Monthly Archives: March 2008

Bind Bluetooth to MyBlogLog? Sounds Scary

If you head over to the mobile version of Yahoo!’s MyBlogLog service (I use the regular web version of their service here — look at the left sidebar)…

http://m.mybloglog.com/

…you will find they say this about their mobile service:  Bind your Bluetooth address to your MyBlogLog account and discover others nearby and find out if you have any shared interests. Keep track of time spent with others so you have a running log of people to meet and things to talk about.

Is it just me? Or, does this seem like a this has the potential for really bad things to happen?

HTC Advantage 7500 Camera Went Bad

HTC Advantage 7500 camera went bad

The main camera in my HTC Advantage 7500 (1st generation) went bad about six weeks ago. The rest of the system is fine including the secondary camera next to the LCD. I’ve tried the obvious remedies like wiping the camera lens area and performing a hard reset. Never seen anything like it before. Switching to a 1st generation TyTn until I get an idea of how deal with this problem. Too bad, the HTC Advantage has the best digital photo quality I’ve seen in a Windows Mobile device so far.

2008 Daylight Savings Time Fixes for Windows Mobile 5 & 6

I thought this Daylight Savings issue was fixed in last year’s patch. Guess not. Here are the links for the CAB file download as well as the desktop (setup.msi) installer version.

Update for Windows Mobile for PC (KB949168) (SETUP.MSI)

Update for Windows Mobile for PC (KB949168) (WMDST2008-1.CAB)

FYI: I just installed the CAB file installer version on my Dash. It restarted my smartphone without even giving a warning that it was about to do so.