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PocketBook firmware update – 20110312 | Yann Vernier's Blog
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Yann Vernier’s Blog. PocketBook firmware update – 20110312. Filed under: Ebook reader. 8212; yannv @ 10:56. Anyway, on to the impressions. Listed, I find the list a bit unrealiable. One point I find really worrying, as it implies the device can refuse to operate at all based on a rejected license. That sort of sabotage is really bad form. Confirmed changes in my firmware update. The games directory is. With all its contents, repeatedly. There’s no need to reboot for this to occur. The keyboard now has sh...
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Parallel microcontrollers | Yann Vernier's Blog
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Yann Vernier’s Blog. 8212; yannv @ 15:00. At the same time, multicore computing has seen a rise in popularity, and a few manufacturers have jumped on this bandwagon even for microcontrollers. Right know I can think of two, Parallax Propeller and Xmos XS1. NTSC video generators. Meanwhile, the development tools are thrown together, and you get a “high level” language noone else uses, with trivial optimizations left out because the compiler itself is too difficult to maintain. 1 Comment ». You are commenti...
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November | 2011 | Yann Vernier's Blog
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Yann Vernier’s Blog. 8212; yannv @ 00:12. Today I helped my mother getting a wordpress site up on our domain, vernier.se. Mostly so that I won’t forget to keep it running, I decided to move my own blog over there, too. I apologize for any inconvenience, but please head on over. Yann Vernier’s blog at yann.vernier.se. New blog site yann.vernier.se. Blog at WordPress.com.
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More parallel computing chips | Yann Vernier's Blog
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Yann Vernier’s Blog. More parallel computing chips. 8212; yannv @ 17:06. Somewhat over a year ago I jotted down some notes on parallel microcontrollers. I hadn’t heard or done much since, but a few things have happened. I ended the note with a plea for more options, and today it was finally – albeit indirectly – answered. Slashdot picked up some PR from Intel regarding higly multi-core processors. And a comment regarding other brands. Mentioned two I had not yet heard of. Me not to trust them. You are co...
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Some more Android bits | Yann Vernier's Blog
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Yann Vernier’s Blog. Some more Android bits. 8212; yannv @ 23:23. A few apps were omitted from my previous post about Android, mostly because I considered them not that helpful for the audience at large. However, I don’t really have a large audience, nor a clue what they’d like to see – so that’s a pretty poor reason. And of course a few were added since, to cover unanticipated whims. So, here’s a few more. Simon Tatham’s puzzle collection. Naturally, the phone can’t beat my e-book reader. For displaying...
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Useful Android addons | Yann Vernier's Blog
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Yann Vernier’s Blog. 8212; yannv @ 09:30. It had to happen. Given my gadget mania, physical wear, and Nokia’s new direction (straight down the drain), the replacement for my E71 has at last been selected, and it’s an Android phone. I still required a physical keyboard, GPS, extensibility and tethering. On the wishlist were high resolution screen, good battery, openness and good platform support (like the scripting support for the E71 did not get). So I ended up with a HTC Desire Z. I went for CyanogenMod.
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Firmware news | Yann Vernier's Blog
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Yann Vernier’s Blog. 8212; yannv @ 15:41. Yesterday, on my way home, I saw a long awaited bit of news; CyanogenMod 7.1 has been released. This prompted a round of firmware updating for both the HTC and PocketBook (I know, that’s not an Android device – but I was looking up firmware news), and here are my notes about the experience at this very early stage. Android update – CyanogenMod 7.1. As for the new update, the changelog is rather exhaustive but some details only show up in testing:. This update was...
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PocketBook Pro 903 – early impressions | Yann Vernier's Blog
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Yann Vernier’s Blog. PocketBook Pro 903 – early impressions. Filed under: Ebook reader. 8212; yannv @ 02:55. Just yesterday, I got a birthday present. It’s not close to my birthday; it was on preorder back then, and then got considerably delayed. The item in question is a PocketBook. A 97″ e-ink ebook reader. Here’s a collection of my early impressions. The scribbling program earlier demonstrated on youtube. PocketNews is an onboard RSS reader. I have not yet tested it. A calculator, which lives in the u...
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Hand powered electrical generators | Yann Vernier's Blog
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Yann Vernier’s Blog. Hand powered electrical generators. 8212; yannv @ 00:46. I finally found one; the Revolve xeMicro. It looks like a decent enough product, but I’d prefer a european plug if the device is to have AC input. I’ll keep looking a bit. A nice little article on hackaday. Pointed out this possibility. A commenter linked to a commercial offering of the same thing called Manual Power. I heard of the Potenco pull-cord generator. Through the One Laptop Per Child. Another company, supposedly calle...