{"id":371,"date":"2007-09-21T11:41:03","date_gmt":"2007-09-21T11:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/army-of-autistic-geniuses\/"},"modified":"2007-09-21T11:41:03","modified_gmt":"2007-09-21T11:41:03","slug":"army-of-autistic-geniuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/army-of-autistic-geniuses\/","title":{"rendered":"Army of autistic geniuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently my once exciting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/veghead\/vm\/492\/\">M600 (HTC Prophet)<\/a> has been giving me jip and the handicaps of Winblows Mobile 5 have been driving me insane, and so I decided to see what could be done. Of course, it turns out that there is an entire <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.xda-developers.com\/index.php?pagename=HTC_Prophet\">army  of autistic geniuses<\/a> out on the net tackling this problem for us. So, I&#8217;m now running a custom ROM, based on WM6, but with all of the irritations of the old ROM attenuated. And it <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.xda-developers.com\/showpost.php?p=1314748&amp;postcount=1\">looks nice too.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the most brain dead aspects of WM5 was the difficulty of listing and killing running programs. Microsoft clearly don&#8217;t want you stopping things once you&#8217;ve started them, otherwise they&#8217;d have provided something other than the memory app for performing this  simple task. This means that after checking your email, phoning a few friends, sending a text, and generally using the phone as it&#8217;s supposed to be used, you&#8217;re out of memory and the bloody camera stops working. But now there&#8217;s an omnipresent widget that lists all running apps with a big red cross next to them. Wow, what a power-tool&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So now I have an unlocked phone which works, feels nice to use (even with the fingers), has a newly updated radio ROM and will placate me until I get an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openmoko.org\/\">OpenMoko<\/a> or an N800. <\/p>\n<p>Thank you, army of autistic geniuses! You&#8217;re my hero!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently my once exciting M600 (HTC Prophet) has been giving me jip and the handicaps of Winblows Mobile 5 have been driving me insane, and so I decided to see what could be done. Of course, it turns out that there is an entire army of autistic geniuses out on the net tackling this problem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}