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GooglME 0.2 beta

Andrew Orlowski has written a nice article on GooglME for The Register — Thanks.

Also thanks to everybody who emailed me about compatibility with their phones. GooglME has now been successfully tested on:

• BlackBerry 7210
• Motorola A845
• Motorola V600
• Motorola V220
• Nokia 3650
• Nokia 6600/6620
• Nokia 7610
• Nokia N-Gage
• Sony Ericsson K700i
• Sony Ericsson T616

The next version, which features a history list and a setting for a permanent location is available for beta testing at:

http://mobile.thauvin.net/j2me/beta/

The MIDP 1.0 version can be directly downloaded to your phone at:

http://mobile.thauvin.net/j2me/beta/GooglME.jad

The MIDP 2.0 version at:

http://mobile.thauvin.net/j2me/beta/GooglME-2.jad

The beta version is feature complete, and hopefully bug free. I just need to know if it works on all supported devices. So, once again, email me with your compatibility reports.

Thanks in advance.

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Introducing GooglME…

GooglME provides a simple front-end for the recently announced Google SMS.

A quick hack I wrote over the weekend using J2ME. It should work on any device supporting MIDP 1.0/2.0 and the Wireless Messaging API (WMA).

So far it has been successfully tested on the following:

• Motorola A845
• Nokia 3650
• Nokia 6600/6620
• Nokia 7610
• Nokia N-Gage
• Sony Ericsson T616

Testing on various 3650 has yielded sporadic results. Your mileage may vary.

Theoretically, it should also run on the Motorola V300, V400 and V600.

J2ME is no different than J2SE. Write once, debug everywhere. Thanks to Russ, Ewan, Matt and Matthew for helping with the testing.

GooglME is open source.

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My 7610 Journey Charlie was nice enough to send me a Nokia 7610 to play with. I received it a couple weeks ago, and here's what happened since then… Read more…

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Lifeblog 1.0 Charlie just announced Lifeblog 1.0. Congrats! I installed it on my 7610 and PC. Be sure to remove any previous version from both your phone and PC before installing the new version. Other than that, it seems to work like a charm. The trial version will allow you to store up to 200 items. I've also updated LifeBlogger to support the new release. Backward compatibility with 0.9x remains.

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Wiki Spammers I've only got one word for the jackasses who keeps on repeatedly spamming my wiki: "RUN!" [@531]
Mobibot 0.2 Mobibot v0.2 is now running on the #mobitopia IRC channel. I rewrote most of the feed generation code using Rome 0.4, which allows me to save everything directly to RSS feeds and read them back as needed. A much better solution than saving/reading serial objects. Tiger Purring Java 5.0 is still holding. I haven't noticed any problems. GoDaddy Rocks! I just renewed one of my SSL certs thru GoDaddy. $29.95 for a year. Amazing. Norton SystemWorks I upgraded to Norton SystemWorks 2005 over the weekend. For some reason GoBack won't install on my desktop machine, but apart from that everything seems to work as advertised.

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Pain in the neck I've had a stiff neck for the last few days. I tried to sleep it off, but it's still quite painful. Tylenol 8-Hour seems to help a bit. Java 5.0 I'm now running this blog, my linkblog and mobibot under Java 5. So far, so good.

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Hire Russ Russ is looking for a job. Hire him, will ya? Have him conceptualize the next killer mobile app for your company, and send him around the world to promote it. You can't lose.