Random DS musings
I was pondering my upcoming trip to the west coast (US, that is) and what would make the travel time fun. One thing I’d like to do is blog while I’m out. Sitting in the airport by yourself is boring so what better way to pass time than to write random thoughts to your blog. Since the browser choices are limited/shitty right now (at least until Opera DS comes out), one could make a custom app to post. What would make a well-suited DS blog app?
“Must have” features:
- XML-RPC, Atom, e-mail interfaces for posting (would cover a good chunk of blog options)
- HTML & rich text editing
- Multiple account support
- Handwriting recognition & keyboard entry
“Nice but not necessary” features:
- *Voice recording (could be used for those podcast people out there)
- **Photo/Video uploading via some means (FTP, HTTP, etc)
- Plug-in based system to allow for more blog types as well as posting options later on
- Templates for commonly-used formatting options
- Anything else?
* We could use the various CF/SD storage devices available for storing said voice messages via fatlib and post them somewhere (Putfile, for example)
** Photos can be stored the same way as voice but there is a catch. Right now, there’s no means of taking photos from the DS other than pulling them off pre-existing media (again, CF/SD). A nice addition to this app could be some sort of cart (using the GBA bus) to interface w/ any USB-enabled camera via PTP. This cart could then save the pictures to our various mediums for use when posting.
The way I see the photoblogging working from a DS is that you start a new post, tap “Attach Photo” and it gives you a menu listing pictures on both your storage medium as well as your camera, if one is attached to the cart. From there, it could post both the pictures to some storage site (ImageShack, for instance), grab the url, link it into your post then publish the post to your blog.
Pipe dream, I know. Any takers?
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random thoughts:
* Be able to post images that you draw from the DS (see my draw app)
* I don’t see the PTP/USB thing happening any time soon. Just use a M3/supercard/gbamp that uses the same flash media as your digicam
* as for uploading sound/images, at least wordpress allows you to upload directly to your site (not sure about others).
* uploading images — don’t forget to downsize them first, so it doesn’t take all day to upload
We need a shell that everyone can *easily* make plugins for, for various things. Email, limited image manipulation from files (resize, crop, etc). I don’t see anyone trying to take moonshell in that direction. With the M3 and Supercard having 32MB of ram on-board, there really isn’t a big limit on the things you can do. Of course we need to convince the hardware makers to give the homebrew scene the banking and hardware control details for those cards. DSLinux is neat an all that too, but still needs a bunch of work. It could really use more people dedicated to it.
Also, has anyone figured out the connection abilities of the Access Points at McDonalds? It would be nice if you could piggyback on them for posting stuff.