Liveview teardown
OK, ok, I couldn't resist any longer, I had to open the liveview up. Here are the pics (click for larger ones): Front view: Rear view: Front PCB closeup: Rear PCB closeup: It seems to be rather annoyi…
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Sony Ericsson LiveView hacking: complete
I've just checked in the final piece of the LiveView protocol. If you look here, you'll find a complete re-implementation of the LiveView protocol in Python, allowing it to be completely controlled fr…
Sony Ericsson LiveView hacking!
I bought one of those wee Sony LiveView devices during the holidays. They sound quite cool in theory, but the connection to them seems to be rather flakey for some reason. Supposedly there is a firmwa…
jrename 0.2
Hi, just created a new release (0.2) of jrename, available here. This has a couple of user submitted patches, one to fix a NullPointerException when processing interfaces, and one to fix method/field…
redbus: annoyance with small screen devices
I just found out earlier today that redbus wasn't showing up on certain devices, specifically "small screen" phones. Since I had originally targetted android SDK 1.5, and support for small screen devi…
KIF 0.5
Finally got some time to update this a bit: - Get timed events working - freefall and z-life should now work properly. - Add about page. - Sort out licensing. It is available from here. If you've alre…
Mangle 0.2
Hi, just updated Mangle to 0.2. I've fixed several bugs: - Page back now moves one page only. - You can use shift+page navigation buttons to change chapters. - Workaround for another framework bug whi…
Mangle - a better manga reader for the kindle
As a slight break from KIF, I decided to fix another annoyance with my kindle: the built in manga reader. Note: Mangle 0.2 is now available. I was really quite impressed that it natively supported CBZ…
KIF 0.4
This relase has a lot of bugfixes. There are a couple of new major features though: - Thanks to testing from charliefx on the mobiread forums, it now works properly on the Kindle DX (needed workaround…
KIF 0.3
A few more fixes and tweaks completed... New shiny things: - Lots of display model fixes - curses is working even better. - Added command history (use UP and DOWN on 5-button control) - decided it was…