Content here is by Michael Still, mikal@stillhq.com.
In my previous post about my iPaq from a second ago, I mentioned that it was still running Windows. I get a bit of abuse about that, but I’m much too busy doing real work to have iPaq down time (I live and die by my todo list).
It’s good to see that Dave Jones feels the same way about his iPaq.
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I picked up a HP FA256A blue tooth GPS the other day for my iPaq. The idea is that when I move to Mountain View, CA to work for Google then I’m going to need some form of satellite navigation to survive crazy American roads where they drive on the wrong side.
I’m liking the GPS. It was only $145 Australia, it’s got an eight hour lithium-ion battery, and comes with a car charger. I downloaded a free GPS test application for the iPaq (mine still runs Windows Mobile 2003), and it just worked. The only hard part was working out that it was hiding on COM port 8, not the COM port that was labelled as blue tooth in the drop down. The graph to the left was made with some GPS code I wrote a while ago which I haven’t got around to documenting better than the README in the source code (tarball). This graph is a dump of the drive from Andrew‘s house to mine last night. The color change indicates speed, with red being faster than blue. I’m considering getting around to using GPS data more here. One day in my free time… |
This was on Boing Boing a while ago, but I only just caught up with the post… SMS and ISBN to an Australian phone number, and get back a bunch of comparative prices. I just gave it a go, and it just works. Now, that’s cool.
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