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February 28, 2007
February 27, 2007
Less-nice things about the Treo (geekery)
- No dialing by alpha letters, and no way to conveniently enter alpha-letter phone numbers into addressbook (no onscreen display or automatic letter->number translation)
Where's the call log? It seems that it may or may not log calls to addressbook contacts but I can't find any centralized log of all calls. This is something that every phone I've ever had has had, and it's very surprising that it's apparently missing. Or maybe I haven't found it.Found it. You have to set up a quicklink to it from the Phone app. Strange.- I need a voice recorder app for it. I was just watching the Merlin Show interview of Jonathan Coulton and Coulton mentioned both that he was a Treo user and that he requires his phone to have a voice recorder (which I do too! very handy for recording song ideas) so obviously there must be something. Maybe it's another stupid $30 app? Maybe he uses the movie mode of the camera? Who knows! (actually the camera movie recorder seems to work well and it doesn't take that much storage, and then I also get video of the context so that might be pretty cool) or I could always just leave myself a voicemail though that's painful on T-Mobile. UPDATE found SoundRec which works great
February 25, 2007
Ginger ale: soda or not? (debate)
Kara-WTF (music)
There was a going-away party for some guy named Tyler (who was apparently a regular there a while ago, before I started showing up) since he's moving to Cincinnati. He was drunk off his ass. So were the other dozen or so people in his entourage.
February 24, 2007
Dear Dreamhost: (rant)
I suppose I could try provisionally migrating to MySQL on my own host (retaining a Postgres backup) to see how feasible it is, but that's still a huge step backwards.
Please reconsider supporting PostgreSQL. The day I find out you do support it on your normal hosting plans is the day I sign up for hosting.
Love,
fluffy
February 22, 2007
TreoAlarm 1.17 (geekery)
TreoAlarm turns out to be the most comprehensive alarm clock application ever, with every feature I could ever possibly want and then some.
February 21, 2007
Treo 650: early assessment (geekery)
February 20, 2007
HOWTO: make a perfect Treo cover (geekery)
I took an abandoned CD jewelcase lid, cut out a square a bit larger than the screen (by repeatedly scoring it with my pocket knife until I was able to crack it apart), covered the edges with scotch tape, then attached it to the top of the screen with a simple scotch tape hinge. It works pretty darn well, and is easy to flip up, and doesn't take a lot of space in my pocket.
(Actually having the Treo AND my current phone in my pocket at the same time isn't too terrible, size-wise. Even together they feel smaller and lighter than the Sidekick was alone, and this way I can still keep doing my old phone+palm thing until I get a SIM tray. Also the Treo feels much better than the Zodiac so far, not to mention its sync conduit is a lot better and supported and so on.)
Someday I will know better (geekery, rant)
So, it finally arrived today. Of course it's missing its SIM tray and its stylus, so I can't actually DO anything with it. Ugh. It also didn't come with its software or the right manual, but at least I can get those online. Still, though.
So I emailed them asking what the deal was and if I could get them to send me these vital parts, and I got an auto-response assuring me that there was no reason to worry about the fact they are no longer listed as a registered seller on eBay.
Good grief. I should have just bought a dang OEM 680 instead.
February 18, 2007
Another new favorite wine (food)
Kara-holy yes (music)
February 14, 2007
Powerline Ethernet (geekery)
Last night I finally got fed up with my crappy cross-apartment WiFi (2.4GHz is so oversaturated, not just by WiFi but also Bluetooth thanks to the prevalence of the Wii, and cordless phones in general, and so on) so I ordered a D-Link 200Mbps powerline kit, which works out to about $75/node which is the cheapest I've seen the 200Mbps stuff for (and not much more than the 85Mbps). Hopefully now I can stop getting pissed off when I'm trying to push an mp3 or png all of 40 feet (or however big my apartment is).
February 12, 2007
So much for that experiment (meta)
- One legitimate comment (which would have been better-suited to email, and was posted to a 'topic for debate' thread which I leave open to anon comments anyway)
- Three spams
February 11, 2007
Topic for debate (debate)
Marmaduke is Heathcliff for dog lovers.
Discuss.
Topic for debate: Potential (debate)
All women are potential prostitutes.
Discuss.
February 9, 2007
February 8, 2007
A geeky valentine saying: (random)
February 7, 2007
I just coined a new word (random)
February 6, 2007
New series: Unity (comic)
I do have some aspects of the environment worked out (I know some things about the main character, and generally what the environment is, and some of the early setting-establishment things which will happen to the main character) but I'm trying my hardest to not come up with anything else. And of course, the whole need to discover everything as I go along is the design of the comic.
Hopefully this one will last a while.
February 1, 2007
Phone stuff (MLP)
- Going price for Treo 650 on eBay: $200ish after shipping.
- Size comparison between Sidekick 3, iPhone, Treo 650, and K510i: I'm surprised at how small the Treo and iPhone both are. The K510i is a really tiny phone. The Treo's about twice as heavy though (but then I could finally ditch my Zodiac and have decent web browsing again).
- A nice Treo 650 hard shell: lets you protect the screen without obscuring it, and without adding a lot of weight or size to the phone. Plus, you could probably paint the inside to customize the color. Prevents cracked screens (which are the most common problem with Treos in a pocket, and which is why I never really considered getting one until now when I'm finally fed up with too many devices to sync and dismiss alarms on)
- Unbranding an unlocked Treo 650: Useful, since most of the Treos on eBay are Cingular-branded.
- Google Maps Mobile: has a native PalmOS version, which would almost certainly be better than the MIDP version on the K510i. (Especially on the 320x320 touch screen vs. 128x160 with gimpy joystick.)
- USB charge+sync cable: it's funny how most phones are USB-syncable but not USB-chargeable. This cable fixes that for the Treo 650. (Though most likely I'd charge at home and sync via BlueTooth, and use the OEM cable at work.)
- Palm-compatible Bluetooth GPS: Would be pretty cool for driving directions etc.
- Interesting article about changing attitudes towards transgender health care in Seattle (has nothing to do with the above, but I figured I was linkdumping already anyway)