Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Screen Rotation for a N810 running Diablo


  • Make sure you know what you are doing!
  • Update to the latest firmware
  • Enable Extras.
  • Get root access.
  • Open X-Term.
  • Become root.
  • Connect your device to the power supply.
  • Type: wget http://outpo.st/rotate/kernel-diablo-flasher_2.6.21-200842maemo1rotationfast_all.deb http://outpo.st/rotate/osso-software-version-rx44-unlocked_1%3a5.2008.43-7_all.deb http://outpo.st/rotate/xserver-xomap_1.3.99.0~git20070321-0osso20083801rotation_armel.deb
  • Type: apt-get install advanced-backlight
  • Type: dpkg -i kernel-diablo-flasher_2.6.21-200842maemo1rotationfast_all.deb osso-software-version-rx44-unlocked_1%3a5.2008.43-7_all.deb xserver-xomap_1.3.99.0~git20070321-0osso20083801rotation_armel.deb
  • When finished, reboot.
REF:http://wiki.maemo.org/Rotation

Popular sites in their "mobile" versions

For those of you who don't want to have to hide your identities, here are a few popular sites in their "mobile" versions which won't require you do change your useragent string.

Google Search - http://www.google.com/m#search
Gmail - http://mail.google.com/mail/x/
Google Docs - http://docs.google.com/m?source=m2
Digg - http://digg.com/iphone
eBay - http://m.ebay.com/
Amazon - http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/h.html
MySpace - http://mobile.myspace.com/
Facebook - http://iphone.facebook.com/
Slashdot - http://slashdot.org/palm
Wikipedia - http://wapedia.mobi/en/
Pricegrabber - http://www.atpgw.com/
Yahoo weather - http://us.m.yahoo.com/p/weather?tsrc=rawweather
TV guide - http://wireless.tvguide.com/
Infospace - http://www.infospace.com/info.avant/
Geek.com - http://www.geek.com/portable/geek_mobile.php
Moviepone - http://palm.moviefone.com/
News.com - http://m.news.com/
Gomovies - http://ww2.gomoviesapp.com:8080/main.php
Weather.com - http://www.weather.com/iphone (requires useragent change)
Weather underground - http://i.wund.com/
Bank of America - https://www.bankofamerica.com/mobile/
Food network - http://iphone.foodnetwork.com/#_recipes
Twitter - http://m.twitter.com/login
Hahlo - http://hahlo.com/
Realtor - http://iphone.realtor.com/ (requires useragent change)
CBS News - http://www.cbsnews.com/iphone/
ESPN - http://sports.espn.go.com/espnradio/podcast/iphone/
Fox News - http://iphone.foxnews.com/
LA Times - http://mobile.latimes.com/
Remember the Milk - http://m.rememberthemilk.com/
iZoho - http://mini.zoho.com/iZoho.jsp
Box.net - http://i.box.net/


BBC:
Text only - http://news.bbc.co.uk/text_only.stm
PDA - http://www.bbc.co.uk/mobile/pda/
Mobile - http://www.bbc.co.uk/mobile/web/index.shtml
High contrast(?) - http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/education/betsie/parser.pl