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Entries from July 2006

Welcome To HotWired! (1995)

July 31st, 2006 · No Comments

Welcome To HotWired!
This is a great walk down memory lane…  What’s amazing is experiencing it today over broadband. I recall some serious modem based page loads in pre-1.0 Mosaic!

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Tags: Personal

MIghty Mouse in the house

July 29th, 2006 · No Comments

I ordered the WirelessMighty Mouse when it was announced yesterday and I love it. I’ve usedother wireless bluetooth mice, but this is a keeper. It’s very simple (Apple style) and yet has a great deal of functionality baked in. The stealth second button is pressure sensitive and it magically just works [...]

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Tags: apple · gadgets and technology

Don’t watch this while on a conference call

July 27th, 2006 · No Comments

You will not be able to stop yourself from laughing.
Link to video

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Tags: fun stuff and good links · tv

Nokia BH-800: Small is beautiful

July 27th, 2006 · 12 Comments

I received my new Nokia BH-800 headset last night and man is this thing small. In addition to the diminutive scale, the build quality is excellent and most importantly the sound quality is very strong. I have not been able to test outdoors (the usual killer for headsets) but thus far my calls have [...]

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Tags: gadgets and technology

Google Mobilizing

July 25th, 2006 · No Comments

Google Mobile is starting to come together…
They currently reformat pages automatically when you simply type in Google which is handy for Search on the go, but had not enabled the Personalized portal until today.
You can login through the same URL (http://www.google.com/ig) you use on the desktop and if you’ve logged in on the desktop today, [...]

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Tags: gadgets and technology · marketing · software · travel

Nokia N93 - whoa!

July 24th, 2006 · No Comments

The N93 is the successor to the N90 and whoa has it got the goods! I’d love to check it out and can only hope the Nokia Blogger Program hooks it up…

The N93 is Nokia’s top of the range convergence device boasting a 3.2 megapixel camera (with Carl Zeiss optics, auto focus and 3x [...]

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Tags: gadgets and technology

Presence is key

July 16th, 2006 · 5 Comments

There are two interesting things breaking this weekend on the mobile presence scene…
Twittr is from Odeo / Blogger and lets you set up a simple group on SMS.  It’s actually very slick especially given how simple it is. You just text your message to the universal short code - 40404 - and everyone in your [...]

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Tags: Personal · moblog · software · travel

Sunday Morning

July 16th, 2006 · No Comments

Just spending some time in my backyard, streaming GrooveSalad and catching up on news….

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Tags: Personal

Steve Jobs like Jesus?

July 15th, 2006 · No Comments

Jews for Jesus kinda creep me out (full page recruitment ads in the WSJ among other things) in general, but this pamphlet (PDF Download) is simply amazing.

Technorati Tags: religion, Jews For Jesus, Marketing

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Tags: Personal · marketing

Scanner Darkly Preview

July 15th, 2006 · No Comments

Scanner Darkly Preview:

The first 24 minutes of Richard Linklater’s Scanner Darkly is available to view courtesy of IGN.

Technorati Tags: Movies

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Tags: movies

Birdstep - SmartRoaming for Smart Devices

July 14th, 2006 · 2 Comments

One of the things I’ve been looking for since I started using the N91 was a location manager and this seems to fit the bill EXACTLY as I would like to see. According to the release (quoted below), you can easily connect based on location or even application to the network type of your [...]

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Tags: gadgets and technology · software

BMW Audio Books

July 13th, 2006 · No Comments

BMW has launched a site promoting 4 new audiobooks, which I’ve just downloaded.  This is a joint promotion from Random House, though BMW retains the branding on things… I’ve yet to listen, but am syncing to my iPod for the train home.  This seems like a nice brand extention idea - mobile content to enjoy [...]

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Tags: Listening · marketing · reading · software

N91 Rendered Useless

July 12th, 2006 · 1 Comment

I am not really sure what’s wrong, but my N91 is no longer functioning in a way that enables me to use it. This is seriously disappointing as it is my favorite N-Series unit to date. The N70 has been called back into action from the sidelines…
The N91 seems to be buggy around [...]

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Tags: gadgets and technology

A moment of silence please

July 11th, 2006 · No Comments

The singer, 60, who suffered from an LSD-induced breakdown while at the peak of his career in the Sixties, died last Friday (July 7). It has been reported that he died from complications related to diabetes, however, other reports suggest the cause of death was cancer.
NME.COM - News - Pink Floyd legend Syd Barrett [...]

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Tags: music

N91 - Bug or Feature?

July 10th, 2006 · 5 Comments

I decided recently to use the 4GB drive to store my email as opposed to the (other) internal device memory as I felt it might be best to leave the device RAM open as much as possible…
Today, I tried for the first time in a while to connect the N91 via USB to transfer [...]

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Tags: gadgets and technology

Widsets

July 7th, 2006 · 3 Comments

WidSets is a pretty interesting java application for mobiles that lets you use and create syndicated access to sites you like. As you can see from the sample I’ve got loaded below, there’s a mix of blog, news and pretty much any RSS capable info you might like.
The application syncs in real-time to your [...]

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Tags: gadgets and technology · software

Sharepoint through WebDav

July 6th, 2006 · 17 Comments

I’ve previously stated what I think about Sharepoint, but that has no bearing on the fact that I have to use it almost daily. A particular pain for Mac users is that the file browser - Open in Explorer - is not available at all so large folders of files must be downloaded on [...]

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Tags: apple · software

Rentglass.com

July 5th, 2006 · No Comments

Photodoto Review: Rentglass.com lens rental service John Watson offers up a review of Rentglass.com’s new service which is offering the amateur and pro photographer the ability to rent high end lenses pretty cheaply. Right now they are just renting lenses for Canon digital SLRs, but will begin offering Nikon lenses later this month. [Thomas [...]

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Tags: gadgets and technology

Mapping on the go

July 5th, 2006 · No Comments

I’ve been playing a bit with some map and navigation applications on the N91 and think it has some pretty slick applications for on the go navigation as well as just cool info.
WayFinder Navigator is the most comprehensive application I’ve found to date but in order to get the most from it, you’ll want to [...]

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Tags: gadgets and technology · travel

Radar

July 4th, 2006 · No Comments

Radar: Welcome
Just joined Radar.net. If you know me and want to share access to photos, drop a line.
Radar is a private photo sharing network for friends. By default, all your images are set to private and only viewable by Friends you set.  The Java app rocks on my N91…

technorati tags:radar.net, photography, moblog, Nokia, [...]

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Tags: gadgets and technology · marketing · software