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I'm a community manager, editor, author, programmer and hacker. I'm also an O'Reilly consultant at the Intel Software Network, working in the Mobility community with Aaron and Jason. I am exploring software that makes laptops better, mobile internet devices and UMPCs.

MarcoPolo - super context awareness for your mobile computer

By Jon Mountjoy (8 posts) on November 20, 2007 at 10:50 am
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Wonderful MarcoPolo - it takes mobile awareness to a new level. I can make my computer *context aware* - even taking into account ambient light, time of day, and wifi connectivity. Fuzzy rule matching too.

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Connect to the internet and big brother will know your location

By Jon Mountjoy (8 posts) on November 2, 2007 at 9:12 am
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Location aware applications and public databases mapping WiFi points to physical locations. Imagine coupling this with your social media too - no more tweets about where you are.

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lesswatts.org

By Jon Mountjoy (8 posts) on October 8, 2007 at 7:57 am
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Via LinuxDevices I've just come across an Intel site, LessWatts.org, which looks at "saving power with Linux on Intel Platforms." I wonder if they're looking at context-aware Linux programs as well as tweaking the kernel. This seems to have been widely publicized, though I haven't seen any mention of it here on softwareblogs. [ As [...]

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Energy-aware software layers

By Jon Mountjoy (8 posts) on October 8, 2007 at 7:56 am
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UMPC Portal: the only way to produce a device with good battery life is to combine best-of-breed components and design with an energy-aware software layer. It's an interesting post, looking at battery life and what it takes to bring down energy consumption in UMPC and MID devices. ISN has just recently published an article on [...]

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New Installer for Mobile Platform SDK - description of the bits you get

By Jon Mountjoy (8 posts) on September 21, 2007 at 9:48 am
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A Windows Installer for the Mobile Platform SDK is now available. Here's a quick rundown of what you get with the installer, and why the SDK says that my Core 2 Duo only has a single core...

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SyncServer is consuming valuable network resources

By Jon Mountjoy (8 posts) on August 13, 2007 at 10:50 am
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I was lounging in a coffee shop yesterday, on a slow modem line (3G via my Nokia N73 mobile phone). Having recently written about connectivity and power, I thought I'd investigate why my shiny MacBook Pro was so slow at accessing the web. Bad SyncServer.

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Changing perspective on extending battery life

By Jon Mountjoy (8 posts) on July 29, 2007 at 8:20 pm
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My Mac has an "Energy Saver" that allows me to determine when the computer should sleep, when the display should dim/sleep, and when the hard disks should spin down. That's great, but it's rather crude. This information doesn't seep down into the programs running on my computer. It kinda makes sense doesn't it?

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Connectivity is only part of the user experience

By Jon Mountjoy (8 posts) on July 23, 2007 at 5:14 pm
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Google Gears lets you take your work offline. But working offline is a symptom of connectivity, and connectivity is a spectrum. How about programming for the spectrum, and including power too...

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