Final stages

Both the emulators didn’t really work for me and I came across the fact that I can work without emulators by making a website (blog) for mobile. Though it’s available for mobile from the blogger.com but I will be making a small size website. I will have the frame size around 200pixels so it can fit the screens of the mobile. For interactive TV I will be working on Flash. I’ll be creating a remote and a screen on Flash. The remote will be controlling the screen. The screen will have the blog and other internet sites on it. The blog will be a copy of the http://nim-ic.blogspot.com/. I will be saving a few other internet sites to add to the interactive TV screen.

Research

These are the links to a few sites that I have been browsing to explore interactive TV and mobiles.
http://ready.mobi/launch.jsp?locale=en_EN
http://evolt.org/node/5409
http://www.craftwork.dk/set_top_box_emulation/
http://interactivetvweb.org/tutorial/gettingstarted/xletview/index.shtml

Working with Emulators

None of the mobile emulators worked for me and for TV I downloaded two emulators from above mention website. Xample and Xle TView. I didn’t understand how Xample works but I had some luck with Xle TView. Xle TView opened up and it consists of a screen and a remote.


There were no instructions on how to add sites or pictures to the application so I tried my best to link it to different things to view how it works but nil achievement. If this viewer worked I think my Interactive project would have been done.
I found another TV viewer from http://www.craftwork.dk/set_top_box_emulation/
which only has a screen without the remote. This was no good as well.

Emulators

Browsing websites looking for emulators for mobile and TV I came across a few websites listed below.

Mobile emulators
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=eec33ae3-c129-4c25-abaa-18e8e842178f&displaylang=en&Hash=nqKaT71ZzsEnNleyO1GfeZxx9yxXEwAFOa%2fg7wgAPqHDyh1ECX3a%2fbBzDi17POb9lN2Jj5CH1HGWy%2flOFfPxaQ%3d%3d
TV emulators
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=81591

Form Mobile emulators site I download first six Windows Mobile 5.0 Emulators Images for Pocket PC.
Windows Mobile 5.0 Emulators Images for Pocket PC – CHS
Windows Mobile 5.0 Emulators Images for Pocket PC – CHT
Windows Mobile 5.0 Emulators Images for Pocket PC – CSY
Windows Mobile 5.0 Emulators Images for Pocket PC – DAN
Windows Mobile 5.0 Emulators Images for Pocket PC – ELL
Windows Mobile 5.0 Emulators Images for Pocket PC – ESN

Downloaded SimpleXlet and xleTView from TV emulators’ website. I’m studying and working on both the types of emulators for time being. Going back to my earlier post about 5 Ways to create or Convert into Mobile Phone Website seem reasonable so I have been working on that too. I tried Google’s Conversion Utility it does work. I wrote my blog address into it and it showed me how my blog is going to look like on a phone. Though there was a colours difference. But it shows the text. Second part of the 5 steps was to try Zinadoo. Made account for this website and followed the instructions. This website allows user to make a website in a mobile format but it doesn’t allow the user to convert existing site into a mobile size or format. I was expecting the Zinadoo to convert the existing site.