There’s an official Gentoo project caleld Gentoo Embedded which is supposed to handle porting Gentoo to various embedded systems. When viridior and I started Gentoo for Pandora, they were not handling armv7a processors (yet), so our project filled in a gap . However, I’ve been recently informed that Gentoo Embedded will receive a BeagleBoard before [...]
I used to use Pandora.com. I loved it. It showed me all kinds of tracks I didn’t know about. But, then it got steadily repetitive. It couldn’t think outside the specific box I’d given it. last.fm is different, and it because it does things differently, most people instantly get aggravated and move back to Pandora. [...]
I have a new project now. It’s called Gentoo for Pandora. It’s pretty easy to figure out what it’s all about, but I’ll summarize for those who don’t know: Gentoo is a distributon of Linux, and it features a very flexible, very powerful package system called portage (though some would say otherwise). Gentoo’s recommended installation [...]
I really do dislike the ads that appear all around the Pandora screen. They’re big, they take out a lot of CPU space on my processor (which causes the entire site to run slower) and are even at times obnoxious (again helped by their size). I rely on Adblock Plus to take out most of [...]
It’s official: the Pandora’s RAM and NAND memory have both been doubled to 256MB and 512MB respectively. There are two possible reactions that people’ve had so far: This is great, and I love the addition, but it doesn’t really thrill me. Wow, this is outstanding! This was a major problem for me, but now it’s [...]
We would if we could, but us Pandora fans cannot pre-order. The reason? See for yourself. At the time of this writing, the site is either slow in the dialup extreme, or simply resets. The Digg publicity it got last night is really taking effect now. Last we heard, Craig, the head of Pandora development, [...]
If you haven’t been keeping up on the Pandora handheld I talked about a while back, you probably don’t know pre-orders begin on September 30th. Well, they do. If you want to stay up-to-date with the Pandora, sign up to the low traffic newsletter on their website (look in the upper-right corner). The latest e-mail [...]
I’ve always considered last.fm to be more… well… social. You get together with your buddies, and talk about music, and try different tracks. Well, it turns out to be as good, if not better than Pandora. Not only can you listen to music in more locations outside your browser, but its formula seems to work [...]
If you haven’t been tracking on the latest and greatest news at the gp32x.com website, you’d better scoot right over there this moment. The forums are a-buzz with the latest information, pictures, and designs. If you don’t know where to start, let me point you in the right direction(s): Here’s where all the information posted [...]
Someone posted some examples of what this device will be capable of. Because screenshots don’t do justice to the amazing quality and detail of the videos, I’ve provided direct download links to the movie files. For you Linux-friendly folk, these are not in EXEs, despite the URLs. If you’re looking around for a mobile gaming/entertainment [...]
