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Travel Chum
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What is it?
This helps me find out if my train is late in the morning. It also checks for road traffic problems, the latest News and Sport and also shows the current and next 5 day weather conditions for a select few places around the UK (let me know if this is useful and I will make it more generic)
The application uses the
National Departure Boards
web site to display the current status of the trains at a particular station. Its a bit of a pain but you have to go
onto the site first to find out the station code.
The station code can be seen on the browser URL so for Sowerby
Bridge train station the URL is
http://www.livedepartureboards.co.uk/ldb/summary.aspx?T=SOW
so the station code is T=SOW.
This code needs to be added to the Settings page so that the correct station is returned.
Sowerby Bridge station is the default station code, because its my local station :)
RSS feeds are used for everything else:
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http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk for the News and Sport information
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http://yahoo.co.uk for the stock information
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http://www.highways.gov.uk for the traffic information
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http://www.mopoke.co.uk for the weather information
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http://rss.slashdot.org/ for slashdot
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http://www.trektoday.com for TrekToday
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http://bleb.org for the TV listings
Features
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Latest Traffic information for all the main UK routes
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BBC latest news and sport information
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Latest minimum 15 minutes delayed stock prices from yahoo! finance
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Latest weather conditions for the next 5 days at selected places within the UK
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Current UK train station status obtained via www.livedepartureboards.co.uk
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Stores the last status on your device so that you don't have to keep going on line to retrieve the same details.
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Stores a list of all the station codes you have used so that you can quickly change between them. This is useful for outgoing and incoming stations.
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TV Listings
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Selectable detail level
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Easy to use navigation
Request Costs
This all depends upon your service provider costs. The packets of data that are set and received from the different feeds. So I have no idea how big the packets and therefore the cost will be. You can monitor the amount of data that has been transferred via the "About" page within the application.
Donation
If you Travel Chum and would like to help to keep it going please make a donation by clicking here:
The amount is very small, only £2.00 and it would really help. Thank you.
Device Compatibility
To find out if your device is compatible goto the following
site.
It has a list of all known Java enabled devices and there compatibilities.
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Java enabled phone (MIDP1.0 CLDC 1.0) that can cope with jar files of 32K.
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GPRS enabled for HTTP communication for latest information.
Liability
Although I have tested this application as much as I can it may still have bugs in it. I expect no responsibility or liability for any damage that this application may cause. The data is not guaranteed to be accurate and may sometimes by unavailable. Its basically sold as seen.
Mobile Installation Instructions
The easiest way to install is via the WAP site, which contains links to all the J2ME applications. Enter the following URL into you phone and choose the application you want to install.
http://www.freej2me.co.uk/mobile.wml
The other way of installing is to directly enter the following URL into your device via the Services menu option or something similar. You will be asked whether you wish to accept the file onto your device, enter yes and the application will be installed.
http://www.freej2me.co.uk/tc.jad
Palm Pilot Installation Instructions
To install on a Palm 5.0 device first you need the
IBM Java VM
installed onto your palm device. Next download and install (HotSync) the following file:
http://www.freej2me.co.uk/TravelChum.prc
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