Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Updating X500 to WM6 in any Language

E-ten X500 is a light-weight GPS-enabled Pocket PC that comes with Windows Mobile 5 installed. They provide updates to WM6 but the download page limits you to downloading the language version that comes with your device.

Here are the direct links to the World-wide English WM6 and Traditional Chinese WM6 ROMs. Or you can try these custom ROMs.

To cross-flash your device to another language, say English (WWE) to Chinese (CHT), you'll need to flash the ROM using the microSD card technique instead of using the PC-based USB approach. You'll also need to patch the ROM (temp.bin) file at offset 0x38 with the bytes: 0A 3D 72 F4 to disable the device check. You may be able to use the technique in this thread if you're not comfortable with patching the binary file.

Monday, March 3, 2008

Ajax wait icon

http://ajaxload.info/ generates custom wait icons in a variety of form, color, and shapes.

Designing Websites for the Wii Browser

I'm surprised at how little information there is on designing web pages for the Wii browser. Even the article at dev.opera.com ("Making Wii-friendly pages") has been denying access to Opera developers for months (since August, 2007). Postings on the forum also suggest that submitted articles take months to get approved and posted. Strange that Opera doesn't do a better job supporting a great marketing opportunity.

Fortunately, the Internet Archive comes to the rescue.

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