Posts Tagged ‘turn’

Marketplace: SmartCam - uses bluetooth to turn mobiles into wireless webcams

Monday, January 12th, 2009

The inaugural marketplace entry is from Ionut, a regular Mobile Industry Review reader who’s a big fan of our MIR Shows. We’ll have more for you soon Ionut.

Ionut is looking to monetise the mobile application he developed. It’s called SmartCam and it turns a mobile phone with wifi/bluetooth and camera into a wireless PC webcam.

The project is open source and available here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartcam.

Here’s a screenshot:

Although there’s a GPL license available for SmartCam, Ionut is keen to hear from operators, handset manufacturers or any one else interested in doing business with him.

SmartCam is available for Symbian and J2ME/Java — along with Linux and Windows clients.

If this triggers a thought in your mind and you’d like to talk with Ionut, drop me a note — ewan@mobileindustryreview.com — and I’ll connect you.

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Turn your Nokia into an OCR scanner

Monday, November 10th, 2008

Those natty guys over at SymbianV3.Com have posted an application for Nokia mobiles, which effectively turns them into an optical character recognition scanner via its camera.

This could be the best use of a Nokia since someone turned the humongous N95 into a paper weight.

In luddites terms the software takes a photo of a page from the Nokia phone’s camera, and then extracts the text from the image into an editable format – as if by magic.

Perhaps they should call the application ‘Tadarr!’

Moving swiftly on, the site goes on to mention that it also works very successfully in poor light. Ideal for those amateur spies or those wanted to commit espionage late at work, as not to alert the cleaners by turning on that office light.

There’s even a vast array of languages on offer too for those translating needs, just backing up the usefulness of the software for those trainee 007s. Besides English, French, Greek, there’s even Chinese and Japanese, for those on further flung missions over seas or just to take home the menu at your local takeaway restaurant.

Read more about it here and download it too

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“Is there any way to turn the SMS feature off?”

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

So asks Tim Worstall on his blog:

So, all mobile phones have SMS or texting on them.

Is there any way to turn that feature off?

Specifically, a way to turn it off so that anyone who tries to text you knows that it didn’t go through? And that it won’t?

As much as it might wind me up, I can see that some people would really like this feature on their handset/mobile account.

(Thanks for sending me the link Andy)

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