I’ve put together another update for my replacement ROM for the Dopod 838 Pro and compatible line of phones. Release 4 contains the following changes:

• Mapped button 5 press to voice dial.
• Added voice dialling to Appbuttons.
• Added fix for scrolling slowness in Pocket IE.
• Changed keyboard skin to match theme.
• Unbundled OS ROM from Radio ROM due to popular request. You can now choose your own radio version.

You can get the updated ROM and view the full details of the release here.

After having the Google Adsense scheme on this site for a couple of months now, I really have to ask myself - is it worth it. After looking at the stats of the site, I have displayed over 10,000 ads to people visiting, and earned about $25USD from 83 clicks.

That works out to be a less than 1% success rate for advertisers.

This also means that I don’t get enough out of it to even cover my expenses in putting up this web site!

I’ve decided to try something different. You will now notice a PayPal donate icon on the sidebar. If you find something useful on my site, feel free to send something through - anything. This will help me offset costs to keep this (and other) sites running.

So after quite a while of hacking Windows Mobile 6 for the Dopod 838 Pro (aka HTC Hermes), I have hacked together a replacement firmware for the phone. There are a number of improvements in this ROM from the stock HTC Dopod 838 Pro firmware. I’ve put this all on a single page that will be updated as I continue with this project.

Visit the page

Well, its that time of year again and its time to look back and wonder what happened to another year! I hope you have a great festive season and a safe new year.

After a bit of mucking around, I’ve finally got the website to load properly in mobile devices. This means that if you now access my site using a PDA or mobile phone with a web browser, you get a very stripped down version of the site. Of course, if you’re using a standard PC, you won’t notice any change, but mobile users will see the site load in about 3Kb of data.