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Archive for April, 2004
Finally, something about the US government I’m proud of…
Posted by todbot on April 26th, 2004Pagers as Remote Actuators
Posted by todbot on April 13th, 2004I’ve been struggling for the last month or so trying to find an 802.11b
coprocessor similar to the NetMedia SitePlayer
or Lantronix XPort.
Something that is easy to strap onto the side of a little microcontroller like a PIC
or Stamp, or maybe even could work stand-alone for simple tasks.
(Yes, eventually there will be the Lantronix WiPort
and maybe the DPAC Airborne will be made availble
to mere mortals, but until then wireless is sorta out of our reach)
Except that if all you want is to do wireless actuation without feedback,
one can get a free pager with a six-month contract for ~$40, rip it apart, intercept the data
going to the LCD (or hopefully there’s an earlier stage one can get at the real data sent)
and use it to trigger at least 1B diferent things (10-digit numbers).
Initial web searches prove kinda useless. Searching for “pager hacking” gives you lots of
2600-style crap about intercepting pager messages with PC soundcards.
Adium beats Fire
Posted by todbot on April 12th, 2004With respects to multi-protocol IM clients on Mac OSX,
I used to be a big user of Fire,
since it was really the only multi-protocol IM client for the longest
time.
Now, Adium comes along and starts
using libGaim and also has tabs for its chat windows so that no longer are there
many many windows popping up all over the screen.
Out of the box though, Adium is kinda annoying: it has an iChat like word-balloon
layout (which you can partially turn off) and the contact list is kinda anemic.
Fun with letters, sez ben
Posted by todbot on April 9th, 2004
Sony Ericsson P900 / T-mobile Redux
Posted by todbot on April 9th, 2004So after six weeks T-mobile was finally able to wrest control of my number from the cold dead hands of Cingular.
And thanks to MobileWhack’s P900 pages for
providing the correct settngs to get the P900 on the Net. It is very cool to be able to web surf, IM, and check
email anywhere I can get a cell connection.