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Buy my Nokia N810 Internet Tablet

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I’m selling my N810. I want to buy a real satnav for my car; rather than having to mentally process MaemoMapper maps I want someone to tell me to “turn right in 0.1 miles” and “in 0.4 miles keep left”. After getting my iPod Touch, my N810′s main use was to stop me getting lost when driving. A task it performed in an adequate way, providing I turned it on fifteen minutes before setting off, and didn’t mind a convoluted way of programming routes into it.

It works much better as a portable web browser and general computer thing :)

There’s nothing wrong with it, you even get the box.

It’s on eBay…

The iTunes Shop is a bad thing

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At some point in the past I must have assigned my debit card to my apple ID. I think I once bought my sister some iTunes vouchers through it. This now means I can buy stuff without needing to enter any card details.

… and I can do this from my iPod Touch … from anywhere with an Internet connection.

This is really bad, with a few clicks I can buy entire albums and have them immediately.

It’s a really nice device, and I won’t go on about it since the Internet is full of iPod waffle. It’s a much better music player than my N810 (which will now be used as my car’s GPS and portable Skype) and with built in WiFi I can use its browser to go online too :)

I’ve not made my N180 totally redundant, it’s just that putting music in my iPod is much better than trying to copy files into my N810.

Connecting my GPS to my N810 and other madness

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Firstly, before I get onto the good stuff I’ve just received an email from a website containing a login password. Here’s the email:

Your username is: XXXXXX
Your password is: YGb(vIa^)OEK

Now I’m all for unguessable passwords, but adding punctuation into the mix is going a bit too far! And before you wonder, no I don’t really care that I’m plastering a password across the Internet because it doesn’t work any more.

So, today I have just got around to writing up how I have connected my Nokia N810 to my Garmin eTrex GPS so that I can download data from the GPS using GPSBabel (which I had to recompile). You can find the writeup on my main website at this address.

I have also written about how I found an actual use for Twitter!

And finally I’ve finished installing things into the Compaq Presario 486 I was given. It now has the ability to go online and the hackjob 486 DX2/66 upgrade with heatsink and fan seems to be holding too. I will now install Doom on it just as a test. It can then go and sit somewhere with DOS games on. I need to write this up later.

The GEM Desktop, on a Nokia Internet Tablet

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The GEM Desktop, on a Nokia N810

The GEM Desktop, on a Nokia N810

A while ago someone on the Internet Tablet Talk forum posted an image of his N810 running Windows 3.11 in DOSBOX. Since then I’ve thought it’d be fun (if totally useless and impractical) to do something similar.

Being quite a fan of the Atari ST and its radioactive green GEM Desktop, I remember there was the GEM Desktop for DOS too. After a small amount of Googling I found a copy of DOSBOX for the Mac which was all set up to start GEM. It didn’t take me long to strip out the GEM folder and put all the bits together. Follow the link below to see what I did.

Unleash the greeny desktop on your N810 :)

http://www.piku.org.uk/drupal/content/gem-desktop-nokia-internet-tablet-using-dosbox