Canola2 Windowed Mode

A little secret has been let out of the bag :)

Canola2 can be run in windowed mode rather than taking over the whole screen. Whilst this may not be for everyone and its not guaranteed to be there in the final version it is indeed present in beta5.



To do this you need to drop to an xterm and type:

canola - n

Windowed mode shows nicely that the icon's can rearrange themselves to fit the available screen real-estate. Everything else that I've played around with seems to work too.

I'll be sticking with full screen mode though, why have it windowed when you can have it full screen and just switch windows with the home hardware key?

Discounted Nokia N810

Quick, grab it while you can. In the US and UK nokia stores you can get 15% off the listed price by entering the code found on Adam Curry's website.

1-Wire Gadgets

The missing piece of my 1-wire adventures arrived today, a usb to rj11 adapter. A very speedy delivery from DS1402D Blue Dot Receptor to connect to the pc where I can read the ibuttons. I currently have 8 ibuttons; 2 real time clocks, 2 with 64kb NV ram, 2 just identity, and 2 temperature thermochrons.

Above you can see the output of OneWireViewer (downloadable from the maxim site) when a thermochron ibutton is read. There's lots of potential with the ibutton stuff and I hope to have more of a play with the thermochron's and the rest of the ibuttons soon.

A Trip to Wells

Another trip out with the kids, this time back to Wells. There were some great photo opportunities so I took my trusty Nikon D40x with me. Above are just a few of the many shots I took, nothing special but its nice to document a day in photo's.