"Arrow" <arrow201@hotmail.com> wrote in news:g9rj2l$kpj$1@aioe.org:
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> ...overpriced by $199
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Oh, sure.....you bet!
http://cgi.ebay.com/Nokia-N800-Inter...-with-2-GB-SD-
card_W0QQitemZ250288705268QQihZ015QQcategoryZ38331 QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ
1QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting
This one had one trip to Europe. The guy is not a techie and says he
used it for Skype to home from hotel wifi. Looks brand new. Current
bid is $125 and that includes a 2GB SD card N800's don't come with.
I'd buy it but I already own 3...(c;
Come join us! You wouldn't be the first "defector" from jail.
The official app count is 245, but that's only the Maemo.org user apps
officially posted.
http://www.electronicproductonline.c...hp?cPath=35_67
Enterprising Canadians have a nice bunch of custom hardware gadgets for
it. The USB OTG Adapter turns the mini USB port into a full fledged USB
HOST port to plug your hard drives, keyboards, etc., into turning the
tablet into an even more useful computer. They sell the tiny Linksys
Ethernet adapter to plug into the OTG adapter so you can put the tablet
straight on your office or home network without the wifi speed limit,
drowning the tablet in data...(c; It really speeds up downloading,
here!
I just found out from this site the headphone jack includes a MIC
CIRCUIT! I've ordered EPO's headphone/mic adapter to plug in my
Logitech Skype headphone into. I already have a working tiny 4-port USB
hub for it from Walmart that lets me run the keyboard and 1TB Western
Digital "My Book" hard drive with it simultaneously.
The hardware solution OTG Adapter saves CPU time and memory load from
the other hacks in software. Unplug it and the port goes back to its
normal peripheral mode used to flash the tablet's OS if you really screw
up playing the ULTIMATE tablet game...Xterm as Root!...(c;
Come on over to the Dark Side! Stop screwing around with a $200 marble-
in-the-hole game. You'll get over the guilt trip of playing anything
from anywhere pretty quickly. Some converts become just awful file
hogs! That's why it has huge SDHC memory cards and a USB port to plug
the monster drives into...(c;
http://maemo.org/downloads/updated/OS2008/250/
Here, have some freeware. Sorry, no flashlights and very few kiddie
games.
https://garage.maemo.org/
Come tinker around with the mechanics' new toys in the garage. The
worst you can do is have to plug it into a PC to reflash the system and
reload everything. Unless you smash it, you can't hurt it....(c;
My current project is Hike...way cool GPS app. We have several map
programs, including Maemo Mapper that downloads tiles from many sources
like Google Earth, Virtual Earth, open source maps, even
runwayfinder.com for your airplane charts live. But Hike takes it
further. Hike doesn't use online maps or tiles. You take a picture of
ANY map/chart/etc. with any jpg camera. Then, you have to tell Hike at
least 2 but preferably 3 points' lat/long points on the picture. Hike
stores it so you can recall it any time you call up the picture. You do
it just once per picture. From that point on, Hike uses the GPS data
coming from the Bluetooth GPS receiver to pinpoint your location on that
picture of the map. I've stored 37 nautical charts we use sailing the
coast of the SE USA to Key West as pictures in Hike. Voila! Freeware
nautical charting! Some of my calibrated pictures are of small, but
detailed areas of larger charts, like Charleston Harbor or the local
river basins. Hike is calibrated for all of them, the more detailed,
the more accurate the fix becomes. Docking the boat at any finger pier
in any marina, Hike shows your exact position on the dock on the proper
side of the pier in the exact position....something it takes a really
expensive GPS chart plotter to do. Using Hike or Maemo Mapper in the
Intercoastal Waterway satellite photos lets you see the bottom FAR more
accurately than any paper chart that's years old. Look at any river or
coastline on Google Earth and you can see the sandbars...important when
the keel is 6' 6" down...(c;
http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/hike/
http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/maemo-mapper/
To install we only click that little green arrow and a couple of popup
window buttons absolving Nokia of anything bad that may happen....
What do you wish, besides cut and paste, your iPhone could do? I can
probably suggest a good freeware for your new tablet to make it
happen....
Sure wish HP had a better linux driver for my printer/scanner/copier....
Scanning charts into Hike would be much easier than using a camera on
these charts on the kitchen table.
Which is better??
Linear Mode
