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iPhone OS 4 SDK, the iPad Mania today.

27 Jan

So here we go again, another new product from Apple and the Internets will be getting crazy tonight. A humongous iphone will be great for web surfing on the sofa if nothing else.

But what I am excited about is the background processes in the new sdk (which they are yet to announce, hopefully). Finally we can have some useful applications. What I would want is a nokia step counter kind of software. I already have it on my Nokia E72 and it is so useful. I have my daily goal set to 10 km of walking.

So just waiting for the new sdk to be posted on to the web and weeks of endless night hacking ahead. Time to market is the key.

 
 

porting Facebook Connect for iphone to Qt !

22 Nov

For a past couple of weeks I have been working on porting the facebook connect for iphone to Qt. Since Qt is going to make it big in next few years thanks to both Symbian 4 and Maemo 6 using it as their UI library, it makes a lot of sense to have a facebook  connect library for Qt, but since Facebook cares mostly about the platforms popular in the USA, which are iPhone and may be Android ( though there is no facebook connect for Android ) I took it upon myself to port this to Qt and learn objective-c and sharpen my Qt skills along the way.

the repository is hosted at http://gitorious.org/qfacebookconnect

Currently the project is in copy / paste / compile mode. But once I have all the files compiling I will optimize it for Qt. Please have a look and join if you are interested !

 
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Introducing www.namaz.me

19 Sep

One problem I have always had was getting the Namaz/Salat times for the place I am at a certain time, now there are web sites which give you that information. But there is too much hassle involved in getting the required information. You first have to select your country, then your city and then you are bombarded with lots of advertisements and so on.

I thought that there must be a simpler way. I was aware of the new w3c geolocation api, which is available in firefox 3.5 and in google chrome ( with a certain google plugin, in other browsers as well ). So I decided to use that API in browsers where it would be available, and use IP Geolocation ( from ipinfodb.com ) to get the latitude and longitude position where I am at a certain. After that it is just a mathematical equation to get all the prayer times.

The user interface of the web site is very simple, infact I copied the iphone UI. But the application should theoretically work on all mobile devices ( iphone, nokia, samsung, htc etc ) on all desktop browsers ( firefox, chrome, internet explorer, safari ).

I tried to use w3c geolocation api as much as I could, but for example its not possible to use in safari, internet eplorer, older versions of firefox so then IP geolocation is used. Like wise only iphone and android devices currently support the w3c geolocation api ( android uses google gears ) so for Nokia s60/s40, Windows Mobile, and other devices IP Geolocation is used. Also the opera mini browser is officially not supported and probably never will be, the reason for that is because opera mini uses its servers located in Norway to fetch the data, and www.namaz.me will always think that the user is in Norway. Same is true also for skyfire.

IP Geolocation is not accurate, in some cases it can be only as accurate as the country level.

So do give www.namaz.me a try and report bugs etc.

 

Nokia N95 8GB

10 Mar

I got a free Nokia N95 8GB from work a couple of weeks ago, I had previously used the regular N95 which I very much liked, it was an even better experience with ths 8GB version, it feels much faster and better, the wider screen does look better and it came with spider man 3 movie, which is my favorite movie and played really well on the phone, the quality was crisp and very clear, this phone feels very solid in hand. But the best thing about this phone is how usefull it is. I use the web browser a lot, I check emails a lot on this phone, I check bus timings, flight timings, the Google Maps application is really usefull with the internal GPS, and 8 GB of space is really awesome when it comes to music.

 I also played with the iphone as well a couple of days ago, iphone feels great in the begining but i miss the keyboard, and the lack of 3g really sucks and on top of that no application development support for iphone really is something to think about.

well i just want to say that n95 is a goood phone a really usefull phone.

 
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