Comments on: More cool phone tools http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2005/05/10/phone scratched tallies on the prison wall Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:26:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: as days pass by » Blog Archive » Fusion confusion http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2005/05/10/phone/comment-page-1#comment-20197 as days pass by » Blog Archive » Fusion confusion Sun, 15 Oct 2006 07:34:49 +0000 http://www.kryogenix.org/adpb/2005/05/10/phone/#comment-20197 [...] So we headed onward. Sam had had recommendations for somewhere called Shanghai Fusion, on Salop Street in Dudley. Out to Dudley headed the three brave explorers. Now, we didn’t know where Salop Street was, but we intended to try the time-honoured “drive around until you find it” location technique, what with Dudley not being all that big. Turns out it’s big enough to defeat us, though, and after my griping about how my car has sat-nav (we were in Sam’s) reached enough of a pitch, my lovely wife pointed out that I constantly boast about (and consequently have to pay for) my phone having a net connection; couldn’t I just go and get a map? Well, I have the Mobile GMaps Java app on my phone for just such an eventuality, so I fired it up. I’d looked at it before, at which point I was a bit over-effusive about the wonderfulness of being able to see a map on your phone (”the Google Maps viewer is the coolest thing in the whole fucking world. I am not kidding. It does UK maps as well. Wow. Just, wow. I will never, ever be lost again”). That falls dramatically into the category of “Famous Last Words”. Actually trying to use it taught me two things: [...] [...] So we headed onward. Sam had had recommendations for somewhere called Shanghai Fusion, on Salop Street in Dudley. Out to Dudley headed the three brave explorers. Now, we didn’t know where Salop Street was, but we intended to try the time-honoured “drive around until you find it” location technique, what with Dudley not being all that big. Turns out it’s big enough to defeat us, though, and after my griping about how my car has sat-nav (we were in Sam’s) reached enough of a pitch, my lovely wife pointed out that I constantly boast about (and consequently have to pay for) my phone having a net connection; couldn’t I just go and get a map? Well, I have the Mobile GMaps Java app on my phone for just such an eventuality, so I fired it up. I’d looked at it before, at which point I was a bit over-effusive about the wonderfulness of being able to see a map on your phone (”the Google Maps viewer is the coolest thing in the whole fucking world. I am not kidding. It does UK maps as well. Wow. Just, wow. I will never, ever be lost again”). That falls dramatically into the category of “Famous Last Words”. Actually trying to use it taught me two things: [...]

]]> By: Tom http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2005/05/10/phone/comment-page-1#comment-299 Tom Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000 http://www.kryogenix.org/adpb/2005/05/10/phone/#comment-299 <p>Is it any good?</p> Is it any good?

]]> By: Matt http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2005/05/10/phone/comment-page-1#comment-300 Matt Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000 http://www.kryogenix.org/adpb/2005/05/10/phone/#comment-300 <p>I’d love to share your enthusiasm but then I just think of the extortionate charges for <span class="caps">GPRS</span>.</p> I’d love to share your enthusiasm but then I just think of the extortionate charges for GPRS.

]]> By: sil http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2005/05/10/phone/comment-page-1#comment-301 sil Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000 http://www.kryogenix.org/adpb/2005/05/10/phone/#comment-301 <p>Not <strong>that</strong> extortionate. I pay something like four quid a month on my bill, and that gives me 10MB or so to download. Text-based protocols are pretty light on bandwidth—the Google Maps thing isn’t, I admit, but it’s <em>so cool</em>—and so it’s not that bad, I don’t think. As long as you’re not planning on watching streaming movies or something it should be OK.</p> Not that extortionate. I pay something like four quid a month on my bill, and that gives me 10MB or so to download. Text-based protocols are pretty light on bandwidth—the Google Maps thing isn’t, I admit, but it’s so cool—and so it’s not that bad, I don’t think. As long as you’re not planning on watching streaming movies or something it should be OK.

]]> By: Michele http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2005/05/10/phone/comment-page-1#comment-302 Michele Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000 http://www.kryogenix.org/adpb/2005/05/10/phone/#comment-302 <p>I also like <a href="http://jimm.sourceforge.net/">Jimm</a> (ICQ client, if anybody as a working Jabber client please <a href="mailto:micampe@gmail.com">let me know</a> ) and <a href="http://www.xk72.com/midpssh/">MidpSSH</a> .</p> I also like Jimm (ICQ client, if anybody as a working Jabber client please let me know ) and MidpSSH .

]]> By: Shawn http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2005/05/10/phone/comment-page-1#comment-303 Shawn Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000 http://www.kryogenix.org/adpb/2005/05/10/phone/#comment-303 <p>thanks for the link, if you run across any more good open source apps please submit them to openwap.org</p> <p>Regards!</p> thanks for the link, if you run across any more good open source apps please submit them to openwap.org

Regards!

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