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Ron Liechty's Forum Nokia Blog

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Innovation on YouTube

You can find all of the Forum Nokia Innovation Series Videos on Forum Nokia's Innovation Series YouTube channel . You can learn more about top applications from the Forum Nokia Community, as told and demonstrated by the developers themselves. So go ahead, and check them...

Happy Holidays from the Wiki Team

This has been quite a successful year for the Forum Nokia Wiki. We started with nothing and launched in April. Already we have over three thousand five hundred contributions by our members to make our Wiki one the best developer’s Wiki in the world and hands down best Mobile...

Win a Nokia N95 Multimedia Device!!

Be one of the top contributors to the Forum Nokia Developer Wiki between November 15 and Midnight November 30 and win Nokia’s new premier multimedia device. The rules are simple, contribute quality or topical articles, How to’s or code examples. All articles submitted during...

Hartti and Ron go to WeirdStuff

Last week I was in training in the Silicon Valley in California so I took some time to meet with my teammate Hartti Suomela to do some team building. When Hartti gave me the choice of where to go after some gathering of information on the internet, I chose Weird Stuff in Sunnyvale...

And Now For Something Entirely Different

Ah the words I loved to hear right after the giant foot smashes the nude lady as the band plays Sousa’s Liberty Bell march. What, you only know Monty Python’s Flying Circus from movies and the dead parrot bit? The 45 episodes that began in 1969 have lasted 40 years and...

Web 2.0 rev. 8.0d

I never got the purpose of a Wiki until I started using Wikipedia . To me the only thing that Wikis were good for was for collaboration projects. I did not grasp the concept of contributed documentation, only contributed code and comments. Now, a Wikipedia is my first stop for...

Web 2.0, Part 1.5

While I enjoy blogging and it does put a human face to a company I don’t see it as the penultimate feature of web 2.0. However, when you talk to bloggers or the media (where journalists are pretty much just paid bloggers) you would think that blogs are the beginning and the end of Web...

Web 2.0, Part 1.0

I dislike buzz words like Web 2.0 that don’t mean anything so why not have a series of articles that tell what it means. One of Nokia’s employees uploaded a thesis on Web 2.0 to the Developer’s Wiki that I think every mobile developer should read. When it...

The Continuing Saga on my Lack of Knowledge of Electronics

One day when I was young, Thomas A. Edison and I were selling fruit on the train. As we passed into a tunnel I leaned over and said, "Tommy my boy, there should be some way to keep the lights on when it is dark." Immediately a candle lit above his head. Later I happened to mention how as...

What I Do Not Know About Electronics - Episode 2

The definition of a boat is something you put in the water than keep putting cash into until it sinks. Buying a Wide Screen HDTV was not as bad as a boat, but one thing just led to another. After I finally, had all the electronic components bought for my home theater I found I had store...

What I Do Not Know About Electronics

I know so little about electronics that I absolutely feel out of touch with modern civilization. One thing I found out is you can’t buy just one thing that does it all anymore. I recently went to buy a new HDTV 1080i television and that led me to buy a surround sound system which led...

I saw Star Trek (and so did Steve Jobs)

Star Trek is a cultural phenomenon in the United States, the original version is still broadcast on television and college theses are written about the philosophy of the Gene Roddenberry. The Star Trek tricorder and communicator were the epitome of what was futuristic but still plausible....

The Continuous Adventures of Puppy Robot and his friend Rover

What do you do with a few Nokia 770 Internet tablets and a Robotis Bioloid Robot Kit? Why of course you create a canine robot named Puppy and his lonely pal Rover. The robot kit is reviewed in Robot online magazine and Puppybot and Rover’s first video is reviewed on the...

This is the Year That Will Be

The first of the year is always a good time to predict the future. Of course predicting the future is a lot easier in hindsight but my memory is so poor that isn’t right most of the time. So let’s just pop in and see what some of the trends are in technology. I see...

Winter wear is WinterWare for Geeks

For those of us that live where there really is a winter, places like Helsinki, Michigan and San Francisco there are often places in the offices or home where there are drafts or a bit cooler than other areas of the building or house. My house is an old farm house that was built originally...