Comparison shot of my Samsung i730 with a T-Mobile MDA (Pocket PC) and an SDA (Smartphone), both EDGE capable Windows Mobile devices. Not near as fast as the EVDO wireless on my i730 on Verizon, but very nice hardware, to hold and to look at. The screen on the SDA in particular is very nice, as you can see in this shot.
Monthly Archive for April, 2006
I was at the T-Mobile store in the mall the ohter day, checking out the great QVGA resolution screen. Text size set at smallest, Bloglines Mobile is still very readable. Nice.
I wish I was attending the Maker Faire this weekend. There’s so much cool stuff that I’d love to check out. Maybe I’ll drop by in Second Life, and see if there are any Make events in the ‘verse.
My weekend plans? Buying a lawnmower, mowing our lawn, possible weedeater and trimming, and a chance of putting up a swingset. Ah, the joys of homeownership. It was kind of nice not to have to worry about all of this stuff when we were in an apartment. I still can’t convince Rachel to let me just pour concrete/pave our yard. The Wife Acceptance Factor of that idea is so miniscule it almost doesn’t exist. 
My previous post on how important I think it’s going to be for someone to get two way syncing between Google Calendar and MS Outlook has been the hottest post on TinyScreenfuls.com this week, by far. Lots of traffic coming in via people Googling for something along those lines.
Today, whIle catching up on feeds, I notice that the Google Calendar Data API has been released, with the purpose of enabling “your client application [to] use the Google Calendar data API to create
new events, edit or delete existing events, and query for events that
match particular criteria.”
That’s exactly what we need. Now, all you developers out there, let’s see what you can come up with!
This was so “meta” and geeky that it blew my mind. At the Podcast on the Floor party tonight at the Jupiter Hotel in Portland, some friends are playing live music (mellow acoustic guitar stuff). I didn’t go the party (I’m beat!), but I did notice on Eric Rice’s blog tonight that the concert was going to happen simultaneously in Second Life on Slackstreet/MVR. So I logged in, and headed over. The live music stream was perfect, and I was hanging out and chatting with people who were both physically at the Jupiter Hotel, and present at the event in Second Life.
Blew my mind, man.
I’ve started dabbling in Second Life with the encouragement and help of Spin Martin (a.k.a. Eric Rice). Media hacker that he is, he owns the first record label Second Life, Metaverse Records, which actually has real life assets and artists. Eric (ahem, Spin) is doing some pretty interesting stuff in SL - very “meta”.
This is the sea monster near the KSSX building where I’ve taken to sitting when I’m not doing anything.
She’s the glue that holds Podcast on the Floor together.
Seems really tall from this photo, no?
Just arrived for day two. Got our mobile Verizon EVDO hotspot up and running, and getting set up. Eric Rice got in last night, and will be here all day. And don’t miss the Podcast Hotel party tonight at the Jupiter if you’re in town.
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