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Entries from April 2007

Nokia N95 Unboxing and Initial Hands on

April 30th, 2007 · 4 Comments

I received a Sand Nokia N95 courtesy of the Blogger Relations Program today and immediately began my geekfest. I’m not sure on the full quality here, but I live streamed my experience using Ustream.tv:

I’ve been using the device non-stop since and will be posting quite a few follow-ups.

Technorati Tags: N-Series, N95, Nokia

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Tags: gadgets and technology

unfortunate placement of yahoo ad

April 28th, 2007 · No Comments

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unfortunate placement of yahoo ad, originally uploaded by jkenning.

Geeky fun I know… but still how could they not have seen how bad this is

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Tags: Personal

Nokia N75 finally Available!

April 27th, 2007 · No Comments

After what seems like forever, the Nokia N75 - an actual 3G UMTS unit for the US is here on ATT / Cingular.  Looks like it runs $199 for the 2year subsidized price + $50 mail-in rebate… hat tip Boy Genius

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Tags: gadgets and technology

Michael Gartenberg on Apple’s Financials

April 26th, 2007 · 1 Comment

If Apple was able to demonstrate growth of Macintosh sales during the quarter when Microsoft did their largest Windows launch, what does this say about the way consumers are thinking about Vista? [Michael Gartenberg ]

Technorati Tags: Apple, Microsoft, Vista

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Tags: apple

GrandCentral mobilizing!

April 26th, 2007 · 10 Comments

I was fortunate to be able to meet with Craig Walker, the CEO of Grand Central last week, thanks to Andy Abramson. The purpose of our meeting was a meet and greet as well as be briefed on some new things brewing in the Grand Central labs. Now that things seems in the [...]

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Tags: gadgets and technology

My Love / Hate relationship with the Nokia N80

April 24th, 2007 · 3 Comments

Yesterday I switched my Cingular SIM from the N73 to the N80 as I am testing a piece of software and needed to use the WiFi in order to make use of certain features…

This morning I took the N80 from the charger at about 7:30 and at 11:40 it was dead. I had [...]

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Tags: gadgets and technology

Happy Monday!

April 23rd, 2007 · 21 Comments

Enjoy -

Lip Dub - Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger on Vimeo

Technorati Tags: Lip Dub, Vimeo

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Tags: fun stuff and good links · music

Google Earth - Darfur

April 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

If you’ve wanted to know more about what’s happening in Darfur, Sudan, allow me to suggest you download the AAAS Darfur layers for Google Earth. Amnesty International and the US Holocaust Memorial have collaborated to provide rich multimedia coverage of the area to cover the latest attacks as well as provide coverage of what’s [...]

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Tags: news

EyeTV 2.4 FINALLY controls your set top box!

April 19th, 2007 · 5 Comments

I received an email from Elgato yesterday and was very excited to see that there’s native support built in finally for set top box control! You still need an external device to handle the IR, but if you happen to have either the ZephIR or iRed system running you can now effortlessly change the [...]

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Tags: gadgets and technology

Netvibes via Widets

April 18th, 2007 · No Comments

via Nokia Press Release…

The Netvibes Ecosystem’s entire collection of 85,000+ feeds includes recently announced content from major media outlets including CBS, CNN Money, Entertainment Weekly, Forbes.com, InStyle, LATimes.com, Newsweek, People, Real Simple, Sports Illustrated, Time, USA Today, and washingtonpost.com. Netvibes Ecosystem also hosts official content for many celebrity partners including 50 Cent, Ben [...]

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Tags: gadgets and technology · software

Google Reader Theme from hicksdesign

April 17th, 2007 · No Comments

This Google Reader theme from hicksdesign is a very tasty looking Mac style that I’ll be installing this am …

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Tags: software

Nokia to launch WiMax mobiles in early 2008

April 17th, 2007 · 1 Comment

“Nokia plans to bring its first WiMax-enabled mobile device to market in early 2008,” Nokia said in a statement. via CNET
Note they did not say phone. I believe it will be the successor to the N800 (though there may be one in between) and will support the Sprint WiMax partnership they’ve committed [...]

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Tags: gadgets and technology

Live Nokia audiocast - S60 Browser from FP1 to be available!

April 15th, 2007 · 11 Comments

It will be one month to the day tomorrow from the evening with S60 and exactly when I was informed the browser would be available to download… at least that’s my educated guess as to what the real content is about. Check out the clues below…

S60 was the first to bring full HTML [...]

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Tags: gadgets and technology

My Symbian History

April 9th, 2007 · 5 Comments

Ricky tagged me to share my S60 history, but I thought I might also add a deeper sense of history to my device usage as a reference.
Given the amount of content here focused on Nokia, readers might be surprised to learn that I don’t have a very long history as a Symbian user. In [...]

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Tags: Personal · gadgets and technology

Greetings From Palm Beach!

April 3rd, 2007 · 1 Comment

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- Taken at 2:55 PM on April 03, 2007 - cameraphone upload by ShoZu

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Tags: Personal