android phone Tweet

Flash 10.1 running on Android 2.2 Froyo using a Nexus One‎;
the next Google I/O May 19 - 20, 2010
http://code.google.com/intl/fr/events...
And Top 10 Reasons Why Steve Jobs and Apple Reject Adobe Flash

In the spirit of Top Ten lists, heres Steve Jobs Top Ten Reasons for Rejecting Adobe Flash (for the irony-impaired, please note that this post is not based on the truth):

#10: Adobe Flash is too proprietary to run on any of Apples beautifully open systems (except for all Macs).

#9: Adobe Flash is too much of a power hog to run on any of Apples battery powered devices (except for all Mac laptops).

#8: Very few applications are affected by Apples rejection of Adobe Flash (except for just about all social games, just about all enterprise software packages with modern interfaces, and just about all financial services and health and education web site applications).

#7: Very few web sites are authored using Adobe Flash, as compared to HTML5 (except for 85 of the top 100 web sites in the world).

#6: Very few iPhone, iPod, and iPad users would like Apple to support Adobe Flash (except for an overwhelming majority, including my son).

#5: The Apple community has, over the years, benefited very little from Adobes support (except for just about every graphic designer in the world, who generally use Adobe products on Macs).

#4: HTML5 will someday (in several years) be able to do just about everything Adobe Flash does today.

#3: Someone managed to hack up a very old game to be able to run in HTML5 (in a lab experiment).

#2: Adobe has not backdated any stock options to any Apple executives.

#1: Apple does not need to provide reasons for its decisions about what software they will allow you to run on a device you own.

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Wine on the n900 Tweet

ARM based superphone n900 running the x86 wine binary via a statically compiled arm qemu binary, within an x86 chroot. I needed to enable misc binary binfmt support for x86 so stuff could fork /bin/sh.

I have been having trouble getting this going, with incomplete x86 chroots (like a basic old expanded color.gz from slackware). My cheap NAS had a backup dd of an old hardy install, so I nfs mounted via wifi on the phone, loopback mounted the image and was using that. This will no doubt have an impact on performance.

Wine is then running notepad (I think this is a wine version so not a perfect test, but I have run pscp.exe too, which is totally native). This video shows it's quite acceptably fast :)

TODO: get a proper chroot, probably debian ready made versions. I need /tmp/.X11-unix/ bind mounted for X11 stuff to work and proc and devpts for screen and other unix utils.
I need to better automate how this fits together and maybe even package it for the maemo extras repository.

My goal is running pandemonium at full speed. The graphics were a tad more sluggish than I'd hoped and PANDY.EXE didn't work on my initial attempt, but otherwise this still might work.

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Tank Recon 3D for the BlackBerry Storm2 Tweet

Video game play of LoneDwarf Game's Tank Recon 3D for the BlackBerry Storm2. This game makes use of 3D graphics. It's fun, addicting and solid game play action.

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Progman.exe running on the n900 Tweet

This is another video of wine running on the n900, see the notepad video for some more details. This is a longer video showing what it's like.

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«SMS-subscription - a new service from Kyivstar Business" Tweet

Ukrainian mobile operator Kyivstar has announced the launch of the possibility of its business customers convenient and economical to inform their customers, employees and partners through a new service «SMS-subscription.

This service is a centralized SMS information, reminders, greetings partners, customers and employees through a web-interface Self "My Kyivstar and view statistics for mailing.

Connecting services and the creation alfanumericheskogo name (a name instead of numbers) - for free. The monthly subscription fee for the service is 50 UAH ($ 1 ~ 7,9 USD). It is completely written off the next day after the service connection «SMS-subscription", and subsequently - the first day of each calendar month.

Minimum monthly amount for sending SMS - absent. Cost of SMS-messages depends on the direction of departure and the total number of delivered messages. Thus, the maximum cost of one SMS is 0,13 UAH. the numbers of Kyivstar and 0,18 UAH. - The numbers of other operators in Ukraine. The customer pays only delivered text messages. The more SMS sent by the client, the cheaper the cost the following messages during a calendar month.

Activate service «SMS-sending" representatives of small and medium business and enterprise customers can Subscriber Service Center, Kyivstar. The coordinators of large enterprises must apply to the department on work with business customers. In the future, registered coordinator on behalf of a client can manage the distribution via the web-based self-service "My Kyivstar. Sending messages is specially selected for billing services virtual rooms, while the recipient of SMS-messages can not see the subscriber number from which the message was sent, namely alfanumericheskoe name.

Business customers, service users «SMS-mailing, can plan your own schedule of deliveries: the message sent on a certain day and at particular times, according to the specified schedule. SMS-text messages can be generated as Latin and Cyrillic. Speed of delivery is 3000 messages per hour.

The operator at the same time warned that his clients, connect to the service «SMS-mailing, are fully responsible for the content of messages sent. Newsletter should be exercised solely by numbers of subscribers, previously gave consent to receive such messages from the client.

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20,000 Letters Stolen by the Postman Tweet

Approximately 20,000 letters dated more than a decade found in the garage one postal workers in Philadelphia, USA.  The letters were found when postal officials for several days did not come into the office, the manager had decided to come to his house.

The FBI said that they needed three vans to transport these letters, some of these letters are those from the year 1997. Investigators are still investigating the existence of such a postman for questioning.  Delaying and stealing mail in the U.S. is a federal crime.

The missing letters in which there are reportedly checks, bills and securities. Many residents who had been waiting for a letter asking them to Dave as a letter carrier.  "I asked Dave about the letter should contain a check up to me, but Dave said he never saw it. Dave tells when he saw would contact me," said one owner of the missing letters.

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A girl Had been Sailing Alone for Seven Months Tweet

A girl from Australia finally touched the finish line to end the sea journey round the world has she been doing for seven months. Jessica Watson 16-year-old girl has successfully become the youngest ever to sail alone, non-stop and not be guided over the surrounding world. Jessica uses her favorite red sailing boat during her voyage.

Thousands of people waited to greet the arrival of Jessica, proponents of direct Jessica cheered when they saw Jessica ship has a length of 10 meters which is entered into the Port of Sidney. Reckless actions of this girl from Australia to sail alone on the ocean was so impressive, where Jessica had to go through trials with 12-meter-high waves, and many people were skeptical and predicted Jessica would not come home alive.

When Jessica was touching the mainland for the first time in 210 days, Jessica was immediately welcomed by both parents who are considered insane who have given permission to Jessica for sailing alone. Jessica began her adventure from Sydney on October 18 last, and she sailed in a northeasterly direction through the South Pacific through the equator.

Her journey then continued southward from Cape Horn to South America, and then she crossed the Atlantic Ocean to South Africa via the Indian Ocean and then she returned again to the south of Australia. Unfortunately, even though Jessica has managed to surpass the record held by Jesse Martin at the age of 18 years, but the action this time Jessica shipping will not be formally recognized as the World Sailing Record Agency no longer continue the record of the youngest sailor.

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