Posts Tagged ‘blackberry’
Saturday, June 28th, 2008
I like bbtracker -it’s a very simple GPS track logger for the Blackberry. It has (at least, at the current version) one problem - you can’t create waypoints in the way that most GPS applications would expect. You can, however, name trackpoints - so I wrote a little perl script to extract all the named trackpoints from an exported GPX files, and save them as waypoints.
Download bbtrackerwpt - converts named trackpoints from bbtracker GPX into waypoints. You’ll need XML::Simple for this to work.
I imagine this script has a limited audience, and quite likely a limited lifetime. The author of bbtracker has said they’d provide waypoint support in the next version. You know me and patience, though …
If I remembered more XSLT, I’d have done this the proper way. As is, I create XML using Perl print statements. I’m probably okay, as the name field is the only piece of free-form text, and I do some rudimentary escaping of characters that XML doesn’t like. The output seems to validate, which is more than the GPX that bbtracker produces does. The length of your GPS track may vary 
Tags: blackberry, gps, gpx, perl, xml, xslt
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Sunday, June 15th, 2008
In which Catherine menaces my ca phe sua nong:
Tags: blackberry, coffee, vietnamese
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
We were testing wind turbines yesterday.
Not the best picture, but it is a running Vestas V82.
Tags: blackberry, erie, v82, wind
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Sunday, June 1st, 2008
Tags: blackberry, langstaff, toronto
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Saturday, May 24th, 2008
Tags: blackberry, blossom, wires
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
(it’s the back of an ocarina.)
Tags: blackberry, ocarina
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
Google Mobile Maps’ “My Location” from cell signal triangulation is fairly neat. It’s a few hundred meters off my true location downtown, but good enough if you were completely lost.
Tags: blackberry, google, maps
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Monday, April 16th, 2007
My blackberry is confused. It really thinks it has -1 unread messages. This creates all sorts of philosophical questions, most of which I’m not equipped to handle.
Tags: blackberry, hunh, negative, unread
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2006
My Blackberry mail server setup hasn’t been completed yet (it’s quite a shock to be on a computer with nothing above user privileges, I tell you). So I’m getting lots of blackberry.net messages which look a bit like this:
BEGINETP 10
AwUAAAAAAAAAAQ!!
ENDETP ...
Sums up pretty much how I feel about it: AwUAAAAAAAAAAQ!! AwUAAAAAAAAAAQ!!
Tags: blackberry, mail
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