Fatal Error or Fatal Alert: these terms both sound worse than they really are. A more friendly interpretation is: “Your device has encountered an error running the current program and needs to be reset to get it back to normal.” Learn how to spot Fatal Errors, and the best ways to deal with them. [palmOne] … Read moreFatal Errors and Fatal Alerts
Treonauts gave an exciting review to the open source The Core Pocket Media Player (tcmp) for Palm OS today and I just gave it a quick whirl. It’s VERY cool. The UI is a touch rough and does not support the 5-way for browsing but it does work just fine during playback for volume and … Read moreThe Core Pocket Media Player
I totally love AcidSearch, which is a very handy search extension for Safari allowing me to use A9, or switch quickly to Froogle among many other searches all within the main search bar. Seems though that 10.3.9, which was released tonight is not supported and neither will Tiger when it arrives shortly. Have to say … Read more10.3.9 – No Acid Search just yet
Gotta love Skype! Today they are more public with both the SkypeIn and Voicemail services I’ve been using for a while now. I honestly have not had much use for SkypeIn other than the coolness factor that I can have a 415 and now a 646 number so I am covered on both coasts with … Read moreSkype Advances
An interesting development considering Amazon will not actually be looking to deal with it first-hand, instead resorting to work through the existing rental infrastructure of either NetFlix or Blockbuster. Whoever gets this business will certainly be the winner in an already heated battle. The loser will have some serious issues surviving (in my book) against … Read moreAmazon making an official move towards DVD rentals
According to BizJournals, Amazon has just acquired Mobipocket: Franklin Electronic Publishers Inc. sold its shares in a French software company to Amazon.com Inc. and retired 29 percent of its outstanding preferred stock. The Burlington City, N.J., publisher of electronic books sold its 16,765 ordinary shares in MobiPocket.com SA to Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) in connection with … Read moreAmazon acquires Mobipocket
The BBC has produced a mobile Hitchhiker’s Guide… H2G2. Works great on my Treo and I would imagine it works great on pretty much any connected device.
I, Cringely’s latest column, A Cup of Bandwidth is very cool. He describes how he created an wireless array borrowing 3 wi-fi connections from neighbors (who knew) and the use of Sveasoft’s firmware for the linksys WRT54G routers he owns. If nothing else it’s pretty cool. I decided to conduct an experiment, seeing how I … Read moreMight I borrow a cup of bandwidth please? I’m baking a wireless array!
My inner DJ lusts for this baby… via Gizmodo
So we were up extra early today with a sick child and flipped on Sesame Street in time to see the pre-show lesson. Some fruits and vegetables were signing about happy and healthy foods followed by Buzz Aldrin and Telly Monster discussing eating happily and healthy so you have energy to play. Seems like a … Read moreWhat I learned on Sesame Street
Flickr Automator Action Originally uploaded by fspeirs. Fraser Speirs has already developed the best Flickr uploader in my book with FlickrExport for iPhoto, but he’s far from resting with Tiger just around the corner. I’ve been itching to try Automator as I really think the not so script-worthy people like myself will get a huge … Read moreFlickr Automator Action
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Apple Computer (AAPL) on Wednesday reported a second-quarter net profit of $290 million, or 34 cents a share, on $3.24 billion in revenue. Analysts surveyed by Thomson First Call had forecast Apple to earn 24 cents a share on $3.21 billion in revenue. During the same period a year ago, Apple … Read moreApple Computer reports $290 million 2Q profit
This sounds awesome and basically what I was talking about earlier today except it will be done by the consumer… not the broadcast networks. That said, if Downhill Battle is successful at getting this software distributed on release, it would make a great platform for an existing content creator (networks and cable) to begin narrowcasting … Read moreParticipatory Culture Foundation
We caught the new Cookie Monster lesson on Sesame Street today and it was honestly not as awful as I was expecting. Cookie Monster still attacked a cookie at the end of the song stating this was a “sometime.” Child obesity is an issue, I can’t argue that, but changing a classic Sesame Street bit … Read moreCookies are a sometimes food
I think it’s time for broadcasters to consider VOD through VidCasting (aka podcasting). I know that recently Cringely described his vision for how his employer PBS would be able to offer an on demand selection of 10,0000 titles. I agree though don’t know it needs to be built entirely through affiliate stations though that might … Read moreVOD / VidCasting
Sony Ericsson said it is committing about 75% of its North American media budget to ads in movie theaters. [textually.org] I have no idea why a brand like Sony Ericsson would want to commit such a large quantity of their media budget to a place that does not allow the use of their technology. Sure … Read moreSony Ericsson Movie Screen Ads?
I am not sure why suddenly Meetup decided that they would charge a fee for people to use their service, but it seems to be very successfully driving people away … and to Yahoo Groups which offers very similar features (minus RSVP options for events) at no charge. As soon as the administrators of the … Read moreMeetup’s membership fees are great for Yahoo!
Om Malik notes the deal between XM and AOL, which sounds good, but you have to wonder why they are making you pay more for the option of high quality internet streaming. Sirius (I am a customer) gives it to you for free… With the XM deal, you are paying for XM AND paying for … Read moreXM+AOL
Just caught this at Walgreens while picking up sunscreen for Hannah.
I had no idea… but thanks to Palm Addicts I know now… Spotted on a Brighthand forum “if you go to the calculator function and then press the center button to the right, you will find several more calculators that are able to do conversions etc”