I’ve been with Sprint for a while, and have had good phones and bad phones… but now I’ve just grown tired of carrying around the big Treo 650. I want a small phone. With my new job I don’t need access to my email — they provide me with a BlackBerry. But I want a…
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MacBook update- fixed in less than 24 hours
That was fast- The Apple store called me back on Sunday night and said the MacBook was ready for pickup. I got it Monday evening and so far its been ok- but of course I don’t expect anything to happen for at least a month or so. It does seem to be running cooler, according…
MacBook Update
I’ve had my MacBook (white) for a few weeks now. And I strongly suggest you get the glossy screen if you don’t work with over head fluorescent lights. The screen is so bright and nice I can’t go back to my older LCD panels any more- they look horrible. Also my G5 now seems so…
OSX 10.4.7 and JDKs
The recent 10.4.7 update switched the JDK to java 5.0. If you still need to use 1.4.2 for some reason, its still in there. Here is how you change it. It’s just a symlink in /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions chac:/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions dillera$ ls -l total 40 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 5 Jun 10 22:20 1.3 -> 1.3.1 drwxr-xr-x 8…
ITOS’06 and Screen Shots
Of course I wasted all that time yesterday snapping photos of the new ITOS’06 Beta when the classic Load Applet and Screenshot taker was ported and sitting over in the Maemo Garage. It works fine In 2006. After I took a few shots I realized there was no easy way to get them to my…
Virtual Memory- ITOS 06
It’s all in there this time. Control Panel, Memory, Virtual Tab. Sweet. Extend away…
ITOS 2006 – The Elusive Thumboard
Have you used the thumb-board (T-Board) yet? It’s tricky. The idea is that you use the pressure of your thumb or finger, say, in the chat screen and the T-board will pop up. You put in your line of text, then return to the chat screen. Here is the T-board: You control the pressure to…
ITOS 2006 and IM
So the new IM client on ITOS’06 is really nice. Of course it does Google, and through that Google Talk- but it also seems to be a full featured Jabber client. At my company, we’ve installed our own Jabber server for internal IM. I was able to easily add a new “account” and connect to…
Nokia 2006 Beta
Lots of talk on the net about this- and they are all correct- this beta is amazing. It’s very fast and the the UI enhancements are nice. I’ve taken some screen shots (12) the old fashion way, and I’ll let them do the talking. First, the flasher on OSX worked like a charm: blinky:~ dillera$…
Firefox and Tooltips on Macintosh
I love Firefox and I hate Firefox. On the Mac, it’s great and it’s even better on my new MacBook- it’s super fast. You are using the built-for-G4-G5-Intel builds over at Beatnikpad aren’t you? With all the Firefox goodness however, there has always been one thing that has driven me nuts: the ToolTips. I like…
VMware, Solaris9 x86 and Disk
So my Solaris sysadmin skillz are getting rusty, and I had to add a new virtual disk to a VMware Solaris9 X86 system (it’s a long story) and I was drawing a blank…. bash-2.05# dmesg | grep ata Jun 6 17:44:48 solaris pcplusmp: [ID 637496 kern.info] pcplusmp: ide (ata) instance 0 vector 0xe ioapic 0x1…
Updated Newton Emulator for 770
Paul Guyot released this email to the NewtonTalk (a Newton list). He had a special showing of his latest build of Einstein Platform 2006 at the Apple store in Ginza. Here is a picture of the participants, Newtons in hand. The 770 build is going to be released shortly– if you have a Zaurus, you…
MacBook LCD Screens- Gloss or Not?
There is a large amount of chatter regarding the new glossy LCD screens on the MacBooks, and the option to have one on your MacBook Pro. I found an amazing link to page that describes what the technical differences are, and why you want one or the other. It seems to me that it comes…
FBreader- Holding the 770
Update on ebook reading with the 770: Adam Wolf kindly alerted me to his page where you can clearly see what I am talking about in terms of the haptics involved with reading on the 770. Thanks Adam for taking those shots. This is where the size of the 770 clearly comes into play. Any…
Fun With Google Trends
Blackberry vs. Treo…
InfoLinks for Google & Nokia Announcement
Is the new Nokia Internet Tablet device is coming out next Tuesday? More news about the Google Talk & Nokia collaboration: SeattlePI CNN Money Daily Tech Not any real new info- just that a new Tablet is coming out, with Google Talk as the VOIP software. The announcement is Tuesday- who knows if the device…
700 Ebooks and FBreader – Missing the Point
So I was fighting with FBreader for a long time, and not understanding why it was so great- until I realized a few basic things, which I’ll pass along– in case you haven’t been using it for all your reading lately. Rotate the screen 90 deg Go full-screen Use the rocker button, which is now…
My.Opera.Com – free portal for your 770
Want a really excellent web experience with your 770? Want 300 free megs to host your blog, pictures, email and probably more? Check out http://my.opera.com. You can sign up for a free account and get all that stuff- plus it looks perfect and feels responsive using the Opera Mobile Browser on the 770. It should…
New Browser in next release of Internet Tablet Software?
I have no evidence for this, other than my own investigations, but could Nokia be planning to replace the Opera Mobile browser that is currently included in the Internet Tablet Software (i.e. the 770’s Linux OS) with their in-house S60 browser (here is the official Nokia page), which is based on Apple’s own WebCore (Apple’s…
Don’t tell me this isn’t aimed at the 770
Leaked picture of the Origami Device? Look at those buttons- they even have the same zoom button as the 770 (but the zoom is lower left instead of upper right). You can’t tell me that a device like this isn’t isn’t going to stomp all over the nascent Internet Tablet space… No word if this…
mobiVoIP – VoiP for your Treo
mobiVoIP VoIP software for your Palm and Treo. The Beta is closed already, but you can sign up and get an email ping when the software is released…
770 Review – Computerworld
Computerworld gave a positive review of the Nokia 770. “Nokia’s 770 Internet Tablet: Smart and Sleek The stylish wireless device is aimed at the home market but has enterprise potential”…
The Nokia 880?
Word out there is that Nokia already has the next device in their Internet Tablet Platform. Lets take a guess at its next CPU. For all the talk about what the 770 can do, given better software, and or RAM, the CPU was designed for a mobile phone, not a Internet Tablet. The CPU inside…
Nokia 770 – Tracking Posts via Technorati
Posts that contain Nokia 770 per day for the last 30 days. Get your own chart!…
Einstein on 770 mini-update
For those of you interested in the Einstein Project (emulation of an Apple Message Pad 2000 on your Nokia 770), I have some news. Good and bad of course. The Good news: Paul has his own 770, which was donated to him. This will certainly help the eventual development of Einstein on the Nokia platform…