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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KRZR on Sprint in November
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Sony eReader – or the Nokia 770?
Sony has released their eReader today– the PRS-500 is available in the US for $349. Guess what else you can get today for $349? The 770 and PRS-500 share nearly the same screen specs (800×600 for the PRS-500 and 800×480 for the 770) however the PRS-500’s screen is non-color. Beyond that, they are very different…
Updated TMP for Palm
Lil Red Spider- Time Message Pad (TMP)— A New version of TMP with lots of new enhancments is out, some are Treo650 specific…
2400mAh Treo650 Battery
2400mAh EXTENDED LIFE BATTERY – BASI24TR650 You need one of these if you have a Treo and say, chattermail… to have a chance at going 2 days without depleting your battery. $39…
Minimo for WM5
The Minimo Project has released a candidate for wm5— now all I need is for Acer to release the cool QVGA N300 in the USA and I’d have something cool and new to run it on…
BlackBerry Connect live in Barcelona
Treonauts has some in-the-hand experience with the Black Berry Connect for Palm. I was very excited about this a year ago when it was announced, as I had just switched from a Blackberry Nextel phone to my new Sprint Treo650. While ChatterMail has been very good to me, I would still run Connect if it…
Booting Einstein on the 770
After a fews days of experimentation, I have a workable recipe for using Einstein with the 770. There is work that remains to be done to Einstein, but it does run, just slowly and it is buggy. This is not ready to be a production Newton yet. First there are some things I’m assuming you…
A new Era Dawns
NewtOS/Einstein works on the 770! This is developing, but it works at this point, once you disable the kernel-watchdog and kill Matchbox to free up enough RAM for Einstein to launch. I’ll post a more detailed receipe of what I did later today, when I get some free time. Screenshots: Photos of Newton Booting on…
Will the 770 be the next Newton?
This past week, at the 2006 World Wide Newton Conference mastermind Paul Guyot introduced to the world the next step in his Newton emulation environment, Einstein + Relativity. Paul has had the Newton running (emulated) on the Mac for a couple of years. Now he has built it for ARM based Linux devices. Mmmmm…. I…
Cold Reset HP JetDirect
I’ve had a HP 2300 laser printer for a while, and it’s been the best printer I’ve ever had. The duplexing unit works perfectly. However, I didn’t spring for the networking option, as I had an external JetDirect, which I’ve been using. But then I saw the internal JD card on ebay for $20 (it…
Apple BT Keyboard
I don’t quite know how to explain what I did (if anything- just investigating), but I have the Apple Bluetooth Keyboard working on my 770 (with the .51 firmware)- and it was insanely simple. I’ve been looking over the Linux – Bluez How-Tos for a few days, and trying this and that (including compiling the…
Busybox on the 770
Busybox is your gateway to exploring the 770. It’s called “The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux” for good reason. When you login to the 770 and use the CLI (or shell) what you are using is Busybox. Traditional Unix machines uses many small programs (most often the GNU toolset) for most common tasks. Almost…
Bookmark Management on the Nokia 770
Ready to export your existing bookmarks onto the 770? Just as I wasn’t willing to enter in my RSS feeds by hand, the same goes for my bookmarks. I wanted to export my perfectly good bookmark lists in Firefox and put them on the 770, since it is supposed to stand in for my laptop…
Gmail Mobile launched
Gmail mobile is live for mobile devices. It’s a super stripped down interface to your gmail intended for tiny screens on mobile phones. Needless to say, it’s extremely fast on the 770. Using the 770 with this new mobile interface is as fast as email should be. Until the Nokia Osso Email application reaches this…
TomTom5 traffic updates in USA
TomTom5 now has live traffic updates in the US, for selected cities. You can get the service free till the end of 2005. There is no traffic info for Philadelphia however. Logging into your tomtom account, you can check the availability of service for many major cities. I selected NYC, since there is service there…
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