Author Archives: dillera

Asus Eee PC $250 Linux Laptop

$250, 16Gb flash drive, 512Mb RAM, 7″ LCD, 2 lb., full keyboard. Runs Linux. Has Firefox and Openoffice, Skype. 3 USB ports, VGA out, SD card reader, ethernet, wifi, webcam. Linux. On sale worldwide in August from Asus. Is this going to be a hit or what? I’ll pick one up for that. It’s less…

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Newton ARM Emulation Goes Open Source

At the 2007 Worldwide Newton Conference in Tokyo on July 8th, Paul Guyot announced that his most excellent Newton Emulator for ARM, Einstein, was now open source and available immediately on Google Code. His announcement to the NewtonTalk mailing list is worth the read. One improvement that sounds enticing: “the heavy work done these past…

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iPhone Development- Old School

There was immediate and critical response to Steve Job’s announcement of the SDK for iPhone…. use html. But is Apple on to something? Forcing eager developers to use the open standards of the web? Forsaking almightly Flash? No IDE? Apple seemed by many to be channeling the Reality Distortion Field at full blast. But the…

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Size of iPhone vs Nokia 770

I took some pictures showing the size difference between the 770 and iPhone. iPhone is really is smaller than you’d first think. Unfortunately, it also has a lower resolution screen than the 770. The zoom feature makes up for that somewhat (see the last picture in this post for an example of a zoom). It…

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The Power of Marketing

Posts that contain IPhone per day for the last 30 days: Posts that contain N800 per day for the last 30 days: How about posts that contain Nokia per day for the last 30 days: Amazing. I wonder how much Apple spent on the marketing for iPhone launch? Speaking of the iPhone, I’ve been happily…

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iPhone- cutting edge haptic interface

UPDATED: Neils in the comments set me right…. I’m just blocking the sound with my finger. I don’t think this is any haptic interface at this point. Too bad, it’s a cool idea. The iPhone is an ingenious device– anyone that’s used one for a few hours can tell you this. Even with all the…

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Philadelphia EDGE Service Restored

Since I activated the iPhone on Saturday morning, Edge has never worked here in Philly. I finally called ATT and they reported no Edge for PA- all of PA? Regardless, it just started working now. I get a little E icon replacing the wifi icon. Seems pretty snappy…

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iPhone: Everything and More

So the iPhone is everything that Apple has said, as far as I concerned. I telling testimonial is over at Scobleizer. Scoble has had the Nokia N95 and been swooning over it- till he’d had a day to play with his son’s new iPhone. I didn’t wait in line- just drove over to a Center…

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Fancast announced

So the site we’ve been working on at my new job was announced yesterday, in conjunction with the larger announcement that CIM (Comcast Interactive Media) has purchased Fandango. Fancast has been consuming all my time since I joined Comcast back in September, and it’s going to be cool destination. As you can see, the announcement…

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Desktop Tower Defense

Normally, I don’t like little flash games. Even normal games, for me, require a delicate balance playability and strategy before I grow tired and bored with them. But I stumbled across DTD a few days ago and gave it a shot. A few hours later, I realized that DTD is so addictive, so engrossing, that…

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iSync, Razr V3m, and Sprint: Part 2

Word around was that Apple introduced a new version of iSync with 10.4.9, and with it the promise of direct OSX support of the V3m. And Apple did add support for the V3m model to iSync, but they didn’t add support for the Sprint version! It still wouldn’t pair correctly with a fresh install of…

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Blog Changes and Updates

So it’s been a while since I’ve posted here- but it’s nothing I’m sure you haven’t read on dozens of other blogs. I’m in a gadget deficit, and I switched jobs to one that keeps me much busier than I was before. I’m now working back in an office, for Comcast Interactive Media, and I…

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Sprint Razr V3m and iSync

I ordered a Razr V3m from Sprint last week since the krzr looks to be too fat, and the razr has a larger screen. The phone is nice but one of the most important features I’ve been lusting after is the ability to sync my contacts over using iSync and USB. All the Moto phones…

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MacBook: RSS – Random Shutdown Syndrome

My Macbook suffered from RSS over a month and a half ago. After taking it into the nearest Apple Store, I had to wait about four days to get the MB and heat-sink repaired. It went to the depo and was shipped back to me. About two weeks ago it began shutting down again. It’s…

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Google Trends and the 770

So Google trends is now live– with it you can compare all sorts of things, like how the UMPC (remember Origami?) could turn out to be just a flash in the pan as the reviews of the first devices (just the Samsung for now) are rolling in– and almost all of them are dismal.  …

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Nother test from OPML

This is my first test from the Macintosh version of the OPML editor. Dave released a new version of wp.root yesterday and it seems to support catagories on your blog. So I’m trying it out. I read about it over at Nomadic Coder. Wow, I didn’t realize that the editor understood a link- it just…

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RSS Wrangling on the 770

I was looking around the other day for some good gui blog posting apps for windows. But I was also looking for some good RSS readers for Windows… I ended up looking at RSS Bandit and the OPML editor from Dave Winer. The OPML editor is a bit of a trial, as I don’t see…

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Using OPML editor

Just like it says, this is a test from my 2nd attempt with the OPML editor and wordpress. Well, the title in that test post didn’t seem to go right. I’ve edited this with Ecto to make it more presentable…

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Nokia 770

Did I mention that I’m anxiously waiting for my Nokia 770? They call it an internet tablet, but it looks like the next Newton (in a good way). Using real Xwindows and Gnome, this will be very interesting. There is a lot of talk here, in the forums at Internet Tablet Talk, and there is…

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