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2008-12-01 , 03:12
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Originally Posted by gigabites View Post
Yeh I know about VNC and VNC viewer, but it's just not quite there yet.
Sorry, what's not there yet? It works great for me! Granted, the tablet's 800x480 screen only shows me a part of my home computer's big desktop, so I have to scroll around a bit, but everything else works really well, including mouse and keyboard.

Originally Posted by gigabites View Post
- it would be cool if there was an app like Mobiluck (http://www.mobiluck.com/en/). Essentially it was a method to see around you who had their bluetooth on and send them a message. It was fun at bars and corner restaurants. I met quite a few people randomly picking a bluetooth name that popped up. Also at crowded malls or on busy streets, it was cool to know if someone on your friends list was within bluetooth range.
Well, we've got something like that, link-local messaging. It works with anyone on the same local network. I was able to successfully test it at the Maemo Summit. But something like this on bluetooth would be cool, and fairly easy to implement, I would think. Do both people need to have the mobiluck client?

Originally Posted by gigabites View Post
- it would be cool if there was an app like "bar code lookup" that would read a barcode and look up the item on google/ebay/etc or even review sites. It would really come in handy this holiday season.
A bunch of guys are working on something like this, but it is still pretty alpha at this point.
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