Archaeologist, researcher, curator and folklorist

Author: Tom Goskar

  • Native Symbian S60 Twitter Clients

    A quick post to mention that a few native Symbian S60 Twitter clients are under development. I haven’t installed or tried any of these, but when I have the time, I’ll post my feedback here. Gravity Gravity will be a commercial product, developed by mobileways, who already offer native S60 Twitter functionality within their WirelessIRC…

  • A short tour of the British Museum made shorter

    A short tour of the British Museum made shorter from Tom Goskar on Vimeo. I took a little wander around the British Museum’s Great Court and some upper galleries, and filmed as I went on my cameraphone. The original video was 11 minutes long, sped up here by 800%, so I suppose it’s a 24mph…

  • eeePC 901 and eeebuntu

    A quick update: while I initially liked the default Linux installation on my eeePC (Xandros) I rather quickly began to dislike it when trying to install OpenOffice. It also felt… clunky. So, I did a bit of reading about some of the eeePC blogs out there and came across eeebuntu. To cut a long story…

  • UMPC Goodness – the EeePC 901

    A few days ago, after a lot of research, I decided to get an ASUS EeePC 901. I’m sitting in front of it now, typing this, and liking it very much indeed. During the coming weeks, like with my E71, expect a series of posts about it (and yes, I know it’s not exactly the…

  • Nokia E71 Battery Life

    I’ve just noticed that the battery level on my E71 is down to just one bar. This doesn’t worry me, as I’ll be charging it in about an hour’s time. I wouldn’t normally blog about something as mundane as my battery being low, if it weren’t for the fact that the last time I charged…

  • Vue 7 Infinite Water Editor Tutorial

    For users of E-On Software‘s Vue 7 Infinite (or Vue 7 Complete, for that matter), you might find the blog of my friend Richard Potter to be of interest. Rich is learning Vue 7 Complete and blogging about it as he goes along. And he’s a fast learner. His latest post is a guide to…

  • Live streaming video from the Nokia E71

    Recently, while on holiday in Penzance, I saw some spectacular waves breaking on and over the sea defences. It was so amazing, I wanted friends and family to see it as well. I’ve had Qik installed on my phone for a while, going largely unused, so I thought that I’d load it up and give…

  • WordPress App for S60 phones

    This is just a quick test post from my Nokia E71 to test the new WordMobi WordPress client. If this post works successfully, I’ll write some more about WordMobi 🙂 Posted by Wordmobi

  • 3’s Internet Max add-on and the brick wall

    I’m 12 months into an 18 month contract with mobile operator 3 here in the UK, and until now, I’ve been very happy with the service that they have provided. But there’s been a bit of a hiccup. Yesterday evening, I received a text message stating that I had reached my “allowance under the 3…

  • Google SketchUp 7, 3D export, and Vue 7 Infinite

    [Update March 2010] In an update to Sketchup 7, you can now just go to File > Export > 3D Model and choose ‘COLLADA File (*.dae)’ as an option. This post remains as the information about extracting a KMZ file could be useful to some. Google have just announced the release of SketchUp 7. SketchUp…