I’ve put a quick snow leopard beta of proper cropper here

I’d appreciate feedback if you have any.

I’ve just release an action for the wonderful automator application that is bundled with every copy of OSX.

It’s an action that’s as easy to use as Automator itself. This action uploads your favourite images and photos to Flickr by simply adding it to the workflow. Trivial to add title, tags and description to large batches of photos. Or create a folder action to automatically upload everything dropped in.

I’ve done a propper page all about it here.

Just like the Nokia N70 before it, the Nokia N73, my new phone, and iSync aren’t quite up to speed with each other . As before just add the stanza below to the MetaClasses.plist file to bluff support. It’s actually just a quickly butchers N70 stanza with the usb id yanked.

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I’ve not been away from the keyboard for that long have I? I’ve been away for a week Boating, but still not sure where the rest of the time has gone.

Still, let me introduce my latest ‘quickly-knocked-together–over-the-weekend’ project. It’s not much really, but since I’ve been meaning to play with Javascript for a long time it was the first thing that came to mind.

I find myself using this when I complete another level on the Internet.

It looks like the N70 is still far too new for many bluetooth devices to support natively yet, the TomTom One included. Still it’s possible to use it with your TomTom to get all the TomTom Plus services.

Here’s a quick breakdown of the steps required.
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If you’re a fan of Apple and Nokia you’re probably already familiar using iSync to sync your phone with your desktop. Although if you’re a Nokia N70 user you’ll discover out of the box Tiger won’t sync by default, you’ll have to partake in a little hackery-pokery.
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How nice is this for hunting down those hotspots whilst on the move? TomTom being the wonderful people they are dump out all the gps data to /dev/gpsdata ( unsuprisingly ) in the standard gps NMEA format.

Just the very format most wi-fi stumblers use to log the position a hotspot was discovered. After a little hackery pokery I’ve manage to get it streaming over bluetooth to my ibook running macstumbler. Job done. View the image below for an example.

I’ve a few minor issues to work out but it’s functioning a treat.

Yey, I finally managed to get around the devpts issues and remotely login to the tomtom.

Next? how about gdb ttn…

I also grabbed a larger SD card so I can get more binaries on the TT, hopefully python if I can get it cross compiling correctly.

This is also all on a stock TT One, no kernel was recompiled in pursuit of this hack.

Check below for the shell feedback.

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I finally managed to get a working IP stack from the TomTom One to my PC working…

I ended up using rfcomm and running ppp over it. I would have preferred to use PAN but that didn’t look like a goer from the stock TomTom kernel.

Unfortunately devpts was also omitted from the kernel, so I’m going to have to get a little creative with the pseudo terms.

Here’s a quick teaser before I package it all up with a telnet daemon..

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Have just got myself a TomTom one.  Lovely bit of GPS / Linux integration and hacker friendly too…

At the moment I’m just seeing what it could be capable of and the first step towards that is seeing what dmesg dumps out..

I’ve already bust out the boot loader and startup scripts and have been annotating a dump of ttn navigation app to see what interesting stuff I can glean from that.

Next on the list is gaining a remote shell without writing my own custom firmware or boot loader.

Read on for the messages log…

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