Pre-Release Version of Core Player Being Distributed

Core Code project has announced that they are inviting individuals to participate in a pre-release of the CorePlayer project.

It is a cross platform player which runs on CE, Windows Mobile, Pocket PC, Palm, Symbian, Windows, Vista, UMPC, OS X, and Linux.

Features Include:
- Advanced Skins
- Streaming (http/udp/mms/rtp/rtsp)
- Visualizations 2D and 3D
- Video: H.264, DivX, MKV, MOV, WMV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, OGM, 3GP
- Audio: AAC, MP3, WMA, MID, AC-3, MKA, OGG, FLAC, AMR, WAV
- CorePlayer PMP Mobile
- 'Seek and Share' Social Network Sharing Technology
- CoreTunes Desktop Media Library
- CorePlayerX Web Browser Plug-in
- CoreSync Mobile, Server. Desktop Media Synchronization
- CoreTheque Media Library Database

Running EXE file on the S60 2nd Edition

Use this code for the 2nd edition. Note that the first half of the if statement is just so that the code works on the emulator. This is because the emulator uses a Dynamic Link Library (DLL), therefore we need to employ library functions. However the overall outcome is the same.

TRequestStatus start;
TServerStart starter(start);

#ifdef __WINS__ // On the Windows emulator the process is a DLL
RLibrary lib;
lib.Load(KBinaryName, BinaryUid);
TLibraryFunction export1 = lib.Lookup(1);
TThreadFunction threadFunction = reinterpret_cast (export1());
TName name(KBinaryName);
// Randomness ensures a unique thread name
name.AppendNum(Math::Random(), EHex);

// Now create the server thread
const TInt KMinHeapSize=0x1000;
const TInt KMaxHeapSize=0x1000000;
RThread thread;
thread.Create(name, threadFunction, KDefaultStackSize,
&starter, &lib, NULL,KMinHeapSize, KMaxHeapSize, EOwnerProcess);
lib.Close();
#else // Phone hardware
RProcess process;
process.Create(KBinaryName,starter.AsCommand(), BinaryUid);
#endif

Use your Nokia as a Mouse

Written in Java and an accompanying Windows driver, utilizing the phones BT(bluetooth) capability and camera, a fellow hacker has come up with a great way to add a new funtionality to the Nokia phone in creating a BT mouse.

All is required is a BT-enabled pc or notebook/laptop and Windows OS. There's also a possibilty of a GPRS connection and an interface for mirroring the PC's screen on the Nokia's display.

The possibilties are endless and I believe this application/project will take off since everyone carries their mobile phone with them and people aren't so keen about notebooks/laptops input devices and this is a perfect match.

Regular Expressions

Here is a cool free tool to help you learn, test and try out regular expressions. The Regex Coach is a graphical application for Windows and Linux/x86 (also usable on FreeBSD) which can be used to experiment with (Perl-compatible) regular expressions interactively. It has the following features:

• It shows whether a regular expression matches a particular target string.
• It can also show which parts of the target string correspond to captured register groups or to arbitrary parts of the regular expression.
• It can "walk" through the target string one match at a time.
• It can simulate Perl's split and s/// (substitution) operators.
• It tries to describe the regular expression in plain English.
• It can show a graphical representation of the regular expression's parse tree.
• It can single-step through the matching process as performed by the regex engine.
• Everything happens in "real time", i.e. as soon as you make a change somewhere in the application all other parts are instantly updated.