Getting Acquainted With The O2 Xda Atom

My Nokia 3230 Symbian OS went dead. I tried resets of incrementing severity until I finally reached the hard format. It wiped out all of my phone memory contacts but now the phone works. (I lost ~4 years worth of contacts. University buddies reading this, please sms me your numbers.)

In the interim, my mum gave me her spare Nokia N70 as a backup. Then she dug up a O2 Xda Atom for me.

Wow. If only every backup was an incremental upgrade. Anyhow, I had a bit of fun with the Atom today. Take a look!

Since the Atom had Wifi, my first thought was to set up internet radio streams using aacPlus. By minimizing data transfer, we can lengthen battery life and aacPlus gives near CD quality streams at 24kbps!

They are very few PocketPC players that support aacPlus but I managed to find one, Resco Pocket Radio which works very well. The buffers get filled very fast and music plays almost instantly. No buffering delays nor dismal battery life. Perfect for studying at libraries with free Wifi. A worthy alternative to my ultraportable Acer 3012WTMi.





I installed PocketMusic to play streams from Shoutcast and my MP3s.





I wanted to test how well the Atom takes to downloading a larger file. Conclusion? As fast as the connection would allow.





I went on MSN and yes, I installed a SSH client so that I can SSH back home to check on or start new downloads from my Atom. How cool is that?





The awesome file manager GSFinder (freeware!!!) and the shortcuts to Resco Radio, PocketMusicmusic and FM Radio that I will be using very frequently.

If you notice, Opera is also in it. Hehe.





There are other programs like Magic Button (Task Manager) and TodayWarrior (plug-in for the Today screen that allows us to do the most habitual tasks when we are working with WiFi) which are also indispensable.

There are many possibilities with a "mini computer with Wifi capability". When it's time for me to get another phone, I would be keeping my eyes firmly out for one of these again.

Automatic Photo Pop-Up

Automatic Photo Pop-Up is really cool. There's a Linux version too. I am gonna have some serious fun with it.

Our system automatically constructs simple "pop-up" 3D models, like those one would find in a children's book, out of a single outdoor image. The system labels each region of an outdoor image as ground, vertical, or sky. Line segments fitted to the ground-vertical boundary in the image and an estimate of the horizon's position provide the necessary information to determine where to "cut" and "fold" in the image. The model is then popped up, and the image is texture mapped onto the model.

HTTP Response Codes and Girls

Hilarious!

Here are my favourites.

306 (Unused)
"I'm a virgin."

411 Length Required
"You call that a penis?"

502 Bad Gateway
“Not in that hole!”

503 Out of Resources
“I don’t have time for this right now.”

500 Internal Server Error
“I have a yeast infection”

307 Temporary Redirect
“I was only with you to get over my ex.”

400 Bad Request
“Can you introduce me to your hot friend?”

100 Continue
It’s your lucky night

202 Accepted
Even luckier

201 Created
When the girl calls back nine months later

I Think I Like McFly

Ok. If McFly ever holds a concert in Singapore, I am going for it. It's gonna be a whole heap of fun. Which of you nerds would want to come along?

Posted 3 vids that is McFly. Feel free to crank it up, yeah?

Tonight's Playlist

Yup. Tonight's playlist. McFly rocks. Follow the links for a nice surprise. =)

Jason Mraz - The Remedy
Hawthorne Heights - Pens And Needles
Fall Out Boy - Sugar, We're Going Down
Air Supply - Every Woman In The World
Greenday - Boulevard Of Broken Dreams
Alex Band feat. Santana - Why Don't You And I
All-4-One - Not Ready For Goodbye
The Calling - Our Lives
The Calling - Wherever You Will Go
The Calling - Could It Be Any Harder
The calling - Just That good
The Calling-Camino Palmero-06-Adrienne
The Calling - We're Forgiven
The Calling -Things Don't Always Turn Out That Way
Daniel Powter - You Had a Bad Day
Dishwalla - Collide
Five for Fighting - 100 Years
Garth Brooks - When You Come Back To Me Again
Howie Day - Collide
Jack Johnson - Upside Down
Keith Urban - You're My Better Half
Life House - You And Me
Maroon 5 - She Will Be Loved
McFly - Obviously
McFly - Five Colours In Her Hair
Mcfly - Please Please
McFly - I'll Be Ok
McFly - Just My Luck
McFly - All About You
McFly - You've Got A Friend
Mcfly - Don't Stop Me Now
McFly - Ultraviolet
Mcfly - i wanna hold you
Rascal Flatts - feels like today
Remy Zero - Impossibility
Ryan Cabrerra - On The Way Down
Savage Garden - Santa Monica
Simple Plan - Welcome to My Life

Opera Shortcut To Download Mp3s

There is a simple search shortcut in Opera. If I wanted to google "credit suisse", I would type "g credit suisse" in the address bar and hit ENTER.

I added a customized shortcut for searching mp3s.

Hit CTRL-F12 or go to Tools -> Preference
Under the Search tab, hit Add and enter the following.

Name: Mp3
Keyword: m
Address: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=intitle%3Aindex.of+%22mp3%22+%2B%22%s%22+-htm+-html+-php+-asp+%22Last%20Modified%22&btnG=Search

Now we can download say, Jason Mraz's mp3s by typing "m jason mraz" in the address bar and follow the results.


Side Note:
To date, I have used Internet Explorer, Mozilla/Firefox, Safari, Opera, Netscape, MyIE2, links, lynx, elinks, Konqueror, Galeon, Shiira etc.

My favourite has largely remained Opera.