“Vnc2swf is a screen recorder.
It captures screen motion through
VNC protocol and converts it into a

Macromedia Shockwave Flash(TM) file.

Pyvnc2swf is a Python implementation of vnc2swf. It runs on Unix/Linux/OSX/Windows. You need at least one VNC server, Python 2.3 or above and Pygame 1.6 or above.”

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Perfect for creating demo movies. I’m especially intrigued by the Python version for its hackability.

I am making the Berry 411 backend available to anyone who wants to write their own not-for-profit client for a mobile device.

A few more details: Berry 411 consists of a frontend client that accepts the users query and a backend web service (akin to the Google WML proxy described here) that reformats results from various search engines to optimize them for mobile devices.

The general format for the search URL is:

http://thebogles.com/cgi-bin/{script}?q=search string&near=street,city,state

where script is one of:
yp.py (yellow pages), google.py, wp.py, answers.py (encyclopedia), movies.py, shopping.py, and weather.py

There is an additional script called plugin.py that can launch any of the Berry 411 plugin; it takes an additional parameter called name which is the name of the plugin to use. Two other URLs worth knowing about are about.py (the about page) and about_plugins.py (which lists the available plugins.)

If you create a new client that uses the Berry 411 web service, please let me know and I’ll link to it.

Berry 411 is branching out to new devices; soon you should be able use the service on just about any smartphone.

I’ve been chatting with Vishwanatha Srinivasan, who is developing a version of the Berry 411 client that will run on any Java enabled Smart phone. Vishwantha has been running it on his Audiovox SMT5600, a PocketPC device that runs MIDP 2.0. The client uses the Berry 411 backend to generate the mobile friendly results pages. When it’s complete I’ll post a link here. Like Berry 411, his version will be free.

Josh Bancroft of the excellent Tiny Screenfuls blog and podcast has also expressed interest in doing a native Pocket PC version. Should be cool.