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…
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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…
Entourage Sync with Treo650
So I just switched yesterday from iSync & Addressbook/iCal syncing to Entourage. I’ll miss Mail.app the most, but I’m tired of not having syncing Categories. Already I like having them back. The syncing works well, and I’m enjoying using Entourage 2004. Its project view is very helpful for the work I’m doing now. The only…
USB Sync and the Mac
I’ve been having an issue with my Mac and the Treo650 for a while now: the USB sync stops working. I know it’s related to the Mac OSX doing something loopy with USB, because for the past two versions of OSX my USB has been flaky– devices stop working, the T650 won’t even charge (on…
Seidio Car Mount for Treo650
I really enjoyed my T|C while I had it. The most useful application I had was certainly TomTom Navigator 2004, which I used all the time in my car. I had been debating on getting a GPS device, but the options are so limited on them, and the ram is always an issue. It made…
My G5 is Fixed
All the trouble, toil and worry that I’ve had with this new Apple G5 was finally solved by calling Apple, putting up with the BS of the first level techs, getting to a 2nd level and calmly trying to explain the issues with this damn thing rebooting on its own. I’ve tried new harddrives, clean…
Syncing Treo 650 Photos to the Mac
What to use to get your Treo 650 photos onto the Mac? The easiest thing I’ve found is SplashData’s SplashPhoto. I’ve been a staunch user of SplashID for a few years now, and have entrusted all my sensitive data to it, but I haven’t looked to closely at SplashPhoto until recently. I got my Treo…
Charging the Treo 650
For Christmas I got the cool Boxwave DirectSync Bundle for the T650. You get a sync/charge cable, a car adapter, a mains adapter and a battery (4 AA) charging module. This is some cool kit as the cable provides syncing and charging off your USB port. I don’t understand why PalmOne (or Sprint) can’t include…
Treo 650 Email – Chatter
The one thing the Treo 650 has to do is email. It’s replacing my BlackBerry 7XXX, so it got to do email– very well. The three main functions for a smartphone are: email, phone and schedule (synced with my Mac). The last thing was impossible with the BB. The BB did email very well, it…
Good hint for iSync and Palm Syncing
If you use Apple’s apps (iCal, Addressbook, Mail.app) like I do, you really get used to the complete integration of these applications with one another. It’s getting Newtonesque. If you also use a Palm, you probably are using iSync to syncing these apps with your Palm’s PIMs. One constant irritant however, is the lack of…
Playstation Lite
I talked about waiting to get the newer, much slimmer Playstation Lite back in September, when it was just announced. Unfortunately, Sony hasn’t made very many of them, and they are a real bugger to get. I got lucky once again and stumbled into Best Buy about a week ago to get a brush-less vacuum…
I did it again: Hello Sprint
After leaving Sprint earlier this year for a BlackBerry Nextel, I had to give up the hate and go back. You see, I just couldn’t resist the new Treo 650. I’ve had it now for a few days and I love it. It does many things much better than the BB, but some it could…
I’m on Plugs via Feed2JS
Ted Mann is turning into quite the closet hacker. After a Friday night dinner discussion at Marathon Grille in West Philly (which is more difficult that it sounds, try it once) where Ted and I talked about RSS feeds onto blogs, he’s gone and dug around and got a cool solution up and working. Now,…
Apple 10.3.6 OSX and Disappearing Firewire AIT Drives
Damn Apple and their shoddy upgrades. I heard about people losing Firewire drives with the 10.3.6 update, but I was thinking disk drives… so why did it take over a week to finally put 2 and 2 together and understand why my Retrospect backups were failing… on my external AIT firewire drive? It wasn’t showing…
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