I decided to try out a VOIP service at house, to take some of the load off my cell phone. I’ve been using my cell phone as my primary phone (business and pleasure, but I still maintain a land land for the wife) for a few years, and it’s expensive (and not getting any cheaper)…
Yearly Archives: 2005
Time Manager Pad for Palm
I’m always on the lookout for the best viewer application to see my appointments and tasks. For a long time I was happy with Agendus, but since was casing way too many problems on the Treo with chattermail, I’ve done away with it. I came across the best looking app I’ve seen for the Palm-…
BGP Routing Policies in ISP networks
For something a bit more technical, take a look at the below paper. It’s short (7 pages) and gives a great overview of BGP in ISP networks- why they do it, what it does and how you can have fun with BGP. I’ve often wondered about BGP is really used in these situations, but never…
ChatterEmail Update
Marc at ChatterEmail has posted 1.0.7rc1 which fixes an issue with ChatterEmail and the new firmware update from PalmOne for Sprint phones. This version will be released soon as 1.0.7 stable. I’ve installed it and not had any problems so far. Marc also seems to have an OTA updater!: http://update.chatteremail.com…
Treo Super Secret Hard Reset
I had problems with the Treo650 rebooting all the time- and it’s not a secret why it was doing it. There were two issues. First, accessing the data connection when the phone has low signal strength just reboots it. There doesn’t seem to be anything to do for this, short of some firmware from Palm…
Official Treo / Sprint BT DUN is here
Finally they made good on their promise. Palm One has the Treo 650 Updater 1.12 for sprint, which will enable Bluetooth DUN. As well as get rid of the annoying delay in dialing the phone. I’m about to take the plunge. Back in January I tried the hack for this, and it totally messed up…
Tiger is Good
Archive & Install is da bomb. Everything just works so far. I only have to upgrade VPN Tracker it seems. At this point I have no gripes, and I like the new mail (it seems way faster to me), but I should have just deleted all my existing email and let IMAP re-sync… instead Mail.app…
Napoleon Dynamite Soundset for Adium
I hope you are using AdiumX for your messaging needs on the Mac. But wait– now that iChat does jabber natively, perhaps it is a worth a look, once I get Tiger. But back to the matter at hand– namely AdiumX. How are you alerted via sound regarding changes in status? Might I suggest you…
Day Three- Still No Tiger for Me
So I still don’t have Tiger. Having fought so hard to keep my 10.3.9 machine working with firewire and usb, I’m actually able to resist the lure of a new Mac OS X operating system. I know it will make me angry. I’ve been hearing bad things about the new Mail.app. Which I rely on…
Incredibles on PSP
I just ripped the Incredibles from a DVD and stuffed it on the PSP. The total movie is amazingly only ~300 megs. And the quality is excellent, except for the scenes with the most motion (the kid running thru the forest). USB2 makes transferring the files quick- the G5 moved the 300 megs in under…
Lumines for PSP
This is great game. There is a FAQ is worth reading. I’m playing it more and more every day…
Treo 650 as GPS
My Seido G2100S finally arrived this week. The G2100 is like the G2500 in that it has a GPS serial input, but it has no speaker phone for the Treo. It charges the phone and the GPS receiver. The latest update from TomTom fixes the T650, and the serial TomTom GPS receiver works fine with…
Memory Sticks
The Good news: the MS Duo fits nicely in my generic USB all-in-one reader that I have on my G5. The Bad news: the MS Pro MagicGate 256 that I have won’t fit in the PSP. It seems that the Duo standard is not only half as big in length, its half as wide also…
PSP Excitement
My latest gadget is the PSP: and it certainly lives up to the hype. The screen is gorgeous, watching the included movie (Spiderman2) is lovely. Sony was smart to include a movie with this- I’m ready to buy some more just to be able to watch them on the PSP. I got the last one…
Jeff Hawkins NPR Interview
I saw a link today to a NPR interview with Jeff Hawkins [wikipedia], creator of the Palm Pilot, Treo and currently the Executive Director and Chairman of the Redwood Neuroscience Institute. His book On Intelligence was the most amazing book I read in 2004. His theory of what makes Intelligence happen in meat-space is very…
Linus Torvalds uses PowerPC not Intel for Linux
From Slashdot, who got it from ZDNet Australia: “As to the why … Part of it is simply that I wanted to try something else, and I felt like there were enough people testing the x86 side that it certainly didn’t need me. Part of it is that I personally believe there are two main…
Essential Software Updates
Agendus 9.03 ChatterEmail 1.0.3.1 TomTom 2004 [Support for T650] Hand/RSS is now QuickNews…
Treo 650: My Buttons Broke
So Sprint has a big problem with replacement phones… namely, their replacement service sucks. You can spend $450 on a brand new Treo 650 and if it breaks the next day, you get a replacement Refurbed phone… not a new one. Not to mention that you wait about 2 days (unless you are willing to…
Apple, please buy Tivo
I hope this turns out to be true. I’m sick of reading about the Tivo Deathwatch… I love my Tivo and I’m not ready to invest the time and energy in Myth TV. Apple will do it right, and they should be flush with cash by now, after making their 40% on all the ipod…
Chatter Email is 1.0
This is a little stale, but Chatter Email is now 1.0 and already surging ahead to 1.1. Not only is it all fancy with hirez icons, it’s now rock solid and the absolute #2 app on my Treo 650. The number one app of course is the phone…. There is a whole new website, www.chatteremail.com…
Blackberry Connect for Palm Update
If you were wondering (like me) if this is ever going to pan out, I got a new hit today on google regarding this. This was introduced back in May of 2004. PalmSource Mail for BlackBerry Connect Overview PalmSource Mail for BlackBerry Connect is the standard email client for Palm OS Garnet to connect to…
Syncing, But Apple or Mac?
I started this site out to keep track of my travails with the many, many options and pitfalls of syncing my pim data back and forth from my Macintosh to my current PDA of choice. I feel stupidly proud over the fact that I have some core pim data that was originally entered into my…
WordPress is now running things.
I’ve moved SyncingApple over to the new WordPress 1.5, which is a really amazing piece of software. As support for MT 1.x dwindles away, I wanted to find a more robust and dynamic blog server. WordPress fits that and has many cool features that are nowhere to be seen on MT. Plus now the xmlrpc…
Treo650 BT DUN and the Mac
The authoritative how-to is at Trevor Harmon’s site. Thanks Trevor. Update on Feb 23 ’05 – I only ever used this once. It wacked the hell outta the T650. Nothing permanent, just massive reboots and it never worked. I’ll wait for PalmOne/Sprint to do the right thing……
More SATA in my G5
I was just notified of my G5DriveBracket shipping, so I went out and ordered the SATA card I’ll use with it. I got the SATA card from FirmTek for $69, which is a nice deal, since Sonnet sells the same card for $99. I read about stuffing more drives into your G5 at Barefeats. They…
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