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Okay, now I'm getting insane. Some of those über-geeks have created a 3D Desktop switcher.

You might not be able to imagine right now, what this would look like?
Just click the image and you'll see. I love it!

You can circle around the Virtual Desktops with your mouse or navigate with the keyboard. Also different "themes" are available. Get this now, just be sure to have a powerful graphics adapter, since you will need OpenGL!

Since I got a Nokia 3650 for some time now, it's just natural that developing software for this piece would attract me more and more. Now I'm convinced. I've been looking around the net for opensource / freeware Development Tools / Kits and this is what I found:

- gnuPoc

It's a gcc variante, which is able to produce Symbian binaries, but still there are few problems. First of all, you'll have to download the original Nokia SDK for S60 devices. This is (of course *sigh*) a Windows executable. So fire up VMWare or try your luck with Wine.

When the Windows installation completed, you have to take these files and get them back to your (e.g.) home dir. And now, we're in trouble. Those files have to be patched somehow to work with gnuPoc. I don't have a clue right now how to do it, but I'm still experementing. If anyone out there knows a solution, don't wait to contact me.

As soon as I made some steps forward I'll inform you.

For some project I needed a processor with the following features:

- Cool temperature
- Horsepower (means MHz)
- but less power-consumption (only a few watts are avail)

I ended up with a Transmeta Crusoe SE. It's an x86 compatible processor, which runs an emulation layer (called Code Morphing) to achieve this goal.

The speed of the processor gets adapted automatically, which means: If you need power, the MHz will raise - and so will the power-consumption do. But if the CPU is actually bored and has nothing to do, it's going in a kind of standby mode. This makes the Crusoe consume not more than 250 mW.

Not enough! The "high"-peak is about 5.2 watts, which is still laughable (read lovable).

They are also offering some neat Developer Kits with 667 to 933 MHz processors and a daughterboard for embedded and mobile applications.

Shortly, the most impressive reasons for choosing a Transmeta:

http://www.transmeta.com/why/index.html