Towards the Perfect Gadget
Imagine a scene in the not-too distant future… after a frenzied period of leaks, rumours, claims and counter-claims, interspersed with no-comments, denials, and increasingly reliable and suggestive evidence emerging from component and sub-assembly manufacturers, Apple Inc announce the imminent release of The Perfect Gadget. The mainstream press attend press conferences and briefings where Apple proclaim …
Google Calendar (no Palm Sync yet)
Google Calendar has now entered it’s public beta testing phase. The interface will be familiar to anyone who’s used GMail and any other calendar application before – it’s basically a hybrid of the two.
Google Desktop Search V2 (Linux MIA)
Yesterday Google launched Google Desktop 2 beta, an extension of their existing Google Desktop application that indexes personal computers so their information is as easy to find as the rest of the web. This beta release introduces a pluggable sidebar, and introduces some interesting possibilities about what will come next.
Power-On & Graffiti: A Solution
This morning I talked to palm technical support who’d never heard of the problem I was describing – perhaps because I mentioned the graffiti issue first rather than the power-on problem. This afternoon I put a link to the problem on the palm user forum and got an instant response.
Palm T5 Graffiti: Problem Area Located
It appears that the problem has something to do with a corrupt entry in my address book (obviously; duh!). If I entirely delete the contents of my address book then the Grafitti problem goes away.
Palm T5 – Irksome Graffiti
I’ve had a PalmOne Tungsten T5 for about three weeks, and I must say that in addition to being a staggering improvement over my old Palm V it is also starting to get rather irksome.
Let the postal system deliver your evil agents
I was pondering the rapidly decreasing price of handhelds and wireless hardware today, for example 802.11 enabled PDA’s, when a potential attack technique came to me.