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Windows Phone 7
In late 2009 a rumor floated that Microsoft were going to start from scratch with their Windows Mobile OS. At the time, I thought about how cool it could be, but it didn't sound like something...
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Carriers vs Walled Gardens, WP7 Edition
Finding the whole 'carriers and manufacturers can have their own app store section' situation on Windows Phone 7 quite interesting.Basically, the carriers and manufacturers of the devices can offer...
View ArticleiPod nano 6G iRecovery
After musing with James Whelton about his iPod nano homescreen hack (http://nanohack.me/), I set out to see if there was anything interesting you could do to the iPod.Discovered what may be DFU mode:...
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Mount iPod nano 6G Resource Partition
When you run extract2g (-4 -A) against the iPod firmware.MSE file, you end up with nine partitions. Eight of those are encrypted, so not much use right now (asides disk.fw and osos.fw, which you can...
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MeeGo 1.1 running on HTC's HD2
While bored today, I decided to take a look at getting MeeGo running on the HTC HD2.The HD2 is very similar to the Nexus One hardware-wise, and MeeGo is already known to run on that, but as far as I...
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Nexus S + MeeGo | Update: Ubuntu too!
So, looks like the Nexus S can run MeeGo too :o) have a custom kernel going and booted the OS from a rootfs image on the internal memory (didn't have to flash!), but as you can see the display output...
View ArticleWhat can I do with it?
"But more revealing was the scene after the party. Well after the other guests had gone, Jobs stayed to tutor the boy on the fine points of using the Mac. Later, I asked him why he had seemed happier...
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Introducing Speed for Android
Introducing our first release of 2011: the long-awaited Android version of Speed, the successful GPS speedometer app.Speed is a drop-dead simple speedometer for Android that uses the location data from...
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Nokia + WP7
Today, Nokia announced an Earth-shattering change of course; no longer will they try and play in the smartphone software game, instead they will be licensing Windows Phone 7 from Microsoft.Nokia has...
View ArticleConsistently Bad
So the end result? Consistency – Yes. But consistently bad. Dermot Daly on cross platform toolkits for mobile app development.
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Speed for Windows Phone now available
Speed for Windows Phone 7 is now available worldwide on the Windows Phone Marketplace. It features all the same features you know and love from the iOS version, including the HUD mode.This marks the...
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Nokia Developer Gift, Pt. 1
A few weeks back, after Nokia had announced they were upending their software strategy for a partnership with Microsoft, they promised us developers a few things; the two key items were one free Nokia...
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Chameleon: UIKit for Mac OS X
Sean Heber over at the Iconfactory has just published a really awesome project called Chameleon; it's basically an open source re-implementation of UIKit for Mac OS X. With this, you can port apps from...
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Lights Off for Windows Phone & BlackBerry PlayBook
This week Lights Off launched on Windows Phone 7, following up the BlackBerry PlayBook release the previous week.I'm really happy with how the Windows Phone version turned out in particular, and fans...
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Nokia N9 - Meet MeeGo Harmattan
The smartphone market is crowded (or, 'healthy', you could say); we have iOS and Android in the top spots, and a range of competitors like Windows Phone 7, Symbian, BlackBerry 7, webOS, Bada, etc. iOS,...
View ArticleLights Off Android/MeeGo - High Caffeine Content State of the Union
Lights Off has made the jump to two new platforms in the past month: Android and MeeGo Harmattan.The Android version of Lights Off was teased no less than three years ago on this very blog. I had...
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Take One for iPad
I'm a little late to the party, but High Caffeine Content is proud to announce the availability of Take One for iPad! Ok, we launched two weeks ago, but I've been so busy I forgot to post about it...
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Nokia N9 : Redux
A year ago, I was introduced to MeeGo at the MeeGo Conference in Dublin. A Linux-based OS backed by Nokia and Intel, it was full of potential, designed to be the future of Linux for netbooks, tablets,...
View ArticleGrowing Up Geek
Welcome to Growing Up Geek, an ongoing feature where we take a look back at our youth and tell stories of growing up to be the nerds that we are. Today, we have a special guest: programmer, app...
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The Lotto Machine - A Random Number Generator with Physics!
The Lotto Machine was a project I started on a whim in October 2008; it was one of my first ever test projects for the iOS SDK and as such was a mess of code and hastily-Photoshopped UI. It created a...
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