This is a web-based demo for the wireless web image system. Had to make this demo, because most people do not have PocketPC devices, especially with wireless connections ... including myself :(. Advantages, are the server can handle any type of image, and they do not have to be manipulated or converted before using in this app. Also, since the images are sized on the server, a full sized 100k image is only 10k for the PocketPC device which has fewer resources as compared to a full sized browser and PC. etc... I just updated it so that it now works with Palm OS devices using the AvantGo browser. Have also updated it so that it will rotate to the next image automatically. Currently set to a 10 second delay, but this could be configurable by the user ... along with other options.
A user opens up Pocket Internet Explorer on his PocketPC. Then they will enter the url to the image application: http://www.mperfect.net/mobimage/image.aspx ... on my dev box. The server will randomly grab an image on the server. Then it discovers the display capabilities of the browser. It rotates the image, to maximize the display area of the device ... and it is easy to pivot a palm device, as opposed to turning your monitor. The image is scaled, and then returned to be displayed on the PocketPC device. To request another image, the user just clicks on the image again.
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The demo below shows how images are rotated to maximize the image size on the PocketPC device.
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These are the steps to run the application in a PocketPC emulator, a more realistic test (from memory):
Download MS Embedded Visual Tools 3.0 from here: http://www.microsoft.com/mobile/downloads/emvt30.asp. It is a 300 meg download but you only have to install part of it. MS will ask for some registration information as well. You will end up with a self-extracting file on your harddrive. Extract that directory and you will have 2 subdirectories, disc1 and disc2. Disc2 will have a directory called POCKTSDK. Open that directory and run setup.exe ... and it will install the PocketPC emulator on your machine. Start the emulator, and open Pocket Internet Explorer. Then, select to view the address bar, and enter this url: http://www.mperfect.net/mobimage/image.aspx. An image will display. Get rid of the address bar, and click the image to display again.
Here is a screenshot of the emulator ... Don't Click :)
The web-based demo should work on IE 3 and above, as well as Netscape 6. The actual Web Application itself should work on any browser, and all Pocket PCs. Multiple friends have successfully used it on iPaqs with an OmniSky connection. I got it to work on my Palm m105 using the AvantGo browser connected to the wireless web using my cell phone. So now it should work on any Palm device with the AvantGo browser.
Here is a screenshot on a Palm connection ... you can just barely see a bikini
and on a 256 color Palm 3c
This much was developed in 3 days. Would also be possible to render WBMP files for black and white cellular phone devices, but I don't really see the point. Could also setup a web server where people can upload their personal images from digital cameras, and then have a login on the PocketPC device, as a way for people to carry around their photo albums. Granted, if I dated a chick that looked like the one above, I would definitely have an iPaq with a Ricochet connection for bragging rights alone. Forget that, she would never be out of my site :) Regardless, there is alot more I could add to this, functionally speaking. Non-functionally, I could tweak it to make it scale/perform better ... although scalability does not seem to be a concern on the wireless web yet ... Right now, this is just running off of my dev. box running a server on a cable connection :(
WARNING An adult version of this demo is here: http://www.mperfect.net/mobimagex/emu/ WARNING
The images are from Sports Illustrated. The PocketPC emulator is from Microsoft. The iPaq border is from Compaq.