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Archive for June, 2008
11 Jun
The heart of a bicycle. The soul of a scooter. Ultra Motors A2B!
Designed for urban or suburban commutes, this Light Electric Vehicle offers lightweight aluminum construction with full suspension. Add in its comfortable,oversized seat and you have a powerful ride that’s easy to handle. When you don’t feel like pedaling, the A2B offers unassisted power on demand for up to 20 miles at a cruising speed of [...]
10 Jun
iPhone 3G Less Expensive? With the new data plan, I think not!
We heard today that 50% of people said the iPhone was too expensive!
The strategy? $199, but wait!!!
Don’t miss that extra $10 bucks a month you will pay AT&T for the 3G data contract. That adds on $120 a year.
And, don’t forget that $120 is yearly for a NEW contract for 2 years. So you will [...]
10 Jun
The Missing iPhone 2.0 Enterprise Feature? — Enterprise Data Encryption
Steve Jobs presented a list of features demanded by the enterprise for iPhone 2.0.
I was surprised to still see data encryption missing from the list. Especially with beta testers like the military and healthcare / pharmaceutical companies.
Remote wipe may solve some of these concerns, but I would still worry about my device and the stored [...]
5 Jun
HTC Touch Diamond and Pro. Competition for the iPhone?
HTC has released two stunning new phones with some very interesting new features. Many of the features look like they were ripped straight from the iPhone but with an accelerated GPU it looks like HTC has built some custom applications for contacts, weather, etc which look very nice.
The competition is heating up in the market. [...]
2 Jun
Firefox 3 Bookmarks with Quicksilver
Open about:config in Firefox Location bar, agree that you won’t mess anything up.
Search for “browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML”
Double click it to enable it (Or right click it and hit toggle)
Restart Firefox & Quicksilver…
“browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML” makes firefox generate a new bookmarks.html at a certain point (don’t know when).
Snap, refresh the Quicksilver Firefox catalog item and voila, it works, FTW!
2 Jun
Water Feature
Molly
Originally uploaded by chezsmithy
Sweet Girls. Here is my oldest at 3.5 years. She was so much fun this weekend. We took both the girls to the water park in Willsonville on Saturday and they had an absolute blast.
1 Jun
For Android, the Carriers + Customized OS = Mess
Here is the problem I see with the Android platform.
The OS + the carrier’s customization = mess.
Which carriers will offer up a phone you can customize with your own OS build or application software downloads? The real power of android is separating the software from the hardware. Let the phone maker offer a brilliant, [...]
