Scott Yang's Playground

Saw Rob Bryanton’s Imagining the 10th Dimension on YouTube tonight, and the 10th dimension has been described as infinite possible beginning plus infinite possible ending of universe + time as a single point. That reminded me of someone, who is omnipotent in all these…

Problem I have recently bought a Nokia S60 smart phone, and have migrated my email to Google Apps. I am now using the Gmail interface to access my emails when I am on my desktop, but I am wondering how I can send/receive emails on my mobile phone. Solution(s) Well. It is complicated and so far I have [...]

Took this phone the other day. Nokia 6150 Nokia E71 Released in 1998 Dual band GSM Infra-red port 84 x 48 monochrome display Released in 2008 Quad band GSM + dual band HSPA Wi-Fi + Bluetooth + Infrared + GPS/AGPS 320×240 QVGA colour display That Nokia 6150 wasn’t my first Nokia — I had a Nokia 101 back in 1995/1996 with Optus when it started selling [...]

As previously reported, I have moved my main email from my own mail server to Gmail hosted on Google Apps. Signing up was easy. Moving DNS records was pretty straight-forward (a few clicks if your domain is with DreamHost). Getting IMAP up and running requires one simple setting inside Gmail, plus reconfiguring your MUA [...]

Fortunately I did not wait for Kogan’s Agora but got a Nokia E71 instead. APC Mag: Second Google Android phone — Kogan Agora — “Delayed Indefinitely”, due to some technical short-sightness in Agora’s design, i.e. its QVGA screen, which might not be compatible with future Android applications. That leaves HTC/T Mobile’s G1 as the only [...]

Nokia to add LGPL Open Source licensing option for the Qt UI and application framework. One of the best cross-platform GUI toolkit, if not the best, has just got more free. We have been doing wxWidgets only because it’s more flexible licensing, although personally I much Qt. Now I am just waiting for an [...]

Meet my new email client. Yes, it’s Google Mail. Or to be more specific, Gmail part of Google Apps, and it is now hosting my (and Vivian’s) emails on this domain (yang.id.au).

Took two deliveries at work today for my belated Christmas pressies (that I actually have to pay for myself). First one — all the way from the United Kingdom: It’s Real World Haskell by Bryan O’Sullivan, Don Stewart, and John Goerzen. It was released in November 2008 by O’Reilly, which you can actually read the soft [...]