iPortalen.no-The first norwegian site devoted to Iphone.

This is the first norwegian site devoted to iPhone. Here you will find news, tv guides, dictionaries etc. Just type iPortalen.no on your iPhone and save as bookmark or on home screen.

Google releases near-final Android programming tool

The first beta version of Android software developer kit (SDK)is released, read more in this article (CNET networks).

HTC Dream-First Google Android enabled mobile phone?

The rumours are many about the first Google Android enabled mobile phone, it said to hit the streets this year, maybe as soon as october this year.

HTC Dream
Engadget blog
Slashdot blog
A video with very poor quality on YouTube is circulating on numerous sites claiming to show HTC Dream functionalities?

Lithium-ion batteries and iPone/iPod Touch

I guess quite a few of you have gotten frustrated by the "short" battery life with the recharchable lithium-ion batteries on your iPhone/iPod Touch. A quick reading on apple's support pages could give you some good help to maximize battery power.

Lithium-ion batteries
Lithium-ion batteries and iPhone/iPod Touch

What do people actually search for with Google

With the service "Google Insights for search" you could see some search patterns....

iPhone Atlas

iPhone Atlas a useful resource for Apple's iPhone/iPod Touch. With guides on how to use, news and more.....

INFOMINE

INFOMINE is a virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level. It contains useful Internet resources such as databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, and many other types of information.

INFOMINE is librarian built. Librarians from the University of California, Wake Forest University, California State University, the University of Detroit - Mercy, and other universities and colleges have contributed to building INFOMINE.
[Text taken from the INFOMINE webpages.]

I found a lot of interesting material when searching for GIS related material.

Making all their music with iPhone and iPod Touch

The group iBand is making all their music with iPhone and iPod Touch although they are skilled musicians playing several conventional musical instruments. A very interesting musical project well worth checking out.

2.01 firmware update Iphone/Ipod Touch

Not very long after the second generation firmware Apple give us a new update. The update is pretty large, 242 MB. It looks as if the whole update is just a major bug fixer. The update has been available through iTunes since the 4th of August. Some having installed the update is experiencing a faster functioning Iphone/Ipod Touch. One thing is for sure, you have to update some of the webapps you already have installed.

Pdf on fly

Pdf your url's for free with pdfonFly . A free online conversion service.

Iphone/Ipod Touch 2.0 Firmware

Several new improvements from the previous firmware. The connection to the Wi-Fi is functioning much better than earlier. The ipsec VPN support is luckily in place, I haven't had a change to try it yet but I will do so soon. With the App Store application its now possible to download both free and payable applications from the apple store application "catalogue" directly to your Iphone/Ipod Touch, you don't need to refer to a unique url as with previous webapps. You have the option to also update your installed applications and a service called "Push" could update certain services like your contacts, emails etc from the "Push" service server. The GPS is also in place functioning.
It's important to mention that not all the applications from the apple store application "catalogue" seem to work with Ipod Touch.

Summer holiday

After a long summer holiday, 2 wonderful weeks in Berlin, I promise that the blog postings would be updated on a regular basis. July is usually a month that people take their summer holiday, but for the sake of continuity it's not good that the blog is resting for almost a whole month.

Firefox 3-News features

Firefox has had a "major" facelift. Several new features, here you could find a link to top New Features in Firefox 3. I have personally experienced a bit of problems with sound when playing music or video through browser embedded media players (YouTube,Metacafe...), the browser also sometimes tend to slow down and don't react to input you give. It's probably all related to "baby sickness", the product will definetly mature when all bugs are repaired.

Facebook apps through Widgetbox (2)

Here are some newly made applications for Facebook:

Bookmarklets search
Library Sharings (this blogs) newsfeed
Common dewey numbers in anthropology at NTNU library
Common dewey numbers in geography at NTNU library

Creating Facebook applications through third party software

Widgetbox the "world's biggest widget directory and gallery" has now made it very easy to make Facebook applications through their software in addition to Facebook developers application platform. You could export your feeds in RSS/Atom or Opml format or simply use their text widget option and paste "every" code you want to into the widget. They also allow export to several other sosial networks and platforms.

Ubit 2010-Suhm huset-Kalvskinnet, Trondheim

The 17th of june we (UBIT2010) held a small presentation to our UBIT colleagues to show what we have done so far in our project. The presentation lacked details and had the broader perspective in mind. I had a small presentation about the possibilities for libraries in Facebook.

The National Library of Norway and Google book search

Today I came across this interesting blog posting about the national library of Norway and Google book search (GBS). I am sorry that this blog posting is only available in norwegian, bad luck I guess, or the fact that the actual blog is only posting for a norwegian reading audience.

script.aculo.us

"script.aculo.us provides you with easy-to-use, cross-browser user interface JavaScript libraries to make your web sites and web applications fly".

Google Translate

Google translate is helping you to translate between certain languages, not every translation is working/correct, a lot of improvements has to be made to call it a good translator, but you could contribute to make it better by suggesting your translation instead of the one you are given. It's far better than babelfish, but I suppose that doesn't qualify for much bearing in mind that babelfish is crap.

Making offline web content with data urls

You have several commercial products making it possible to download webpackages of online web content in order to later use it offline, but this could also be done quite easily by using data url and free generating solutions like for instance the URI kitchen Here is this blog in a offline data url version.