Hi all!
did the programmers amongst you see that?
Does it mean anything practically?
Nokia's Mobile OS Symbian Goes Open Source
http://nl.internet.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=1,4uze,1,zq,d3rc,wx1,i56bbest,
vlad a
On 9 Feb 2010, The Digest vlad arghir <address truncated> wrote:
> did the programmers amongst you see that?
Yes.
> Does it mean anything practically?
Well, sure, several things going on here:
1) Maybe its an acknowledgement that Symbian can't compete against Android without becoming open source too. They need more developers to keep Symbian relevant.
2) Nokia now owns all of Symbian, but to encourage other companies to use it they need to make it open source so no one company controls it.
2) Nokia also bought Trolltech (who develop the Qt GUI
framework). And since Qt is available for Symbian as well as the major desktop platforms, Im guessing it will become Nokia's standard toolkit for apps across all of their platforms.
3) Nokia's Maemo platform (used in N900) currently uses GTK but the next release will be switching to Qt as the preferred framework so their strategy fits into Maemo too.
4) All this convergence and consolidation will save them time and money since they can focus on a smaller set of technologies.
5) I dont know if Maemo will be used on other handsets. If it does, then Im thinking it will evolve into their high-end smartphone platform while Symbian will be used for the less featureful (dumbphone?) handsets.
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Aj. (currently playing with the Maemo SDK :-)
On 8 Feb 2010, "Martin O'Neill \(IOL\)" <address truncated> wrote:
> FileNote by Edo provides more extensive macro capability on the Nokia S80 > platform. FileNote's macros can interact with any application on the S80 > platform as well as providing superb macro capabilities to FileNote as a > file manager.
Not sure if S80 is used anymore - the latest E90 doesn't use S80 so it may become another dead platform.
I thought the original question was asking if something like Macro was available for non-Symbian platforms like Windows or Android.
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Aj.
Hello Peter, group,
What I usually do in similar cases is the following:
Suppose your "Wins, Loose, Fails" are in column B.
- I then make an additional column in the 'far away part' of the
sheet, for example column AA or even further away.
- I put in =if(b1="W" or b1="w",1,0) for each row in B.
- I then simply put in the 'on screen' part of the site (e.g. C3) a
=sum(aa1:aa100) which adds all my 1 and this is
ofcourse equal to my number of W's.
Do remember that you used column AA, because this trick will give a
mess if you try to print out the whole sheet.
I also used 'conditional formatting' a lot in my Excel sheets, i.e. if
a report is out of date its line gets an
orange colour. This cannot be done in Psion sheet, but I have a
workaround for it.
- Put =today() in A1.
- The due date of the report comes in column B, its name in C, et cetera... - In column A I put =if($a$1<b2,"OVERDUE","")
- I select a red font.
If the report is not overdue there is nothing to be seen in column A.
If a report is overdue the red "OVERDUE" pops
up.
In a similar way I can make a "nearly" column.
As described above I can count the number of "nearly" which gives me
an idea if I am getting myself into trouble. :
-)
As the sheet reacts on the date in A1 I can also make predictions by replacing A1 with a future date.
Excel sheets cannot be literally 'translated' to Psion sheet, but the general 'idea' can nearly always be
translated.
On my netBook I have 'translated' sheets for my daily work that are actually better than the original ones.
Yours truly,
Thomas van der Zijden