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Liveview case clips
This blog has moved To help people out, I've drawn the approximate size and location of the plastic retainer clips holding the liveview together in red on this image. I used a swiss army knife to lever it open blindly :)
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Liveview teardown
This blog has moved OK, ok, I couldn't resist any longer, I had to open the liveview up. Here are the pics (click for larger ones):
Front view:
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Sony Ericsson LiveView hacking: complete
This blog has moved I've just checked in the final piece of the LiveView protocol. If you look here, you'll find a complete re-implementation of the LiveView protocol in Python, allowing it to be completely controlled from a PC.
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Sony Ericsson LiveView hacking!
This blog has moved I bought one of those wee Sony LiveView devices during the holidays. They sound quite cool in theory, but the connection to them seems to be rather flakey for some reason. Supposedly there is a firmware update for the device itself due out in January to fix this.
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jrename 0.2
This blog has moved Hi, just created a new release (0.2) of jrename, available here.
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redbus: annoyance with small screen devices
This blog has moved I just found out earlier today that redbus wasn't showing up on certain devices, specifically "small screen" phones. Since I had originally targetted android SDK 1.5, and support for small screen devices appeared after that, by default they wouldn't show up in the market for them!
The docs on the specifics are here.
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KIF 0.5
This blog has moved Finally got some time to update this a bit:- Get timed events working - freefall and z-life should now work properly.
- Add about page.
- Sort out licensing.
It is available from here. If you've already rooted+installed my developer keys, all you need to do is unzip it onto your kindle over USB. If you're installing for the first time ( Read more... ) -
Mangle 0.2
This blog has moved Hi, just updated Mangle to 0.2. I've fixed several bugs:- Page back now moves one page only.
- You can use shift+page navigation buttons to change chapters.
- Workaround for another framework bug which caused the spinny progress thing to disappear when you run mangle.
- Auto-resize images on orientation change.
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Mangle - a better manga reader for the kindle
This blog has moved As a slight break from KIF, I decided to fix another annoyance with my kindle: the built in manga reader.
Note: Mangle 0.2 is now available.
I was really quite impressed that it natively supported CBZ files (thanks to whoever on the dev team sneaked that in! ;)
However, it does seem a bit buggy:- It frequently forgets to refresh ( Read more... )
