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Mobile Barcode Tool

This is a 2D-barcode containing the address of our mobile site.If your mobile has a barcode reader, simply snap this bar code with the camera and launch the site.

Rhomobile – multi-mobile device development platform

Rhomobile bills itself as: Smartphone apps made easy.
AND:

Native applications with full device capabilities.e
Write once: instantly build for every device.
Native applications with full device capabilities: GPS, PIM, camera & more.
Single codebase. Build for iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Symbian, Android.

Note – at the time of my testing (early December, 2009) I did not see support for all [...]

Open Solaris (VDI) under Fedora (FC9) using VirtualBox

I get vendor emails on a daily basis – I usually ignore the web links that they contain…

Today, I accepted the invitation to visit Sun’s Web site.  While there, I happened upon an Open Solaris VDI download (~2GB compressed image.)  After downloading just uncompress, import into your VDI disk image selections, create a new Open Solaris type virtual machine (VM) and

InformationWeek – Virtual conference on Virtualization

This event (today, 11/6/08) is hosted under the same environment previously mentioned (bMighty, 5/22/08.)  A few interface notes:

My browser crashed after about 60 seconds into the first presentation so I tried logging in from another system – not! allowed since I was already ‘logged in.’

It would be nice if at least two logins were permitted, i.e.

  1. one to ‘watch’ presentations (i.e. my system with a large monitor) and
  2. one to multi-task so

VMware under Vista – 1st impressions

I first looked at virtualization several years ago – it was beyond, or rather the hardware was beyond my exploration budget so I moved on. Current PCs under ~$1000 are quite capable of running multiple OS instances (especially with new VM-aware CPUs and an adequate amount of RAM and disk space; my 6 GB system can run a primary OS using ~1GB or less of RAM (under Linux) and ~2GB of RAM (under Vista.)