When I watched this video, a wave of nostalgia hit me. It has been about five years since I’ve heard a dial tone or a busy signal. When Mike and I moved to our present house almost five years ago, we never had our phone line connected. We just use our cell phones. At first, I was worried about not having a phone line in the house, but after this long, I realize that I don’t need it.
I kind of miss the dial tone, though.
If you have been jealous of those cool Google Maps features on the iPhone, but you’re “stuck” with your Treo for a while, you’re in luck. All those features are available on the Treo. Andrew at Treonauts explains all the cool features and how to access them:
I installed Google Maps on my Treo, but I’ve found that it is only helpful to a point. My contacts addresses have to be exactly like the information in Google for it to be able to find their house. Additionally, Google Maps’ information is only as accurate as the phone book, so if it’s a new company or if the restaurant just went out of business, you won’t know about it.
Of course, whether you’re on the iPhone, the Treo or your computer, that is the case. Google Maps isn’t the be-all and end-all, but it is a good start if you’re in a pinch.
The Apple iPhone Bluetooth Headset has been released into the wild and people are unboxing them and using them all over the Internet. I have absolutely NO desire to buy one, even though I know it would work with the iPhone swimmingly.
Does Apple really expect this thing to stay in my ear?!
Sure, I’ve seen those Apple commercials with people dancing and gyrating wildly with Apple earbuds. The earbuds stay in their ears because they are ANIMATED, not because they are real.
Are there that many people out there whose ear cavities can support the earbuds, much less the headset?
Am I alone in this?
Do those Apple earbuds work for the majority of the population and I’m just sporting mutant ears? I would blame my ears if there weren’t so many companies out there making different earbuds. Does Apple not care about the customers with “weird” ears?
Of course, I don’t recommend this option either…
I guess the best bet is to go with a wired headset that’s made for ears like mine like the V-Moda Vibe Duo Earbuds. They have buds that will work with my ears, a microphone for talking on the phone and they aren’t white. I see white earbuds everywhere and I just want to be the one person on the street who doesn’t have a pair of white wires handing from her head.
The worst part is that I feel a little betrayed by Apple. They went to all that trouble making the cellphone of my dreams and didn’t bother making earbuds that would work in my ears. Mine are going to end up staying in the original box untouched.
I was doing a few YouTube searches and video upon video kept coming up about Phillips Headphones. Here is an example of one:
They aren’t very informative videos. Even the ones in another language, appear to be just one guy sitting in front of his computer, saying the name of the product.
Did Phillips pay a bunch of people to do little YouTube videos about Phillips headphones? If they did, they didn’t get their money’s worth. I actually prefer REAL commercials like this one:
More videos after the break: (Continue Reading…)
I have enjoyed Twitter for the last few months. I have a group of friends that write regularly and it makes me feel less lonely.
When I use Twitter on my cell phone, some of the messages come out of order and late. When I use Twitterific, some of the messages come out of order or they come in a huge barrage of messages after too long of a delay. When I use Adium, the messages come out of order. When I use Twitter’s website, I have to use the refresh button to see if anything new has come.
There are really no ideal options for Twitter, but out of all the options on the computer, I prefer Adium. The cute little birdie flaps his wings when my friends have said anything, it works with my GMail and Yahoo IM accounts, and it shows the Twitter names instead of people’s real names (like Twitterific does). My only problem with it is it doesn’t tell me how many characters my message is, so I can’t tell if I’m typing too much. After searching Adium Help, online and asking around, I don’t think there is any feature to enable that will give me a character count. So, here is my workaround.
I have sized my Adium window so it is 30 characters wide and then I sized the response box so it’s five lines tall. That gives me exactly 150 characters in the box. If I write more than can fit in that box, I’m over the Twitter limit. In order to do this, I typed the numbers 0-9 over and over again until I had 150 characters and then sized the box accordingly (see picture to the right).
It’s just a small thing, but it has made using Adium with Twitter so much easier for me that I just thought I’d share.
It’s nice to see that someone else enjoys their Lumix camera as much as I do. I actually preferred the focusing of my older camera, but the DMC-TZ3 has been an excellent video camera and I have used it to film my Starling Fitness DVDs.
It is a fairly popular camera and you can see the kinds of photos people take with it here on Flickr:
The DMC-TZ3 has some limitations. If you are filming in wind, you WILL get wind popping noises on the audio, even if it’s just a slight breeze. I didn’t have this much trouble with the older Panasonics and since it’s a digital camera first and video camera second, I don’t have much room to complain.
I have also had trouble focusing in low light situations. I think it’s because the camera has such an amazing zoom. I’ll gladly trade the focusing for zoom, because it allows me to get video of things like this:
I always have my Lumix with me, so I am able to snap pictures and take video wherever I go. It’s small enough that I don’t begrudge it in my purse. It’s even small enough to tuck into my pocket if I’m taking pictures all day (like I did in Disneyland).
Despite its minor drawbacks, I love my Panasonic Lumix.
You can make your iPhone whatever color you want if you are willing to send it to Colorware for weeks on end and shell out $150 to $200 extra. You could also buy your iPhone from Colorware and they will send it to you fully customized.
Everyone is commenting on this. You can see some examples of what people have imagined for their own phones here:
My problem with this is the dock. You can pay extra to have your dock colored as well, but that just reminded me of the iPhones I’ve been oggling at the Apple Store. The display iPhones have been constantly manhandled and squished back into their docks for three weeks now and quite a few of them are scratched along the bottom because of it. With an extra layer of paint from Colorware, will the iPhone even FIT into that snug dock anymore?
One other caveat: Doing this to your iPhone may void your warranty with Apple. According to Colorware’s website:
ColorWare Inc. is not an authorized reseller of Apple Inc. products. ColorWare Inc. replaces all existing Apple Inc. warranty policies and procedures with a ColorWare Inc. warranty, the documentation for which is included with all products purchased from ColorWare Inc.
That’s for the products that are sold through Colorware, but if you send in your iPhone, you may just kiss those Apple Genius’ goodbye.
I really like the look of that red iPhone, but I think I’ll pass. The image of scratched red paint is not appealing at all.
If you find that you are getting a little sick of the songs on Guitar Hero II, you’re probably eagerly awaiting Guitar Hero III or Guitar Hero 80’s that are coming soon. In the distance, however, Rock Band is there, enticing you.
They have released a photo for the Rock Band drum kit, so now you can know which sofa needs to go to the Salvation Army so you can fit it in the living room.
The most important rule of parody is to keep it SHORT. Fortunately, the folks at Geek Entertainment TV understand this and made this absolutely perfect parody of Doncha for the iPhone.
Doncha wish your cellphone was raw like me?
Doncha wish you spent more than half a G?
Doncha?
I haven’t gotten myself an iPhone yet, but there is one in the house now. Mike purchased one and he is happily surfing and playing with it as I type this. I thought maybe I would skip the first gen iPhone, but the more I play with his, the closer I come to getting one of my own.
After spending almost half a G on my Treo 650, the step up to the iPhone is going to be an easy one.
I have tried EVERY software available for the PC to try to get DVDs onto my Treo. I have had absolutely no success. I wish I had more to show for my work other than a list of programs that DON’T work.
On the Mac, however, there is FINALLY a way to get your DVDs to play on your Treo (or any other Palm device). You need three programs:
Handbrake: To convert your DVD into an iPod playable file. (Open Source – Free)
Quicktime 7 Pro: To convert your iPod MP4 into an MP4 that your Treo can recognize. ($29.99)
Kinoma Player 4: To play the video on your Treo. ($24.99)
My biggest problem was the free program, Handbrake, works perfectly converting my DVDs to an MP4 that I can play on Mike’s iPod, but I don’t carry his iPod around with me. I carry around my Treo. When I tried to play the MP4 files from Handbrake or the movie trailers that I downloaded from iTunes, they wouldn’t work on the Kinoma Player.
I don’t know where the blame is, but the fix came when Apple upgraded their Quicktime Pro. You now can take an iPod playable file and export it to MP4, which plays beautifully on the Treo using Kinoma.
The cool thing about Kinoma Player 4 is that it can play videos from YouTube. ALL the videos from YouTube, not just the ones that Apple has deemed worthy. It’s another small way that the Treo is technically better than the iPhone. The tiny 320 X 320 screen on the Treo, however, is not.
I really wanted to be able to give a tutorial for both the PC and the Mac, but I was unable to get the PC version of Handbrake to work. This video is a detailed tutorial of the conversion process on the Mac.
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