Hack Challenge: Sam Machin – Tumblr Notes

October 5th, 2007

Sam Machin walked away from Mobile Camp London with a shiny new Nokia N95 thanks to his weekend effort – creating an app that pushes notes he writes on his phone, out to his Tumblr blog:

I use tumblr for noting down ideas / urls etc when at conferencing events and some one says check out this site… The app was designed so that I could note it down quickly on my phone and then when I`m sat at my PC later I can look at my tumblr feed and find all the links & notes I made during the event. Despite tumblr having a very simple API nobody seems to have made any kind of app for S60. I didn`t find too many problems during the weekend apart from not having enough time to implement a persistent store of the username & password on the phone although this will be done asap!

Currently the app only supports 3 of the tumblr post types (Note, Quote & Link) but I want to add support for photos via the camera and possibly saved in the gallery too, I don`t think theres much use for the chat or video links from a mobile at this time.

Once I`ve got the user details storage and the camera bits sorted I`ll post it as a free download on my site www.geektech.co.uk. It uses the
PyS60 runtime so I`ll probably build 2 versions of the install file one for people with python and one standalone that bundles the runtime.

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