Fri, 05 May 2006
Got a Kensington USB Bluetooth adaptor
The phone can do bluetooth too. Check this shit!
Browsing 00:11:24:65:9D:1B ...
Service Name: Bluetooth-PDA-Sync
Service RecHandle: 0x10004
Service Class ID List:
"Serial Port" (0x1101)
Protocol Descriptor List:
"L2CAP" (0x0100)
"RFCOMM" (0x0003)
Channel: 3
Language Base Attr List:
code_ISO639: 0x656e
encoding: 0x6a
base_offset: 0x100
Profile Descriptor List:
"Serial Port" (0x1101)
Version: 0x0100
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Thu, 16 Mar 2006
The Palm Treo. Round two.
Today was the first time I left the house for a work day wjthout the laptop. It
was fine, sans an IM connection. In fact, I'm typing this on the train ride
home from an ssh session! But here's my gripes with the over hyped PalmOS and
it's applications included.
The PalmOS has no unified file browser. Each application appears to have
invented their own. This makes an interesting situation when downloading a PDF
file to the CF card, opening the Adobe Acrobat for PalmOS program only to see a
blank selection menu and no option to open the PDF I just downloaded. The same
thing with the included RealPlayer program. I can't listen to WFMU with their
low bandwidth mp3 stream because RealPlayer won't let me copy and paste a URI
into the open menu. Suck.
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Sat, 04 Mar 2006
The Palm Treo. Functional or the Emperor's New Clothes?
I got a Palm Treo 650 from work. I wouldn't have bought it myself but the
possibility of having internet connectivity and an ssh client in a hand held
device was quite appealing. This is obviously an extremely niche application
for something so heavily hyped as a producitiviy lifestyle device. Here's a
moment to moment account of getting it to function both with and without a
desktop system.
Voice and Data Service. This is pretty straight forward.
Verizon makes a deal with Palm for a bazillion dollars and ships branded phones
provisioned to connect with Verizon's
proprietary wireless network. This includes voice and data. The strange thing
about the Treo is the PalmOS functionality and the voice/data functionality are
split. By holding down the power button for three seconds, the phone part turns
off but the PalmOS keeps running. This is strange but whatever, it's probably
related to the bazillions of dollars.
PalmOS Applications. By default, the phone appears to
have a lot of neat toys built into it. Not toys that are fun but toys are will
make your life simple and streamlined. This is mot true. Here is the laundry
list
- Camcorder
- Calendar
- Camera
- Contacts
- Palm HotSync
- Mail
- Media file browser
- Text note pad
- MMS composer
- RealPlayer
- SMS composer
- Tasks
- Web browser
- Verizon Wireless Sync
- World Clock
So...this phone can take pictures and videos. These two things are the
same application but appear twice in the main menu. It can keep contacts with a
neat photo feature. It can sync to Palm Desktop software and perhaps other
applications that support this protocol. It should read email but the Mail
application is useless since it involves some mail store on the service
provider's side for actual message delivery. In other words, it's not an IMAP
client. The note pad doesn't do handwriting recognition, which seemed like a
staple of the PalmOS since the mid 90s. Real Player...heh, cool. MMS is a
format that I have no idea how many phones actually support. SMS is on every
other piece of crap cell phone you can get for free for signing a contract.
Task pad and Calendar are cool if they can sync to iCalendar compliant
applications. The web browser is some thing with a funny name I don't
recognize. Verizon Wireless Sync doesn't make any sense. It should be an over
the air sync gateway or something but I'm not sure.
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Fri, 25 Feb 2005
The state of real use of the Sharp Zaurus running Opie and a desktop computer with KDE 3.3 from Debian Testing.
It pretty sucks. Really, it's so hard each time I sit down and think "alright, this is the time I'm going to get the Zaurus to work" I just end up with a small headache from tracking so many back and forth email list conversations on the same subject. So for the record:
There is no simple and fast way to syncronize callendar and addressboox data between Opie 1.0 and KDE 3.3
Here is the closest thing I could find. Even that requires breaking the package manager and
installing a .deb with some aggressive switches.
On the upside, I'm realling liking the KDE PIM stuff. Their little summary view is rad and similar to Evolution's and Outlook's. The Zaurus is also very cool standing on it's own. I updated to
Openzaurus 3.5.1. Getting network connectivity between the USB cradle and Debian
wasn't hard at all.
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Fri, 10 Dec 2004
This post was written from the corner of Delancy and Ludlow in NYC on a pda and uploaded through a public wifi node at a place called Alchemy 106. Nothing more special than the fact that it's possible. Deluxe.
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Thu, 08 Apr 2004
Today, I heard from an old friend.
He's graduating from college in less than a month. Strange part is we both entered together...I left, he didn't. I don't really know which of us made the better decision, or if it was even a matter of being better. I hear
Antioch College isn't
doing too well these days. It'll be interesting to see what this former bastion of revolutionary thought is doing for graduation...and how punk rock it is.
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