Any not have an iPhone?

Me for one!


I’ve nothing against iPhones but I’ve never been able to justify the cost just to run apps. I have an old Nokia series 40, pardon! It’s a type of Nokia that runs java apps of the J2ME standard. I’ve collected and odd collection of apps to go on it.

If you have no idea what J2ME is hop over to the Wiki and take a look (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J2me ) there are links on how to write your own apps without spending a penny ( cent in USA English). I’ve had a go it’s not that hard if you can understand a little JAVA and follow a tutorial. There are lots of premade apps out there and source code. This is not Android but some Android apps have a cut down version for J2ME.

One of my favourite apps in the Android cut down is trekbuddy (http://www.trekbuddy.net/forum/index.php) a real cool offline mapping application with a scriptable system to create head up displays such as Speedometers, geocashing tools and satnavs. You download the map tiles to the phone so you don’t have to keep down loading then when you need a map. I’ve always found I need a map when I have no cell signal. My only complaint is that your tracks and waypoints are stored in gpx format and must be stored in specific folders. Converting to gpx is to great problem there is our old friends gpsvisualizer ( http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/convert_input ) you can even make them up with a spreadsheet.

I have some other apps, not the millions of games that are in this format, there is http://www.tonetool.tk/ a Morse, DTMF and selcall generator and some text editors, for scripting I’ve used HECL (http://www.hecl.org/) but I’m not 100% sold on that one Python or VB would be nice still looking until I upgrade to Android?

Oh yes the emulator for a PC is less that the monster for Android, so you can check your new app in a sandbox. One last tip download the JAD file it’s sort of a start-up script with knobs on.

Any one seen an APRS over the air app. Something to generate APRS packets as tones?