Jul31
Digg.com’s redesigned mobile site… m.digg.com …was launched today. It is supposed to render faster and provides more media type information.
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Digg.com’s redesigned mobile site… m.digg.com …was launched today. It is supposed to render faster and provides more media type information.
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.
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 capture, playback and sharing; wireless stereo music and media sharing via Bluetooth; quick friend search […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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/
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 Edition 6.0) and iPod touch (2.0 firmware) Both allowed retrieval and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Interesting exposition in Dan’s Data blog about why… 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 technical and people-industry decision making point of view. What he […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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 GPS… MSN Direct Enables Web Sites to Deliver Location Information to GPS Navigation Devices …allows any Web site to offer visitors the ability to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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 reading… How to: Installing and running Ubuntu on the Eee PC
Information Week trumpets… 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 1993. But, hey, I’ll give credit where credit is due. Apple did the touch screen right. I know […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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 bunch of 3rd party apps) that it […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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 pain to iTunes on […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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