Author: todd

I’m pretty satisfied sending photos and videos from my phone to Flickr, Microsoft Live Spaces, and Blip.tv. Nakama sounded interesting so I signed up for this free web service.

Nakama.ca

But, I never felt the urge to use it. The site describes itself like this: Set your phone free! Take pictures or videos from your phone and publish them straight to your blog, Flickr gallery, even your MySpace or MSN Spaces page. You can also look at your friends’ stuff on your phone… so you don’t have to wait to get home to check out what everyone’s up to… their pics and videos are always there waiting for you.

I obviously don’t get it yet. But, if you do, please clue me in.

Most people seem to pan across a landscape and stitch photos horizontally (as shown in my O’Reilly example a few blogs ago). However, you can create some satisfying stitched photos by taking a series of photos down-to-up (which I find easier than up-to-down) with a cameraphone. I took three photos with a Nokia 3650 cameraphone a couple of years ago. The vertically stitched result can be seen to the left. It didn’t make the cut for the Digital Photography Hacks book. But, you can see the result here.

It looks like the Mozilla Minimo browser project for mobile devices has gone dormant. Its last release, 0.016, was made on June 16 (more than 6 months ago). Doug Turner himself notes in his blog that he has not been doing much development on Minimo and invites interested developers to step up to contribute to the project.

Minimo has a long way to go (as its release number indicates) before it is a useful tool for end-users. And, I hope interested talented developers join in the development effort to deliver a good Open Source browser for mobile devices.