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AugustAug 3 Sunday 08
Asus Eee PC Prices Dropping on Amazon
Just noticed that prices of two Asus Eee PC Models dropped on Amazon.com. And, these are the ones sold and shipped directly by Amazon, not 3rd party vendors. All Amazon prices quoted below are from information on their site today (Aug. 3) in U.S. dollars.
Asus Eee PC 4G …
AugustAug 2 Saturday 08
Torch Mobile Iris Browser Based on Webkit for Windows Mobile
I just read about theâ¦
Torch Mobile Iris Browser 1.0.12 preview
â¦for Windows Mobile 5 and 6 on Jason Langridge's blog. The preview release is a free download. I don't see any mention of what happens after the browser leaves its preview release period though. I …
AugustAug 1 Friday 08
NewsNomad
NewsNomad.com is a new news aggregation site that has a Digg-like voting feature and a policy to hand you off to mobile friendly web pages on external news sites.
Digg Mobile Site Redesigned
Digg.com's redesigned mobile siteâ¦
m.digg.com
â¦was launched today. It is supposed to render faster and provides more media type information.
JulyJul 31 Thursday 08
Live Mobile Reformats Web Pages For You
One Live Mobile feature I like is its option to reformat web pages you jump to from its search results to fit on your phone's screen. The screen cap here shows the settings option to turn this on.
ExperienceMobility Moved to a New URL
My old friend Jack had to move his popular mobile tech web site to a slightly new URL (from a .com to a .net) and restart his blog from scratch (old stuff is gone). You can find the site at this new address:
http://experiencemobility.net/
Does the New T-Mobile SideKick Foreshadow the end of Windows Mobile?
Microsoft isssued a long press release about the new T-Mobile Sidekick (its developer, Danger, is now a Microsoft subsidiary). Here are the two main paragraphs from the press release:
The new Sidekick features key software improvements including support for video …
JulyJul 30 Wednesday 08
Microsoft Live Mesh Mobile Web Interface
Microsoft Live Mesh is one of several cloud storage services offered by Microsoft (along with Skydrive and Office Live Workspace). One interesting feature of Live Mesh is its web interface for mobile devices. I looked at it from both a TyTn (Windows Mobile Professional …
MSN Direct Send to GPS
This won't help my old Suunto Spot watch. But, if you have a Garmin nuvi GPS (780, 880, 5000, 750, 760, or 2×5 series) that supports it, MSN Direct Send to GPSâ¦
MSN Direct Enables Web Sites to Deliver Location Information to GPS Navigation Devices
â¦allows any …
Phone Battery & WiFi Myths Exposed
Interesting exposition in Dan's Data blog about whyâ¦
Your laptop is lying to you
Dan starts with a signal detection theory type discussion of mobile phone signal bar strength indicators. He then goes on to discuss the "why" batteries meters are wrong from both a …
JulyJul 28 Monday 08
ars technica Shows How To Install Ubuntu on an Eee PC
If you have an Eee PC (I've got it in my wish list), ars technica has a how-to article you might be interested in readingâ¦
How to: Installing and running Ubuntu on the Eee PC
JulyJul 25 Friday 08
Windows Mobile Gets No Respect: iPhone Gets Credit for Touchscreen Revolution
Information Week trumpetsâ¦
iPhone: Catalyst For Touchscreen Revolution
Never mind that Windows CE/Windows Mobile devices have been continuously providing touch screen devices since 1996. And, of course, the Apple Newton essentially defined the concept of PDA in …
JulyJul 24 Thursday 08
iPod touch Froze: Forced a Reboot
Although I was one of the people critical of Apple's decision not to allow 3rd party apps at the launch of the iPhone last year, I understand and appreciate their decision now. My iPod touch has been much more unstable after the 2.0 upgrade (and presumably adding a …
Bloomberg App for iPhone Very Nice
The Bloomberg app for the iPhone 3G is much nicer and has more functionality than I expected. Thumbs up for this app.
ActiveSync Error Code 1: Oh That is Sooooo Helpful
Using ActiveSync is such an unpleasant experience that I've found myself syncing less and less frequently over the past year. The fact that my iPod touch can now handle much of what I used to do on a Pocket PC or WiMo Smartphone and do it much better and sync without …
Evernote Notes Limits
I didn't look down far enough when I noted Evernote's bandwidth limits the other day. It also has limits on the number of notes with separate counts for audio, inknotes, and images (photos). The limits seem pretty generous for the free account. So, I'm not going to …
JulyJul 23 Wednesday 08
Testing Wordpress for iPhone
Wordpress for iPhone works great. Wish typing was easier and faster on my iPod touch.
USA Today for iPhone
Yet another major website created a site optimized for the iPhone. This time it is USA Today atâ¦
iphone.usatoday.com
Staying Away from Windows Live for Windows Mobile
There is no way I am going to install the just releasedâ¦
Just Released: Windows Live for Windows Mobile
Why? The first listed so-called feature: Synchronize Live contacts with your contacts on the device. My Hotmail/Live Mail contacts list is a mish-mash of MSN …
JulyJul 21 Monday 08
Evernote Monthly Usage Limit
I haven't been using Evernote heavily for the past few weeks. However, I updated the Windows Mobile client on my TyTn this evening and noticed the Menu - Account Usage item and clicked on it. You can see from the screen cap above that there is a 40MB per month bandwidth …