Geekblok

Today I received an invitation for Searchme. While currently in REAL beta (as they call it themselves), it looks very promising. The search index is around one billion pages (and growing each day) so not everything can be found (but hey, Geekblok is in there!).

Nonetheless this looks very cool and extremely useful. Will this be the new way to search for information? Search 3.0, or not, I’ve made a little screencast of how it works. In the example, I search for “scummvm”.

For too long, I have ran around with cellphones that weren’t considered hip or cool. Only once before did I have a camera on my phone, but without an USB cable or bluetooth, transferring the horrible quality pictures were a no-go area. Time to change that! And so I did. I got a nice Nokia N95 8GB and am loving it every day (note: I have no experience with cool phones, so anything would probably be awesome to me).

The thing I like best is the WiFi adapter in there. Followed by the equally aweome GPS receiver. A new world opened, for there are so many nice things online that mobile users could use. In the few days I have been the owner of this device, I found the following great apps:

• ZoneTag
• FireEagle
• Fring
• Yahoo! Go.

ZoneTag let’s you upload your photos to Flickr, while geo-tagging them staight away. Woohoo!

FireEagle can record and share your physical location (which can be set by the previously mentioned ZoneTag). It’s fairly new and open by invitation only (if I am not mistaken). Since it’s so new, there’s not a whole lot to see yet, but imagine the possibilities for a programmer. No doubt this will expand fast and really cool applications will be build around it.

Fring is a nice messenger. If you’re online, why not have the ability to chat (and/or update your twitter account)?

Yahoo! Go, again a Yahoo! product, is as they say “everything you need, all that you love”. You can browse Flickr, send emails etc. etc.

Of course I’m biased and appreciate Yahoo! applications, but seriously, what companies beside Yahoo! really focus on the mobile market?

What other mobile applications are there? While waiting for comments, I’ll go play Monkey Island again, for ScummVM also works on the Nokia N95

As I’ll be on holiday soon, I decided that I needed some more games on my Nokia N770. I knew that b10m once had a post on scummvm on his personal blog, so I figured it might be possible to install it on the N770 too. A little search came up with direct link from http://maemo.org/, so installing was simple.

Oh, what a great feeling to be able to play those good old adventures again. It works like a charm. Later on I figured that there might be a port for the XBOX too. And yes, there is! If you don’t know how to compile the source, http://xbins.org/ is a good start to get the xbox version of scummvm.

A little search on youtube found many more platforms that are able to run scummvm.