Posts filed under Mobile Technology

03.14.2008

Free Flickr Pro and Wi-Fi with AT&T Broadband DSL

If you pay for AT&T / SBC / Yahoo (whatever the hell they’re calling it today) DSL Broadband, you have a free Pro subscription to Flickr (normally $24.95/yr). Among the benefits, you get unlimited storage and unlimited uploads which means you can archive your full high resolution photos (and let friends download those high resolution [...]

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02.26.2008

Blackberry Email Personalities

Before I got the Crackberry, I did some extensive testing of smartphones particularly the iPhone and Blackberry. Unfortunately, I didn’t happen to catch that you couldn’t easily set your “From” email address header. This has become a problem because for work I send emails from various email aliases and mailing list names, not just my [...]

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01.19.2008

MacBook Air: Form vs. Function

I attended MacWorld and held the MacBook Air in my hands and I have to admit that it is one fine piece of engineering. I initially thought that there was a lot more material under the laptop hidden by the curved edges a la their previous version of the iPod Nano, but it really is [...]

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01.18.2008

Handwriting Recognition Progression

It had been awhile since I played with handwriting recognition. I remember the Newton and when I had to learn the special alphabet for the Palm III, my first PDA. I tried out my colleague’s Lenovo X61 tablet PC and was very impressed; I purposely wrote messy words, yet it still recognized my handwriting perfectly. [...]

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01.04.2008

Why I Prefer Crack Over Apples

I was trying to decide on a new smartphone, especially since the phone I thought I saved was on its last legs. I spent a lot of time researching smartphones and ended up with the top two contenders – BlackBerry vs. iPhone. In the end, I decided on the BlackBerry and have been happy with [...]

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07.30.2007

How Rugged Is Your Cell Phone?

For the digital native, multi-tasking is innate; they hardly ever concentrate their attention on just one thing. I’d say that I fall in between a digital native and a digital immigrant, growing up as the Internet became popular. I picked up the habit of multi-tasking. It’s a more efficient use of time. This weekend, I [...]

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