Kindle 3: My developer kindlet is working!

Rather surprisingly, it just started working! All you need to have is a valid keystore at /var/local/java/keystore/developer.keystore with at least three keys in it. The aliases of the three keys must…

Kindle: progress

I've now created a valid java keystore in /var/local/java/developer.keystore. Clicking on my ktest app in the menu now says "The title is not signed by a registered developer". All righty, so getting…

Kindle 3 hacking

My latest gadget is a kindle 3, and of course I want to hack it. It has already been jailbroken using an exploit in busybox's tar command symlink handling. See here for details and updates. I installe…

Streetview

Hmm, not posted anything on here for ages! Anyway, to get going again, here is a tiny python library for interfacing to Google's Streetview. It can download the tiles, but can also decode the panorama…

android market developer console improving

I've just noticed the android market developer console has finally gained a "Comments" link where you can see the comments people have submitted on your app. Frankly, it was a surprise to me that they…

redbus released and dodgy data

I released the latest redbus sometime this morning; its looking good, not had any negative reports (and some very positive ones), so I hope I managed to zap all the bugs caused by the optimisations. Y…

redbus mostly complete

Well, I've just been putting the finishing touches on redbus' last major feature: bus stop location data updates. This isn't released yet; as its the sort of thing I really don't want to go wrong on o…

Dunbar trip

Sea Anemonie Originally uploaded by adq\uk

Aberlady Beach

Shining Coast Originally uploaded by adq\uk

Quickie geek update

Can't sleep again due to too many geeky things flying about in my head, gah! The next major feature to add to redbus will be bus stop data updates; I already have code to pull the stop information fro…