Today, the new version 2.0 MobileVNC was released! MobileVNC now comes with full Win32 support and Websocket HTML5 client included (noVNC). MobileVNC implements a tiny, copy to install, VNC server that offers remote control for your Windows CE and Win32 based devices. The range of supported devices ranges from mobile barcode scanners, Point-Of-Sales terminals, industrial […]
Parallel Computing Platform for Makers
Within the last year, economically priced Hardware platforms especially targeted to Makers appeared, such as Arduino (8bit Microcontroller platform dedicated to physical computing) or Raspberry Pi (full multimedia enabled 32bit CPU). Now the Startup Adapteva plans to develop a basic open source platform for prallel computing. Adapteva calls the project Parallella Project, which represents a hardware platform […]
Talk ‘How to build a Recommendation Engine’
Watch this really interesting presentation by Coen Stevens, who explains how to build a recommendation engine for Wakoopa. Coen, who achieved his master degree at the TU Delft on Knowledge Based Systems and propedueses for Psychology and Philosophy at Leiden University became the Lead Recommendations Engineer at Wakoopa. He held this talk at recked.org. Wakoopa is working […]
My HTML5 Android Camera App: HTML5Cam
I just released a tiny and quite useful Android app that is able to open a HTTP server socket on your Android device, in order to serve you a simple HTML5 page that shows the actual smartphone camera output. This is a really simple possibility to get the camera output of your smartphone where ever […]
Recommender Systems and Context-Awareness
In the last months i realized that a new trend is emerging within all the fancy mobile apps that are published within the global marketplaces. The apps focus on the massive use of recommendation engines in combination with context-awareness. Such systems try to use all the highly dynamic information gathered from smartphones in order to […]
VNC, RFB and HTML5
This short post shows how to visually control mobile and embedded devices out of the Web, by using a websocket enabled VNC server in combination with a HTML5 based VNC viewer
Mobile Mountain Bike Cockpit
Within the next days the new, completely redesigned Mobile Mountain (MoMo) Mountainbike Cockpit for Windows Mobile devices will be published. Here are some new screencaptures of the new MoMo Bike Cockpit to preview:
Phone carrier for mountain bikes
Today i built a custom phone carrier for my mountain bike. This custom carrier should hold a HTC Touch 3G Windows Mobile phone on top of my bicycle’s handle bar. In combination with my Mobile Mountain tour tracking software i can check tour stats during the ride. Check out some the impressions here:
Mobile VNC Server for Windows Mobile and CE
As a lot of people are asking me how to buy and licence the Mobile VNC server software for Windows Mobile and Windows CE, i will post a shortcut here to get to the ‘Buy’ page. A word to the Demo version limitations: The connection to a VNC client quits after one minute which is […]
Update Mobile VNC Server v. 1.4.5.2
Yesterday i updated the mobile vnc server software Mobile VNC server in oder to provide following feature: – Load the configuration ini file from an user defined location (which can be specified through a cmd line parameter and path)Just specify MobileVNC.exe /i “path to ini file” and the software loads and stores the configuration from […]