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Sportstracker at 35000 feet

2008-06-13T06:44:33Z

I recently flew home from Houston to Los Angeles. I got myself a window seat. I was pleased to find my seat had two windows. Inspired by a post by Monadi at phone-rush, I wanted to try GPS in mid-flight for myself. Before takeoff, I set the N...

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Testing out Nokia Sports Tracker

2008-05-15T04:40:15Z

I could never get Sports Tracker working right on my N95. I'd always run out of ram. Since I'm trialling the black N82, with its 90mb of free ram, I can finally let loose with multitasking. Yesterday I went on a walk to Radio Shack to buy an ad...

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Mobile video has gone nowhere

2008-04-25T07:40:19Z

Recently, filmmaker Spike Lee announced a partnership with Nokia to make www.nokiaproductions.com. The site wants users to upload mobile created films and Mr Lee will pick the best ones to assemble a larger film. This reminded me of a project fr...

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Update: Saving youtube videos for ringtones is even easier

2008-04-14T23:11:05Z

Last week, I vox'd about video ringtones for S60 Feature Pack 1 Recently this site was featured on techmeme. It adds a simple right-click-save-as link on youtube videos. Hook up your phone with the USB cable or bluetooth and you can save directl...

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N95 8GB: Where did the video editor go?

2008-03-19T05:25:14Z

Many N95-1 owners upgraded to the N95 8GB because there is so much more RAM. With 90MB free at boot, they were counting on being able to make and edit movies without out of memory errors like on the N95-1. They were then disappointed that their ...

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N95 NAM -

2008-03-05T22:29:24Z

While at BarcampLA5, Ralf Pieper gave a demo of the N95-3. He won it back at MobileCampLA. He gave a demo of his prize and sang its praises and aired many grievances. He likes the wifi and SIP capabilities. He likes the ability to add applicati...

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Editing Video on the N95

2008-03-04T18:09:18Z

Here I am amazing Douglas Welch doing video editing on the N95. I love his reaction to the capabilities of the N95. We had a conversation about how he wants an N95 so he can shoot QIK video. But he is quite happy with the gear he already has.

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Reason #453 why S60 is better than iPhone: TWiT 134 and podcasting

2008-03-04T07:41:22Z

On This Week in Tech episode 134, Leo and his guests talked about RSS feeds and podcasting. At the 41:30 mark, Dave Winer talked about how the iPod and iTunes is an "epic fail" at podcasting. They were designed for music, not podcasts. You have ...

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Carbon fiber is pretty useful

2008-03-04T04:22:41Z

A while back, I put a daydream to VOX about having metal faceplates on the N95. I recently came across this post from MAKE magazine Its a Macbook AIR modded with carbon fiber. Certainly, this can be done for the N95 and plenty of other Nokia dev...

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Camera Settings Suggestions

2008-02-26T01:39:37Z

I think I found the best camera settings for concerts and sports. 1) Landscape mode 2) Adjust the light settings, if you are indoors, check fluorescent or incandescent 3) Set the ISO to high 4) Turn off the flash These are the settings I u...

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