Gmail-Lite is an interface around Gmail, which essentially filters out all the javascript and presents a bare-bones Gmail which will work on any browser (including Lynx, your phone, etc.)
I set up a local instance here for playing around: url censored.
Or you can install your own server: http://gmail-lite.sourceforge.net/
Now all you need is a keyboard to type […]

One shortcoming of Nokias in general and Nokia Lifeblog in particular, is the lame handling of call log data. My phone has a 64mb card, but it only stores the last 20 calls made. WTF is that?
I want my phone to have the option of logging every call made, missed, and received, ever! The […]

I’ve been thinking lately about images and thumbnails. Supporting images is a complete and total non-budgeable requirement for any software whose audience is real people. People connect with images. Period.
That means that we need to support image uploads, which could be a problem in terms of bandwidth and speed for users uploading from their mobile […]

humorously, for a new project i’m working on, i created a metadata inflater in perl. it’s raison d’etre is to convert nokia’s lifeblog-format SMS files to something we can load into our DB. nokia doesn’t store any of the relevant metadata within the SMS files, so since it’s only test data, i make up the […]