Daily Archives: November 2, 2006

If your supplier can’t win

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Do something they should have done – and then for a supplier that will win!

StyleTap has created a Palm OS emulator for Pocket PCs running windows Mobile. They will be releasing for Symbian soon. The emulator runs everything ever written for any Palm OS, regardless of version or chip architecture (something Palm can’t seem to do itself) and offers hooks into Pocket PC hardware for optimisation, but those programs will only run on StyleTap once done.

Now if they could only get those Pocket PCs to not wipe every time they run out of batteries…

XGL Compiz Window manager for Linux

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If you’ve seen the future of UIs with Vista, Mac and Linux (search this site for ‘cube’) you know that Compiz with the flying cubes wins hands down – looks very very cool.

There is, however some confusion as to how to get it to run – it’s not trivial, but not so hard either.

One thing you need to know is that Compiz has forked into two projects:

1) Compiz (vanilla by Novell)
2) Beryl (formerly Compiz-QuinnStorm, the branch which the users have split off due to users building more and more of their own plugins).

Debian Unstable allows you to install compiz-vanilla.
They are still working on a Beryl package.

Ubuntu allready has a Beryl package. The installation wiki is here.