Browsing archives for March, 2006

Bubbles: Minimizing the web

17 March 2006 | 1 Comment

We just released Bubbles, a cool little (183k) piece of software that aims to turn Web-Applications into desktop applications.
It does this by housing your favorite sites in a bare-bone window, no toolbar/addressbar/buttons/statusbar/***bar around, pure app. These windows, or as we call them, Bubbles, go to the system-tray when you close them, and wait there for [...]

solution to unresolved external symbol _com_issue_error _bstr_t::_bstr_t

16 March 2006 | 41 Comments

LNK2019: unresolved external symbol “void __stdcall _com_issue_error(long)” (?_com_issue_error@@YGXJ@Z) referenced in function “public: __thiscall _bstr_t::_bstr_t(unsigned short const *)” (??0_bstr_t@@QAE@PBG@Z)
I despise this error. Every time I write a new ATL or WTL app, and don’t use COM much in it, I get this.I then plow for 10 minutes throuh newsgroups to get it figured.So, hopefully Google will [...]

Sorta 1-way Video chat from your 6680 to a PC

14 March 2006 | 0 Comments

Like I said, you gotta love Nokia for putting Python on the Series-60 phones.
My first mashup was to write an app that continuously pulls pictures from the phone’s camera, and sends them over to a PC for display (thanks Jurgen Scheible for great tutorial). This gives us a lame 1-way video-only ‘call/chat’ from your phone [...]

6680

10 March 2006 | 1 Comment

I just got a new phone, the Nokia 6680.It runs on Symbian.Somebody compiled Python for it (that somebody being Nokia).
This smells like lots of fun comming up. I just love it when a new programmable device lands on my lap. Especially if it’s small enough to carry around all the time (I’m a fanatic minimalist).
I’m [...]